The Wind in the Willows, London Palladium review - an effortful slog
Kenneth Grahame-inspired musical starring Rufus Hound is at once overly perky and dramatically weightlessAn enormous amount rides on a musical's opening number. Without explicitly expressing it, a good opener sets tone, mood and style. Take The Lion King, where "Circle of Life" so thrillingly unites music, design, and direction that nothing that follows equals it. "Spring", the opener of The Wind in the Willows, repe…