Laurence Gibson goes gaga after witnessing the Ben Elton/Queen musical 'We Will Rock You'.
There is no doubt that the cast and production of We Will Rock You will keep it alive for many months. But really, Ben Elton could you

not have made more of an effort? Wasn't it enough, to have teamed up with Andrew Lloyd Webber to produce the well-intentioned shambles that was A Beautiful Game? Apparently not.
So this is how the story goes...
On Planet Mall, formerly Earth, musical instruments are buried and live music is dead, banned by the state that controls the minds of the young with cyber-pop having been all-prevalent for many years. The passion of true music, however, is remembered by the hippy Nigel Planer who plays in the first scene, is dispatched by the bad guys, and the spends two hours in the dressing room before returning for what's ludicrously known as the climax. With me so far?
Meanwhile, another younger and sexier rebel, Galileo Figaro (Tony Vincent) - why do you suppose he's called that? - hears voices in his head dictating lines of lost pop. Remnants from a long-lost musical past when Queen were symbolic freedom fighters. He escapes with a disaffected young girl whom he renames, yeah you've guessed it, Scaramouche and they go in search of the Bohemians who live in the

ruins of Tottenham Court Road Tube station.