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Theatre

Simon Cowell’s latest attempt at global domination

Harry Hill’s musical send-up of X Factor I Can’t Sing! deserves to run and run, but Soho Theatre’s Bitch Boxer will pain your inner feminist

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

I Can’t Sing!

Palladium, booking until 25 October

Bitch Boxer

Soho, until 13 April

I Can’t Sing! is a parody of The X Factor, which already parodies itself at every turn. Quite a tough call. The heroine is an oppressed no-hoper stuck in a tiny caravan under the Westway with her crippled dad who lives in an iron lung. She longs for a chance to win stardom and wealth on a TV talent show.

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