I was lucky enough to see this last night at The Riverside Studio in Hammersmith.
It really was one of the most bizzare musicals I have seen but with some very catchy numbers with excellent singing and dancing.
The only way I could do this production justice is to say bizzare but brilliant.
Go see it with an open mind - do not expect to fully understand what is going on, just sit back, relax and laugh - but a word of warning - if you are sitting on the coffee tables get your dancing shoes on and be prepared to play a small part in this production
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Posted 15 February 2013 - 01:39 PM
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Posted 16 February 2013 - 12:17 PM
That sums the show up well I think. Very enjoyable.
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Posted 16 February 2013 - 12:38 PM
There is a thread on this somewhere else, but you're right abs2512 it is bizarre and brilliant, we loved it and I raved extensively on my blog http://www.frontrowd...-sunday-13.html
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Posted 17 February 2013 - 10:00 AM
Saw the show last month and I thought it was so much fun! It's sweet, silly, very funny, the actors were great (the lead girl in particular has a wonderful voice), the tunes are catchy and the musical is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. It's a shame not many people seemed to know about this particular production (I admit I'd never been to Riverside Studios myself before venturing over there for this musical), which means that it wasn't very full when I went. Hopefully this got better later on in the run? They certainly deserved a packed audience!
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Posted 17 February 2013 - 10:27 AM
The location of this venue is out of the way though. It was my first visit when I saw this show and it was not busy.
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Posted 18 February 2013 - 07:57 PM
Been to see this twice. Fantastic show with lots of singing and dancing excellently performed. It is like a series of comedy sketches which you will enjoy. The venue at the Riverside studios is lovely and is well worth a visit. Only on till the beginning of March.
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Posted 19 February 2013 - 10:07 AM
I've seen this show 3 times already; the last was this production at the Riverside 2 years ago.
We're taking friends to see it on 24 Feb. It is utterly charming; as has been said, the audience must suspend beilef for a couple of hours. Do that, and a magical time will be had by all.
Highly recommended (and I am a theatregoer pure and simple - I have nothing to do with the production, in case you ask).
We're taking friends to see it on 24 Feb. It is utterly charming; as has been said, the audience must suspend beilef for a couple of hours. Do that, and a magical time will be had by all.
Highly recommended (and I am a theatregoer pure and simple - I have nothing to do with the production, in case you ask).
If I listed every show I'd seen since 1974 I'd get RSI.
Favourite Musicals: Blood Brothers; Brigadoon; Chicago; Chess; Chorus Line; Company; Evita; Follies; Godspell; Les Miserables; Little Night Music; Little Shop of Horrors; Mack and Mabel; Man of La Mancha; Merrily We Roll Along; Miss Saigon; Phantom of the Opera; Rent; Rocky Horror Show; South Pacific.
Favourite Plays: Beautiful Thing; Bent; Blithe Spirit; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Cherry Orchard; Dance of Death; Death of a Salesman; Endgame; Happy Days; Hedda Gabler; Henry IV (Parts I and II); Importance of Being Earnest; Little Foxes; Mother Courage; Private Lives; Shirley Valentine; Torch Song Trilogy; What the Butler Saw; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Wild Duck.
Favourite Musicals: Blood Brothers; Brigadoon; Chicago; Chess; Chorus Line; Company; Evita; Follies; Godspell; Les Miserables; Little Night Music; Little Shop of Horrors; Mack and Mabel; Man of La Mancha; Merrily We Roll Along; Miss Saigon; Phantom of the Opera; Rent; Rocky Horror Show; South Pacific.
Favourite Plays: Beautiful Thing; Bent; Blithe Spirit; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Cherry Orchard; Dance of Death; Death of a Salesman; Endgame; Happy Days; Hedda Gabler; Henry IV (Parts I and II); Importance of Being Earnest; Little Foxes; Mother Courage; Private Lives; Shirley Valentine; Torch Song Trilogy; What the Butler Saw; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Wild Duck.
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Posted 20 February 2013 - 04:41 PM
Florence, on 18 February 2013 - 07:57 PM, said:
Been to see this twice. Fantastic show with lots of singing and dancing excellently performed. It is like a series of comedy sketches which you will enjoy. The venue at the Riverside studios is lovely and is well worth a visit. Only on till the beginning of March.
I hope to get to see it one more time before it closes.
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