REVIEW: Closer To Heaven, Union Theatre ★★★★
By Stephen Collins What makes the musical stand-out is it unashamed gaiety, and I use that word in its modern sense. This is, as Nicholas De Jongh said when the piece premiered, "the first truly gay musical to be written and composed by Englishmen" to reach the West End. It is also essentially youthful, and quite uncompromising in dealing head on with the vagaries and traps of young adulthood: sex, drugs (use and sal…