Ghost The Musical - U.K. Tour 2024/5

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Completely different set, 'orange sofa' is a orange piece of padding on top of bed frame, everything is on wheels.
There's a lot more dialogue before Here Right Now, some that used to be after, some new. Here Right Now is way cut down. Pottery wheel comes out during original Unchained Melody staging, Molly pokes a piece of clay while Sam sings UM without guitar. They start the 'sex' scene then stop while Sam wheels the pottery wheel off stage, he takes her top off and they wander off stage (it's as unsexy as it sounds!)

More etc all fairly unchanged, still a full size ensemble (I thought it was meant to be cut back).

Lead up to Three Little Words matches most of the staging throughout this production, there's no different sets so they just wander round the stage. Body swap of 'dead' Sam and ghost is fully lit, slow and very obvious - as are all later ones. These are the only 'illusions' kept, but whoever is directing has no idea how to do them.

Still the new song, but back to the Broadway version of just the main hospital ghost singing it, rather than the UK tour version. Girl in background dies on hospital bed, wearing white, fully lit, clambers awkwardly off the bed while you watch, before they pull a sheet over several seconds later to look like body is still there.

Door has a sliding panel, which is (loudly) slid back for him to 'slip' through.
I can't Breathe is back.

Whole Oda Mae section basically unchanged, she actually gets a table.

With You, she wanders on holding the shirts, stands holding them and doesn't actually write the letter (but it's still read out later).

Whole Suspend/I Had A Life section mostly unchanged, staging fairly similar.

Rain/Hold On - Lots of small lyric changes, although I don't know if those are all actually changes because Sarah forgot her words in this one a lot, missed whole end section basically. Choreography is awful! There's a big gap where the song used to end, then Sam continues singing an extended Hold On, people around me giggled (it's not great).

Pottery wheel comes out again, doesn't even get turned on, Molly sings UM, no loving heartfelt moment, he just stands there.

Carl scene unchanged from tour version, director didn't tell Sarah she's meant to be sad about the shirts so she was already stood at Carl's side with it when he indicated to them.

Subway Ghost scene unchanged, a newspaper floats about an inch off a bench at one point.

Talkin' Bout a Miracle is gone. Oda Mae scene only has the one client and ghost, he still 'enters' her body, but without any other cast members to hide behind, he just kneels in full view behind her. Willie's gun 'floats' between his hands, then he kneels in the middle of the stage to get hit by a 'car'.

Nothing Stops Another day is faster, Sarah doesn't know the lyrics so don't know if they changed.

Bank scene/I'm Outta Here unchanged, but still no set. Ensemble change clothes on stage for some reason.

Final scene is very badly directed. Body swap doesn't happen, she starts dancing with Molly then hands her to Sam and wanders over and stands facing a wall. I can't remember if they actually sang here, because I was too distracted by the awkwardness. Carl forgot to shoot the door before opening it, pushed it open, then closed it again and shot it (cue much laughter). His 'death' is very poorly done. He falls sort of behind the 'sofa', which has a plank of wood attached to the back meant to hide him. As he gets up fully seen, Molly is distraught about the dead floor.

Everything from here was met by a lot of quiet giggling around me, not sad or loving in anyway. Star cloth with bright light appears and Sam walks up a ramp into a space ship(?). The end.