The road to happiness is a bumpy ride.
Based on the Oscar-winning film, Little Miss Sunshine is a new musical comedy from Tony Award winners James Lapine and William Finn.
The Hoover family has more than a few troubles, but young Olive has her heart set on winning the Little Miss Sunshine beauty contest. When an invitation to compete comes out of the blue, the Hoovers must pile in to their rickety yellow camper van. Can it survive the 800-mile trip from New Mexico to California – and more importantly, can they?
This uplifting, modern classic celebrates the quirks of every family, the potholes in every road, and the power of overcoming our differences.
Lapine and Finn’s inventive musical version opens in London in a brand new production directed by Arcola Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen, then takes to the road for a national tour.
Lucky for us the tour brought it to Ipswich.
Firstly, this was a fun production, great acting, fantastic singing voices, very clever very minimum set and most of the cast have tv credits.
Secondly a very special mention has to be given to Sophie Hartley Booth who played Olive. Not sure how old she is, possibly about 10, a real pocket rocket taking on a huge part of dialogue, song and dance, but not coming across as anything other than cute. There are two other child actresses taking turns to play Olive.
But finally I have to have a moan yet again about calling them musicals, when words are put into such strange untuneful arrangements that you'd never hear it again elsewhere or if you did you wouldn't be singing along saying "oh I know this it comes from......".
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