Javine in Daddy Cool
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Daddy Cool, the musical fashioned from the catalogue of German pop producer Frank Farian, will close on 17 February. The show, which features songs made famous by Boney M, Milli Vanilli, No Mercy and La Bouche, was originally booking to 1 September.
The musical is an updated telling of the Romeo and Juliet story relocated to contemporary London, where romance blossoms between members of rival factions of music gangs. It stars Harvey, Javine and Sarah Moyle, who recently took over for Michelle Collins. It was directed by Andy Goldberg.
[AD]Daddy Cool opened to mixed reviews on 21 September 2006 at the Shaftesbury Theatre. In his Theatre.com Review, Mark Shenton wrote, “The autumn onslaught of big musicals in the West End has begun with Daddy Cool, the sole indigenously created and located new show in a sea of Broadway imports and revivals. Though there is definitely room for a musical that represents the multi-cultural melting pot of our great city, and I wanted to admire the sheer demented lunacy of its wilder excesses, a sense of numbed stupefaction settled in. It was Noel Coward who once famously observed the potency of cheap music; but he wasn’t factoring in just how expensively some cheap music can be inflated and dressed in loud musical arrangements and even louder production values. As given a terrifyingly tacky big budget treatment here, the back catalogue of German musical Svengali, Frank Farian, is given a contemporary makeover that is sometimes unavoidably infectious but even more frequently enervating... As a giant parrot, ominously perched in the theatre’s roof throughout the show, nonsensically descends and hovers over the front stalls for a carnival finale that invades the audience for the inevitable megamix, the seal is put on an evening of mess and excess.”