It’s probably best not to think too hard about this one. A recently divorced dad pretends to be an old Scottish nanny so he can see his kids, deceiving them and his ex-wife in the process. Ya couldn’t get away with it nowadays, eh?
Except here we are, revisiting the 1993 film in the form of (what else?) a musical. A damp squib on Broadway – Covid was partly to blame – this adaptation by brothers Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick and writer/satirist John O’Farrell entertains plenty, even if the songs dissolve like sugar as soon as we’ve heard them. There’s lots of fun farce and very silly comedy, which is what you’d expect from the co-writers of Chicken Run, and it’s clear that this is a show for young kids, in the elevated realm of dancing grannies and silly voices.
