Christmas Karma Review: Two Words Spring to Mind for Gurinder Chadha’s Musical – ‘Bah’ and ‘Humbug’

Christmas Karma review: Two words spring to mind for Gurinder Chadha’s musical – ‘bah’ and ‘humbug’

A million Scrooges later, and here is Take That’s Gary Barlow with a bag of pop tunes for your favourite festive grump. Barlow, to be clear, is on songwriting duty only, alongside Nitin Sawhney and Shaznay Lewis.

Christmas Karma review — 'destined to be a festive perennial'

Around this time of year, you can hardly throw a Christmas tree bauble in a multiplex without hitting a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. There are so many versions of the famous festive parable that nobody is quite sure how many have been made; Wikipedia’s best guess is “countless”. One thing we can be sure of — we don’t really need another one. Defiant and disruptive to her core, along comes Gurinder Chadha, a …