So the National will finally have another musical!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/13797...Mambo-Will-Star
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 03:03 AM
OOOO Will this be marvellous? Anyone seen it?
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Posted 19 March 2010 - 01:28 PM
Really? It sounds ghastly to me.
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 02:26 PM
Saw this on Broadway last month; it's not really a musical - sort of part musical, part dance show, part concert. I enjoyed a lot of it; the lead guy is really amazing - his is the only speaking part really - and the dancing and staging is genuinely astonishing.
I know nothing about Afrobeat but the music is really exciting stuff.
I found the second half a bit of drag though to be honest; the narrative disappears and there is an embarrassing sequence where we go off to the underworld to visit Fela's dead mother or something - it's very confusing.
I know nothing about Afrobeat but the music is really exciting stuff.
I found the second half a bit of drag though to be honest; the narrative disappears and there is an embarrassing sequence where we go off to the underworld to visit Fela's dead mother or something - it's very confusing.
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 03:47 PM
QUOTE(cindy @ Mar 20 2010, 02:26 PM) 
Saw this on Broadway last month; it's not really a musical - sort of part musical, part dance show, part concert. I enjoyed a lot of it; the lead guy is really amazing - his is the only speaking part really - and the dancing and staging is genuinely astonishing.
I know nothing about Afrobeat but the music is really exciting stuff.
I found the second half a bit of drag though to be honest; the narrative disappears and there is an embarrassing sequence where we go off to the underworld to visit Fela's dead mother or something - it's very confusing.
I know nothing about Afrobeat but the music is really exciting stuff.
I found the second half a bit of drag though to be honest; the narrative disappears and there is an embarrassing sequence where we go off to the underworld to visit Fela's dead mother or something - it's very confusing.
errr sounds great!
i've just looked at some clips online and it's so not my cup of tea. it looks very loud and in a similar vain to into the hoods
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Posted 20 March 2010 - 05:20 PM
I was excited about this, until I watched some clips. Then I wasn't. Why can't we have Next to Normal instead?
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Posted 07 July 2010 - 01:43 PM
So basically it is dancing with v little narration or singing? That right? I've booked and wondering who to take now.....young people, do you think? Or old rockers? 
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Posted 07 July 2010 - 02:36 PM
I assume this was desperation after Nation tanked last Christmas - I am sure they were expecting to continue their two-yearly cycle of Christmas shows after His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse did so well. I don't think Fela! looks in the same class as these from the on-line clips.
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Posted 07 July 2010 - 07:22 PM
QUOTE(Guest @ Jul 7 2010, 02:36 PM)
I assume this was desperation after Nation tanked last Christmas - I am sure they were expecting to continue their two-yearly cycle of Christmas shows after His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse did so well. I don't think Fela! looks in the same class as these from the on-line clips.
It looks ghastly.
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