It’s astonishing to think that it has taken so long for To Sir, With Love to make it onto the stage. The original, seminal book, by E.R. Braithwaite, was published in 1959 and the story was filmed in 1967 starring Sydney Poitier...

“…The strength of Evita over many other musicals of the past twenty or thirty years is its sheer volume of great numbers. You have to go back to the shows I mentioned earlier, and their like, to find so many outstanding songs per square yard. With Les Mis, Phantom or Cats, for instance, you only have one or two great, show stopping numbers. Evita has lots and lots….”