![]() "Whistle Down the Wind" is just dull.īased on a novel and a Hayley Mills movie of the same name, both set in England, "Whistle Down the Wind" tells the story of a group of children who mistake an escaped convict hiding in a barn for Jesus Christ. Lloyd Webber is often accused of vulgarity, but that's not the problem here. Rarely has a show needed a jolt of bad taste more. It's all pretty embarrassing, but at least the evening momentarily comes to life. ![]() Performing "Wrestle With the Devil" in a diabolic red light, the singers writhe and sweat and spin and grimace and shake rubber snakes and dance frenziedly and fall into ecstatic trances with their feet twitching. Near the end of "Whistle Down the Wind," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that had its world premiere last night at the National Theatre, we finally get the Big Snake-Handling Number. ![]()
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