Big Star
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice @ Vaudeville Theatre, London By Francesca Spadoni - 04/11/09
X Factor finalist Diana Vickers makes her West End debut at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, and it has to be said, she’s not bad at all. Vickers demonstrates a great level of expression depicting what is a very complicated character.
Little Voice, originally played by Jane Horricks (currently appearing in Annie Get Your Gun elsewhere in Theatreland), is a young woman blessed with a wonderful voice which is repressed by an unhappy existence.
Lesley Sharp’s impeccable interpretation of hr tarty mother doesn’t go unnoticed; a woman unable to show her kid a good example as she is more faithful to the bottle, and living with an uncontrolled hysteria which she exhibitis in the form of mood swings and violent outbursts.
The show swings between moments of great tragedy and comic episodes, with musical interludes which emerge in the moments in which the shy LV is forced to perform, and reveal talents she had considered highly private.
It is this contrast between the true nature of LV and her vocal gifts that could lead her on the crest of a wave that takes her to near breaking point, when the little star almost loses her mind and runs away, to find something that has nothing to do with money or fame, and everything to do with love, simplicity and walking up “with the sunshine in my eyes”.
Both funny and moving, Little Voice is no machine for the diminutive reality show star. It reveals not only why the 18-year-okld lass from Lancashire made it to the X Factor final, but why Vicker’s career will survive when people have forgotten all about it.
Little Voice runs until Sat 30th January 2010. Visit www.vaudeville-theatre.co.uk or call 020 78363191.
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