Nelle Cross

It’s something we don’t see very often these days – a full-sized cast of men, women and children on stage in a large-scale musical. The show may be Scrooge, but there’s nothing mean about this Loft production. Director Tim Willis and his team have gone to town – in this case, Dickensian London’s Cheapside – to bring it to vivid and sparkling life. It bustles, it shuffles, it soars to crescendo. And even if the company chorus work does not always reach operatic proportions, it