Few shows in recent years have drawn such unanimous praise from the London critics as Sweet Charity which opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre, on October 11, 1967, to a chorus of loud Hoorays. “Irresistible,” said the Daily Express. “A triumph,” said the Sun. “Everybody but everybody had a whale of a time,” said the Daily Sketch, and went on to describe the show as “a sweet, sweet, sexy fairy tale – nice and dirty, witty and pretty with enough energy to pop the corks of every bottle of non-fizz in the West End. And funny, very funny, too.”
