Alfie Boe

Kate Goerner reviews a show with big voices, big personalities, big band, big bromance

'He looked like a heavy in a Shane Meadows movie' - Alfie Boe in Nottingham

As the audience rush to take their seats and the lights slowly dim at London’s O2 Arena, two impenetrable figures take the centre stage to perform “As if We Never Said Goodbye”, from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard. Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are well versed in musical theatre. Ball began his career

Michael Ball is the ultimate musical theatre star, acting and singing, preferably at the same time, in such West End productions as Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera.

Michael BallAlfie Boe 'definitely more FrankBing than RobsonJerome' at Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena

The two charismatic crooners in question, both stalwarts of mainstream UK musical theatre; combined effortlessly to provide an evening of quality entertainment, enthralling the packed Leeds Arena crowd.

Singers raise the roof in Liverpool together with You'll Never Walk Alone