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Post by Mark on Aug 23, 2018 21:42:53 GMT
Aah I loved it. As a piece it’s very strong and the book/score comes together so so well. Really liked the production and especially the atmosphere in Regents Park. Highly recommended!
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Post by steve10086 on Aug 24, 2018 20:27:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2018 19:21:47 GMT
Inspired casting of Vicky Vox, so authentic yet so completely subversive.
The sound was amazing! Those three girls and Vicky rocked.
I didn’t like the leads. Personally I think those characters need to be rooted in reality but these were cartoon characters.
I loved the set and the skyscrapers in trolleys. I felt the plant could have gotten bigger and maintained a puppet face character sharing the space with Vicky.
I loved how grey it was but I think Audrey should have been dressed brighter.
I think it’s impossible for any actor to take on the role of the dentist after Steve Martin but for the most part he was ok. I just think those moments of violence need to be a jolt for the audience.
All in all, I loved it and would return easily.
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Post by musicalmarge on Aug 31, 2018 0:15:14 GMT
Saw this tonight......
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
What a mess!!!!
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Post by distantcousin on Aug 31, 2018 8:10:10 GMT
Inspired casting of Vicky Vox, so authentic yet so completely subversive. The sound was amazing! Those three girls and Vicky rocked. I didn’t like the leads. Personally I think those characters need to be rooted in reality but these were cartoon characters. I loved the set and the skyscrapers in trolleys. I felt the plant could have gotten bigger and maintained a puppet face character sharing the space with Vicky. I loved how grey it was but I think Audrey should have been dressed brighter. I think it’s impossible for any actor to take on the role of the dentist after Steve Martin but for the most part he was ok. I just think those moments of violence need to be a jolt for the audience. All in all, I loved it and would return easily.
Great points!
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Post by musicalmarge on Aug 31, 2018 10:57:01 GMT
Can someone PLEASE CAST AN AUDREY WHO CAN SING?!!
Rant over .......
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 31, 2018 12:02:54 GMT
Like Ellen Greene’s (almost) vein popping performance of Suddenly Seymour in the film?
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Post by Mark on Aug 31, 2018 12:10:51 GMT
The thing with Audrey is that Ellen Greene's performance and interpretation is so iconic that it can neither be matched nor mimicked. Is she the best singer? No! But she IS Audrey and its why it is such a difficult role to cast. I did love Sheridan Smith in the role mind.
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Post by distantcousin on Aug 31, 2018 15:52:50 GMT
The thing with Audrey is that Ellen Greene's performance and interpretation is so iconic that it can neither be matched nor mimicked. Is she the best singer? No! But she IS Audrey and its why it is such a difficult role to cast. I did love Sheridan Smith in the role mind. I bet Sherrers knocked it out of the park...  |
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Post by musicalmarge on Aug 31, 2018 17:48:13 GMT
I think Ellen Greene has an incredible voice actually. Great acting and a wonderful mix of head voice, belting and great phrasing. The girl at Regents Park last night was dreadful. I’ve seen and heard better amateurs.
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Post by Boob on Aug 31, 2018 21:57:18 GMT
OMG LOVED IT! Esp the inspired choreography and wonderful musical direction. Matt Willis and Forbes Masson were awful, but the production is so fresh and invigorating and the show as a whole, while not without its problems, is such a delight. I’d gladly put my money behind a West End transfer.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 22:48:42 GMT
OMG LOVED IT! Esp the inspired choreography and wonderful musical direction. Matt Willis and Forbes Masson were awful, but the production is so fresh and invigorating and the show as a whole, while not without its problems, is such a delight. I’d gladly put my money behind a West End transfer. A West End transfer would be amazing. I’d definitely go again. I saw a matinee so would love to see it lit. |
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Post by musicalmarge on Aug 31, 2018 23:21:58 GMT
OMG LOVED IT! Esp the inspired choreography and wonderful musical direction. Matt Willis and Forbes Masson were awful, but the production is so fresh and invigorating and the show as a whole, while not without its problems, is such a delight. I’d gladly put my money behind a West End transfer. A West End transfer would be amazing. I’d definitely go again. I saw a matinee so would love to see it lit. Why does everything need to transfer? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 23:28:40 GMT
A West End transfer would be amazing. I’d definitely go again. I saw a matinee so would love to see it lit. Why does everything need to transfer? Everything doesn’t need to transfer, unlike your critique I was able to analytically describe what I liked and disliked about the performance. I spoke about a specific transfer and didn’t generalise. To be even more specific for you, I believe this production deserves a wider audience and I think an audience will eat it up! Pardon the pun! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2018 7:29:34 GMT
The thing with Audrey is that Ellen Greene's performance and interpretation is so iconic that it can neither be matched nor mimicked. Is she the best singer? No! But she IS Audrey and its why it is such a difficult role to cast. I did love Sheridan Smith in the role mind. I bet Sherrers knocked it out of the park... Audrey is the only performance of Sheridans I've really liked and thought really suited her. She was spot on |
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Post by freckles on Sept 1, 2018 8:13:27 GMT
Nobody is suggesting everything does! But a well received production that has only a limited run sometimes deserves wider exposure. I agree this is the case for LSOH.
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Post by freckles on Sept 1, 2018 8:29:38 GMT
Well, I liked it. I was terribly nervous going in, as this is a musical I hold very dear. The adventurous departures from the usual that I had heard about, plus the mixed reviews from my esteemed fellow forum members worried me, and I wasn’t at all sure about the personification of the plant.
But it was a joyful, colourful, fun interpretation - and I got totally on board with Vicky Vox’s Audrey 2. An amazing powerhouse vocalist, the naughtiness she brought to the role far exceeded anything I have seen a puppet plant achieve. Although I was glad to see a puppet plant in the early stages. The combination worked.
Seymour was good, the Urchins were amazing, Matt Willis as the Dentist etc was better than expected. Mushnik was just ok, as was Audrey. The role seemed very played down to me, which didn’t seem to fit the overall concept. And Jemima’s vocals were only just good enough - Somewhere That’s Green was sweet, but she was helped out considerably by the trio in the belt parts of Suddenly Seymour.
The set was a bit weird. I wasn’t sure the skyscrapers were necessary, but they did enable increasingly strange and interesting embellishments to be brought on, and the overall effect by the end was a visual treat.
Oh, the end! No spoilers, you have to be there, but one of the best finales ever.
As other posts have shown, this isn’t for everyone but I had a great time, left feeling very happy and uplifted and felt that the show represented the wonderful work of Ashman & Menken well, while adding new touches.
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Post by Deal J on Sept 1, 2018 10:26:18 GMT
...strange and interesting... Oh!  Great to read your comments, I'm going tonight and have been very nervous about for similar reasons to yours. Now I'm less nervous and more excited! |
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 1, 2018 16:53:24 GMT
I went this afternoon. I going to just get straight to the point and that is that I think the whole thing would be a lot better at night and with full lighting. I just thought something was missing in the day. You realise how important lighting and stage effects are when you see something at an open air theatre in the day, especially when it comes to framing where your focus should be.
I preferred the recent tour version honestly but again I don't know if that's just because I don't feel like I saw a full production here and an other negative about it is that seeing everyone is terribly distracting and there was an abnormal amount of people coming on and out all the time.
I enjoyed it but sure it's twice as good in the evenings.
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Post by freckles on Sept 2, 2018 12:21:12 GMT
I went this afternoon. I going to just get straight to the point and that is that I think the whole thing would be a lot better at night and with full lighting. I just thought something was missing in the day. You realise how important lighting and stage effects are when you see something at an open air theatre in the day, especially when it comes to framing where your focus should be. I preferred the recent tour version honestly but again I don't know if that's just because I don't feel like I saw a full production here and an other negative about it is that seeing everyone is terribly distracting and there was an abnormal amount of people coming on and out all the time. I enjoyed it but sure it's twice as good in the evenings. That's a really interesting point; the lighting is a big part of it at the evening performances. I've seen other shows here where the lighting was different between performances, but both worked equally well. Maybe that's not the case here?
And yes, the audience movement is always a problem at this venue. Everyone seems to have a much more relaxed attitude but I too find it disruptive. I don't think the slightly odd start times help, they mean a lot of latecomers.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 12:36:49 GMT
Sorry I disagree, I've seen plenty of matinees at the open air and they have been excellent, never felt like something is missing. If the production is good it shouldn't matter what time of day you're seeing it and the production team should allow for that
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 16:04:07 GMT
Sorry I disagree, I've seen plenty of matinees at the open air and they have been excellent, never felt like something is missing. If the production is good it shouldn't matter what time of day you're seeing it and the production team should allow for that I agree seeing it in daylight had no impact. I would like to see it again if it did transfer. There is a more relaxed atmosphere and after one side eye to someone crinkling a bag of sweets I was totally engrossed in the production and the beautiful butterflies landing on people in the row in front which only added to it. |
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Post by tom on Sept 4, 2018 16:19:54 GMT
Sorry I disagree, I've seen plenty of matinees at the open air and they have been excellent, never felt like something is missing. If the production is good it shouldn't matter what time of day you're seeing it and the production team should allow for that I saw JCS at a matinee and evening and the difference the lighting effects and the fact it was dark so you didn’t see the other audience members made was quite significant. Much preferred the evening performance despite that one being interrupted by rain! |
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Post by jamb0r on Sept 6, 2018 8:17:56 GMT
If anyone is wanting to see this but being put off by the prices, last night I had a £25 restricted view seat (which actually wasn't restricted at all, O66), but there were a lot of rows of empty seats further down, so there was a mass migration down to the £59 seats when it started.
Had never seen the movie or any production of this before and really enjoyed it! Especially the finale (wasn't expecting to get hit in the face with a medicine ball). However Audrey was a bit disappointing and she was totally flat on the final note of every one of her songs, sometimes painfully so.
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Post by musicalmarge on Sept 6, 2018 10:11:57 GMT
If anyone is wanting to see this but being put off by the prices, last night I had a £25 restricted view seat (which actually wasn't restricted at all, O66), but there were a lot of rows of empty seats further down, so there was a mass migration down to the £59 seats when it started. Had never seen the movie or any production of this before and really enjoyed it! Especially the finale (wasn't expecting to get hit in the face with a medicine ball). However Audrey was a bit disappointing and she was totally flat on the final note of every one of her songs, sometimes painfully so. Because this Audrey CANT SING! Ugh..... #worstiveeverseen |
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