The Baker’s Wife

Though sporadically revived as a fringe affair, this Menier revival of Stephen ‘Wicked’ Schwartz’s 1989 musical is the biggest production it’s had anywhere since struggling on the West End well over three decades ago. Depicting a scandal in a French village – wherein the new baker’s hot young wife absconds with a handscome chauffeur – the story may not be Schwartz’s greatest but the songs are some of his most sumptuous. Clive Rowe and Lucie Jones head the cast of Gordon Greenberg’s revival.