Carousel; Einstein on the Beach – review

Leeds Grand Theatre; Barbican theatre, LondonTake your choice: a sunny, well-drilled, all-singing, all-dancing chorus line gloriously "bustin' out all over" in swing skirts and boaters, or an immaculate, impervious vocal ensemble, stock still in white shirts, sitting in semi-darkness in the orchestra pit chanting the numbers one to eight while, for variation, another voice sets up its own slow count of "1, 2, 3, 4" and a keyboard spills out repeated arpeggio patterns.Three decades separate Rodge...

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