Bristol contingent, you must go and see this new musical when it comes to you,' someone pipes up in a WhatsApp chat earlier this year. ‘Gaaaaahhh, I'm so jealous – I wish it was coming to London!’, someone else shares on Instagram a few months later. It's rare that a musical comedy – or any piece of fringe theatre for that matter – will light up my DMs in such an extreme way. When most of us think of musicals, we think of the decades-old classics that are still selling out theatres on dusty West End stages every weekend. Sometimes, if we're lucky, a hit like Hamilton will cut through and becomes the new, cool thing. Until it outstays its welcome and becomes as tired as the rest.
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