The 39 Steps

I went to see The 39 Steps on 27th October at the Criterion Theatre. First of all, I just want to say how nice the theatre is! It's quite small so our seats in the front row of the circle were quite close to the stage and we had a really good view. There was lots of room and the seats were more comfy than usual theatre seats (they did make farting noises everytime you moved though, which caused a lot of giggles between me and my mum!) The 39 Steps was awesome! It was so funny I don't think I stopped laughing all the way through and the actors were all really talented! It's kind of a spy story with hundreds of characters played by only 4 people, but I won't tell you anymore because everytime I try to explain it I make it sound rubbish (which it's not!) It's a very basic set, infact it's just black walls with a few props thrown in every now and then but it really works! I especially liked where they used ladders as the bridge for example.

I got to see Dianne Pilkington at the stage door and she was so lovely and signed my programme! It was also great to meet some of the girls from Dianne's forum who were at the stage door too! It was such a fantastic evening! So yeah, go see it because it's great!!!! xx

p.s. Just thought i'd mention that my sister went to see Oliver! the night I went to see The 39 Steps and she really enjoyed it and hasn't stopped talking about it. She also said Kerry Ellis was a fantastic Nancy (which made my day!)

Upcoming Reviews!!!

I'm going to see wicked on 13th February 2010 for my third time and I'm hoping to write a review however whenever I see the show it always seems like a dream and I just forget what happened and also I'm sitting way up in the circle so I might not be able to see too well. I was going so I could see the cast one last time before they all leave so I was really dissapointed to hear that Oli Tompsett who plays Fiyero is away. Then I found out that Dianne Pilkington who plays Glinda is away too which made me sad because she's my idol and the one person I really desperately wanted to see. Anyway, I'm now quite excited to see Sarah Earnshaw as Glinda and am hoping that it will be a Greyshaw show because Ashleigh Gray is my favourite Elphaba! If I do a review I will try to do it asap because on the 17th i'm going to New York. When I'm there I'm going to see The Lion King on BROADWAY!!!! So there will hopefully be another review and I can compare it to the London show which I recently saw too! Oh yeah I'm also going to LAMDA on the 13th for a technical theatre and stage management open day which should be exciting so I might write about that a bit too! Well thats al really, apologies for the mahoosive update but I needed to have a rant about not seeing Dianne XD

Wicked!

Wicked is my favourite show ever and I love it to bits so it might get talked about a bit too much here so sorry in advance XD
Wicked is the story of Oz before Dorothy gets there and follows two girls, the popular Galinda, who will later become Glinda the good, and the green Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.
It's on all around the world including, London, New York, an American tour and Australia.
The London cast change is coming up and it's just been announced that Louise Dearman (http://www.castaway.org.uk/clients/singers/lode.htm << listen here) will be our new Glinda and Rachel Tucker from I'd do anything will be thaking over Elphaba. It will be nice to see some new faces but that means we have to say goodbye to the old cast including Dianne Pilkington (Glinda) and Alexia Khadime (Elphaba). I don't know if it will be the same without them (of course it won't be the same!) but we will just have to wait and see the new cast! I will keep up to date with new cast announcements as we know lots of the current cast are leaving and also what the old cast get up to when they have left.

Thats all for now
Bye bye xx