White Christmas - Curve/Dominion/Tour

How closely does the stage version follow the film? While that casting looks brilliant and is tempting me to book, Mac seems a little young to be playing Bob...

This looks like a great cast but I'm not sure I'll be able to go. The first Saturday matinee is all but sold out, I can't book later in December because we may be going away and of the two Saturday matinees in January one is audio described & one is a relaxed performance. The Sunday trains to Leicester from where I am look appalling so that knocks out the Sunday matinees. Frustrating.

It's only an "audio described performance" if you wear the earphones! For everyone else it's a regular show.

They don't have someone at the side of the stage shouting "And now she's singing".

It's not the same production. Other than Nikolai directing it has a totally different creative team and set of producers (and a bigger budget).  I mean given that it's the same director i'm guessing it's going to be similar in that sense but it's not just going to be a like for like.

Oh right, fair enough then.  But as i say, keep an eye out on the dates you could go. I'd say it's very rare that a performance completely sells out and never has any more tickets available.

This is a totally charning and very traditionally styled show.

Popped along to the matinee today, getting a last minute ticket in side mid-Stalls. Great view due to the rake and the way the seats are staggered. Believe it was also the final preview, although you largely would have no idea it was a preview.

This seemed to be mother daughter day based on the audience around me (largely with the daughters looking after their older mothers). Definitely a more senior audience than most shows, but one of the better behaved ones (although there was lady near me, I guess in her 80s, who was a wheelchair user and kept checking her phone).

Anyway the show. Great leads, especially Danny Mac, who gets most of the memorable songs. Lots of applause after Sisters. A lovely version of Count Your Blessings. And a full tap number for I Love A Piano (although being spoiled by 42nd Street, I did notice that the feet taps didn’t closely match the tap soundtrack).

The cast is more diverse than you’d expect from America in the 1940s and 1950s, but that’s how theatre is produced now.

The young girl playing Susan was good, but had a few stumbles. In fairness, it may well have been her first time on (as the role is shared).

The plot is quite slight, but the production is excellent and this is one you attend mainly for the spectacle and music.

The only production I have to compare this against is the London one a few years ago. This is way better.

If you are thinking of attending, the theatre is a few minutes easy walk from Leicester station. Running time is 2 hours 30 minutes, with a 25 minute interval.

And there’s a singalong at the end, as well as snow (the front few rows of the Stalls get covered)!

If you enjoy traditional shows, like the style of music (and don’t think too much about how politically correct all the lyrics are), you’ll love this. A top production in an excellent regional theatre. Just a shame this can only be produced at certain times of the year, so can’t tour.

I can 100% guarantee you there is no ‘tap track’ they are tapping along too FYI.

From the third row yesterday I could see mics taped to the back of Emma Williams’ calves to her ankles.

I think you mean Monique Young who plays Judy. Emma is playing Betty and isn’t in that number.

Whoops, silly me. I blame my foggy memory (and inability to recognise which character is which - I thought the four leads’ roles were very two-dimensional and difficult to distinguish personality-wise).

Lovely set of reviews this is getting.

Yes, I too saw this show at the Dominion and it was so boring I simply cannot remember a thing about it other than coming out and thinking - that was a terrible musical!