Clueless the Musical at Trafalgar Theatre review: powerfully sung, and actually, like, kinda fun

Omigod guys, Amy Heckerling’s musical adaptation of her 1995 film about a rich Beverley Hills brat finding wisdom and true love is, like, kinda fun. It features a powerfully-sung breakout performance from young New Yorker Emma Flynn as the plaid-clad protagonist Cher Horowitz. I could mutter about yet another risk-averse, cross-genre exploitation of existing intellectual property – not just of the movie but of its inspiration, Jane Austen’s Emma – but frankly it’s more fun to just enjoy it.

An all-round nostalgia fest for the slang, the fashion and the paraphernalia of monied Californians three decades ago, it will give a warm buzz to those with hazy memories of the film (me) and ultra fangirls (my guest) and may prove a period-piece curiosity to those not even born when it was released. Though it’s not – to steal the title of the first song in KT Tunstall’s score – Perfect.