Director Blazey Best reimagines Andrew Lloyd Webber’s one woman 1970s show, honouring its original setting.
If you have a long memory for musical theatre, you might knowNowadays it’s hard to imagine Andrew Lloyd Webber making something as small as this one-woman show about searching for love from 1979, but then, it was collaborator’s Tim Rice’s idea initially – though an infidelity scandal saw Rice out and Don Black in as lyricist.the Cameron Mackintosh production that paired it with a ballet set to Lloyd Webber’sForty years later, The Girl has returned in a new production, directed by Blazey Best.
Played by Erin Clare, The Girl is alone on a small platform stage. She’s surrounded by the band who are dressed in period costume. This helps establish time and place on the minimalist set, thankfully – a show without much dialogue relies on its design for context clues – and gives us a framework through which to consider the work.
Erin Clare, is alone on a small platform stage, surrounded by the band who are dressed in period costume at Hayes Theatre’s latest production.And this is a work that really does make the most sense in its own time. The Girl has only a few lines that aren’t about, or informed by, a man – the show is about her, but we know so little about who she really is on her own.
Clare is charming and elegant, at her most sincerely poignant in the title number, but in a one-woman show without dialogue, we need a performer that will confide in the audience; as a co-conspirator with us, The Girl would have much more dimensionality and personality.After all, it’s 2024 – contemporary audiences are less likely to need to experience a journey to accept The Girl’s value and worth without a partner, and we want to know her from the jump.
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