Wonderland

So I really, really enjoyed this! I know I may be in the minority, but I had so much fun! Sure its not perfect, but its got a great score, the design is fabulous and the cast are fantastic!

I personally think Kerry was sensational, she killed the vocals and I really enjoyed her acting! She must of been having an off night though, as there was no hair tucking at all! Natalie really tore it out as Hatter, giving Kerry a run for her money! She played crazy really well also special mention to the Cheshire Cat who I thought was fantastic too. I loved the costumes, really clever in my opinion.

But yeah, it was a really fun and enjoyable night. And clearly the audience found it too. Upper Circle closed but the Stalls were full and most were standing at the end of the show. And the finale of Act I had applause going before it even ended! I can't wait to see it again in Richmond later in the year!

They tore the roof off that theatre tonight with that number, the only thing louder was the audience response afterward! 

Chesire Cat? Loved him. He was the only one of the Wonderland characters save for The Mad Hatter that i cared for at all. I thought he was really good.

Great handstand though!

Probably. I think Dom did a great job with what he was given. He was just given a dreadful character. I hated his new song

Natalie's understudy Francesca Lara Gordon is on tonight for The Mad Hatter! But I believe Natalie did the matinee and she sounded fantastic last night, so I assume she just got ill overnight or during the matinee.

Nice! How did you find the show? Did you enjoy it?

Well tonight was fun. I can't take this show seriously, because if I did I'd rip it to shreds (minus quite a lot of the score which I LOVE)

Francesca was pretty good as Hatter, although McQueen is one of the best performers I've seen in recent years so she didn't reach the level of 'madness' Nat does with it, but still good.

Kerry. Ah Kerry. I just love her. Always have, always will. Voice is fabulous, although she seemed to think everything was funny (which most of it was but there were bits I was like whaaaaa?) that said, Finding Wonderland was belted to within an inch of its life!!
God that hair tucking gets annoying doesn't it! Every minute and not exaggerating.
Stephen Webb was really pitchy I noticed until he sang One Knight then he was on a roll!

I just really enjoy this show. Can't help it. It's fluff. It's fun. And it's got a fantastic cast!

It's her birthday; she has probably overdone it on the cake icing!

Long time lurker, first time poster - so first off hi everyone!

I saw Wonderland today after falling in love with the cast recording 6 years ago and I left with mixed feelings. I knew they were working on the book but I actually missed some of the old concepts, like the Mad Hatter being an alter-ego of Alice's, as well as the little twist with Jack being the husband and them finding their love for each other again at the end of the show.

However, I did still find myself enjoying the show for what it now is - the music is possibly some of my favourite musical theatre work, with 'I Will Prevail' always standing out thanks to the original performance by Kate Shindle. I can safely say though for me Natalie McQueen stole the show, her vocals were incredible and I loved the crazy. But again, I felt like she had little character motivation without the original concept for the character being in place. With the danger she posed to Alice directly mostly gone (except for the saving the daughter) and her target instead being the Queen who we hadn't really warmed to as much as we had Alice, the stakes didn't feel as high as they should have been to really will Alice on to win and stop the Mad Hatter.

Saying that however, Kerry Ellis did a great job with the vocals; I've seen her in this, Wicked and Murder Ballad now and I can't really fault her performances. I'd love to see Rachael Wooding just to compare still. The rest of the cast did a great job, I didn't mind Jack's changes, although as soon as he said in the real world that he wanted to be a singer, I understood how this new 'through the looking glass' concept was being done. Wendi Peters was brilliant with the time she had on stage with the Queen of Hearts. It's a fun, fluffy, quite cheesy show yes, but for some reason I can't help looking for other tour dates that are close enough for me to go to.

Also just have to echo the previously mentioned bad behaviour though from this afternoon's matinee, considering how long I had waited for this show, it really did prove difficult at points to concentrate on thanks to the amount of talking, fidgeting and popcorn-eating going on around me.

If you are wanting to see Rachael and are near London, she is doing the Richmond run of the tour in August, it is actually her final performances on the tour, with Kerry closing up the tour the week after in Bournemouth! That is when I am planning on returning, in Richmond.

Matinees. She only does evenings from now on. Manchester and Wimbledon were slightly different.