His music does ‘charm’ the audience out of its seats in standing ovation.

His rise to fame, his big ego and the rest of the cast’s smaller but not so subsidiary ones are a joy to behold.

She has enticed the famous womanizing guitarist Django Reinhardt to put on an Orpheus show with her as his Eurydice and her Hot Club jazz musicians filling in all the many other roles (priests, gendarmes, Parisian voleurs, and Underworld dramatis personae) in gauche ‘rude mechanicals’ manner. She even has Edith Piaf’s stance and walk off pat, and a belting voice that can knock the birds off their perches. I was worried that their big-hearted music hall style would be constrained in the small Linbury Studio after BAC’s Grand Hall with its original organ, convivial 1930s Parisian club atmosphere, tables, food and drink, post-show meals.īut little sparrow club owner and chanteuse Yvette Pépin in her little red dress and string of pearls, quizzical eyebrows and terrific voice has the audience eating out of her hands. I had hoped then that they’d make it to the West End and here they are opening across the river (not the Styx) the Deloitte Ignite 2015 season in the Royal Opera House, competing with the big boys in the main house’s Orphée et Eurydice. Orpheus, Little Bulb Theatre’s-both illuminating light bulb and seed from which bigger things grow-light-hearted but far from lightweight small-scale production has not looked back since opening at the Battersea Arts Centre in April 2013.

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