All the Fun of the Fair | Theatre review

Garrick, LondonFrom the second 1970s heart-throb David Essex struts on stage sporting crotch-clutching jeans and a cock-eyed hat, it's clear that this musical, based on his album of the same name, is little more than a vehicle to woo "women of a certain age". Essex's back catalogue punctuates a thin plot in which fairground owner Levi Lee (Essex) struggles to control his wayward son and declining business following his wife's tragic death. Plundering the platitudes from old pop songs was unlikel...

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