A Madly Showy Sunset Blvd.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and the director Jamie Lloyd might seem like an odd couple at first glance — the literal baron of musical melodrama and the heavily tatted, working-class-raised stripper-down of classics. But despite their divergent aesthetics, both director and composer are Lloyds in search of effect. They want an audience breathing hard, and they trust that feeling hard will follow; thinking hard is a distant third priority.

Both these blokes rub me the wrong way.