Everybody's Talking About Jamie - Sheffield Crucible/Apollo

Had to delve deep onto the second page to find this thread. How things change!

Anyway, it's Haley and Shane's last day today and this is just the cutest thing;

Luke Latchman. Don't think has anyone has reviewed him yet, although I'm hoping to see him now we know when he's on.

He was good in Spring Awakening.

He's scheduled to be on when I visit in a few days, but I'm secretly hoping something happens (nothing bad, of course) and Luke goes on.

I adored Layton in Rent but I'm finding him annoying lately... I mean, if he's on I have absolutely no problem in seeing him perform! But I do love an unknown understudy!

So, did anyone go last night? Any report on Bianca?

I was there last night! There was a lot of applause and cheers when Hugo is first revealed, but when she came out as Loco Chanel she brought the house down! Yes, she keeps her real accent and there's a bit of added dialogue explaining that. I heard someone near me say "why couldn't they have done that for Michelle" haha. I thought she was great, especially for a first performance. Bianca doesn't have the strongest singing voice but I felt like she more than makes up for it in stage presence and humour. I thought Faye did really well as Miss Hedge too, you wouldn't have known it was her first performance. The new cast members I haven't seen yet also were great. I'd only seen Luke Bayer as Jamie before but I really liked Layton.

The most annoying thing, and this should go in the Bad Behaviour thread, was the amount of people using the scene changes/stage black-out to check their phones. So many people were doing it, it's like they forgot the show was still running and the 10 second break to change the scene doesn't happen to be your opportunity to check WhatsApp!

They’re casting for the film at the moment

Bianca is incredible. Not the greatest singer, but she's commanding that stage.

Faye is not so good.. And she f*cked up at the beginning of Work Of Art.

And Layton. Stop. Riffing.

I think it's sort of written that Jamie can do lots of riffs in his songs - both John and Layton do plenty (if anything, I think John did more than Layton).

Btw, there was a sign at the stage door, "the cast won't be signing today". Maybe they were having an after-show party, idk. Cause it's weird all of them decided not to sign.

But I'm always prepared and had one with me! 😜