Review - Tell Me On A Sunday - Hippodrome

I went with my friend Guy to see one of the few Lloyd Webber pieces I hadn't previously seen on stage, the one woman song cycle "Tell Me On A Sunday", a series of impressions of an English girl living in New York and her relationship difficulties. Claire Sweeney was indisposed so Ann Lewis stepped in and had to carry the show. In a way, the whole piece would be better if there was a second person on stage to at least portray the three different men in her life, as this might have reduced the need to rush hither and thither around the stage interacting with props and doing costume changes. The number of times she put on and took off shoes was most distracting.  As it is, the success of the piece depends on the songs and here there are some of Lloyd Webber's best tunes, even if it did sound to me as if bits of Sunset Boulevard were being tried out, especially in the various iterations of "It Doesn't Matter". A short evening and one that wasn't the best theatrical experience ever, but a fairly decent concert if looked at like that. 2.5/5