A Face in the Crowd review " cautionary tale of the creation of a Trump-lite TV star
Young Vic, LondonThis musical has the seeds of a brilliant show for our times with Ramin Karimloo on fine form, but its complex themes are sucked away by sledge-hammer messaging Elia Kazan's 1957 film about a petty criminal turned television folk hero seems like a prescient story about the dangers of populism foretold, its excavation in this musical adaptation timely in itself. Lonesome Rhodes (Ramin Karimloo, a West…