Burlesque The Musical - Manchester / Glasgow / Manchester

Maybe if she was actually going to be *in it* I’d pop along out of curiosity, being unfamiliar with the film but familiar with her from growing up during her initial pop songs.

But otherwise I really don’t like this fad of plastering “star” names all over posters and promo copy when they are producing etc. It seems disingenuous at best.

Showgirls ☑️
Burlesque ❎

Take it to New York, get Cher to do a few weeks (or whatever’s necessary) and get her the T in her EGOT.

What ‘bangers’ were included in ‘Burlesque’? I seem to remember a stream of mid-tempo dirges & one lovely ballad punctuated by 1 ‘actual banger’? Perhaps if they threw some later disco Cher in there it might lift the pace to more of a trot than a steady walk?

It's only a matter of time before we have Nuns on the Run the Musical surely.

Still sitting on the fence about booking this

Showgirls or show everything was a gloriously bad film. If that was a musical where could they put the mic pack  although they managed that with Mrs Henderson Presents apparently. 

Hair's nudity is done at the act of end one and in semi shadows from what I recall. There wouldn't have been head mics when that began either. 

30 minutes queue with 3000 people in front of me on ATG presale. Seems it's more popular than we imagined.

Decent pricing? Top standard prices are £70 weekdays and £75 weekends (including Fridays) for the majority of the stalls and circle, with no discounts for ATG+ members. 

Well of course, I received no email from ATG explaining when discounts were available. I checked three dates, all of which had no discounts, including the first performance which is when they're usually offered. That's ATG for you.

£65 for Row K back for a musical that's essentially trying out in Manchester for a couple of weeks is a rip-off in my book. £75 further forward the same. Are we really judging an expensively priced, immersive production of Starlight Express in London as the benchmark for value-for-money for a new musical in Manchester that could be awful?

It seems almost everything at the Palace or Opera House is priced extortionately nowadays, certainly compared to non-ATG competitors like The Lowry. Throw in the bad audience behaviour at the ATG venues and you really start to question if it's worth paying their rip-off prices. 

50% off for ATG members for opening night and a top price of say £50 would have been much more like it.