Bugsy Malone, St. Peter’s The Apostle Secondary.

I don’t usually go to stage plays. I can count on one finger the number of plays I go to, especially if they’re musicals. Musicals and I have got an understanding. I don’t bother them and they don’t bother me.  But this was one of those ones were my sister got tickets and told me I was going. Never argue with your big sister and never pay for your ticket. Pressganged, because her son was playing Fat Sam, even though he’s not fat and his name is not Sam. The kids really were brilliant. I thought the man that played Dandy Dan was at least twenty-four and had been imported from Hollywood. I did a bit of reading and research during the break.  According to the programme he was fifteen. Bugsy was thirteen and had been acting since he was two.  I was a bit prissy with the programme. Some titles should have been italicised and compound modifiers should have been hyphenated. I’d also have added that the boy that plays Fat Sam has been acting since before amniocentesis and ultrasound scans show he had a penis and a propensity to hog the camera. I took a wander around the new school. Kids with so much poise onstage revert offstage to gauche and innocent youngsters.  Some of the jokes didn’t work and the music tended to drown out some young voices. Ratings out of ten? Fifteen. If my sister gets me tickets I might go to another play in about ten years.