'Sunny Afternoon' at the Hampstead Theatre

[kport]

This one is definitely on my radar. It may be on anyone's of a certain age who remember the Kinks, and the Davies Brothers.

Baz Bamigboye (whose praise of BETM is writ large on the front of the VPT)



just gave it this preview:

Dagleish and Maguire star in Sunny Afternoon, along with Ned Derrington and Adam Sopp, Helen Hobson, Philip Bird, Tam Williams, Dominic Tighe, Marvin Springer, Lillie Flynn, and others.
Written by Joe Penhall, with music and lyrics by Ray Davies himself, Sunny Afternoon is a powerful show that delivers you an authentic slice of the Sixties. It’s about creativity and the toll exacted when you attempt to retain your integrity and honesty, while trying to be a popular artist.
The way Penhall has fitted Davies’s songs — they’re like poems — into his storyline makes them feel original and fresh, although most were written decades ago.
Sunny Afternoon is being directed by Edward Hall at Hampstead Theatre. I caught a very early preview, so a lot of work was still being done, and Act 2 was incomplete.
Yet I came away on the kind of high I hadn’t felt since I covered a rehearsal of Billy Elliot, which remains for me the best musical on the London stage.

(This relevant review is beneath the one for the upcoming MacBeth film, who looks quite good, too.):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... z2zE4R8EMY

http://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-o ... afternoon/