Reader Reviews
Peter Pan El Musical (Garrick Theatre, West End)
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 | I thought it was really good fun. The audience participation part worked really well. It's more pantomime than musical theatre, but overall very entertaining and it has a very good cast. - Dennis | 26 Apr 08 |
| I believed Peter Pan El Musical was just below the standards for a normal west end show - besides the shoddy out of time surtitles and the echoing of the cast's families at the back of the audience "wotting" and hushing their children - the production proved to be minimal and "hum-drum" entertainment - with euro pop songs and relative panto acting traits including screaming "Hay que creer en hadas" repeativly in order to get Tink back to life. This didn't remind me of a evening of theatre and more of a Biggen's Hackney Panto. Furthermore, its filled with many "its behind you moments" and the most miserable and unpleasant front of house staff i have experienced (perhaps the production is getting to them) - on the plus side I only paid £17.00 for a ticket and it's OK to watch once, but thank goodness its only got 36 performances in total. Lets hope the magic of Darren Brown can return the huge loss that the Garrick has experienced as a result of this production. - Daryl | 21 Apr 08 |
| This is not the awful production some critics have described. The performance I attended was quite fun. It was matinee so there were lots of children in the audience who were having a great time specially with the audience participation parts, they were quite happy to be picked up to become lost boys. The music is not memeorable but the cast have good voices and they try hard. The best were Peter, Wendy and the narrator. It was a very entertaining afternoon. - natalie | 20 Apr 08 |
| I thought "Peter Pan - El Musical" was good fun. Ok, not a fantastic production but it's not worst than Joseph which looks much more cheap and tacky. The music is cheesy but catchy. I think some people are prejudiced just because it's perform in a foreign language. - Pippa | 15 Apr 08 |
| I am from Barcelona, and I can assure you that there are fantastic productions of musical theatre here, and "Peter Pan - El Musical" is not one of these fantastic productions we have. When I noticed that this musical was scheduled to go to the West End I coudn't believe it! Really, it's a bad, very bad production. Maybe in certains places of Spain, where people has never had the change to see a musical, this show may have been a success, even I really doubt that. It was absolutely not the case in Barcelona, and of course neither in London! - Pep | 02 Apr 08 |
| I haven't see the show, but having read today's reviews, I am tempted. It seems this show could very quickly become a must-see! Neal - Neal | 02 Apr 08 |
| It's quite poor in general but it has some fun moments. It's cheap and tacky but not as bad as the current production of Joseph. Some of the tunes are actually quite catchy. - Ilsa | 01 Apr 08 |
| Well, Eurovision has come early and it's just an elongated Spanish entry! Who on earth decided to bring this Am Dram show to London? The sets are tacky, the music is bland europop,the choreography-by-numbers is straight out of a pop video and the attempts at bi-lingual audience participation are excruciating. Are there enough Spanish ex-pat theatregoers in London to allow it to survivie the month - or will they bring in a simultaneous translation by Terry Wogan and send themselves up? - GarGar | 31 Mar 08 |
