Any Les Mis reviews?
Sun, 14 Oct 2001, 05:08 pmThe Review Master30 posts in thread
Any Les Mis reviews?
Sun, 14 Oct 2001, 05:08 pmHi all,
I'm just wondering whether anyone has bothered to write reviews on Music Spectrum's Les Mis yet...
I haven't seen it yet. Will sometime this week though.
The Review Master
RE: Any Les Mis reviews?
Sun, 11 Nov 2001, 06:27 pm14,000 would indicate that we had full houses virtually every night, which we did not, but every night was pretty full, and pretty vocal. The print reviews we got were quite favourable, including one in the West by Geoff Gibbs.
How did it turn out? Well, about half the cast were happy and will probably return again to a Music Spectrum show, to line Pat Barton's pockets (his daughter informed me that he was able to perform renovations on his house from one of his previous ventures with Omnibus), and to do a show in a good venue like the Regal. Good luck to them I say, and it was the great people in the cast that kept me turning up to rehearsals.
The other half will never, ever, as long as the Earth keeps turning, become involved in a Music Spectrum show again - even if we were paid for the next show. In fact those of us in this half wouldn't be particularly surprised if there is never another show done under the title of 'Music Spectrum' again considering the (very public) deterioration of relationships amongst the heirarchy of the organisation throughout the entire duration of rehearsals and the run.
The show itself was very, very good - first and foremost because of the excellent performers and additionally because of Nicole, the amazing voice coach, SM Carol, and Paul McCarthy the MD. Unfortunately, people assume it was the strength of the direction (which it most certainly was not - I wasn't the only one who changed what I was doing once we were out of the insane and incompetent clutches of Jane Pike), and Music Spectrum even drew a comparison in the West review to Opera Viva.
Oh please.
Do yourself a favour - don't audition for these people, and not just because of its highly unethical, though strangely legal, financial structure.
Now that I have finally got that off my chest, Britannicus at the Blue Room is also going to be a very good show, but because it is co-op EVERYONE is getting paid (if enough people rock up), and in the very capable (if somewhat gassy and hyperactive) hands of David Meadows, it's shaping up to be a corker that everyone is proud to be involved in.
Starts Thursday 15 November, 9:30 in the Blue Room Studio, and runs for three weeks Thurs-Sat at 9:30pm. One show on Sun 25/11/01 at 7pm.
Amanda Chesterton
How did it turn out? Well, about half the cast were happy and will probably return again to a Music Spectrum show, to line Pat Barton's pockets (his daughter informed me that he was able to perform renovations on his house from one of his previous ventures with Omnibus), and to do a show in a good venue like the Regal. Good luck to them I say, and it was the great people in the cast that kept me turning up to rehearsals.
The other half will never, ever, as long as the Earth keeps turning, become involved in a Music Spectrum show again - even if we were paid for the next show. In fact those of us in this half wouldn't be particularly surprised if there is never another show done under the title of 'Music Spectrum' again considering the (very public) deterioration of relationships amongst the heirarchy of the organisation throughout the entire duration of rehearsals and the run.
The show itself was very, very good - first and foremost because of the excellent performers and additionally because of Nicole, the amazing voice coach, SM Carol, and Paul McCarthy the MD. Unfortunately, people assume it was the strength of the direction (which it most certainly was not - I wasn't the only one who changed what I was doing once we were out of the insane and incompetent clutches of Jane Pike), and Music Spectrum even drew a comparison in the West review to Opera Viva.
Oh please.
Do yourself a favour - don't audition for these people, and not just because of its highly unethical, though strangely legal, financial structure.
Now that I have finally got that off my chest, Britannicus at the Blue Room is also going to be a very good show, but because it is co-op EVERYONE is getting paid (if enough people rock up), and in the very capable (if somewhat gassy and hyperactive) hands of David Meadows, it's shaping up to be a corker that everyone is proud to be involved in.
Starts Thursday 15 November, 9:30 in the Blue Room Studio, and runs for three weeks Thurs-Sat at 9:30pm. One show on Sun 25/11/01 at 7pm.
Amanda Chesterton
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