3rd January & We Will Rock You update

Pretty damn awesome show. I knew I was going to enjoy it, and I did. Very much so. I have to confess that Wicked is still definitely my favourite musical (not hard when I've only ever seen two musicals live, but whatever) but WWRY was still pretty damn awesome. I took a picture of the theatre (and a picture of us ouside the theatre, but we won't go there because I'm way too ugly to be on the internet).


I also have a picture of the Wicked theatre I feel the need to upload finally.... >_>


Anyway! On to the update about the day. :D

We started our day quite early today, but it wasn't early enough that it was painful. Up at eight, leave the house for half nine ready for a 10:18 train from the midlands to St. Pancras in London. We had first class tickets, everything was incredibly smooth-going, and we ended up in London direct on time at 12:05.

From St. Pancras train station we slid through the tube part, got on the Picadilly line and headed for like... the second stop along, and then from there on the District line to Tottenham Court Rd., where the Dominion theatre is located. We arrived there at perhaps 12:30, and after some wandering around Tottenham Court Road we finally decided that we were going to eat at Burger King, opposite the theatre. How original. We couldn't pick up our tickets until an hour before the performance (which started at 2:30), so we didn't have much else to do. So, we ate. XD

Then to the theatre, where my sister and I bought programmes for the show and glow sticks for the finale. We fought over the blue ones, and then headed into the theatre, where we found our seats. We had seats Z 26-30, and they were actually pretty awesome seats. They were about three or four rows from the back, right in the centre of the theatre (I was on the end of the row, which was great). We could see the whole stage, and there were actually no other people in front of us for the next four rows so we didn't have any tall people in front of us. Being as short as I am, that can get incredibly annoying... We could have moved forward a couple of rows, but we were actually very comfortable where we were, so we stayed in our assigned seats, haha.

The performance was wonderful, I have to say. The woman who played Scaramouche (Sabrina Aloueche) was very good - I was actually worried about her, since Scara seems like quite a challenging role to play - and I was particularly impressed by the Killer Queen (Mazz Murray) whose songs were almost flawless and whose voice was like a powerhouse. She had a lot of raw energy in what she sung, and she was great with the quirky sex jokes. Sabrina, I have to say, pulled off the sarcastic Scaramouche very well. I also enjoyed the performance displayed by both Khashoggi (Alex Bourne) who did very well as the smarmy-I-wear-sunglasses-inside-control-dude, and Meat - who was originally played by Kerry Ellis. Meat was actually played by Rachel Tucker who made it to the semi-finals of I'd Do Anything on BBC, and who was Mum's original favourite to win. XD With her following Kerry I was a little worried about her performance of No One But You, but she performed it very VERY well, and her costume was super cool. x3

I think what made the performance even more memorable, though, was the fact that they had a few technical difficulties with Britney Spears' microphone. The poor guy playing Brit (I think it was Ian Carlyle) had problems getting his face-mic thing to work, and so his first song/words were a little shaky. One of the techies had to come across stage, hand him a microphone as he went, and then when Brit went to sing into THAT one, it also didn't work. XD Second microphone later, he was there on stage trying to perform 'karate' moves, dance AND sing all the while holding a hand-held microphone. The other leads on stage at the time were really trying not to laugh. The audience found it hilarious.

What the cast got at the end of the show was what I'd call a half-theatre standing ovation. There were a few very enthusiastic fans at the front who were on their feet well before the finale, and a few kids behind us doing the same, and by the end of the show mostly the back half of the room was on their feet. It was a great atmosphere (but I have to say, definitely more of a Rock N' Roll type thing than a magical Wicked type - I guess that's to be expected, duuurrr).

The show finished at around 5:15, and from there we headed back to the tube, and to St. Pancras following the lines we'd followed on the way. We hit a massive queue of people in the station at Tottenham Court Road though, and in one of the tubes we were so packed in like sardines that you couldn't even turn around. It was actually very funny. I loved the atmosphere. XD

And, of course, from there on home. We got back around half eight, and I've been home ever since. I'm tired now, rather sad about my lack of revision (or any kind of studying) over the past few days, and running out of things to talk about. I think we're done here for the day..

Or not!
Here's a list of all the shows I currently want to see. I'll probably bold the ones I've seen once I see them, and put how many times I've seen them, because then I can keep track of everything and I want to one day be able to say I've seen all the shows I really want to see. XD

Wicked (3)*
We Will Rock You (1)
Mamma Mia
Chicago
Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserables
Avenue Q
Lion King
The Sound of Music
Blood Brothers
Oliver!
La Cage Aux Folles
Grease
Hairspray
39 Steps

I also wouldn't mind seeing (if they ever come to the UK):
Urine Town
9 to 5 (a new production!)

Hell I still want to see Wicked again. >_>

Eh. Knowing me I'll probably add more. Even so, my list is looking a little bare of completion at the moment. How sad. I need to get a job so I can afford all of this. =S

Anyway. I think it's bed time. Or something.
G'night.
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