It’s affectionate fun. There are some good gags – including an early tease of Del’s bar fall – and the sitcom's iconic theme tune works well as a refrain (sung by the cast) for the twinkly cheekiness of this show’s tone.
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Just how much you warm to it will largely depend on your wish to revisit a beloved TV series in this new but hardly revelatory format.
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The result is a show that shouldn’t work and often doesn’t, but is enjoyable all the same.
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The crucial thing missing from this funny musical is any truly compelling reason why Del Boy and Rodney have to burst into song.
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“There’s little point in describing individual performances, since all are serviceable broad-brush impersonations of the screen characters...Applause came for characters, not performers...As for the songs, they’re an odd mix...The prevailing emotional register is a kind of lukewarm sentimentality...The evening is basically a polite nostalgia-fest: certainly not for the era, and perhaps not even for the series itself so much as the feelings it engendered.”
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The finest collection of vintage gags on the London stage should allow the show to make a fair amount of what Del Boy calls “lovely jubbly”. But, as a musical, a few too many of the songs are, to borrow again from the Trotter lingo, plonkers.
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[A] rollicking remake of much-loved TV sitcom.
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It’s not half as entertaining as the original pratfall. But if you ever wanted to see it in the flesh, here’s your chance. Nuff said.
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