Classical Mystery Tour | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review Classical Mystery Tour | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review

The classical arrangements are excellent and faithfully capture the experimentation and bombast of the Fab Four’s 1967 recording.

Classical Mystery Tour Picture: Tricia Watkinson

Classical Mystery Tour

Music

Rating: ***1/2

MOA at Gluttony

Until March 6

Former Fringe-chair turned producer David Minear’s tribute to the beloved soundtrack to The Beatles’ failed movie is, musically, on point.

The classical arrangements are excellent and faithfully capture the experimentation and bombast of the Fab Four’s 1967 recording.

And with songs as good as The Fool On The Hill, I Am The Walrus and Strawberry Fields Forever, and talent as good as local frontman Dusty Lee Stephenson, a good time is more or less guaranteed.

However, Classical Mystery Tour could be a little more ambitious with its staging. Beyond singer/narrator Anthony Leppa’s Sgt Pepper coat there’s barely a nod to the psychedelic era that spawned the music.

It’s easy to forgive this oversight, though, when the crowd joins in on closing track All You Need Is Love and the wonderful spirit of The Beatles’ music fills the MOA auditorium.