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Published: 19 March 2009

Banker with big Baggage

BAGGAGE!
Pentameters Theatre

A BANKER caught with his trousers down? Old news. A banker throwing himself off a building? Good riddance.
Exclusive pictures of a possibly gay trouserless banker plummeting to his death – probably due to an uncontrollable drink and drugs addiction – leaving behind a throng of kids and a hard-done-by wife who, by the way, was driven to a seedy one-night-stand with a hoody? Now there’s a story, and here’s the musical in the shape of the witty, clever, if slightly raw Baggage!
Given our current obsession with “banker baiting”, our world-weary anti-hero Danny (played by the excellent Steve Watts), shouldn’t inspire much pity, but while sardonic hack Reilly (James Kermack) waits for him to do the honourable thing and jump, we’re whisked on a whistle-stop tour of how our potential suicide came to find himself in this embarrassing scenario.
Cue some toe-tappingly catchy songs as we flashback to the events that have taken Danny from a struggling painter to a washed-up father-of-three struggling to avoid a mid-life crisis.
Slick choreography, inventive use of stage props and an ingenious twist in the tail make this a musical sure to rise in stock.
Until March 22
020 7435 3648

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