Midnight at the Never Get review – Ben Platt soars in honey-hearted cabaret-musical of 60s sweethearts

Menier Chocolate Factory, London Platt excels as a crooner looking back on falling for his songwriter-lover – dazzlingly played by Gregor Milne – in a show of beguiling, bittersweet nostalgia and pristine songs Ben Platt’s sky-gliding voice was made for decades gone by. The Tony, Emmy and Grammy award-winning actor (Dear Evan Hansen, The Last Five Years) is beautifully cast in Mark Sonnenblick’s (KPop Demon Hunters) out-of-time love story, a honey-hearted cabaret-musical of two gay musicians trying to make it in 1960s New York. With the Menier Chocolate Factory set up as a lamplit cabaret (set

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