Luck be a Lady Tonight

I saw Guys and Dolls yesterday and It was a curiously raunchy production. Adelaide looked like Ellie May in The Beverly Hillbillies and sure enough during their first number: A Bushel and a peck, they stripped down to the same outfit that Jessica Simpson wore in the video for "These boots are made for walkin'". Instead of boots the dancers wore white anklets and red high heels, which basically had the same effect. Sister Sara looked very much like Virginia Madsen and was believe it or not "freak" dancing in the Havana scene.

Anyway the upshot of this was that all of the men who looked like they had been dragged out of the house were very pleased, and the women who had looked forward to seeing Patrick Swayze (he is out sick until the 24th) were justifiably disgruntled. There was a great deal of chat in the que for the Ladies Room on the lines of "no Patrick Swayze, and now we have to sit through that... oh and remember that scene in Ghost...."

The songs and the orchestra were fantastic.

I will be writing about the Tom Stoppard play Rock'n'Roll on Monday. It was brilliant, but I am still thinking about it and reading the script.

The pictures are of Piccadilly Circus.