Fings Reviews

Exuent Magazine

'UNIVERSALLY STRONG CAST...Oliver Townsend's clever set and costumes smartly moves from 50s grey to 60s technicolor, and director Phil Willmott, aided by choreographer Nick Winston keeps the whole thing PACEY AND TIGHT'

The British Theatre Guide

'BRILLIANT AUDITORIUM-ENCOMPASSING SET designed by Oliver Townsend, which, together with some risqué costumes, perfectly catch the period and locale...SUBLIME DANCE ROUTINES.'

Whatsonstage - Michael Coveney

****

'Phil Willmott creates an IRRESTIBLE, ORGANIC PARTY ATMOSPHERE...Fred (strongly played by Neil McCaul)...Lil (an utterly delightful Hannah-Jane Fox)...THERE'S NOTHING BUT DELIGHT spreading from the horizontal sensuality of “Layin’ Abaht,” the music hall bounce and cheek of “The Ceiling’s Comin’ Dahn” or the hilarious interior decorating numbers, “Contempery” and “Polka Dots”...choreography is a treat...fine musical direction'

The Stage - Mark Shenton

'The Union is fast becoming the National Theatre of fringe musicals...ANOTHER FASCINATING REDISCOVERY...this cheerfully chaotic show about scrapes and japes in the Soho underworld has spit, spivs and spirit...Phil Willmott’s production, and especially Nick Winston’s SPARKY, VIBRANT CHOREOGRAPHY, harnesses its energy perfectly...PLENTY TO RELISH AND RAVISH THE EYE AND EAR'

The Public Reviews

****

'In Phil Willmott’s bright production the CONSISTENTENTLY TALENTED CAST and Elliot Davis‘s BOX-FRESH ARRANGEMENTS bring the songs to life with knuckle-duster punch...if you're in the mood for a right-old Cockerney sing-song, get dahn the Union, knock twice and ask for Fred"

Broadwayworld

'Richard Foster-King, whose turn as Horace, the spectacularly camp interior decorator, IS WORTH THE ADMISSION ALONE...a perfect marriage of simple melodies and vernacular speech, told by a cast bubbling with energy, provides AN EVENING OF FEELGOOD FUN as fresh now as it was half a century ago'

Remotegoat

****

'Hannah-Jane Fox is splendid...choreography is excellent...JUST SEE IT. It is worth a few quid of anybody's money!'

Extra Extra

‎'Many winning cameos from a MAGNIFICANTLY TALENTED CAST...comical, sentimental and great fun.'

London Theatre.co.uk

'Richard Foster-King steals the show as the gangly, polari-speaking interior designer who gives Fred's joint a fantabluosa makeover...with a VISUALLLY RAUCOUS PERFORMANCE that is QUITE MESMERISING."

Time Out

***

'A tap dance is exciting enough. But tap dancing and playing the spoons? That's so intoxicating it should be banned...Phil Willmott's revival refuses to shrink to fit the Union's small dimensions. It's got BIG NUMBERS, BIG PERFORMANCES and a pretty BIG HEART...Neil McCall is perfectly grizzled and taciturn as the out-of-time antihero, and Hannah-Jane Fox nails the brittle-but-resilient spirit of his doormat, Lil...FINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS ENTERTAINING AS THIS'

Collated by our Superb Producer Ellie Collyer-Bristow