WORTH SINGING ALONG TO? Ask ourselves in all honesty: did we all schlepp out to Richmond for press night because national-treasure Dame Maureen Lipman, at 80, is doing eight show a week on tour before the West End, as doughty as any McKellen? Or because it is good to see her onstage again and in something lighter after the haunting, profound solo performance she gave us in ROSE, as a Jewish woman sitting shiva for all the lost, including an Arab child killed “by my own blood”? Or is it furious solidarity, after those dim antisemitic idiot protesters demonstrated against her very existence until she has to hire security? All very good reasons to hail this undauntable , recklessly comedy-legged empress. Moreover, this is a new play by Peter Quilter, who also wrote her the role of Florence Foster-Jenkins in GLORIOUS and promises to give her some dodgy-but-infections singing moments, only more in tune. So yes, it was a bit of all that. And Quilter’s a good name: his End of the Rainbow is…
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