Tip Top Hat

Tip Top Hat

When times are hard we tend to want escapist entertainment. Some of the greatest musicals were penned in the austere years following in Wall Street Crash during the depression of the 1930s. Many of these are the classics that are screened on television on Sunday afternoons. We must be going through tough times again for no fewer than 31 musicals are playing or opening soon in the West End. L ast week we went to the Aldwych Theatre to see Top Hat a musical loosely based on the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film. The original version was based on a play written by Alexander Farago which seems rather appropriate for a story based on the single premise. Yes Shakespeare made a good living writing these plot lines, but for Top Hat this is the only plot line. Starring Tom Chambers, who won Strictly Come Dancing a few years ago, and Summer Strallen who both thankfully don’t ...

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