Southwark Playhouse, London: The original 1974 Broadway production of Mack and Mabel ran for less than two months, and two West End incarnations in 1995 and 2006 hardly fared better. The show's tremendous overture - famously turned into an ice dance by Torvill and Dean - long ago created a cult. In performance, though, the tensions between the upbeat songs that are constantly disrupted by the downward trajectory…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:31AM on July 12, 2012