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\u201cI have somewhere exciting to go\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n She might have been a showgirl however Lola has herself a really swankily appointed area beneath The Hippodrome. Lola\u2019s Underground Casino, extremely, is a transformed water pool from the venue\u2019s previous days as a theatre however in its luxe new type, it performed the venue for Live at Lola\u2019s A Musical Chat Show with Stars of the West End<\/strong><\/em>. From the workforce behind the enjoyable Monday Night<\/a> on the Apollo collection<\/a>, the identical chatshow\/cabaret hybrid format is maintained to supply a stirring showcase for some severe expertise.<\/p>\n The guestlist for this night was Christine Allado, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Hadley Fraser and Isaac Hesketh, with Greg Barnett appearing as compere. And while the present featured a number of chic moments of intimately carried out musical theatre, it additionally supplied a hilariously borderline-chaotic vitality as anecdotes veered off-course, in-jokes labored their method in and a quiz spherical produced a genius excessive school-related clanger (in addition to revealing some viewers members you\u2019d positively need in your pub quiz workforce).<\/p>\n Accompanied by the frankly outrageously talanted MD Chris Hatt (severely, his piano taking part in was hypnotisingly good), the musical choices ranged from Sondheim to Slade. Allado confirmed extraordinary vary going from the legit soprano of Show Boat\u2019s<\/em> \u2018Can\u2019t Help Lovin\u2019 Dat Man\u2019 to the craving of In The Heights\u2019<\/em> \u2018It Won\u2019t Be Long Now\u2019 to a carefully acoustic tackle \u2018Shallow\u2019 from A Star is Born <\/em>in duet with Fraser. <\/em>His personal emotion-soaked interpretation of \u2018Anyone Can Whistle\u2019 was a spotlight for me \u2013 I sit up for testing his new album.\u00a0<\/p>\n And Carly Mercedes Dyer, a double-nominee<\/a> and winner<\/a> ultimately yr\u2019s fosterIAN awards<\/a> and my primary purpose for reserving in, was superlative whether or not \u2018Keepin\u2019 out of mischief now\u2019 from Ain\u2019t Misbehavin\u2019 or blowing the roof off with a shocking \u2018Music and the Mirror\u2019 from A Chorus Line<\/em> through which she excelled final yr<\/a>. It may need been good to get a second quantity from Hesketh to go along with their highly effective tackle \u2018Part of your World\u2019 however who is aware of, perhaps that was the punishment for the Rydell High boo boo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n