Irving Berlin's White Christmas London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (4)
See it if you like the movie
Don't see it if you don't like the movie
See it if Your looking for a good entertaining Christmassy show.
Don't see it if You’re looking for an amazing show stopping new current production.
See it if you love the traditional film. It’s followed quite closely.
Don't see it if you don’t enjoy slower musicals. This did feel drawn out at times.
See it if You love the film and want to see something festive.
Don't see it if You want an absorbing adaptation of the film with great staging, great acting and great singing.
Critic Reviews (8)
Nikolai Foster’s production, originally from Leicester’s Curve Theatre is studded with stage troupers and TV talent show graduates who do their high-kicking, wide-smiling jobs well enough. It’s exuberant, dumb fun.
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...it’s all as shiny as a newly unwrapped Christmas tree bauble. But the memory of it will swiftly be boxed away and left alone, too. A treat with a lower-case t.
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...the stage musical is a pale imitation of the movie and about as alluring as a Christmas tree that has lost half of its needles — no matter how much tinsel you hang around it, the bare patches are hard to ignore.
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breezy but bland...Seasonal entertainment is cheerful if essentially dull
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White Christmas is a sturdily old-fashioned version of a jukebox musical of genuine classics...As an opportunity to bask in a festive soundtrack, there's hardly a more lovely show in town.
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But somehow, it feels underpowered here: the 22-strong cast isn’t numerous enough to make the dance routines feel lavish...What this plucky production does deliver is charm.
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Whatever you’ve been dreaming of, this isn’t quite it...But David Ives and Paul Blake’s adaptation, which premiered in the US in 2000, thins out the plot, weakens the characters, and removes most of the drama.
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With firecracker performances and singalong sounds, this version of the Bing Crosby classic glistens with sexy razzmatazz, but tenderness lies beneath the shiny surface.
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