Water Babies review a musical adventure that struggles to stay afloat
Curve, LeicesterBuoyant performances if not Richard E Grant's hologram brighten a messy remake of a favourite Victorian classicYou wouldn't expect a 21st-century adaptation of a 19th-century moral fable for children to follow the original exactly and this new musical doesn't (book and lyrics by Guy Jones and Ed Curtis, who also directs). Here, the action opens with our chimney-sweep hero on trial for a c…