The Distance You Have Come - Cockpit Theatre

Andy Coxon at the Cockpit? That's way too easy no?

And DJW too? I'll hunt out the baby oil.

Oooh lovely, there's a gala night tonight! For £45 you get the show, a programme, some prosecco AND a Q&A hosted by Mark Shenton. God help the Cockpit if they aren't paying everyone minimum wage. He'll go apoplectic!

I decided to go to this last night and really enjoyed it.
Lovely songs - new arrangements of existing Scott Alan songs, sometimes two sung in combination - in a fairly loose song cycle.
The piece is staged, with a simple set, and performed in the round. Some of the time you are inevitably looking at a performer’s back for a while, but on the whole they moved about! It’s unreserved seating here, but good sightlines so I don’t think it matters where you sit.
Gorgeous, perfect cast of six, all of whom it was a real treat to see up close.
Ran to about 9:20, with interval.
There was a Q&A afterwards last night, but I didn’t stay for that.

I think Ryan would have been disappointed at the so-called Gala, not very glam at all, although the composer was there and mingling in the bar. However, JDW is down to his boxers for a while. AC goes no further than baggy shorts.

A lovely evening of beautifully performed material.
Oh - and there was a pug in the audience!

Well. Who knew Dean John-Wilson could act? I was momentarily distracted by some boxer shorts action (that man knows his audience) but he was actually rather touching. And nice to hear him singing in his own accent which I think is Northern of some description.

The rest of the cast are very good too. Andy Coxon has a very easy charm and the two gayers (him and Adrian Hansel) couldn't stop kissing. I almost told them to get a room. BUT it was really nice to see a normal happy gay couple without any tragedy or people hiding who they are. There's a bit of lesbian action to balance things out too. Jodie Jacobs was very funny too, rocking a headscarf like a 1950s char lady. For a moment I also run thought Lisa Scott-Lee had turned up but it turns out that it was really Emma Hatton. She didn't sing '5, 6, 7, 8' sadly.

I thought some of the songs sounded a bit samey but there's a lovely set, simple with a nice tree, a bench and a swing allowing Alexia Khadime et al to hang about like Joan Collins in 'The Stud'.

Those pecs are still a thing of wonder though.

I had to read this twice to understand what a generational voice is. 

I saw this today, it was really cute. None of the songs sticked to my head afterwards but I enjoyed them all mainly because the cast was great. It's a shame it went kind of unnoticed.