Oh What a Night - Perth

A seventies musical, fantastic dancing and energetic performances from the chorus who were brilliant. Sadly the plot was thin, the main leads basically even poorer (with the exception of Kathy Sledge and whoever played Stretch Mulligan who both shone) and the sound at Burswood, especially if you were seated near the front, was appalling.
The auditorium was less than a third full, but the audience were as enthusiastic as they could be, after all we'd all paid to be there. Who or what Jack was supposed to be or why he was there still puzzles me.
I'll be most interested to see anyone else's opinion

I went and saw it last sunday; it was free for me, I did not know what to expect but what I saw was disappointing. The only thing that saved the performance was the dancing and the music which i really enjoyed. I was with a whole bunch of fellow actors so we made the most of what it was by doing a chain and dancing in the aisles. The acting was pretty shocking by the lead. ( I think it was Kathy Sledge) There was ni storyline!!!!! And the characters were very stereotyped i thought.
I certainly would not pay for a ticket but I guess if ya feel like a dance and wanna rock back to the seventies. Go for it! I also thought it was l too soon to have this musical so close to what a successful musical Mamma Mia was, which was set in the same era.
cheers
stefan

Are either of you able to type up a cast list for me, please?

~Julia

I saw it as a comp and totally agree with what you both said.
It was not what i was expecting - especially for a "musical". We were commenting that the quality was of a standard like a year 12 production [no offence to those who had their year 12 productions that work out :)]

We saw it on the second night and I think that the crew were also having chaos - some of the mikes wern't up when required, the black cloth behind the scrim at the front got stuck and we saw a huge set change [which wouldn't have been to much of a problem but they kept flying the curtain in and out which WAS distracting. I'm sure they go it fixed.

The lighting in my mind was very effective and parts of the set were well thought out - the rest of the parts seemed in the 80s and not the 70s ???

But as both Alan and stefan said - ther music was the best - the singing had its moments but not the fault of the vocalist i think.

THese are just my opions on the show. And have no requirement to offend people - as we are all in the business of art some constructive critisism can be useful :) Oh an god spelling also helps.

We Will ROck You has a lot of saving to do.

Aaron

I can't believe you didn't like to show. I thought to was amazing I saw if on opening and then again closing, there were little bits which had changed.

But Perth we the first place and they only had a short time to prepare for this I thought the show was amazing as for Brutus T Firefly (Tee Jaye) he was amazing and Roxy Rochelle ( Kathy Sledge) want a voice, Stretch Millgans (Nigel Roche) what a funny person he is.

I had the best time going to the show dancing and singing it was great, as for comparing the show to Mamma Mia and We will rock you, they are all different there is never one musical the same. And for the people who go free tickets my disappointed that all you can do it bag this musical how upgrateful are you.

I paid for my first lot and go free for closing night. But I offered to buy them. And I had friends in this show. I supported them and I really truly enjoyed this show more then ever....


Cheers
Amanda (Baby T)

Amanda wrote:

"And I had friends in this show. I supported them by not writing an unbiased critique

Amanda wrote:

"And I had friends in this show. I supported them by not writing a literate review, or even trying to be grammatically correct."

Now I think that's a little uncalled-for. There have been many posts that have been much more painful to read than Amanda's have. Posts that people have barely given a second glance.

Walter's comment was enough. This was more like gratuitous character bashing.

Oh, how we criticise . Until one is in a production of this size and quality. One should just admire.

Old friend

Old Friend wrote:
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> Oh, how we criticise . Until one is in a production of this
> size and quality. One should just admire.
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Well, what if you were in the audience of a production 'of this size and quality', but didn't admire it?
I don't have to be an actor and be in a production to view things critically.

Lorna

Absolutely Lorna.

You don't. Im talking to those critical actors.

Old Friend

Old Friend wrote:
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> Absolutely Lorna.
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> You don't. Im talking to those critical actors.
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> Old Friend


Man, then your argument makes no sense!!! I thought Lorna was saying (correct me if i'm wrong, Lorna) you can be critical if you see the production and didn't like it, and it doesnt matter if your an actor or an audience or anytrhing else. You don't have to just 'admire it' like you say. If there's nothing admirable, then there's nothing admirable, and that's got nothing to do with being an actor who hasn't yet been in a big production like it. You can still have an opinion about it, and what you said to "those critical actors" makes it sound like you think they're just jealous. Well it sounds to me (i didn't see the show) like maybe some people are glad they weren't in the show, so how can they be jealous?
The ones who really like it are allowed to have their opinion (although it sounded like a lot of them were biased coz they had friends in the show) and so do the ones who didn't like it. So far I haven't been convinced to go and see it though.

Ben-G

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Ben

I like the show not because I had friends in it.

I thought it was fun and entertaining. And if everyone else didn't like the show that is there problems they didn't go with opened mind, this musicals was different to the likes of Mamma Mia and We will rock you people should never compare.


Cheers
Amanda

Ben

Go and see the show. See what you think.

Old Friend