Hot Mess – Pleasance
The Fringe thrives on bold ideas, and Hot Mess, the new pop rom-com musical from Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote, delivers one of the festival’s cleverest conceits. Earth and Humanity meet, date, fight, fall in and out of love, and in the process chart the fate of the planet itself. It’s a relationship comedy where the stakes couldn’t be higher.
The show is anchored by two knockout performances. Danielle Steers (best known for SIX: The Musical and Bat Out of Hell), as Earth, has the kind of vocal power that can fill a West End house, let alone a Pleasance studio. She moves effortlessly from the low, smoky tones of conversational numbers to full-on belt, with songs like The Next Big Thing and Better With Time (appearing early and reprised later with even greater punch) setting the...