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Post by theatre-turtle on May 21, 2017 14:03:21 GMT
I'm doing double show Sunday with tick tick boom and then TcP 😃
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Post by theatrelover123 on May 21, 2017 14:29:10 GMT
Excited. Middle of Row M in stalls  |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 14:31:18 GMT
CC9, Stalls. |
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Post by LaLuPone on May 21, 2017 14:35:22 GMT
Hope everyone going enjoys, sounds like it's gonna be a fab night, wish I could make it
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Post by Mr Wallacio on May 21, 2017 16:11:59 GMT
And I'm Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 16:45:12 GMT
I'm here (pun intended), up in the gallery |
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Post by bellboard27 on May 21, 2017 16:52:30 GMT
I'm here! Enjoy everyone!
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Post by theatre-turtle on May 21, 2017 16:59:07 GMT
I'm here too and quite sweaty from my cycle from the Park theatre
Left side circle
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Post by theatre-turtle on May 21, 2017 17:02:06 GMT
My gaydar is going wild. Even more than at a typical west end show.
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Post by theatre-turtle on May 21, 2017 18:12:20 GMT
Absolutely amazing. All four female leads and Tyrone Huntley in particular. One of the best things I've seen all year!
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Post by Joseph Buquet on May 21, 2017 18:14:47 GMT
Dialogue and lighting not the best, but music UNBELIEVABLE. Truly exceptional all round
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 18:18:19 GMT
Ooo lord i've cried about three times already! The girls are slaying, Rachel John bringing the house down!
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Post by theatre-turtle on May 21, 2017 18:20:07 GMT
Ooo lord i've cried about three times already! The girls are slaying, Rachel John bringing the house down! I cried at the act 1 finale too |
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 21, 2017 18:21:23 GMT
Enjoying this. Rachel John I can see what the fuss is about....Wow. Just wow. Marisha.....great...but maybe she's been built up a little bit too much...
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Post by bellboard27 on May 21, 2017 18:21:34 GMT
Ooo lord i've cried about three times already! The girls are slaying, Rachel John bringing the house down! I cried at the act 1 finale too I hope the Cadogan has a mop! |
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Post by d'James on May 21, 2017 18:22:45 GMT
Who's playing which roles?
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Post by bellboard27 on May 21, 2017 18:26:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 18:28:02 GMT
Sound balance is awful and I want to throttle the people sitting next to me, but the female leads and Tyrone are wonderful.
The choir are ruining it for me, there are far too many of them, they're overpowering it and the choreography is cringeworthy and not being performed particularly well. Not a patch on Broadway ensemble-wise, but the leads are really lifting this.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 21, 2017 20:16:33 GMT
The sound got better in the 2nd act. I did not care at all for the guy who played Mister. Everyone else, brilliant. I only really knew the one song everyone knows from this.....all the others were new and i loved the score. Especially with those voices. Also, i must say, that when it comes to shows i have a bit of a cold heart and don't really feel the emotion but there were times in this... lord were there times. I think especially towards the end of act 1 and I am Here.
Marisha, i think i can understand the appeal. She gave it her all, you could tell she was lost in it, in her big numbers she let rip and you absolutely felt it which is why she got such a big reaction. I just think it's at the determent of her voice because even though the performance was amazing sometimes the singing was off and actually rather screamy at times. A loss of control and especially towards the end on I Am Here. Maybe i just had Cynthia too much in my mind as i have listened to every recording probably possible of her singing that and it's always note perfect. I guess this was just a more wild take on it. But i did love her and do see how she would make a great Effie.
Rachel John, another one i saw after a lot of buzz on here about her...she blew me away with her voice. I can see how she played Rachel Marron as her voice reminded me of Whitney. She was sensational.
Tyrone great, i have seen him before and his voice is brilliant and a word for the young lady who played Nettie who i thought was brilliant and a bit of a star and of course Wendy Mae Brown who provided some great comedy moments.
The band were great too.
All round i was really pleased to see this and impressed. I must say this is the first time i have seen something like this, a concert performance of a show, so it took me a while to get used to the format but i soon got quite into it. It makes me very interested to see the full stages show as i think it would be even better, obviously, but i guess that's not on the cards.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 20:55:32 GMT
Tonight was f***ing incredible. I found it so moving, so emotional. Stunning quitr frankly. You could just tell this cast were living their roles. Marisha was amazing, as always. Its like she is in Dreamgirls, where she really in her singing, you tell she got completely lost in her own head, she was living that moment. Completely earned that standing ovation after her solo. Rachel was amazing too, especially in Push Da Button, which blew the roof off the place. Wendy was also stellae, as was Tyrone.
I was really moved by the score. With the Ensemble and thw full cast singing, it felt so powerful and moved me to tears several times. It was a really overwhelming experience. And it was clear most, if not all, the audience were loving it! Very responsive! It was clear from the beginning they were on that ride and it totally deserved every moment of the response at the end, with Marisha visably moved by the whole thing.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 21, 2017 21:01:56 GMT
Were you in a light blue patterned short sleeve shirt Daniel? If so, i saw you. If you weren't. I didn't.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 21:04:36 GMT
Were you in a light blue patterned short sleeve shirt Daniel? If so, i saw you. If you weren't. I didn't. That was me! Haha |
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Post by Steve on May 21, 2017 21:07:33 GMT
Breathtakingly brilliant one-off show, with a stand-out star-turn by Marisha Wallace, and sterling supporting performances by Rachel John, Wendy Mae Brown, Seyi Omooba, Tyrone Huntley and Bernadette Bangura. The key to Wallace's performance as Celie was to be found in her final solo song, in which her stealthily modulated build to her ultimate declaration of personhood, "I'm Here," had the audience on their feet in an instant standing ovation. Wallace had until this point reserved the full impact of her devastatingly full and emotional voice, as her tender, tentative Celie had until this point been cowed by the batterings, both figurative and literal, of her horrible story. From the start, Wallace played the hollow-eyed dazed soft vacancy of a battered woman to perfection, which hollowness she filled in slow gradations throughout the course of the show. By halftime, her character was still only half human, causing some in the audience to doubt the fullness of the actress' potential. But this methodical character building was a testament to the seriousness with which Wallace approached tonight's show as a fully acted performance, rather than a mere one-off opportunity for show-boating, and judging by the fullsome tears of multiple audience members all around me, she succeeded in taking the audience with her on the journey of a nobody to become a somebody! The most emotionally fulfilling performance in a musical I've seen all year! All around her were supporting performances to die for: there was the effortless easy comedy sass of Wendy Mae Brown's Sofia, making hilarious hay of her anthem "Hell No;" there was the dominating diva antics of Rachel John's Shug, whose Push Da Button" brought the house down in the first half, but who also evinced heartbreaking tenderness in her song "Too Beautiful for Words;" there was the preternatural sweetness of Seyi Omooba's beaming Nettie, with a dulcet voice that belied her toughness in the recent "Junkyard;" and there was Tyrone Huntley's magical charisma, making up for the man-hating book, by lending Harpo a softness and likeability he doesn't have on the page, thereby balancing the misandry of the show as a whole. Of the wonderful 3 strong church lady chorus, all with exceptional voices, on the right of the stage, Bernadette Bangura, in the centre, stood out for her total passionate emotional commitment to every song! The sound mix was a little hollow and tinny, which tended to make the bass voices of the men a little harder to hear, but nonetheless, Cavin Cornwall as Mister, was a force of nature, never more so than in his body-rolling, wide-grinning cackling excitement about "Shug Avery Comin ' to Town." LOL. Anyway, I enjoyed this much more than when I first saw the show at the Menier, partly on account of being more familiar with the work, partly for being less bothered by all the manhating, but mostly because this was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime star ensemble cast that really understood the work and all their parts in it, and made the whole night so much more than the sum of it's parts! Truly, my favourite night of the year so far! 5 stars |
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 21, 2017 21:07:38 GMT
Were you in a light blue patterned short sleeve shirt Daniel? If so, i saw you. If you weren't. I didn't. That was me! Haha Well if you saw a lad starring at you as you were walking down the isle at the interval then that was me trying to work out if it was you or not. haha. |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2017 21:15:46 GMT
Well if you saw a lad starring at you as you were walking down the isle at the interval then that was me trying to work out if it was you or not. haha. Ahaha if im honest love I was still in a bit of a daze haha |
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