A good ole razzle dazzle, tap-dancing and memorable show is what you’ll get when you go see ‘Crazy For You’.
Now playing at Covent Garden’s Gillian Lynne Theatre, it’s a show with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin, based on the songwriting team’s 1930 musical Girl Crazy, and first performed in 1992, and it’s still a fun watch even to this day!
Luckily we get Charlie Stemp as Bobby Child, who is the son of very wealthy parents. Stemp is the heart and soul of the show – he’s so so good. Anyhoo, Childs mother makes him go to Nevada to take over a theatre that needs to be foreclosed on, but what does he do? He impersonates theatre producer wonderkind Bela Zangler and with the locals, including the town beauty Polly (Carly Anderson), intends to put on a show to save the theatre, and to save the deadbeat town in the middle of the dessert. But the real Zangler shows up (Tom Edden) and Childs mother comes looking for him, as does his fiancé, meanwhile Child has fallen in love with Polly, putting him in a few very sticky situations.
Kudos to the cast who winningly tap and sing throughout the show giving us one spectacular song after another (‘I Got Rhythm’ had the audience on their feet). And world re-known choreographer Susan Stroman (who worked on the original show) is back, and it shows! Under the direction of Stroman, and with a cast who really live up to the hard work, the old fashioned musical has finally returned. You’re going to have a crazy and fun time while the cast and crew do all the hard work. Enjoy!