Sometimes a musical event comes along that has steadily gained renown for years, so much so that you find yourself worried that the hype may have skewed your expectations a bit too far. That is not the case here.
A faint echoing of a doorbell accompanied an excited and giddy crowd queuing up to see the musical brainchild of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, famed for their animated TV series South Park. There was an atmosphere at the Theatre Royal that could only really be described as ecstatic in retrospect, on a 'latter-day.'
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