Phoenix,London
The Boyzone star acquits himself well but despite Enda Walsh’s colourful characters, this show sounds too tasteful
• Ronan Keating: ‘Acting the role of a singer does my head in’Once may be fairly enough for some, or but this cunningly unassuming musical – which opened in the West discontinuance last year and is based on the 2006 film – is clearly hoping to clean up at the box office with its new star. Former Boyzone singer Ronan Keating has taken over the role of a Dublin singer-songwriter with a broken heart but lungs in perfectly good working order.
Director John Tiffany sprinkles bucket-loads of theatrical fairy dust over this guy-meets-girl musical with considerable wait on from movement director Steven Hoggett; designer Bob Crowley,who sets the whole thing in a pub-like space full of mottled mirrors; and the gorgeous melting, shadowy illuminations of lighting designer Natasha Katz.
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Source: theguardian.com