Your Lie in April review " high-school musical mixes manga aesthetics with Broadway sound
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonThe sad love story between bereaved piano prodigy KÅsei and free-spirit Kaori is played with verve " but what worked on paper and as an anime TV series stutters on stage This modern high-school musical with a baroque twist splices Japanese manga aesthetics with a classic Broadway sound, which makes for a strange hybrid creation. Adapted from Naoshi Arakawa's bestselling manga, what wor…