Theatre Review: Le Gateau Chocolat – I ♥ CHOCOLAT - London Wonderground, South Bank ✭✭✭✭✭
Le Gateau Chocolat – I ♥ Chocolat
London Wonderground
What more could you want in
a show? Great dresses, tight lycra, an attitude too big to share a stage and
the most unbelievable voice. Le Gateau
Chocolat is on stage at the London Wonderground and it surely is a
performance not to be missed. Le Gateau Chocolat is an outrageous,
larger-than-life, operatic star of LA Soiree and La Clique.
Le Gateau Chocolat takes to
the stage to indulge the audience in a jammed packed hour of songs. Choosing a
member of the audience to eat a chocolate from a box decides the song that will
be sung on the night. We were treated to songs from Amy Winehouse, Madonna, Les
Misérables, South Park’s ‘Suck on my salty chocolate balls’ and Nick Cave and
The Bad Seeds.
We got to hear Le Gateau
Chocolat take on Les Misérables, brief versions of the songs featured in the movie/play
and his take on the story. The funniest version of Les Mis I've ever heard.
My
song of the night had to be the Ship Song originally performed by Nick Cave and
The Bad Seeds, with this beautiful song you got to hear how talented Le Gateau
Chocolat actually is, his stunning baritone voice was extremely suited to the
gentle lyrics, simply stunning.
Yes this is a drag act, but
it is in fact so much more than that, it is so easy to generalise a drag act,
sometimes you feel if you've seen one you've seen them all, but with Le Gateau
Chocolat he has the ability to keep you laughing and at the same time you’re
given the opportunity to hear something truly unique. The show ended in a
standing ovation and it was well deserved.
I would recommend everyone
to see Le Gateau Chocolat at least once in your life, (I’m definitely going to
see him again), an original act with a truly breathtaking voice.
Listings Information
One last show at the London Wonderground - 30th July
For more information on tickets click here www.londonwonderground.co.uk
