Sunshine on Leith | Theatre review

The title track is so moving that the audience can't bring itself to clap – people just sit in awed silence. Name any other jukebox musical of which you can say that. From its opening battlefield salvo to the party punch-up that ushers in the interval, Stephen Greenhorn's Proclaimers tribute refuses to play by the rules. In this, it is every bit as idiosyncratic, awkward and lovable as the music of Craig and Charlie Reid.On this show's first outing in 2007, the hospital bedside rendition of S...

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