The Last Five Years: Southwark Playhouse

I haven’t had it for a few years now, but if it still works the same as it used to, you select a seat and just go through the process until it asks you to log in to your account. After you’ve logged in, it allows you to apply the subscription to the ticket. I hope that makes sense.

The show was cancelled tonight, due to illness I gather

I presume there are no understudies.
Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

pfft! No email yet ..

My e mail only just arrived too. Already in town for the showbusiness London Eye ride which is running an hour late so maybe a blessing as might not have made it.

Gutted for anyone booked today & hope you can replan & see another performance

There are seats on three sides of the stage, and the set includes a turntable. I would say that from any seat you’ll probably miss something, but that’s always the way when a show is staged more or less in the round. There aren’t any locations I’d avoid.

My top tip in this layout is either the front row, or the aisle seats in the middle, on any of the blocks - as the rows get wider as they go up, the last couple of seats in each row has nothing in front of them.

Both today's performances cancelled due to "recurring cast illness"

How do the leading ladies in Southwark Playhouse musicals always manage to get sick when I plan to see the show? Oh well, the replacement in Preludes was fantastic last time this happened (and she hadn't even had much time to prepare at all) so I'm sure it'll be the case again (and honestly from the clips I wasn't a huge fan of Molly Lynch, though I'm sure she would have been better in person).

I really enjoyed the last Jason Robert Brown musical I saw - The Bridges of Maddison County at MCF, of which a number were highly critical - but I didn't enjoy this.

It's not really a musical, more a song-cycle, which is fine but for the fact that I found it musically over-wrought, with little melodic distinction or variety. I found the composer's tendency to over-emote at virtually every opportunity extremely enervating. Also I can't share the love for the performers. I don't think either were on top of the extremely rangey material (I realise Lydia White was a last minute replacement but her voice wasn't great.)

Also, what was the point of the actor/musician presentation since their piano contributions were perfunctory, mainly consisting of a few sub-Rachmaninov motifs? Still the Yamaha grand did look handsome and filled the stage effectively so that any more inventive staging decisions were unnecessary.

Final show though. Such a shame :-(

Thanks for sharing tal

I loved it last time so Im going to go again 😊😊😊