[Amy]

Article from The Observer

Little by Little Arts Theatre, London WC2

On two more summer Sundays (8 and 22 August) you can check out a new American musical - well, fairly new (1999), and fairly bland - and, for one brief scene, the showbusiness prospects of Marco Sabba, the bald, gay law student who was evicted from Big Brother and who says he is 'happy to be enjoying his new-found fame'.

Enjoy it while it lasts, son. I don't watch much of Big Brother but I did catch Marco camping around in a plaster-moulding session. He seemed agreeable enough, and there is something of the deadly nightshade about him. I'm only sorry I missed him bonding with the lip-gloss bitches, or prancing about in the buff.

Marco, love, I think you'll find the theatre's a harsher, more real place even than the Big Brother house. Little by Little is a 'relationships' musical rendered redundant by Stephen Sondheim. It's a bit drab and cosy, though Marco tries to pep it up by flouncing on as a waiter and quick-changing as a dummy. He comes unstuck at the curtain call, where his lack of training shows in a grinning, gormless bow from the waist.