Review: Zorro The Musical

 

The dramatic price of this balancing act is that Christopher Renshaw’s production is unsure whether this tosh should be comedy or melodrama. And because melodrama — here involving Zorro’s adopted evil brother Ramon (a dastardly Adam Levy) and Luisa (a virtuous Emma Williams), Zorro’s adopted sister — is not interesting any more, the audience is unsure whether to laugh or be bored.

But every time there is a whiff of tedium, the show bursts into life with thrilling flamenco and cracking one liners, the best of which are allocated in Stephen Clark’s book to Lesli Margherita’s voluptuous gypsy, Inez. “What are you going to do,” she says as Zorro suits up with cape, mask and all, “entertain them to death?”

With a proper show-stopper set to the Gipsy Kings’s biggest chart hit Bamboleo, the result may still be tosh, but it is tosh of a high order. (Tel: 0844 412 4662)