This was a first-class production, unsurprising when a cursory glance through the programme revealed many of the leading-lights to have professional experience, with Director Ian Good and choreographer Sarah Louise Day predictably delivering a polished show.
In the title-role as Charity, Jacqueline Willis single-handedly carried the show with great stage-presence and crystal-clear delivery.
Wezley Sebastian swapped his recent local duties as director and choreographer to display his own West-End talents as a singer and actor as Vittorio, giving Charity a fleeting glimpse of an alternative life to the shady existence she leads.
Being trapped in a lift with Oscar (sensitively portrayed by Tom Wood) opened another, ultimately fruitless, door for her but the show ended as it started, with Charity walking the streets.
Sam Pearce and Helen Wilson were the pick of a well-drilled dance-troupe that had lively accompaniment from Valerie Tucker's orchestra to impressive Bob Fosse-style op-art dance routines.
ALAN JOHNS
*The Portsmouth Players bring the show Sweet Charity to the Kings Theatre, Southsea until tomorrow.
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