Evita

It was this production that went back into the WE at the end of the last tour wasn't it? With Pellow and Madalena Alberto. It got a very lukewarm reception if I remember correctly.

I was watching a clip of Patti on Broadway and Peron was hamming up the accent summat rotten. Every "r" was rrrrrrrrrrrrrolled to the max. Very odd!

I must say, I'm not too big a fan of Patti's Evita vocally. She seems to play it like an absolute pshyco, which I know Patti does alot, but I much preferred the way Emma performed the role than Patti seemed too.

And before people hate, love Patti!

I loved Another Suitcase, I thought it was beautifully done and beautifully sung- and really emotional as well.

I'm booked for this at Dartford in May - all the comments here are wishing it'd come sooner!

Good grief that video of Patti is a bit OTT!
I much preferred Emma's interpretation. And I'd have to agree that this tour is better than the London revival from 2007. I was very disappointed with that.

Saw this last night purely to see Emma as she was my first Elphaba and unlike most I really loved her and saw her three times. Just before curtain up we got an announcement saying Emma wasn't on which was obviously hugely disappointing but c'est la vie. Natalie Langston, the understudy for Eva was absolutely fantastic and had an amazing voice, probably as good as Emma's to be honest! In terms of the show it wasn't really for me. I prefer shows like Hairspray and Dreamgirls where it's lively and there's so much going on at once so I was a bit bored at points, I don't really think it's aimed at teenagers anyway. The show was an amazing production though with brilliant performances from all the leads and the music was very beautiful and perhaps I would have enjoyed the show more if I'd listened to the soundtrack, sorry, cast recording, before and got familiar with it. The story though I thought wasn't really there. Act I especially seemed to fly by without much at all happening. So to sum up, I think it's a fantastic show with great music but it maybe just wasn't for me and the night was a bit stained by Emma not being there, though I hope she's ok.

I think I will give it another go if it comes somewhere near, I saw online that there are more tour dates to be announced, hoping for Swansea or Malvern. I'll give the cast recording a listen now, see if the show grows on me once I'm more familiar with the music. Hopefully next time I can catch Emma but I needn't worry if not, everyone's in safe hands with Natalie!

So big stressful week in Sunderland, Emma did a sound check on Tuesday but then felt sick straight after so she went home, Natalie Langston did Tuesday-Thursday (5 shows) and last night Natalie had to call out last minute due to a throat infection which I'm gathering Emma must have too, so the show started around 15-20 minutes late and Kellie Gnauck made her Eva debut! I doubt Emma & Natalie will be on today due to illness so Kellie Gnauck will most likely be on for Eva at both shows today! The tour goes to Germany next week so let's hope everyone is well again!

Natalie was saying a throat infection seems to be going round which is what Natalie currently has, so I presume that's what Emma has too

Yeah that's the main posters they use, there are a few Emma & Gian ones and they're on the programmes but that's it 

Just out of curiosity where in Germany is this going?

So funnily enough, audio of Emma's understudy from her performances in Sunderland have gone on YouTube. How ironic, I wonder if it is from the same performance our fellow members attended?