Post by marion on Oct 26, 2023 9:17:28 GMT
To Wimbledon yesterday for this but I think it’s the last stop on this current tour. I picked it because I had to use up a covid cancellation voucher (which I thought had expired) and having seen an excerpt of the other musical scheduled at Wimbledon on the Jason Manford show of musical theatre, decided I couldn’t face Joanne Clifton in Shrek. So I spent £6 on my ticket.
I saw the movie many years ago and although I knew it was a mean girls film I’d forgotten the detail. So I was quite surprised by the body count as the musical went on. So bullying, suicide, murder, don’t sound much good for a musical but actually it did work very well. The cast were all very good and the routines very well drilled. I didn’t know any of them and did think the girl playing Heather Chandler (the one in red) looked a bit old for a,schoolgirl, and she rather reminded me of Craig Revel Horwood for some reason. The singing style is all a bit X Factor but they did it well, especially the one playing Veronica, but I did think our anti-hero JD wandered off key quite a bit.
This is obviously a teen cult musical!!! My goodness, it’s either half term or classes were depleted. And the screaming! I thought I was at a Harry Styles concert, 😂😂😂. It was unbelievable, every time a well known song began or at the first entrance of the stars. Clearly everyone knew the entire show backwards, because I was completely unaware of what was going to happen and the songs,, and was just made aware something was going to happen by another outbreak of screaming. In fact I for some reason rather expected a jukebox musical so somewhat incorrect there. For all the screaming though, there was no noise during the actual songs and no general audience raucous behaviour, so I have no complaints. Just amazement, 😂😂😂.
I quite enjoyed it on the whole. The production was slick and probably no less showy than when it was in the West End. But the main thing was they had such a rapturous reception. I did notice that the biggest screams were when the rough and ready fathers of two boys declared their love for each other and switched to rainbow ties, and that surely wasn’t the main point of the show. Oh and we also got a proposal in the stalls at the end which generated even more screaming, 😂😂😂.
I saw the movie many years ago and although I knew it was a mean girls film I’d forgotten the detail. So I was quite surprised by the body count as the musical went on. So bullying, suicide, murder, don’t sound much good for a musical but actually it did work very well. The cast were all very good and the routines very well drilled. I didn’t know any of them and did think the girl playing Heather Chandler (the one in red) looked a bit old for a,schoolgirl, and she rather reminded me of Craig Revel Horwood for some reason. The singing style is all a bit X Factor but they did it well, especially the one playing Veronica, but I did think our anti-hero JD wandered off key quite a bit.
This is obviously a teen cult musical!!! My goodness, it’s either half term or classes were depleted. And the screaming! I thought I was at a Harry Styles concert, 😂😂😂. It was unbelievable, every time a well known song began or at the first entrance of the stars. Clearly everyone knew the entire show backwards, because I was completely unaware of what was going to happen and the songs,, and was just made aware something was going to happen by another outbreak of screaming. In fact I for some reason rather expected a jukebox musical so somewhat incorrect there. For all the screaming though, there was no noise during the actual songs and no general audience raucous behaviour, so I have no complaints. Just amazement, 😂😂😂.
I quite enjoyed it on the whole. The production was slick and probably no less showy than when it was in the West End. But the main thing was they had such a rapturous reception. I did notice that the biggest screams were when the rough and ready fathers of two boys declared their love for each other and switched to rainbow ties, and that surely wasn’t the main point of the show. Oh and we also got a proposal in the stalls at the end which generated even more screaming, 😂😂😂.
Anymore to come?
