As part of a season of boundary-pushing shows, Channel 4 is setting the life of Prince Andrew to a series of song and dance numbers. But is this musical take on the disgraced royal too much, too soon?
Photograph: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4Photograph: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4
It is a risky proposition. A man publicly accused of sexual assault and battery is maybe not the most obvious choice for the subject of a musical, and on that basis alone certainly counts as “pushing boundaries”. From the off, the production had a delicate line to walk between making an effective satire of Prince Andrew and not making light of the allegations.
Hodgson, who is perhaps most recognisable from his impressions of characters from TV shows such as The Crown that went viral during the pandemic, has done musicals on stage, but never with this much choreography. “Don’t tell anyone in production, but I’m relatively inexperienced,” he mutters to me as they reset the scene for another take. Off camera, Hodgson is a mild-mannered young man from West Yorkshire, but he is able to morph into the prince with alarming ease.
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