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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
David Jays

Already Perfect review – Broadway star faces the past to make peace with himself

Yiftach ‘Iffy’ Mizrahi (Ben), Levi Kreis (Levi) and Killian Thomas Lefevre (Matthew) in Already Perfect.
Talent and sincerity … Yiftach ‘Iffy’ Mizrahi (Ben), Levi Kreis (Levi) and Killian Thomas Lefevre (Matthew) in Already Perfect. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

The title of this semi-autobiographical musical is also a massive spoiler. Broadway star Levi Kreis plays a version of himself, battling his demons and facing his past, only to conclude that, however flawed he often feels, he is in fact – ah, you’ve guessed.

This Levi stumbles off stage, inked and emotional, having been dumped by text during a matinee. After 11 sober months, he reaches for the crystal meth – but his soft-eyed sponsor Ben (Yiftach “Iffy” Mizrahi) urges him to confront his inner child, ideally in song. Levi is unconvinced – “my inner child is like Chucky, but he’s human, he’s gay and he thinks he’s Elvis” – but sits at the keyboard and yowls through the pain.

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