Turbine theatre, LondonAdequate songs are not enough to fill out Jonathan Harvey's flimsy clubbers' romance, though Frances Ruffelle provides some welcome razzle dazzle In four decades of droll synth pop, Pet Shop Boys have been met with brickbats only twice: first for their 1988 seaside fantasy film It Couldn't Happen Here, then in 2001 for their stage musical Closer to Heaven, which critics agreed was closer to hel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM on June 5, 2024