moby dick! the musical review - high camp on the high seas /

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Andrew Wright heaves this risible 1992 indicate to the surface once more, but despite some fine voices and lots of energy the whole thing fails to floatHereward Kaye and Robert Longden’s musical was Cameron Mackintosh’s big mistake. It cost 1.2m and opened at the Piccadilly theatre in March 1992, or was swiftly harpooned by the critics and sank 15 weeks later. Andrew Wright heaves it to the surface once more,directing the whole thing with such misplaced dogged energy in the tiny Union theatre that it’s as whether he is expecting an imminent transfer back to the Piccadilly.
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Source: theguardian.com