The show must go on: it’s been the rallying cry of our beleaguered industry, the message emblazoned on Theatre Support Fund+’s T-shirts and mugs. On Saturday night, we saw that fighting spirit in person, as Janie Dee, co-producer and star of this concert version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music, marched into a pitiless downpour and cried to the heavens, “Don’t you love farce?!”. As far as spine-tinglingly theatrical moments go, that one will be hard to top.
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