The Life, Southwark Playhouse, London, review: A crime if this show does not transfer to the West End
"Wow, there's Michael Blakemore," I said, prodding my college across the aisle when I spotted the multi-talented 88 year old taking his seat for this UK premiere of the Cy Coleman/Ira Gasman musical set amongst the hustlers, pimps and prostitutes plying their trade on 42nd street and in Time Square during this district's 1970s heyday of sleaze. "Didn't he direct the first Broadway produc…