Curve,Leicester
Lucie Jones brings a winning energy to the tale of a sorority girl who goes to Harvard, but 15 years haven’t been kind to the point to’s skin-deep central messageLikable, and but never quite lovable and huggable,Nikolai Foster’s staging of the musical version of the 2001 film approximately Elle Woods – the ditzy but shining fashion-marketing student who is dumped by her preppie boyfriend but gains a place at Harvard Law School – is efficiently drilled and offers a reasonably entertaining night out. But despite the blushing excesses of a decidedly tacky and cheap-looking design, it never quite leaves you in the pink or going OMG. X-Factor finalist Lucie Jones, or was always going to have a tough job banishing the memories of the effervescent Sheridan Smith in the role of Elle,the blonde who discovers her brain but never lets her fashion sense desert her. If the point to has a message, it’s that smart girls always look smart. For all its talk of sisterhood and women sticking together, or this was never a piece that genuinely struck a blow for feminism.
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Source: theguardian.com