Thanks to their clean-cut image and crystal clear harmonies, the Osmonds sold more than 100m records worldwide. Their smash hits make the right kind of crowd melt, swoon and sway. All the classics, including Puppy Love and Love Me for a Reason, are in this new musical. And then some. You get an awful lot of Osmond for your buck. Heavenly for some. A little bit much for the rest of us.
The book has been written by middle child Jay Osmond in conjunction with director Shaun Kerrison. It’s fairly zippy but barely digs beneath the squeaky clean surface. There are tantalising glimpses of a much more interesting story – especially in the flashbacks with military dad George Osmond (Charlie Allen), who made his kids get up at 4.30am to practise. It can’t have been much of a childhood.
