Bad Girls: The Musical, Union Theatre

its based on a bad itv tv show, based on Prisoner Cell Block H..... dont waste your money.

I saw this. [My son is a mechanic who fixed black cabs at the time. He was given free tickets by a driver.] It was rubbish.

How long till someone trots out Waterloo Road The Musical?

Why? They've done Loserville and Our House, Bad Girls sounds right up their street. Remember it previously played the West End (in the Garrick, no less, same as Loserville iirc).

Well I'm giving it a go!!

Booked ticket for the 29 March...never seen it, really enjoyed 'Our House' so said I would go back...I really want this to be trashy!!!

I would have preferred to have seen Prisoner Cell Block H: The Musical revived though - long overdue, and what with the popularity of Wentworth Prison any production could capitalise on...

I saw it last week at press night. Quite a few of the cast of the TV series were in the audience and they had a photo afterwards with the cast and their opposite numbers.

I thought there were some pretty entertaining numbers in there, but I found the book deeply dodgy - partly constrained I guess by the characters from the original TV show. I wasn't completely sold on the casting of a couple of the parts, but I later noticed on twitter that someone had to do an emergency cover that night, so it's possible that this coincided with who I wasn't convinced by.

Certainly not the worst thing I've seen at the Union. I'm not sorry I went.

I saw the show a couple of weeks ago. I loved the TV series, but have not seen the DVD of the musical.
I really enjoyed the show, some catchy numbers and a steady cast. One or two that didn't take my fancy, but we can't all like everyone. My main moan, which I have always found at the Union, is that they are not mic'd and at times it was hard to hear the cast, especially when they were facing the other way. I would have enjoyed the show a lot more had I been able to hear it all clearly.

However saying that I did enjoy it and deffo worth a watch! And for only £20 you can't knock it really.

I was expecting to either love or hate this one. I actually came out ambivalent. I think it was quite ambitious covering the whole of Bad Girls Season 1 (and some nods to later seasons) in a single musical. Consequently most of the characters didn't seem very fleshed out and the story was pretty rushed. I couldn't work out if it was better to know the tv show or not.

There were some decent songs and great choreography throughout. Plus the usual added thrill you get at the Union of sitting in the front row and wondering if you're going to be kicked in the face. Thankfully no flailing limbs but the guy next to me had a narrow miss with a wayward tea caddy.

The comedy elements were a bit hit and miss. The biscuits were a real highlight! I thought the scenes involving the Julies were great (including the more serious solo while Julie 1 is on the phone to David - I thought she stole the show in that scene). But I found the Fenner/Bodybag comedy duo numbers quite awkward to watch. He was suitably sinister on his own but together they seemed quite panto.

I agree with earlier comments on the lack of microphones. I usually really like stripped back shows with no microphones because they give good singers a chance to really show off on a level playing field. But equally they can show up weaker singers and I thought a couple of people were quite badly drowned out by the band/other singers.

On balance though I thought it was a good show and I'm glad I saw it.