★★★★☆
She can sing like an angel, she looks divine, but can Katherine Jenkins act? Well, after I spent almost three hours smiling, tapping my feet and shedding the odd tear through the Welsh classical crossover star’s stage debut — in one of the biggest theatres in the West End! In one of the best-loved musicals ever written! This is not a “soft opening” — I can report that, yes, yes she can. She impresses in a beguiling if uneven show in which it is co-star Alfie Boe whose full-monty operatic singing is shown up by his narrow acting range.
Granted, Jenkins has fewer gears to go through. She is more Doris Day than Imelda Staunton here. Yet her demureness is appropriate and assured as