Ghost the Musical

On Wednesday we went to see Ghost at the Piccadilly theatre! I thought it would be a good opportunity to use my theatre tokens but to cut a long story short the £10 and £5 didn't work :( Anyway.... we got £25 tickets which was really good and we were sitting second row from the back in the stalls. We had 4 hours to kill so we went to Ripley's Believe it or Not which was really cool, especially the mirror maze (it took us a very long time to get out of there!) Back at the theatre we sat in our seats and were a bit worried we wouldn't be able to see because the tabs have Sam and Molly's face on them (the two main characters) and we could only see up to their noses because the bottom of the dress circle was in the way but when the show started it was actually fine. My view of the show was that some of it was really good but other bits were not good. The technical aspects of the show were amazing but the AV was quite distracting and at times I found myself watching that and not the actors. When people died it was very clever but I'll say no more because I don't want to ruin it. Sharon D Clarke was the star for me, every scene with her was so funny! In my opinion some of the songs were a bit random and if I had listened to them and not know they were from Ghost I would have thought they were from different musicals.
Because we were right at the back we were sitting next to the head of sound so we were talking to him and he is going to send us the sound spec for our essays. So obviously I'm doing my essay on Ghost now (which means I was writing notes all the way through The Wizard of Oz for nothing, but oh well!)
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The Wizard of Oz

So I am totally loving living in London and being able to randomly decide to go and see a show!! Me and my friend were in a very boring lesson in which we made a plan to go and see the Wizard of Oz because our next lesson was cancelled. We got really good seats, row M 29 and 30 in the stalls for £25 which we were very happy about! I've been to the Palladium twice before to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Sound of Music and both times I was in the grand circle right at the back so it was really good to see it so close this time. It was a Wednesday matinee and there were quite a few rows of empty seats at the back. The show was really good and there were quite a few understudies on, the witch was an understudy, they were very good. We were taking notes all the way through because we have to do a lighting and sound essay for a show for Mountview! Some of the songs though were quite rubbish, not that I could do any better myself but why they had to write new rubbish songs while they took my favourite song 'The Jitter Bug' out I do not have a clue! Just after the interval there was a very long pause in the show and a voice came over the speakers saying something along the lines of 'sorry, we broke the theatre. We'll start the show again when we've fixed it'. When it started again it became clear that the monkeys were meant to fly but they hadn't.

Overall it was a really good show (apart from the odd few songs) and Danielle Hope was really good as Dorothy. Also the dog was really funny because he obviously wanted the day off and Dorothy had to drag him along every now and then!

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Mountview does 42nd Street!

As a Mountview student I have to go and see Mountview shows and get a free ticket so me and half of the techies in my year went to see 42nd Street on Wed 28th at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham. It was the 3rd year musical theatre students performing and there were two casts. We saw cast 2 and there were some really amazing people in it. Not to say that some of them were bad because they were all really good and it was like going to see a professional show it was so good. It's finished now but Mountview do lots of shows every year so if you get a chance go and see one or two of them. The tickets ar really cheap, like under £10 I think which is very good for what you get to see. And just to mention the 2nd year technical theatre students did the stage management, lights, sound etc. for the show too and they gave us a tour of the theatre so we now know what one of the theatre is like that we will be working in next year!!
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Theatretrain

while I'm doing reviews I'll do a little one about the Theatretrain show at the Royal Albert Hall. It was called I don't Feel Like Dancing and it was a mix of songs of all genres and had singing and dancing. My little sister was in it which is why I went to see it and I'm very proud of her doing the show with a broken wrist (although she did look quite sorry for herself sometimes!) The soloists were amazing considering they were all under 18 and I really enjoyed going to the Albert Hall too.

Legally Blonde!

I have wanted to see this for absolutely ages, even before it came to London so I was really excited when me and my new housemates decided to go and see it on Saturday! We saw the understudy for Elle who is Nicola Brazil and she was really good. We were sat right on the back row of the grand circle but we didn't mind and it's not a massive theatre so we could still see quite well. The set is smaller than the one on Broadway but it's just like a more simplified version because the stage was not that big compared to some other theatres in the West End. I don't really know what to say about it except don't just think that it's going to be really rubbish as a musical because I have some friends who think that. It was really good and I would definately go and see it again!

Doctor Faustus

So I've just started my first proper week at Mountview. Last week was induction week and we got to go and see Doctor Faustus at the Globe! I was soooo excited because Arthur Darvill who plays Rory in Doctor Who was in it! We were very almost late but managed to get there just in time! To be honest I didn't really notice much of the play because I was too busy watching Arthur Darvil (whoops!) and it was in old English so I probably wouldn't have understood what they were saying anyway. However if you do like that sort of thing it would be good to go and see it and I enjoyed it just being able to watch something at the Globe! The end was the bezt because they started doing this funny song which we all thought was a bit random!

The Big Move!

So today I moved to London to start my new life as a technical theatre student! (Actually today is Saturday but I don't have an internet connection so it won't be posted straight away). I'm going home next week though because I forgot a lot of stuff e.g. my bin and cutlery and I won't get very far without them, and I want to watch Doctor Who but we have no TV here (that makes me sound really sad but I may just be the biggest Doctor Who fan ever!) I was really brave all the way here and even though I nearly cried 27 times, and yes I counted, I stopped myself each time. It's not that I don't want to be here because I really do but I just miss my family so much (uh oh, make that 28 times). I've got a little hamster and we have chickens too and I'm worried they are going to forget me. But now I'm sitting in my loft room 2 hours away from them all.

I have made it look quite nice in here though and I have brought a lot of stuff from home. I have no idea what I'm going to do tomorrow or the next day or the day after that though.

It feels weird being here

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