Summary
FIRST Jacques Chirac attacks our grub. Now The New Yorker has published a torpedo-job review of the new West End musical Billy Elliot, calling the Elton John show " mawkish", "prolix", "repetitive" and "camp".
The amazingly negative two-page review, written by the magazine's John Lahr, will do nothing for Sir Elton's temper or for hopes of Billy Elliot transferring successfully to Broadway. The New Yorker may be ridiculously pleased with itself but its word carries undoubted clout with Manhattan ' s theatre investors.See the full content of this document
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New Yorker Critic Slates Billy Elliot
The verdict from Lahr clashes with almost every o...
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