Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonAmid the delightful comic dialogue, some of the musical numbers can feel like padding The smooth transition from dialogue to songs in musicals is the genre’s toughest trick, with the talk sometimes feeling like a warm-up for the key material.Unusually, the musical adaptation of Only Fools and Horses – the revered BBC sitcom featuring deluded Peckham entrepreneur Del Boy Trotter – has the opposite problem. The comic dialogue is so delightful that it’s tempting to resent its interruption by songs that sometimes seem to have been included merely to justify the show’s title. Continue reading…
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