Ernie, get your gun

It appears that I will only have a limited time to catch the new West End musical sensation, Too Close to the Sun, which is to close on August 8. Press night was only on Friday, and word started to trickle through of the closure over the weekend. That’s quick, even for a musical from the same team behind Behind the Iron Mask.

The West End Whingers’ review (which was based on a preview show, but only released after the press night) is a joy to read, cataloguing both their own experiences of the horror and some of the pre-press night Twitterings about the production.

My favourite quote, though, comes not from the Whingers themselves or the tweets they have collected, but from the FT’s Ian Shuttleworth, in a comment on their blog:

I bumped into my ex-wife at the theatre. We hadn’t met or communicated for 17 or 18 years. That was less disconcerting and more enjoyable than the show.

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Tagged as: Behind the Iron Mask, musical theatre, Too Close to the Sun