Step back into the 90’s with the totally fabulous and rad new musical ‘Clueless’.
Based on the 1995 movie of the same name which starred Reese Witherspoon (and Jane Austin’s classic book ‘Emma’), the hotly anticipated ‘Clueless the Musical’ is full of color, charm, humor, great music (by both KT Turnstall and Glenn Slater), great performances, fantastic clothes, very good direction and choreography (Rachel Kavanagh and Lizzi Gee respectively). It also includes a simply wonderful lead actress – Emma Flynn – who nails it! Flynn seamlessly and effortlessly sings, acts and flows throughout the show – and she is in almost every scene as Cher Horowitz, the beautiful and popular high school teenager at Beverly Hills High School who wants to do good deeds all the time, including matching people up, but who doesn’t realise that her love match is closer than what she thinks!
Through so many catchy and finger-snapping songs, including ‘Perfect’ and ‘She’s All That and a Bag of Chips’, Cher befriends a new girl in town and tries to match her up with a classmate, then successfully matches up two teachers at her school, and when she thinks she’s found the right guy for herself he turns out to be gay! Chyna-Rose Frederick and Romona Lewis-Malley are good as Cher’s best friend while Keelan McCauley makes the girls in the audience swoon as Cher’s step brother and who has a fantastic number in the song ‘Human Barbies’. This musical reimagines everything that came from the movie, but gives it an extra twist by being live and in real-time, 30 years after the movie (and 210 years after the book was published), successfully bringing it back to life for a new generation. This show will remind the audience goer of their time in high school, with the good times and the bad times. ‘Clueless the Musical’ is a very very good time!
Clueless the Musical plays until Sept. 27th, 2025.
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