LOSERVILLE Garrick Theatre

Elliot Davis and James Bourne’s musical, which began life at the West Yorkshire Playhouse earlier this year and has now rashly transferred to the West End, is strenuously robotic. The story is set in an American High School in 1971 and is about geeks attempting to make computers to talk to each other. You have to admire the efficiency and speed with which the young cast end up in the right places when they are manipulating stacks and stacks of boards with drawings on them which set the scene and create a comic picture book world of streets, trees, rooms, cars, kitchens and bowling alleys. But the script is juvenile and cliché-ridden and the songs are unmemorable