JOYCE MCMILLAN
felt show featuring some terrific performances – not least from Andrew Lancel as Epstein – as well as a magnificent Sixties playlist packed with early Beatles hits, and all of Cilla’s blockbusting songs.
And if there’s a sense that this production still needs more work to give the second half the same clear focus and perfectly-pitched performances as the first, then it also has plenty of brilliant material to work with as it explores that vital moment in our history when music, love, politics and social change merged into one mighty musical wave of empowerment and joy, somewhere on the backstreets of Liverpool.
Cilla The Musical is at Edinburgh Playhouse until today and at the King’s Theatre, Glasgow, from 30 January until 3 February