You're better off with Master Chef: PATRICK MARMION reviews The Great British ... trends now
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The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre, London)
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Verdict: Half-baked sugar rush
Bake Off or Master Chef? Sweet or savoury? In my household we’re definitely Master Chef. Not because we’re such great cooks, but because we like to see our contestants really suffer. Bake Off is a sugar-based feelgood confection by comparison and this half-baked theatrical spin off proves lethally saccharine and culpably inane.
Despite eight sappy contestants including a Syrian refugee, a carer from Blackpool who’s just lost her mum, and a recently widowed policeman from Bristol, we’re really here to see Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood — who have been renamed Pam and Phil, perhaps to offset legal action. Yet they have nothing to fear from their obsequious portrayal.
Haydn Gwynne’s Pam is like a painted Maypole topped with coloured glasses and tinted wig. Her big moment is pulling a cart wheel in a Busby-girl routine. And although
