Yank! Tickets

High energy performance. Good music. Script a bit obvious but a story well worth telling. Thoroughly enjoyable. Lovely quaint theatre.

brilliant show - fantastically well cast, and absolutely compelling - thank you all for a wonderful evening

The show was amazing, touching without getting cheesy and fun. Very good performances. However, I booked seats in one of the balconies and the actual layout of the room was quite different to the one shown in the webpage, so I was not seated as expected, please amend this ASAP

After meeting the director and one of the original cast in a workshop at university, I very much wanted to see this show. I was blown away by its tight knit choreography and beautiful vocals. The story was both heart warming and breaking, and I enjoyed every second!

Excellent show, cast were outstanding. Will definitely recommended it

Fantastic. Really touching!

Fabulous show full of fun but with important messaging... I've been twice already!!

Very touching story, with lots of nice messages. Wonderful musical!

Spoilers ahead. This show was almost amazing. Almost. I don't think I've ever been more effectively led on and punched in the gut by a show because the whole time, the end was looking good. It was looking happy, and like, for once, we might get that happily-ever-after no matter how unlikely. But instead we got what we always do- they don't get together and one of the two drinks himself to death. It's so, so frustrating to see that even LGBTQ writers can't write happy endings for ourselves and it's hurtful. It hurts me to know that we've come so far yet we still can't make it past the narrative that happy endings are reserved for straight stories. This show was so good and beautiful until the ending where instead of getting what every other love story gets, we got what every queer one does- unhappiness and death.

Wondeful production.... excellent performances. Beautifully written and constructed plot. Despite my initial misgivings - morphed seamlessly into a musical.

what a beautiful show, I would go back there to see it right now. What a beautiful story and the cast is very very very good....and cute. I highly recommend it especially if you are a hopeless romantic like me.

'Yank', now showing at the Charing Cross Theatre is a musical play in which counter to the usual arguments, the play is far and away stronger than the music. Set in 1943, the central story - love between two servicemen in the American army - is powerfully told in a moving and tight script by David Zellnik. Together with his lyrics, it brings to the stage all the tensions and fears generated by being gay in the US services in those times. Wonderfully cliche-free, Zellnik D's script deserves to stand alone as piece of dramatic theatre for he is poorly served by the music of Zellnik J. The score is a clever pastiche of 1940's music and the tunes are serviceable rather than memorable but at no point do they begin to reach the dramatic height that the story demands. By the time we got to the second act a voice within me was silently screaming 'Lloyd Webber, Boublil & Schoenberg, where art thou?' I wanted to have my soul ripped from me but the emollient melodies prevented this from happening. Headed up by Scott Hunter and Andy Coxon, the excellent cast brought depth to each and every character and their commitment and energy is of the highest degree. Great designs by Victoria Hinton (set) and Aaron Dootson (lighting) create plenty of atmosphere and I have never seen the limitations of the Charing Cross stage used to such good effect. Now on until 19th August.