(Alfred Hickling’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/19.)
It is now fairly common to see behemoth Broadway musicals recalibrated as bijou, actor-musician pieces. Even so, you have to admire the chutzpah of the Coliseum for nipping in and becoming the first to claim the UK rights to Kander and Ebb's masterpiece when the all-conquering West End franchise finally closed last year.
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/sep/19/chicago-oldham-coliseum-review