Review: Fresher. The Musical

Review: Fresher.  The Musical

Fresher is a bright and lovely musical about five Freshers in their first days at University. It is elegantly performed and highly entertaining. The music is unchallenging for the most part until things get difficult between the characters and then more dissonance is revealed in the score. The characters drink, eat, sleep and try to relate to each other taking their first steps into a new life where they hope they can redefine and learn about themselves but what they find is that strongly ingrained character traits reveal themselves immediately.

The five characters define themselves easily as Ally the posh, well dressed sexy girl, Tuc, the cocky self assured but surprisingly genuine lad, Rupert the naïve posh boy with a soft heart, Hayley who takes pills and speaks the truth and Baz whose secret reveals itself very quickly as the drink begins to flow. There is a little bit of very camp choreography and the very simple staging does nothing to detract from the bare bones of the plot.

It will probably never make the West End but this light but well structured piece deserves to be seen.

Blue Penguin and Paulden Productions
Until 30th August 17.35 (18.45) @ Zoo Roxy