West End in Blackpool is streaming until 9 July 2021.
Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
This 30-minute docu-concert is really a homage to the Winter Gardens, Empress Ballroom and all the rest of what makes Blackpool “the entertainment capital of the north” – as Kelsey-Beth Crossley puts it in her intro.
Nostalgia dominates. First we get Jodie Prenger with a suitably emotional, catch-in-the-throat rendering of ‘Send in the Clowns’ to set the scene.
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