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New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
David Smyth's rating
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Block vote: late thirtysomethings New Kids on the Block on stage at the 02 Arena
The Take That effect has now spread over the Atlantic, where another set of chiselled formation dancers have reunited to generate a more mature kind of hysteria.
The New Kids are now very much old hands, five Boston gents aged between 36 and 40. I recall at primary school that the girls fancied Jordan Knight, wholesome as All-Bran frontman, and Joey McIntyre, so baby-faced he was almost an embryo.
Credit to them for reworking old hits so they sound cooler. Danny Wood still managed to breakdance, there was much girl-you’re-my-baby falsetto wailing, and Knight kept a straight face above an air blower, open white shirt billowing about his bare chest.
The inevitable new album, The Block, is aware that times have changed, making a decent stab of the electronic R&B now favoured by Justin Timberlake. Click Click Click was an understated gem while Summertime matched the arm-waving catchiness of old hits such as You Got It.
The show was lifted above the cash-in by a palpable hunger in the crowd to relive these songs. If the fans screamed louder than this two decades ago, it’ s no wonder the quintet wanted one more taste of real adulation.
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