Why Am I So Single? - Garrick

I'm here too - a very mixed bag. Some brilliant moments - 8 Dates is a really good song helped by slick staging. The leads are strong too. But it's annoyingly knowing/meta, self-indulgent and it drags. And that Bee Song... What was that?

For a 'big fancy musical' there's not much of a set.

We'll see what Act 2 brings.

I was there at the matinee today as well. Great start with title song. Rhyming single with Pringles is cringeworthy but I thought it was rather sweet and salty. I enjoyed the second act more. Would I see it again? Maybe

You may have come up with a way of defining the current phase of Musicals gmoneyoutlaw :

The Popcorn Musical - one that's "sweet and salty".

It chimes with those social media gif memes of people settling in with a big tub of something to see favourite (or love-to-hate) people and situations they're invested in going at it.

Slightly off topic: how do the rights for singing I'd Do Anything work? It's only a short verse, but it's fully accompanied by the band. Do they have to get the rights from Cam Mack (and pay?!), or is it short enough that they get away with it? Or is it covered by a PRS licence?

I'm unfortunately unable to attend the show I had tickets to (or any for personal reasons); have one for Tuesday on the noticeboard if anyone was interested just for the record

I’d been holding off checking TheatreBoard so I could go into this show with an open mind.

However, immediately after leaving the theatre, I had to see if anyone had made a comment on the ‘bee’ number - turns out, you all have! What the hell was that?!

I’m slightly bewildered at how much I didn’t enjoy this show. I wasn’t expecting this to be Six by any means, but I’m feeling a sort of second-hand embarrassment for everyone involved (and the cast deserve SO much better)

The Cast: First off, the cast are sensational - triple threats the LOT of them. Jo and Leesa are stars and really carry the baggy weight of the show.

The Plot: Non-existent. Which isn’t a criticism by any means, but it does lead the show to feeling VERY long and repetitive.

The Music: Besides 1/2 numbers, I genuinely have forgotten them all after 24 hours. I wasn’t particularly wowed by any number; it was all a bit generic pop sounding.

Thoughts: This feels like a show that should belong at the Southwark Playhouse and could have been done-and-dusted in one act.

It’s obviously a very self-indulgent show (it’s practically a bio-musical without explicitly being a bio-musical) without much to say than BE YOU LOVE YOURSELF LOVE COMES IN DIFFERENT SHAPES SIZES which isn’t exactly giving audiences anything new.

I also found the meta nature of the show really overplayed and a little bit desperate at times when it was cloying for laughs by having the cast wink/point/make a face at the audience after every joke. We get it’s a joke, we don’t need to be told it’s a joke.

Also wtf is the furniture ensemble. It got old real quick and after the sixth appearance, the audience was mute. Without getting too deep into the furniture (I never thought I’d be writing about this when I booked a ticket!) I found it really inconsistent. Physical doors and walls framed the stage but then you would have an ensemble member walk out…as a wall? I never thought I’d have a complex about the legitimacy of walls.

In a nutshell, see it, make your own mind up, but don’t go in expecting the ‘big fancy musical’ it’s making itself out to be.

I saw the matinee of this yesterday and wasn’t impressed. Some fun ideas, great performances from the leads and one or two catchy songs. But that’s about it. There was more bad than good.

The worse part of Six was always the dialogue and having this show as a proper two act musical with way more dialogue is painful. I think this show would have been better had it kept the format of Six of mainly songs and no interval. I was shocked act 1 was only 1hr 15mins. It felt much longer.

I can’t see this lasting long. The one thing it does have in its favour is the pricing seems low and reasonable compared to other west end shows. That might get more people through the door.

I seldom do this, but we all left at the interval. One of the worst shows I have seen.

Been a while since something that looks bad on paper is actually bad, so I'm hyped for this!

The Bee song should be enough for a full refund.

I didn't think it was *that* bad - just could've been so much better!

Been thinking more about this, and despite the (at times tedious) exposition, I don't recall us ever finding out how/why our two protagonists have managed to land themselves a West End theatre to open their as-yet-unwritten musical. Obviously we know how Marlow and Moss have - but in this meta parallel universe of Oliver and Nancy, does their previous big hit exist?