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'Theatrical Viagra' a perk of the job at the Telegraph

'Pure theatrical viagra'? Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room. Photograph: Tristram Kenton
No nipple tassles needed: Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room. Photograph: Tristram Kenton

No theatre critic, it appears, was better qualified to review the All New Hurly Burly Show, a burlesque extravaganza in London's West End, than the Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer. "A theatre critic's life is one of infinite variety," began Spencer, who famously enjoyed the "theatrical Viagra" of a stitchless Nicole Kidman. "In a misspent life I have seen a lot of strippers, ranging from depraved clubs on Times Square that might have been conjured from the imagination of Hieronymus Bosch, to the soullessly graphic entertainment offered by the late Paul Raymond at his notorious Revuebar." The "wildly rotating nipple tassles" of this new production, however, are all good clean(ish) fun, concluded Spencer. Marks out of five: phwoar!

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