If you feel like you need a pick me up, then That’s Entertainment! is perfect for you! When the doom and gloom of a potential Brexit is dragging you down and the short lived English summer, was just that – this is what you need.
From the same producers of smash hit show Puttin’ On The Ritz, this has all of the razzle dazzle you would expect from a tribute to the golden age of Hollywood.
Music includes hits by Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hammerstein as well as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter.
Described as “dazzling song and dance extravaganza”, it stays true to that claim. Studded with a roster of guest starts for each stop of the tour, Liverpool audience members are treated to a special appearance from The Overtones.
Showbiz back then really was a different world. A world of glamour, glitz, fantasy and huge Hollywood stars on the big screen and this is portrayed throughout the performance very well.
The opening number contains more sequins than a whole series of Strictly Come Dancing and this sets the scene for the evening.
Director and choreographer Emma Rogers has ensured that the singing is precise and the dancing sharp from beginning to end.
That’s Entertainment sets out to give the audience an evening of that forties and fifties nostalgia in its most glamorous form. What it proves to be is a gentle evening of good old-fashioned easy entertainment, with tight dance routines and great voices from the entire cast and guests