Two musical shows that strike a chord
James Gillan and company in Choir
Helen Murray
Worth singing about
Choir
MINERVA THEATRE, CHICHESTER
Brigadoon
REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE, LONDON
The English department at University College London, to which I daily remain grateful, specialised in a fiendish final exam requiring the dating and attribution of texts with their identifying details removed.
Choir, a play about a community singing group, would be fairly easy to place in recent times – the plot builds to a performance on the BBC’s The One Show – but, with the author’s name blanked out, I would have guessed Alan Bennett, who features amateur singers both in the stage play Allelujah! (2018) and a movie, The Choral, which opens in November.
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