Ordinary Days
From: Tuesday, 8th February 2011
To: Saturday, 5 March 2011
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Synopsis
When Deb loses her most precious possession - the notes to her graduate thesis - she unwittingly starts a chain of events that turns the ordinary days of four New Yorkers into something extraordinary. Told through a series of intricately connected songs and vignettes, Ordinary Days is an original musical about growing up and enjoying the view.
Our Review:
Andrew Girvan - 11 February 2011
A minimal staging of Adam Gwon's musical Ordinary Days visits the tiny Trafalgar 2 after a short run at the Finborough in November 2008. With an angular set mimicking a city skyline and acting as shelves to shield the three-piece band, this one act piece has been restaged with a stellar cast but fails to fully deliver.
This is, as Warren (Lee Williams-Davis) sings, something of a New York fairytale - the story of two couples co-existing in Manhattan but never meeting. As Warren, a struggling artist's assistant who really just wants to share his own work with the world, William-Davis fails to find the joy in the geekiness of the character, setting out to find Deb (an impressive Alexia Khadime) and return a book full of lost graduate thesis notes.
For such a small stage Khadime manages to see an impressive amount of it, annoying shuffling almost constantly - albeit playing the ambitious English literature student well and delivering an effortless...
Latest User Review
David Baxter - 25 February 2011:
It's very difficult to pass judgement on Ordinary Days as it was seriously constricted by the tight confines of Studio 2, especially from an awful sound balance. The space meant that it was almost presented in a concert format and it will probably sound much better on CD. The show concerns the rather ordinary days of four New Yorkers, one a couple, the other brought together by chance, but there is almost no interaction between the two pairs. The lyrics crackle with New York wit and attitude and musically reminded me of Jason Robert Brown (that's no bad thing) and towards the end there is a beautiful song about 9/11 even though the subject felt like an artificial attempt to create an impactful ending. A New York musical by an unknown writer inevitably means that Julie Atherton is involved. She is excellent as alweays but the cast of four all bring immense charm to their characters. (This has been an Avenue Q reunion week with Julie Atherton and Daniel Boys in this and on Tuesday we had been surprised to see Jon Robyns as guest vocalist with Elaine Paige - but only until the interval.) Ordinary Days felt a bit like a work in progress at just 80 minutes but it is a show that I would like to revisit in a more suitable venue such as the New Players or the Chocolate Factory....
Creative
Adam Gwon (Book)
Adam Gwon (Music)
Adam Gwon (Lyrics)
Antony Bishop (Producer)
James Smith I:Adam LensonJames Smith (for Overtures) I:Adam Lenson (Producer)
Alistair Turner (Design)
Mike Thacker (Sound)
James Smith (Lighting)
Richard Bates (Musical Director)
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