Arcola, LondonThis lively musical take on the 2006 film satirising child beauty pageants is likable but lacks bite I missed the 2006 film that is the source for this musical with songs by William Finn and a book by James Lapine, and so, coming fresh to the story of a dysfunctional family driving daughter Olive to a child beauty pageant in California, I was struck by the show's central contradiction: its desire to sub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AM on April 2, 2019