The Last Ship review " Sting musical takes inspiration from the shipyard
Neil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musicalAfter suffering 10 years of writer's block, Sting found himself returning to the Wallsend neighbourhood of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was raised just down the road from the Swan Hunter shipyards, for inspiration.The perhaps unlikely result was The Last Ship, which starte…