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Posted: 9/29/08 at 6:36pm
Review
Manchester Palace Theatre
The moment a character announces shes called Mandy you know your in for a bumpy ride...a bumpy ride would have been fine, but this ride never even started.
This is plain and simply a ghastly musical with a storyline which has been written on the back of receipt.Never have i seen a show start off so bad and manage to get even worse as the painful night goes on.
The story, Band audition for TV talent show, producer only wants lead singer, lead singer goes solo, meets girl, bumps head, forgets everything.Oh but don't worry there are sub plots, but they are to pointless and dull to mention
Apart from the 2 female leads this was one of them shows where everything was bad, nothing made sense and it stank of cheap, cash in and devoid of anything remotely original.
The set looked like it had been borrowed from pop idol, the lighting was hideous and predictable, the jokes were unfunny (lets make a ting noise and look at the audience when a character mentions a line from a manilow song) and it treated the audience (blue rinse crowd ) like it was stupid...example, a stupid cheap sign would lower from the roof and tell the audience where the action was taking place, as if they couldnt tell)
The directing was dreadful and predictable and the band sounded to empty and shallow to make any kind of impact.
And what of Chesny????? HE WAS A ONE HIT WONDER FOR A REASON!!!.His singing was average but his voice got worse as the night went on, he can't act and has the personality of a tea bag.
To use Manilow's songs in this way made the perfectly good songs feel tired.How he has let this happen i don't know.I mean Copocabana the musical is hardly a work of a art but at least its fun, this was over 2 hours of pain.I would have had more satisfaction having my teeth pulled.
If ever there was a reason to stop with the Jukebox Musicals well this is it.I had heard talks that this could get in to a London but after seeing it i doubt it would even get in to blackpool
Manchester Palace Theatre
The moment a character announces shes called Mandy you know your in for a bumpy ride...a bumpy ride would have been fine, but this ride never even started.
This is plain and simply a ghastly musical with a storyline which has been written on the back of receipt.Never have i seen a show start off so bad and manage to get even worse as the painful night goes on.
The story, Band audition for TV talent show, producer only wants lead singer, lead singer goes solo, meets girl, bumps head, forgets everything.Oh but don't worry there are sub plots, but they are to pointless and dull to mention
Apart from the 2 female leads this was one of them shows where everything was bad, nothing made sense and it stank of cheap, cash in and devoid of anything remotely original.
The set looked like it had been borrowed from pop idol, the lighting was hideous and predictable, the jokes were unfunny (lets make a ting noise and look at the audience when a character mentions a line from a manilow song) and it treated the audience (blue rinse crowd ) like it was stupid...example, a stupid cheap sign would lower from the roof and tell the audience where the action was taking place, as if they couldnt tell)
The directing was dreadful and predictable and the band sounded to empty and shallow to make any kind of impact.
And what of Chesny????? HE WAS A ONE HIT WONDER FOR A REASON!!!.His singing was average but his voice got worse as the night went on, he can't act and has the personality of a tea bag.
To use Manilow's songs in this way made the perfectly good songs feel tired.How he has let this happen i don't know.I mean Copocabana the musical is hardly a work of a art but at least its fun, this was over 2 hours of pain.I would have had more satisfaction having my teeth pulled.
If ever there was a reason to stop with the Jukebox Musicals well this is it.I had heard talks that this could get in to a London but after seeing it i doubt it would even get in to blackpool
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
Updated On: 9/29/08 at 06:36 PM
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