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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Nick Ahad

I Should Be So Lucky, The Musical review – missing the Hit Factory

I Should Be So Lucky, The Musical.
Smashed hits … I Should Be So Lucky, The Musical. Photograph: Marc Brenner

Having been born at the end of the 1970s and come of age in the 1980s, or the last time pop music was truly great, there was no sweeter spot from which to appreciate the genius of the Stock Aitken Waterman Hit Factory.

To see the triumvirate of Mike, Matt and Pete on stage at the curtain call of this musical based on their phenomenal back catalogue was akin to witnessing deities descend from musical Mount Olympus.

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