Charing Cross theatre, LondonHenry Ford and Harry Houdini pop up in this rose-tinted show based on EL Doctorow's novel and directed by Thom SoutherlandTerrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' musical, based on EL Doctorow's novel, offers a kaleidoscopic but never complex portrait of the US in the years before the first world war. "Those days were lavender-tinted," trills Mother (a deliciously full-throated…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM on October 20, 2016