Review: Ghost '“ The Musical

It’s a seamless – with a small cast that moves quickly and artistically creates – with clever direction, lighting and moving scenic trucks –the special effects illusion of walking through walls, moving objects and the spiritual ethos of the afterlife.

Ghost, despite its romantic overtones, has an underlying dark side to it and Tomson’s production skilfully handles the death and aftermath in it in a slick and clever way moving it quickly to the lighter side of the story and into the comedic side of it.

The story stays true to the film with Molly and Sam walking back to their apartment one late one night when tragedy strikes and Sam is murdered leaving his wife Molly utterly devastated and alone.

But with the help of a phoney psychic, Sam, trapped between this world and the next, tries to communicate with Molly in the 
hope of saving her from grave danger.

Andy Moss as Sam is powerful yet creates an amazing tenderness in his scenes with Molly in total contrast to his comedic scenes with Oda Mae, the psychic.

Understudy for Sarah Harding, Kelly Hampson was perfect in every way as Molly between her and Sam there was chemistry and charisma that shone through their performance especially in the vocals.

But it was Jacqui Dubois who stole the show as Oda Mae her performance was just pure gold in every way.

At Leeds Grand Theatre until November 19.