The new musical, based on classic film Sleepless In Seattle, has opened at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre. Given how starved we’ve been of new live theatre in 2020 – this is our first review since March – it’s a challenge to watch Sleepless: A Musical Romance objectively.
It wouldn’t really be fair to consider this show outside of the wider context, given the limitations that current circumstances have put on rehearsals and performances.
Theatres have only been able to reopen in the last few weeks; it’s frankly amazing they’ve been able to put on a show of this scale so soon.
We were impressed with how well the experience worked. Concerns about tedious queues and one-way systems swiftly disappeared on arrival – sure, there are