ALW's Cinderella - Gillian Lynne / U.K. Tour (rumour)

There was no blow by blow account.  She said: that wasn't my best.  She separately also posted that there were other events leading up to it that threw her off track, but didn't list them, and deleted that follow up.  

Agree BurlyBear, I don't think anyone is taking it into personal territory. Carrie Hope Fletcher uses social media to widen her audience, but as we've seen in the past doesn't always get it right. I think she comes off badly in this case personally. Made me watch the performance which I wouldnt've otherwise (which was, as expected, a shambles).

If she really needed to comment, she should've just made a glib/self deprecating comment - we Brits love that - and move on. If I were her social media manager I'd have just told her to say something like; "Can't win them all! Not my best showing! 😂 Had fun at this wonderful event, so glad to be back. Cinderella is a magical show and joy to perform in every night. Come and see me at The Gillian Lynne Theatre, andrewlloydwebberscinderella.com #WEL #CINDERELLA"

But humans are humans and she has had an understandable emotional reaction. It's just not the first, is all I'm saying.

That west end live performance did nothing to convince me that this show is worth seeing. It was basically Carrie looking out of breath and uncomfortable moving around and being tied up and pulled around without resistance and not looking like she cared. I guess it makes more sense in the context of the show but it looked very amateurish to me. She didn’t sound as terrible as she made out though for most of it.

If that’s the case- she should say that the understudy should perform at these one off events.

I do find it odd. I don’t know of any other performer who would say that out loud. It’s kind of what they do- PERFORM for an audience.

I can undertand the sound/mic issues affecting the singing, but isnt the choreography inbedded already? Wouldnt she know where to stand and what move comes next automatically by now? I'm surprised that things like not being in the same theatre as usual could affect someone quite so much. Its like that naff old film trope of people being too nervous to sing front of others, so they turn all the lights off and suddenly, they sing!

The stage is a different size and shape, there isn't a revolve, the set isn't there and so it there will have to be changes to the choreography so it will be different but also really similar which I expect make it harder.

I assume it also won't have had any rehearsal in Trafalgar square.

It's a shame, I feel for her. She has already proven herself as a singer with her live performances in the theatre and on the cast recording. It's a shame she couldn't pull it off for this occasion. The worst thing is that she is horribly out of tune here, whereas usually her technique is spot on. She's not helped by an even slower tempo, so sluggish this time as to ruin the song completely, regardless of the performer. The choreography seems uneven too. Some of it looks clunky and artificial when seen close-up, while some of it is actually quite effective. I guess this style works better in a theatre setting or perhaps it's again the tempo that is the problem. 

I'm being entirely serious, what do you disagree with or think I've got wrong?

Balanced view. She was also nervous from the get-go, you can see it in her eyes. Didn't want to be there.

Why would that be any different to opening night in the theatre? Larger scale perhaps but no less nerve racking. Presumably it wouldn't have made any difference to her if the opening night had been filmed? 

Because you have weeks of rehearsals in a rehearsal room, then tech rehearsals in the space, and then dress runs to get everything to an acceptable standard and spot any massive issues. You don't get that with a West End Live performance, you just jump out the plane and hope you learn to fly on the way down.