She arrives on stage wearing butterfly wings, thrusts her crotch to the stab of a trumpet then jumps into splits to raucous applause. Bonnie Langford is 59, but she still has the energy and high kicks she had when she was dancing all over TV screens and West End stages in the 1980s.
The sexy butterfly number is You Gotta Get a Gimmick from Gypsy, as seen in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, a tribute to the late composer staged last May (and on iPlayer). Langford is rehearsing for a new 16-week run of the show, alongside Broadway stars Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga and a host of new cast members, directed by Matthew Bourne.
