The show is less hung up on masculinity than the animated original, but the actor, with his tight trousers and bulging biceps, conveys plenty of preening self-regard, leading the cast in a song that could have come from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The first, in this spruced-up production staged by Matt West, is that paradoxical thing, a communal song about one man’s ego, as the full company run riot in a tavern in celebration of Tom Senior’s Gaston. The show comes into its own in two act-one numbers, both extraneous to the plot and both irresistibly full of life.
Bearing the influence of panto … Nigel Richards as Cogsworth, Sam Bailey as and Mrs Potts and Gavin Lee as Lumiere.
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