Just For One Day review – Live Aid musical has soaring voices and pancake-flat characters
Jukebox show celebrating sweary Bob Geldof’s 1985 mega-fundraiser piles homily on cliche in a production in thrall to white saviour stereotypes
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Jukebox show celebrating sweary Bob Geldof’s 1985 mega-fundraiser piles homily on cliche in a production in thrall to white saviour stereotypes
A killer soundtrack accompanies a major moment in music history
The story of Live Aid, raising hundreds of millions remains compelling. Bob Geldof's indefatigable efforts to rouse the world into action deserve to be brought to the stage, but not necessarily in this format.
Baz Bamigboye writes about how the Live Aid musical ‘Just For One Day’ blows the roof off London’s Old Vic as Bob Geldof actor curses his way to stardom.
Breaking the Curtain podcast interviews Tony Award winner Lena Hall about her role in the new musical 'In Dreams' at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto.