WE WILL ROCK YOU

Wow, that was an interesting review! And I'd like to say BRAVO on the bravery of writing that review anonymously! Well done! But that's not for here... I'd like to address a few of the points you brought up. I would also like to state that I was NOT in WWRY - so I'm defending a show I saw, not one I performed in! You say: "maybe the director should have seen the show before she directed it" Clearly you have very limited ideas yourself. When I direct, I prefer to do it my own way, rather than copy another director's ideas. Karen did a great job of getting the actors to embody their characters. The blocking was clean and never superfluous. The direction also incorporated the set in an effective manner. Well Done. You say: "nice use of an old set... not!!!" I'm guessing from this comment that the set used for WWRY was also used for another show. So what! I'm sure you realise that community theatre's have limited budgets and that it is common practice to re-use materials and even entire set pieces. (This is also very good for the environment - a conservationists award to MLT - BRAVO!) While I personally would have liked to have seen more done with the set - particularly in the way of dressing it for the different scenes - I think it was cleverly utilised and suited the production that was put on. You say: "and im very sorry but the gay teen queens were just wrong!!!!!!!!" Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the themes presented by this show is the androgynous nature of humanity in the future. In which case, categorisation by sexuality is somewhat non-existant... Or are you simply homophobic then?? The "gay teen queens" as you put it were not wrong, you just didn't like them. You are entitled to your opinion, just as the director is entitled to direct her production the way she wants to. I thought the "gay teen queens" worked quite well! You say: "the 'sex' was just not needed!!! if your going to do it do it well!!!! not some half ass go at trying to do something like that......" I can only guess that you are referring to the scene at the beginning of act II where Galileo and Scaramouche get intimate? I personally felt that this scene was extremely well directed. I got nothing but passion and tenderness from the performance I saw. Congrats to Karen, Jason and Sky for tastefully portraying that part of the script! You say: "get leads who can sing" Wow! At this stage I would just like to say that you are wrong here. The leads for this show sang exceptionally well. All of the professional singers I have spoken to re this production agree with me as well. What singing experience do you have?? Jason Arrow's vocals were impeccable! The rest of the leads (and here I include Scaramouche, Meat, Brit, Pop, K Queen, and all other solo vocalists) were also fantastic. I counted maybe 3 missed notes throughout the entire show - which is less than I counted while watching RESPECT with Rhonda Burchmore last week! You say: "and brit was very much like captain feathersword!! very good priate not very good britany!!!" All I can say here is that I disagree. I have seen the Wiggles perform several times (I have god-children who love them) and I saw no resemblance between Cptn Feathersword and Shem Le Scelle's performance of Brit. He was gutsy, energetic and VERY masculine. Bravo Shem! You say: "no need for the madonna boobs!! just wrong" You must be very young to not know that Madonna wore costumes like that quite often during her early career. The Bohemians in the show got their names and costumes from magazine clippings they found - I say it then follows that as a Bohemian living more than 500 years after Madonna performed it is reasonable that he would have emulated the costume. You say: "lighting was shit! no idea at all in such a great venue...." Really?? We must have seen different performances! The lighting on the night I went was quite good. Not perfect, but very good. Kudos to the tech crew. It's difficult to adapt a lighting design to 3 different rigs in 3 VERY different venues, so well done to you! You say: "killer queen weak weak weak weak..." Carole Dhu - by her own admission - has said to me that she was not completely right for the part. HOWEVER, I think she did an okay job. Personally, I would have preferred a bigger woman with a gutsier voice, but Carole pulled the role off convincingly enough! You say: "next time have a think about how you are going to stage it before you try and stage another show!!!" This is just a silly comment to make. There was clearly a lot of thought put into how this production would be staged. MLT toured this show to 3 venues, all of them different sizes and with capabilities miles apart. The Kwinana Community Arts Centre theatre is about half the size of MPAC (I have never performed in the Bunbury Ent. Centre but have been told that it is much different again) so in order to make the show work in all 3 venues (and believe me, it DID work in all 3 venues) they had to put in A LOT of thought! At the end of the day, I find your review juvenile and completely un-constructive! And the fact that you were afraid to put your own name to it is so Cowardly - perhaps I should give the role I recently received as the Cowardly Lion in MPAC's Wizard of Oz to you... Actually, no, I wouldn't put any of the hard-working, dedicated crew that are involved in that production through that! I challenge you to admit who you are on this public forum and to give a bit of back-bone to your comments. You are more than entitled to have negative comments (although I doubt many people would agree with you) but you need to give a bit of backup with that, otherwise I for one will not take you seriously! Regards Darren Bilston