WE WILL ROCK YOU

Bomber, You really need to get your facts straight before criticizing a show so harshly. I don’t want to sound immature (which is something I’m sure you didn’t consider) but you’re an idiot. I was in the MLT production of WWRY and I would like to set you straight with some insider information. Some of the things I mention may have already been said but maybe if more people tell you, it will sink in. I in no way loved the show completely, there were things that I hated about it but none of these things were the points that you brought up. 1. We did not reuse any costumes or sets. I’m going to assume when you refer to the “reused set” your talking about the set from The Bridge. Just to let you know this is a brand new set made specifically for this show. This set WAS built in a shed by a very sweet man who did not get paid to do it because unlike some of the bigger amateur companies MLT doesn’t have a huge budget. All of the costumes used were either made by the cast or family members, which means we paid for them, especially the bohemian costumes. The set was painted white because when we shone colored lights on it they would show up. Black absorbs color and silver reflects it so neither of these colors would have suited. Also early on the idea of using black lights to create a UV effect was suggested another reason for the white. 2. The director did not watch any of the show before hand because she wanted to create her own version of the show which is what we were told to do when we got the rights to the play. Other people have explained this already so I won’t. 3. If the teen queens should have been male and female clones, so they should have been all females how does this make sense. Also how presumptuous of you to assume that the two males in these roles were gay, perhaps because of the world they were living in they were just simply cocky and flamboyant. 4. I also feel as if I should defend the fantastic voices of Jason, Sky and Shem. Jason has a beautiful voice and is incredibly talented. He was very sick and actually lost his voice during out Kwinana performances but he continued to sing and give the show his all, for you to turn around and say that the only person in the cast that could sing was meat is outrageous. Sky has also been gifted with a fantastic rock voice. If you have seen the professional show, you understand that this particular character is not girly, or pretty. She is tough, and as such her voice should follow suit. Shem is not a professional singer, nor does he claim to be, but he was the best person to play Britney. Likening him to a pirate is idiotic and immature, he, like a pirate wore a bandana and like a pirate had a very recognizable character. So in those two aspects I would take it as a compliment, but cptn feather sword is a bumbling idiot with a relatively high voice so how you can compare this to a strong, incredibly masculine and gravely voice I’m just not sure. 5. The lighting at MPAC was done by professionals enough said. We did not have a devoted lighting crew we used the people we could at the venues we had. In regards to your comment that it couldn’t have been that hard to adapt the lighting please let me correct you. Kwinana arts center is a small center with no where near as much equipment as Bunbury or Mandurah, so doing a completely different lighting plan was necessary and again we did the best we could with what we had. 6. Saying that a bigger woman with a gutsier voice would have been preferred for killer queen, now I am a larger girl but am by no means huge and yet I have a very gutsy voice but I can also sing well with most soprano singers. Are you suggesting that only bigger women will have the gutsier voices. You say that you’ve seen the professional show where killer queen was played by a bigger black woman, I’m sorry but we are not the professional show, so we are not going to do the same things as them. At no point did you mention how she portrayed the character a strong business woman running the entire planet. Maybe focus on the acting and not the size of the woman. 7. We were rehearsing for longer than most other plays would and I will get a little defensive here, but we worked our asses off. To say that we should have put more thought into what we were doing is detestable. Not to blow my own horn but we had standing ovations for most of the shows we performed and I believe we were able to captivate the audience throughout. If we hadn’t we wouldn’t have had people laughing at jokes or clapping after songs and scenes. I’m not quite sure why this hasn’t sunk in so ill put it in capitals WE ARE A SMALL THEATER AND WE DON’T HAVE A HUGE BUDGET so for this reason we cant have state of the art effects, we cant rent our costumes from the professional show and the props and sets we have are what we can create ourselves. 8. I don’t want to offend anyone from MPAC but if I do, I don’t really care. I notice that they have toured none of the shows at MPAC. We were up some nights until 1 in the morning packing up the sets and sometimes in the rain to transport them from venue to venue. Some people like my grandmother live closer to Bunbury than Mandurah so it is easier and cheaper for her to see shows there, now are you saying that we shouldn’t show different areas our show, that people should come to Mandurah and no where else. Also the cast of the show have now got the experience of working in 3 different fantastic venues. How many have you performed in? The shows that we put on in Bunbury and Kwinana were as high a standard as the shows we performed in Mandurah. That is all I have to say on that and hopefully it has opened your eyes to some different things. Perhaps and this is just a suggestion you should take part in some productions in the lower budget companies and then you would understand how much we really put into this show. I sign this review with my name and my age, not to shove in your face and not because I was in the show, but because I am proud of the show that we created and in spite of your review would happily do it again even if that meant performing for you again. Cherie L 18 years old