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New 4-star show starring Taylor Swift's ex and action star linked to Tom Cruise is hailed for their 'explosive chemistry'


Anyone heading to Drury Lane expecting to see Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston in a traditional production of Shakespeare's Much Ado must go back to their wardrobes.

And in between the show’s kitsch, smoochy and jiving dance numbers, their verbal sparring becomes a sort of running battle rap, staged on a sea of pink ticker tape, which falls continuously throughout the two-and-a-quarter-hour performance. Forbes Masson is like a blinged-up Ibiza casualty as Leonato, father of the wronged bride Hero (a Kardashian-esque Mara Huf), whose fiance Claudio (James Phoon) looks like he stepped out of a boy band. Tim Steed’s mischief- making Don John is a bitter, balding, pony-tailed queen left on the shelf; while Mason Alexander Park, as the cross-dressing MC, breathily croons All-4-One’s I Swear.

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