Let It Be: The Musical



Let It Be is a 2012 West End jukebox musical [1] created by Joey Curatolo. The musical features a tribute band playing the music of The Beatles. undefined The musical debuted at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 24th September 2012. Its run at the venue ended on 19th January 2013, after which it moved to the Savoy Theatre and opened on 1st February 2013.

The show will have a lilmited engagement Broadway run from 24th July 2013 through 29th December 2013 at the St. James Theatre.

Synopsis
The show begins by mimicking The Beatles ' appearance at the Cavern Club in 1962, followed by a set change and recreation of the 1963 Royal Variety Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre. This is then followed by another set change and a recreation of the band's 1964 concert at the Ed Sullivan Show. A dramatic set change consisting of flickering strobe lights and helicopter noise gives way to a recreation of the 1965 concert at New York City 's Shea Stadium. Subsequent sets use hallucinogenic and psychedelic designs to approximate what later Beatles concerts may have been like.[

Cast
The production features two bands, who alternate performances.[2 ] The two bands are
 * Company A
 * Michael Gagliano – John Lennon
 * James Fox – Paul McCartney[5 ]
 * John Brosnan – George Harrison
 * Phil Martin – Ringo Starr
 * Ryan Alex Farmery – keyboards and percussion
 * Company B
 * Reuven Gershon – John Lennon
 * Emanuele Angeletti – Paul McCartney
 * Stephen Hill – George Harrison[6 ]
 * Luke Roberts – Ringo Starr
 * Michael Bramwell – keyboards and percussion

Reception
The musical received mixed reviews.  Time Out  gave the production 3/5 stars, with a user rating of 1/5. Reviewer Andrzej Lukowski described the show as "basically a posh tribute gig", opining that the band's early repertoire was played "without any of the guts or élan of a real gig" though the later material "moves up a gear [with] a ravishing wall of psychedelic sound and impressive day-glo costumes [and] the sterility of the early sections is gone." A review in the  Daily Telegraph  was slightly more positive, rating the musical 4/5, stating that the production was "about as good as it gets for fans of the Fab Four".