I Should Be So Lucky - U.K. Tour

I felt like offering them all jobs in my gaff, so that they never have to do that again. So many incredibly talented people 😶 Someone clearly has very deep pockets.

I caught a few moments of the CIN performance by chance and wished I hadn’t! I’m booked to see this in Southampton at the end of January but crikey… I hope they’ve had some singing lessons by then!

It was like nails down a blackboard at one point. Here’s hoping it was just down to bad acoustics for TV and ‘it sounded fine in the studio’.

I don’t think they shone (as has been mentioned a lot of talent in the cast) but must have been hard squeezing this in around previews and press night then squeezing in 2 presenters in a show nobody knows. It hasn’t put me off going and luckily doesn’t seem to have put off my mum either!

It was painful to watch, I was never an SAW fan but there is a retro market for that era before you consider Kylie's longevity and Rick Astley's renaissance in recent years. It's probably never going to be a West End show but has potential to be a good touring production in a lot of the big town and city theatres.

I've heard about this incident today, saw an awful tweet from an audience member who was furious that the show was cancelled 20 mins after it started. Wishing the cast member(s) involved a speedy recovery x

It never actually started. We sat waiting and then the announcement was made. I honestly don’t get people sometimes; yes, I can understand disappointment but surely people realise that sometimes things cannot be helped.

The megamix on CIN was horrendous, looked like a really bad local show.

Pete Waterman just talking about the show on Radio 2 and said that this was the ninth attempt they had at making a musical but the first time it had worked. Would hate to hear what the other eight attempts were like!

I have seen I Should Be So Lucky and I loved hearing the SAW songs on stage, the show was great fun and the cast gave 100%. So from a personal enjoyment perspective I'd give it five stars. However as a piece of musical theatre, even as a jukebox musical, I don't think anyone could claim it to be a work of art and the storyline was frankly absurd. Viewed objectively it's only two stars from me. I will definitely be it seeing again.

There's another musical which I won't name that I found rather dull and depressing and haven't booked for a revisit at its future venue. I would nevertheless rate it the reverse to ISBSL - five stars as musical theatre of the highest standard but two stars for entertaining me.

So is the star rating first and foremost for our subjective or objective view about a particular show ?

I've only seen the first half so far and am genuinely insulted that this is considered good enough to go in front of the paying public. Absolutely dire. Shows like this do musical theatre a huge disservice.