High Society

Hayes Theatre Company

It is the eve of Tracey Lord's second marriage and her first husband turns up to throw a proverbial spanner into the celebrations. The wealthy Lord family is a hotbed of extramarital activity which attracts the attention of reporters from a gossip magazine.

This is the setting for 'High Society', a 1950s musical based on the 1940s play and movie 'The Philadelphia Story'. The musical benefits from a sparkling score by Cole Porter and what I imagine to be the pick of the snappy dialogue from the original work.

The Hayes Theatre Company production I'm told has received middling reviews but we thoroughly enjoyed tonight's performance in front an enthusiastic capacity house (the auditorium only holds 120 people) a significant proportion of whom were recognisable local performers.

Our concerns about the quality of the singing we might hear (based from hearing several promotional excerpts on radio and television ahead of the season) proved baseless.
★★★★