Kept

Christopher programmed and played synthesiser for the European premier of Kept at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 31 July - 24 August 2003. He also moved across and piano-conducted for part of the run.

About the Show

The award winning writers of Broadway's "Side Show" invite you to cross over the velvet rope into New York's hottest party. This passionate, stylish and sexy story plays out against the glamour and decadence of Studio 54, where "actions have no consequence." Until they do... Amidst the drugs, sex and disco, can love survive or must a woman stay kept?

Book by Bill Russell & Steve Chbosky, Music by Henry Krieger

Press and Reviews

This isn't much of a show. The Oxford troupe can't quite sing, can't really dance, and are on average about a stone over the usual weight of people classified as 'beautiful'. It's all very am-dram. And glorious; utterly, life-affirmingly glorious. Because in a way that could never be achieved by acting, these people's pains and foibles are our own, made glamorous and aspirational, but still always recognisably us. If the star of this show burst into song in real life you'd turn off the radio, but here his conversion of a late Seventies party victim into a real and loving woman is truly heart warming. The women seem gorgeous, the staging perfectly fit. A simple tale re-told, they deserve your indulgence, and you deserve their message.

Three Weeks, 4th August 2003 ****