One to Watch

CLUELESS, THE MUSICAL STAR EMMA FLYNN WAS BORN TO PLAY CHER HER MOTHER EVEN NAMED HER AFTER JANE AUSTEN

- Martin Robinson

There are ones to watch and then there are ones who watch you. Are you going to see Emma Flynn in Clueless, The Musical or to be seen by her? "People come in not knowing the vibe and suddenly I'm talking directly at them," she says backstage, kindly breaking her vow of silence (the voice!) to talk to The London Standard, "making eye contact with English people from the stage... it's not their favourite thing. One of the funniest parts is seeing who can hold it and who can't. I try to pick certain people to talk to and love it when they talk back" To say Flynn owns the stage in this production is wrong; she owns the stalls, the circles, the bar, the foyer and the street outside too. As Cher Horowitz, the role made famous by Alicia Silverstone in the classic 1990s high school riff on Jane Austen's Emma, Fly