There Is Nothin’ Like A Dame - Cadogen Hall 30/8

It’s probably just me but....

Well. It was more like 'There Is Nothing Like Acrylic' featuring some of the most dreadful frocks I've seen in a long time. Although it was worth it to see Rachel Tucker dressed up like a Quality Street in the second half.

I preferred the first half song selection although Louise Dearman (who was clearly the star of the show) was criminally underused for it. She had more to do in the second half and still managed to blow the rest away (although I thought she struggled with some of the more modern song choices). She'd make a fabulous Nellie in 'South Pacific' or Reno Sweeney in 'Anything Goes' though.

The second half song choices were more dull and predictable but the crowd seemed to love that half more, getting on their feet at the end of each song. Possibly because Ria Jones' vibrato rumbled through the hall so violently that people possibly thought there was a bit of an earthquake going on and they might have needed to make a swift exit.