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You never forget your first love. And Edna loves Harry. Except Harry is the cheeky Northern member of a British boyband, a handsome void who has a propensity for flicking his lovely hair, and Edna is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who, in the words of her pal, writes “psycho fan fiction” and posts it on the internet. This is Fangirls, a new musical about the euphoria and misery of being a teenage girl with an obsession. Aptly, then, it’s the kind of show that inspires outsized feelings and ardent devotion. In the words of the fangirls, it left me “actually dead”.
