Pantos are usually cheap and cheerful, so it’s disorientating to see millions of pounds (I’m guessing) thrown at one. The giant in this Jack and the Beanstalk is an animatronic colossus, the beanstalk might trouble low-flying aircraft around W1, and there were so many whizzbang pyrotechnics, I spent much of act one with a whiff of cordite in my nostrils. Ah, but the jokes – they’re as cheap as ever. You may leave wishing for a better told fairytale. But if you’re here for Julian Clary’s sexual innuendoes – well, he’ll give you an absolute stuffing.
