Review by: Paul Towers, 04/03/20
Billionaire Boy by David Walliams, adapted, directed and
lyrics by Neal Foster. Music by Jak Moore
Produced by The Birmingham Stage Company
At DeMontfort Hall 4 – 8th March 2020
“David Walliams’ latest touring show”
Following on from his successful stage adaptations of
Gangsta Granny, Awful Auntie and The Boy in The Dress David Walliams’ latest
touring show is The Billionaire Boy.
Joe (Matthew Gordon) is twelve years old and the son of a self
made multi billionaire single father (Jason Furnival). Rather than the love and
attention he craves his father showers him with money and material things. Desperate
for a friend he transfers from a posh school where he was bullied for having
the wrong accent to a comp where he is bullied for being rich. Life doesn’t get
any better.
The script is full of schoolboy toilet humour with a few gags
especially for the grown ups with their teenagers
The set is, appropriately, made of stacks of loo rolls, the
product that made Joe’s father rich. It is a jigsaw of cupboards and cubby holes which serve as
locations.
The cast of nine
work very hard singing and dancing.
Billionaire Boy is at DeMontfort Hall until Sunday 8th
March. Tickets are still available
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