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PATRICK MARIMON reviews Cat On A Hot Tin Roof: Daisy's radiant, but this Cat left me cold
PATRICK MARIMON: Chloe Lamford's set replaces the heat of the title with an ice box set of zinc tiles, and a grand piano festooned with half-finished drinks.
Nyman near sings himself hoarse, while Marc Antolin as his quivering wimp of a sidekick, Leopold Bloom, falls for Swedish secretary Ulla (Joanna Woodward, taking the Benny Hill biscuit for sexual innuendo). Cleo Pettitt’s set and costumes are a delight as Mr Rowe sashays about dressed as, variously, a saucy tomato, a cash register (‘You can rifle through my loose change any time you like’) and, most memorably, a liner named Hello Buoys. In the second half we had some of the music the two stars were born to sing, the Cavatina from Aleko by Rachmaninov, in Russian, and Puccini’s ‘O mio babbino caro’, as well as Adam’s noble Cantique De Noel and the ‘Bruderlein’ duet from Die Fledermaus.
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