Aspects of Love - Hope Mill MCR / Southwark Playhouse

Do we know why it's cancelled tonight? I'm booked for the matinee tomorrow... 🤔

Ooh ok. Thank you. Yeah it must be a nightmare for performers and producers. I'll keep my ears open tomorrow morning to see if it's going ahead 😀

It was just after 3pm today.

Show is going ahead today with Jessie May replacing Madalena Alberto

Two big songs, couple of duets and few bits in between. A significant but not lead role I would say. She's great, but it's worth going just to see Kelly Price who is phenomenal. 

I hope Madalena Alberto has recovered by Tuesday. While I usually don't mind seeing understudies, I've only booked this show in order to see her & Kelly Price.

Fortunately today's matinee happened & with the full cast so Madalena Alberto has evidently recovered, which I was very pleased about as she & Kelly Price were the people I wanted to see. My seat was pretty good - just a few times when I wished I hadn't been looking at the back of Kelly Price's head - so no need for BurlyBeaR to do anything to @theatremonkey! My opinion of the show overall was the same as when I saw it on tour about 10 years ago: lovely music, pity about the characters! I liked the production, though the amount of furniture re-arranging done by the ensemble did seem a little excessive at times. I thought Kelly Price gave the best performance, really excellent, followed by Madalena Alberto. Jerome Pradon was mostly good but had some odd ennunciation at times. Felix Mosse was more convincing as a 17-19 year old than a 30+ year old & his singing sounded slightly off-key at times.

Saw this on Monday evening. Full cast.

The show was just as good as I remember from Hope Mill. Most of the same cast too. The stage layout is slightly different (it seemed bigger), which worked well.

Unusually, they have the props laid out on a table for you to look at where you queue to enter the theatre. That is very trusting as some of the small items could easily go missing, although I guess this also says something about the typical clientele who attend the Southwark Playhouse.

The table seats (where I was sat) were mostly full. The remainder was about half full, clustered mostly in the seats with the front view.

I was quite happy with my central table seat and its excellent view, but it isn't the most comfortable and as a single theatre goer, you do end up close to the people either side. The seating map when I booked was rather deceptive as I thought I was in an end seat, but turned out to be in the middle of four, not that it really mattered.

It is obviously one of those shows people have mixed views about. The couple sat one side of me didn't return after the interval and I noticed a few more empty seats.

The standout is easily Kelly Price, but Felix Mosse to me is perfect in role of Alex, so sweet that you can't help falling in love even when his singing is occasionally off-pitch. I much prefer the music in the first half of the show. The second half plot and character development is more difficult, but there wouldn't be much of a complete show without it.

Booked to go back before it closes thanks to the great value of Southwark's Pay-As-You-Go subscription, where it only works out at £12 a visit. Although I'll be sat in the side tier, so will get to experience the show from a different perspective.

Looks like an updated promo video
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“Love will never never Het you be the same” ?!?!