'A terrible mess.' 'Tacky and tasteless when it isn't being quite nauseatingly sentimental.' 'The overwhelming impression was of watching a version of The Wizard of Oz in which Dorothy introduced the Munchkins to smack, burnt Oz to the ground, and then...
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'A terrible mess.' 'Tacky and tasteless when it isn't being quite nauseatingly sentimental.' 'The overwhelming impression was of watching a version of The Wizard of Oz in which Dorothy introduced the Munchkins to smack, burnt Oz to the ground, and then tried to cheer everyone up by singing I Will Survive.' 'It was the worst experience of my career.' 'I thought it was absolutely brilliant…. It was one of the most incredible nights I have had at the theatre for a long time.' 'The best thing about it is the music, ranging from pumping, high-energy disco to enjoyably maudlin ballads….' 'It delivers its tat with fever, and its giftedness lightly: the music is better, the rhymes sharper than most of what cruises round theatre-land. It's essence of camp." 'Stomping disco, clattering synths, Sondheimesque wordplay, complex vocal harmony, moments of almost chamber-like intimacy and intricacy.' 'In short, sometimes I thought that Simply Divine was the worst new show I'd seen in more than a year,
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