Post by marion on Jan 25, 2024 10:20:05 GMT
Well, where to start with this! It wasn’t what I expected at all, 😂😂😂. It is the mother of all jukebox musicals, song after song after song belted out one after another. The theatre was absolutely packed, even the standing room at the back of the circle was rammed. On a Wednesday matinée! The crowd went wild, screaming and dancing at the end. So if you fancy a big belter of a night out then this is the one. Also I gather it’s a hen party favourite.
in our little sub-group of 5, 1 thought it was fabulous, 1 said she thought she had now gone off musicals, and the other 3 quite liked it. It is a very slick production, the staging is very glam, there is a lot of camp, and (possibly token) representation for trans folk and body positivity. The dancing is immaculate as is the singing and it moves at pace. What it doesn’t do is take a breath or engage the emotions because we are all having a great time with pop classics. So I found the acting a bit perfunctory and when Satine is doing a solo in her dressing room where we realise she has consumption, we got a discreet cough and a belting performance of Katy Perry’s Firework. Now maybe it’s just me, but I found that a bit odd.
But on and on we go, through Beyoncé, Adele, Lady Gaga, Mick Jagger, Elton… There was even one song, the big love duet from Act 1, where we had the first few lines from one belter, then into the first few lines of another, then into…. Maybe people thought that was clever but I kept wondering, what’s going on? I wish I had watched the film because I want to know how far this differed from the film, which I may now have to rent. Did Satine as played by Nicole Kidman come down on a trapeze singing Diamonds Are Forever, or sl*tdrop to All The Single Ladies? The dancing technique almost throughout was bump and grind.
But I would say it’s well worth a trip for an enjoyable watch, it is certainly well danced and sung, it just doesn’t have much heart and is a bit relentless. Rapturous applause from the audience yesterday, and a very satisfying booing for the villain. Because it is a bit like a raunchy panto, 😂😂.
in our little sub-group of 5, 1 thought it was fabulous, 1 said she thought she had now gone off musicals, and the other 3 quite liked it. It is a very slick production, the staging is very glam, there is a lot of camp, and (possibly token) representation for trans folk and body positivity. The dancing is immaculate as is the singing and it moves at pace. What it doesn’t do is take a breath or engage the emotions because we are all having a great time with pop classics. So I found the acting a bit perfunctory and when Satine is doing a solo in her dressing room where we realise she has consumption, we got a discreet cough and a belting performance of Katy Perry’s Firework. Now maybe it’s just me, but I found that a bit odd.
But on and on we go, through Beyoncé, Adele, Lady Gaga, Mick Jagger, Elton… There was even one song, the big love duet from Act 1, where we had the first few lines from one belter, then into the first few lines of another, then into…. Maybe people thought that was clever but I kept wondering, what’s going on? I wish I had watched the film because I want to know how far this differed from the film, which I may now have to rent. Did Satine as played by Nicole Kidman come down on a trapeze singing Diamonds Are Forever, or sl*tdrop to All The Single Ladies? The dancing technique almost throughout was bump and grind.
But I would say it’s well worth a trip for an enjoyable watch, it is certainly well danced and sung, it just doesn’t have much heart and is a bit relentless. Rapturous applause from the audience yesterday, and a very satisfying booing for the villain. Because it is a bit like a raunchy panto, 😂😂.
Anymore to come?
