Whistle Down The Wind

Just wanted to delete my review, sorry to have been out of line, i feel really bad. Can we just forget that ever happened?
Sorry everyone! Still stand by that the talent in that show was immense!

Updated On: 4/13/06 at 06:01 PM

Right Leanne. The kids singing is not dubbed at all, there is a click tape to be used at the musical directors discretion to support the children singing with them recorded but they are singing and not being dubbed so don't critisize the kids although their may be 40 of them they still can't pack out the palace theatre.

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i have just been to see the afternoon show today and im kinda mixxed about how i feel about it. I have to say that i was sitting really close to the stage and some of the kids wernt speaking there parts in the songs, for example one girl said her line but im sure it was a boys voice i heard and another kid who looked about 5-6 sounded much older it just was really odd and other peep in the audiace looked puzzled. i have to say that Tim Rogers as the man blew me away he was absolutly fultless, what a fantastic voice!but Ali James who was understudying Swallow seemed to strugle with the higher notes and left me a little dissapointed. but the show as a whole was really enjoyable, and the songs involving the whole company were wicked some fantastic singers there...but some odd dance routenes in the opening number. oh and before peep start to go on about this thatand the other like they like to so often do on here, thats just my view of the show and how it was that perticular performance.

I saw Whistle again on Friday 14th.

(Again, the impressive sudden LightNing effect made the audience jump!)

The children did fine, & sounded fine.

Claire Marlowe (my ideal Swallow: I've seen 3) was on, and did very well -
though (being used to seeing her in the role, including on tour)
I thought she looked at times as if she might be battling a nasty cold.
Being Easter, the next show's not till Tuesday;
so hopefully being given Saturday off to recover
will also help save others in the cast from catching it!
(rohingit, I hope you get to see Claire in it another time:
she's very very good.)

Tim Rogers (The Man) has so much variety in his voice,
and also so much power -
his big number near the end of Act II was stunning:
he actually seemed to be 'living it'.

Another amazing voice in fine form was that of motorbiker Garrie Harvey.

Updated On: 4/19/06 at 06:33 PM

Just to let you, if you want to see a video preview, here's a link.....

UKTheatreNetwork.com

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Updated On: 5/4/06 at 06:46 PM

The title perplexes me? What exactly does it mean? I've heard the title song, but I still haven't a clue. Incidentally, I heard that Hayley Mills' mother wrote the book/script on which the musical is based. Is this true? What a talented family, those Millses.

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