Here Comes J. Edgar! – King’s Head Theatre, London!

Theatre Review: Here Comes J Edgar!, King's Head, N1

During the interval the man in the seat next to me asked me about the story of J Edgar Hoover, the despotic FBI Director from 1924 to 1972 who, according to this musical, was secretly gay and had a penchant for wearing women's clothing. Tags:  Edgar

REVIEW: Here Comes J. Edgar

Reading Time: 2 minutes ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3 out of 5. A vibrant and polished biography that offers a great deal of fun. The life of J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial, deeply flawed, and arguably villainous architect of the modern FBI, might not seem like the most obvious fodder for a musical. Yet, a new musical production attempts to do just that in Here Comes J. Edgar. The result is a highly polished, fiercely enthusiast…

Here Comes J. Edgar! – King’s Head Theatre, London!

Book and Lyrics: Harry Shearer and Tom Leopold  Music: Peter Matz  Director: Josh Seymour  One wonders who or what Harry Shearer and Tom Leopold are satirising in the impeccably put-together, meta-heavy comedy musical Here Comes J. Edgar! Is it the formulaic Broadway rom-com? Is it golden-age musicals, specifically their penchant for taking real, flawed historical figures and smoothing down their rough edges [...] The post Here Comes J. Edgar! –…

Review: Here Comes Another All-Singing, All Dancing US Politics Comedy

Bryan Batt (left) stars as an all-singing all-dancing FBI director, alongside his lifetime assistant, Clyde (Hugo Bolton). Image: Here Comes J. Edgar! The London stage is giving us the quite the crash course in American politics right now — at least through a glitzily cockeyed lens. With Mary Todd Lincoln stirring up shit on the West End, Here Comes J. Edgar! brings us the story of the puissant FBI director, with added jazz hands. And let's not …

HERE COMES J EDGAR! review by thespyinthestalls at King's

HERE COMES J EDGAR! King’s Head Theatre ★★★★ “As history, it’s candy-coated; as theatre, it’s a joy: an immaculately performed comedy” The all-singing, all-dancing Here Comes J. Edgar! lifts the veil on what secrets a man must keep to satiate the power of love and the love of power. J. Edgar Hoover was the most feared man in twentieth-century America. Founder of the modern FBI, he was the blackmailer-in-chief whose filing cabinets kept a succes…

Here Comes J. Edgar

King's Head, London ***** Music by Peter Matz Lyrics & book by Harry Shearer and Tom Leopold Directed by Josh Seymour Marc Elliott and Bryan...