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PATRICK MARMION reviews Clueless at the Trafalgar Theatre: Big-hearted Barbie doll is flawless


From Legally Blonde to Heathers and Mean Girls, musicalisations of teenage romcoms can seem two a penny these days. But this staging (pictured) of the 1995 movie Clueless still has plenty to sing about.

Once again the prolific, prodigiously talented James Graham (Sherwood on the telly, Dear England at the National) uses a real-life story to illustrate and interrogate Britain's crumbling social and political fabric. Once again the prolific, prodigiously talented James Graham (Sherwood on the telly, Dear England at the National) uses a real-life story to illustrate and interrogate Britain's crumbling social and political fabric It's hard not to cry when, years later, the two shake hands — or when James's mother (Coronation Street's Julie Hesmondhalgh) stands alongside Jacob, now almost unrecognisably still, composed and remorseful, as they talk to schoolkids about violence.

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