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BOS Musical Company, Ensemble Act Two, Kinson Community Centre

ON an evening when most of the nation was glued to the TV for the finals of I’d Do Anything and Britain’s Got Talent, this small group, formed last year from younger BOS members, was busy showing that they’d do anything to prove that Ensemble has talent too. 

Believe me, it has – in plenty. Alex Anstey, Danielle Bradbury, Catherine Barrett, Neil Barrett, Martha Jenkins, Claire Jones, Emily Monk and Rick Moore, together with their terrific musical director/arranger Stuart Darling, gave us a selection of thirty challenging, complex and rarely-heard numbers filled with such style and pzazz that a standing ovation was a foregone conclusion.

These performers know just how to put a song over and have great voices too, so it was a pleasure to watch the likes of I Can Hear the Bells (Hairspray), You Can Always Count On Me (City of Angels), If You Were Gay (Avenue Q), The Song That Goes Like This (Spamalot), Hallelujah (Shrek), Let Us Love In Peace (The Beautiful Game) and They Both Reached For the Gun (Chicago). 

Costumes, lighting and choreography played a huge part too in creating an evening that, buzzing speaker apart, was well worth leaving my armchair for.

Linda Kirkman

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