The Choir of Man continues at Underbelly’s London Wonderground until 5 September 2021.
Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
We’re in a pub called The Jungle where eight cheerful chaps are singing, joshing, laughing, jigging about and passing pints drawn onstage into the audience – while catchy trad tunes are belted out on a backing tape.
It’s a gloriously upbeat prelude to a show which celebrates pub culture and, in many ways, took me happily back to the smoky, exuberant folk clubs of my youth.
Andrew Kay and Nic Doodson’s show – once it actually gets going – features lots of 20th century pop classics, close harmony numbers, songs from shows, ballads and more as the cast bounces round the pub set using the bar and a table as mini performance spaces …
Read the rest of this review at Musical Theatre Review: https://musicaltheatrereview.com/the-choir-of-man-london-wonderground/
