Review | Pet Shop Boys’ musical Closer To Heaven returns to London, but is it a nine out of ten or has it fallen down a K-hole?
Turbine Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Throbbing beats, scantily clad East End boys, the odd West End girl and all the drugs money can buy, welcome to Vic’s Nightclub where you have a decision to make should you find yourself sitting at one of the cabaret tables by the catwalk stage; leave the ‘beer mat’ on your table red face up and you’ll be left alone, flip it over to green and the cast know you’re up for some light audience participation, nothing too extreme mind, “just a touch on the shoulder or maybe a feather in the face”.
Closer To Heaven, with an emotionally provocative score from Pet Shop Boys and a sharp, witty book by Jonathan Harvey is back in a brand new production for the Turbine Theatre that, despite there being much to love, never quite fulfils its promise.
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