‘The loudest musical I’ve skilled in a protracted whereas’ – The Wizard of Oz

If nothing else, that is definitely the loudest musical I’ve skilled in a protracted whereas.

Cranked as much as ear-splitting decibel ranges, it’s a blitzkrieg of sound and imaginative and prescient.

Rebooted by Andrew Lloyd Webber from the celebrated movie right into a Nineteen Fifties retro-futurist world during which The Tin Man (Ashley Banjo) resembles RoboCop, the Wicked Witch of the West (Dianne Pilkington) is a CEO with a personal military of Nazi-styled drones and Dorothy (Georgina Onuorah) is a spirited, independent-minded younger lady lured into what quantities to a regime change within the land of Oz.

Behind a sequence of Deco frames the rear wall acts as a display for dizzying movies depicting twisters, Kansas farmland, the Yellow Brick Road as if we had been watching an enormous tv set.

What it lacks in attraction and innocence it greater than makes up for in blockbusting, ear-bursting, eye-popping razzamatazz.

So that’s one thing.

The Wizard of Oz, London Palladium till September 3, Tickets: 0203 925 2998