Review: SEND IN THE CLOWNS - OKLAHOMO!, Old Joint Stock Birmingham

Photo credit: Emma Jones

Send In The Clowns is a wild drag revue show celebrating the magic and madness of musical theatre. This time around, The Clowns are taking us back to the Golden Age of Broadway. Celebrating the classic musicals of the 1940s, 50s and 60s – This is Oklahomo!

Hosted by Fatt Butcher (winner of Drag Idol UK) alongside vocal powerhouse Alanna Boden, Dahlia Rivers and Blu Romantic (two of the Midlands’ best drag and cabaret superstars) performing some of musical theatres classic tunes, like you’ve never heard them before.

With inimitable versions of West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Funny Girls and Gypsy, not only sung well, but performed with comedy, farce and a style all of The Clowns own, you will have a night of laughter guaranteed.

Act Two sees their infamous ‘twenty-minute musical’. Rehearsed in two days, what could possibly go wrong? Well, actually quite a bit! But this only adds more fun to the evening, the audience is on side and we are along for the ride.

Besties, we love The Clowns! They have a rapport between them that, no matter what, gets them through the performance with the most wonderful vocals and funniest links from song to song. It’s a great, light hearted night out, we absolutely recommend you go see it.

Camp cabaret at its finest!

**** Four stars

Reviewed by: Rachel Louise Martin

Send In The Clowns: Oklahomo! plays at The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham until 9 September, with further information here.