We Will Rock You
Lyric Theatre, APA
Reviewed: May 17
The eye-catching jukebox-shaped set, the solid choreography, the goofy characters with their witty one-liners and, of course, great music and singing - it's hard not to like this West End musical inspired by Queen's greatest hits. Created five years ago by British writer Ben Elton and the rock group's Brian May and Roger Taylor, We Will Rock You is an audio and visual feast.
There might not be much of a plot and the set began to wobble in one dynamic chorus routine, but these flaws did little to spoil the enjoyment of an otherwise well-thought-out production.
Set in a future when music is bland and all instruments are banned, the story revolves around a prophecy that foretells a man and his girlfriend - Galileo (MiG Ayesa) and Scaramouche (Sivan Raphaely) - will breathe life back into music as we knew it in the 1970s and 80s. However, the tyrannical dictator Killer Queen (Annie Crummer, below) and her Karl Lagerfeld-like right-hand man Khashoggi (Neels Clasen) are determined to have them eliminated.