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Post by matthew90 on Oct 19, 2024 21:22:10 GMT
Saw it this evening in the 1st preview after yesterday's cancellation. It is incredibly emotional and throws a lot at you. Some really heartfelt songs and the leads are great. Definitely worth going to see and supporting a new musical.
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Post by iwanttix on Oct 19, 2024 22:15:34 GMT
I was there tonight too. I'd be interested in seeing it a bit further into the run.
A couple of really good songs, some funny bits, lots of sad. As someone who lost both my parents relatively recently, I was expecting to be a total mess. I did cry a couple of times but nowhere near what I feared.
It's good to see new musicals appearing and it was nice to go to a venue I've never been to before.
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Post by usbuzzer on Oct 20, 2024 13:05:01 GMT
Has anybody ever exchanged the ticket at Southwark for a different date? I bough it from my Pay-as-you-go subscription, online. I'm wondering if the plans change, how easy/quick is the actual exchange. They say in the T&C that it costs 2 GBP per ticket, but there's not much more and I'm not sure if it applies to tickets bought online and within PAYG sub. Thanks!
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Post by flouise on Oct 20, 2024 14:54:14 GMT
I exchanged once, I don't use the subscription service but it took a couple of minutes on the phone and I paid the £2 fee to change them. It was a very straight forward experience.
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Post by daniel on Oct 20, 2024 21:45:23 GMT
Has anybody ever exchanged the ticket at Southwark for a different date? I bough it from my Pay-as-you-go subscription, online. I'm wondering if the plans change, how easy/quick is the actual exchange. They say in the T&C that it costs 2 GBP per ticket, but there's not much more and I'm not sure if it applies to tickets bought online and within PAYG sub. Thanks! they will charge £2 and then return the PAYG ticket back to your account. Super easy over the phone, or email them, they will reserve it and ask you to call up and pay. |
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Post by theatre22 on Oct 21, 2024 11:26:53 GMT
Oh no, have you rescheduled? I’m going on the 2nd November. Looking forward to it. Unfortunately not yet. I booked with Today Tix and ticket prices are more expensive there now. It was also frustrating that they only let me know at 12pm on the day of the show but the theatre told me they had emailed everyone the night before. |
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Post by Mark on Oct 22, 2024 18:41:28 GMT
I didn’t really rate this unfortunately. Some good numbers but I found overall it didn’t come together, a very unlikable father character and other character relationships under-developed. One ensemble number in act two was particularly bad.
Keala was very good, if underused, and leading lady Robyn Rose-Li was excellent.
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Post by matttom0901 on Oct 22, 2024 21:01:22 GMT
I didn’t really rate this unfortunately. Some good numbers but I found overall it didn’t come together, a very unlikable father character and other character relationships under-developed. One ensemble number in act two was particularly bad. Keala was very good, if underused, and leading lady Robyn Rose-Li was excellent. Word for word you’ve written how I felt about it! |
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Post by theatrelover123 on Oct 22, 2024 22:17:14 GMT
Words fail
Absolutely. Dreadful
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Post by PineappleForYou on Oct 24, 2024 9:39:00 GMT
I've only found one review so far for this and that was Broadway World who have given it 5* which is leaving me quite confused after reading this thread 😂
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Post by OnTheMarquee on Oct 24, 2024 10:14:40 GMT
Couldn’t disagree more with it being dreadful I managed to see the second preview and it was so heartwarming and whilst it was emotionalthe vocals were insane.
Glad I got to see this show at the start of its journey, think people forget that shows in these spaces are not finished and go to venues like this to try things out and see what works and what doesn't
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Post by Being Alive on Oct 24, 2024 11:08:51 GMT
Couldn’t disagree more with it being dreadful I managed to see the second preview and it was so heartwarming and whilst it was emotionalthe vocals were insane. Glad I got to see this show at the start of its journey, think people forget that shows in these spaces are not finished and go to venues like this to try things out and see what works and what doesn't If it's not finished it should be listed as a work in progress and tickets shouldn't be £45 top price... |
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Post by stevej678 on Oct 24, 2024 12:38:40 GMT
Couldn’t disagree more with it being dreadful I managed to see the second preview and it was so heartwarming and whilst it was emotionalthe vocals were insane. Glad I got to see this show at the start of its journey, think people forget that shows in these spaces are not finished and go to venues like this to try things out and see what works and what doesn't If it's not finished it should be listed as a work in progress and tickets shouldn't be £45 top price... Not to mention denying pay as you go members access to the best block of seats. |
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Post by OnTheMarquee on Oct 24, 2024 13:05:22 GMT
Couldn’t disagree more with it being dreadful I managed to see the second preview and it was so heartwarming and whilst it was emotionalthe vocals were insane. Glad I got to see this show at the start of its journey, think people forget that shows in these spaces are not finished and go to venues like this to try things out and see what works and what doesn't If it's not finished it should be listed as a work in progress and tickets shouldn't be £45 top price... Is that not what a tryout is? |
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Post by Mark on Oct 24, 2024 13:11:22 GMT
Nowhere is anywhere saying this is a tryout though? For many shows the productions at Southwark Elephant are the only production, or an enhanced production from a previous one (see Police Cops/Cable Street).
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Post by Being Alive on Oct 24, 2024 13:48:31 GMT
If it's not finished it should be listed as a work in progress and tickets shouldn't be £45 top price... Is that not what a tryout is? Nowhere does it say this is a tryout - if it is it should explicitly say so and be priced accordingly. |
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Post by stevej678 on Oct 24, 2024 14:17:41 GMT
Two stars from WhatsOnStage and The Stage. Three from The Guardian.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Oct 24, 2024 22:19:28 GMT
Words fail Absolutely. Dreadful The reviews agreed with me, in the main. |
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Post by badlydrawnhamster on Oct 26, 2024 3:15:49 GMT
I went in to this blind without knowing a single thing about it, and was then quite surprised by how much it mirrored my own life as I was 17 (and an aspiring writer) when my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he only lived a short time until the disease took his life, and afterwards I thought I was coping until I wasn't.
I do think this is a very messy, mixed affair, the upbeat opening feels ridiculously simplistic, and the broad comedy of the writer's camp was odd. But when it dealt with the difficulties of having to cope watching a parent slowly die I thought it got an awful lot right, and captured the conflicting emotions and responses someone might have.
I feel it does need a fair amount of work (Malia's writing and the personification of the two birds is really dodgy, while her school friends are two dimension at best, and often just one dimensional), but there are scenes which are powerful, and about fifty percent of the songs are at the very least quite sweet and affecting. So I'd fall in with the three star reviews, I'm not sure I'd recommend it, but I'm glad I've seen it even if right now it is a flawed beast.
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