Verdict: A tropical treat
Rating:
Chichester Festival Theatre is back, with a big summer musical that lives up to the swooning lyrics of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s terrific old showboater, and provides sustenance for those of us hungering for live entertainment.
Some enchanted evening? You betcha.
What a joy it is to see a full company, led by Gina Beck and Julian Ovenden, swirling through their paces in Daniel Evans’s ravishing and well-oiled production, with gorgeous Technicolor set design by Peter McKintosh. I still think of the 1949 musical about American marines in World War II, hanging around, waiting to fight the Japanese, in terms of the sun-drenched picture postcard 1958 movie starring Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor.