Billionaire Boy

“With the Robbie Williams/Guy Chambers musical The Boy in the Dress currently at the RSC in Stratford, David Walliams is sure giving Michael Morpurgo a run as theatre’s favourite children’s author. The best-selling author’s Roald Dahl-style novels are a huge hit with family audiences and Birmingham Stage Company’s new adaptation of the story of poor little rich boy Joe Spud, whose dad invented a revolutionary loo roll called Bumfresh, has already won fans while out on tour. But money can’t buy Joe friendship and the show features a cast of grotesques from Len’s gold-digging girlfriend to repulsive school dinner ladies and revolting school bullies. Definitely not PC, but almost certainly fun.”