& Juliet - Opera House MCR / Shaftesbury / U.K.Tour

Does Miriam have a scheduled day off each week? It says that Grace does the role “at certain performances”…do we know which those are?

I loved this and needed an excuse to go back. Met a friend I haven’t seen in a while tonight who said she wanted to go to the theatre but it has to be a show that isn’t sung through as she couldn’t concentrate at the songs in Les Mis. This seemed perfect, so I’ve booked us for the front row! (She didn’t want a far away seat!)
I’m not sure I explained the concept very well though but she is excited

Are these now box office only? When I went online last week I did see them as Mark pointed out (decent seats too!).

Now the website says "Day Seats for & Juliet are now available from the Box Office in Person! A limited number of seats, which will vary for every show, will be made available for each performance at Noon on the day of the show."

Bit of a shame, it seemed like a nice system doing it online!

Ah thank you! Great, strange the Shaftbury site isn't showing that any more

I can take that title from you as I only saw it tonight!

Afraid this didn't do it for me at all, I found the humour banal and the whole show seemed to be trying far too hard to explain what it was very obviously trying to do.

Cassidy Janson is hilarious and a great singer, as is Alex Thomas-Smith, and Miriam-Teak Lee has her moments, but between them they can't save it from being excruciatingly unfunny for the most part (especially Shakespeare and Lance, and the Backstreet Boys number was possibly the worst thing I have ever seen on a stage) and even more over-acted and over-produced than Spamalot.

Some of the choreography was extremely messy and the sound balance wasn't great (for the most part it was just all far too loud). Some of the songs were cleverly used, but most just felt shoehorned in around desperate dialogue that was only funny because of how bad it was. A few puns worked, most just felt like they were trying to use a sledgehammer to make their point even though it was always the bloomin obvious.

And I hate shows that basically force a standing ovation. All just trying far too hard, and it left me entirely perplexed as to how this has run so long. Awful audience too.


One star mostly for Cassidy Janson and the other for the fact they brought the musicians on for their own bow, which was a lovely touch. But other than that, Six is far superior to this in every single way.

Is there still no news of Grace’s dates as Juliet? Did she have regular scheduled shows pre-Covid. or just covered Miriam’s sickness and holidays? Was so long ago I can’t remember now!

So just as I'm about to go to London and was planning on getting the day tickets through the website, they stop it. Bloody marvelous.

I saw this again tonight. I knew I wanted it to be one of my first shows back in London because I remember having so much fun the first time and leaving on such a high.

I loved it again. Unfortunately Cassidy was off tonight and when I heard that, im not going to lie and say I wasn't disappointed because she was the highlight for me first time but the understudy was fantastic, the only thing I thought was her comedy didnt quite hit as much because she does look younger and the character being older is what makes some of the characters comedy funny and land and Cassidy played that so well, but Kirstie was really fab and had a great voice with her big solo getting the best audience reaction of the night. All the other leads were on and I enjoyed them all again, I saw Melanie for the first time a we had the cover on first time round and she was hilarious and again her age made the role funnier than first time when we had a younger actress. Miriam sounded in much finer voice than I remembered from the first time so i conclude she was maybe under the weather a bit back then. I love Tim very much.

It's just so fun. Yes some of the songs are shoehorned in, but that's part of the joke, it's knowing. It's supposed to make people laugh or groan. Same with some of the story not making full sense, they are knowing about it and reference that themselves. For me it's so clever.

I'm tempted to say 5 stars but I'll say 4 stars.


This concludes my first London theatre break since lockdown, I've had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the two shows I've seen. Very happy to be back. There is nothing like it.

Thanks for flagging this!

Loads of £15 for every performance it seems, especially in November. Plenty of Grand Circle seats that get good reviews on seatplan.com.

Total opposite for me I'm afraid. Saw this with no great expectations just on word-of-mouth from this forum and enjoyed it a lot overall. Wouldn't go back though, as the story is too weak and the pop songs too meaningless to really enjoy it repeatedly. Only if I would go back with people, who hadn`t seen it yet and I know could enjoy it.

Trouble there tonight


Sickening
According to some reports the people were asked to leave
Anyone there?

I sat there and loved it. I think it may have used to have been where the day seats were? You do miss the floor but it is fab being close for this show I feel.