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What's the critics thought of Angel?
Musical Stages
Neil Couperthwaite's drag-queen Angel is the hit of the show: his passage from uninhibited vitality towards death is deeply moving, leaving both the cast and the audience with a powerful message that there really is 'no day but today'.
The Stage
Neil Couperthwaite is perfectly cast as the tragic Angel.
Northampton Chronicle
Outstanding is Neil Couperthwaite as Angel, a positive-thinking and HIV positive transvestite who gets most of the laughs and the hearts, of not only the audience but his fellow characters on stage.
Belfast Telegraph
He (Adam Rickitt) is overshadowed by Neil Couperthwaite's brilliant Angel, but then the transvestite homosexual role is one of the best in modern musical theatre.Daily Telegraph There are a number of standout performances...Neil Couperthwaite as the mincing drag queen Angel.
Blackpool Gazette
Neil Couperthwaite is a show stealer as Angel.
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Leicester Mercury The winning twosome is still velvet-voiced Mykal Rand and Neil Couperthwaite, both giving beautifully understated yet emotional performances
Derry Journal These actors were armed with not only bags of acting talent but powerful vocal chords. Indeed some of them seemed born to play their part - notably Neil Couperthwaite in the role of tranny Angel.
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