DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY Charing Cross Theatre

Thom Southerland directs Maury Yeston’s chamber musical and with its soaring operatic score, the show’s always on the cusp of being a great musical without ever quite making it. A large number of people in the early 1920’s, after the Great War and the influenza pandemic, would have felt Death really did need to take a holiday. The Grim Reaper (Chris Peluso), having just killed a young woman (Zoë Donano) in a car crash, changes his mind and decides to have a fling with her instead