Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonTowards the end of this revival of a long-forgotten 1972 musical, it suddenly hit me what I was watching: Broadway's answer to Peer Gynt. Both feature a hero who roams the world in search of self, but who ends up awakened to the virtues of home and hearth. But I can't help feeling that Ibsen's play is more dramatically colourful and, thanks to Grieg's incidental music, has better tunes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PM on December 8, 2011