★★★★☆ The last time I saw this show, at Manchester's Royal Exchange just before the pandemic, Rebecca Thornhill was one of the jaded burlesque strippers who belted out that defiant anthem, You Gotta Get A Gimmick . Now she plays the manic stage mother, Mama Rose, in a vivacious revival of the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents backstage saga, serving up a potent cocktail of soured dreams and tawdry glamour. The Mill at Sonning, a compact dinner theatre, regularly punches above its weight.

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