Dreamgirls - Savoy / UK Tour

Now this is the photo we have been waiting for since day one! 😂😂

Is it different lighting? I don't remember it being so gold?

Just saw this tonight, it was AMAZING!!! Was crying by the interval and also crying at the end. Well deserved standing ovation by everyone. Oh how I hated Curtis, he was every guy who has ever wronged a girl. Such wonderful voices and performances. So happy I got a chance to see it. Loved it!

Thank God Cynthia Erivo doesn't read this message board or she would have you for dinner.

All the new production pictures are up!!

Not sure if its just me, but there seems to be 2 missing photos on the site.

Actually I was wrong. Turns out I only paid £15 for the Cyber Monday offer. Deal of the year! 😀 It was just such an excellent show and I highly recommend it.

So, now I finally have my laptop back, I can risk posting a moderate version of my views, and having been forced to wait a week to do so may have lent them some perspective, though I really don't think they've changed.

Overall I found this very disappointing, though I couldn't fault the committed performances; some (some!) of the costumes were lovely and the story, hackneyed as it is, does eventually engage.

The music however was a tremendous let-down as there wasn't one pleasant or memorable melody so absolutely no chance that I would even emerge singing a refrain, let alone that I would still be doing so days later, as has been the case with some other "new" shows I've seen.

Some of the numbers, particularly the early ones, were positively unpleasant to my ear and I couldn't wait for them to end, but I get that that was the point, plot-wise, i.e. that managers wanted to change or tone down the characters' musical style in order to appeal to white audiences. Even afterwards, however, I genuinely didn't actually like anything I heard.

As for the singing style, it seems to be the fashion now for lines/phrases to be drawn out to lengths I find ridiculous, with endless trilling and warbling, which to my ear both distorts the song and prolongs the agony. Not only that but one cast member in particular (I won't identify her as I've probably already said enough to call down on my head the collective wrath of this show's many fans) also seemed to have an irritating habit of going loud and soft all the time, as though someone were turning her volume dial up and down.

To sum up, I am glad to have seen the show at last and was happy with the price I paid as a result of waiting, but it fell way short of my expectations and I honestly don't understand how anyone could sit through it more than once.

I feel like Karen holds some notes a bit too long. Also didn't really hear any emotion in what should be a very emotional song.

Most definitely. I'd still be glad to see Karen live. I can only comment on the audio but I'd always reserve full judgement until I've seen a live performance.

I wonder who will be Effie tomorrow!? Maybe Moya & Marisha, or Marisha both as she has done both shows alot before and it would still mean she got 5 shows this week