HERE & NOW review: Steps jukebox musical is utterly steptacular

It’s 12 years since the Spice Girls’ musical Viva Forever was swiftly ‘viva for-over’ after six months on the West End. It remains the most fascinating of failures. The band’s all-conquering stadium tour six years later proved an army of fans were still with them, after all. And that iconic discography – including an admittedly sparse 11 singles – could still go down a storm at Glastonbury, surely. A one-two slam of ‘Spice Up Your Life’ and ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ to open? Come on!

The creators of Here & Now, however, have gone to every length to ensure no such blip tarnishes Steps’s legacy. Rather than an all-guns-blazing debut, they’ve opted for a soft launch of sorts at Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre, where Attitude caught the show last month. Next, a

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