Newsies - Troubadour Wembley Park

I have two tickets to the matinee show on saturday the third that i can't use, and they wouldn't let me return them. could you tell me what website you bought the returned tickets on so i could figure out a way to sell mine? i dont want to lose out on the 60 pounds

I'd love to go tonight but I have to be up at 6am for work in the morning and it's a long old trek back from Wembley for me. So I am just going to have to wait a couple of weeks when I'm booked to see it.
Gone are the days when I could go out all night to the "disco" and go straight to work in the morning.

Am here now

Full report please after

The main spoiler I’m hoping to hear from tonight (in spoiler tags of course) is whether we are treated to the excellent moving scaffolding during ‘Once and For All’ and whether that moment hits it out of the park the way it did in NY.

Intermission- wow!

They're very good dancers, but at the sacrifice being good actors without exception.

That being said, crikey it's a bit good.

From the few promo clips I've seen you could see how good the dancing was, and they have always used the excuse that there wasn't enough young talent in the UK.
Bet there was a mass exodus from Arts Ed.

Really enjoyed this tonight - huge energy, beautiful set, and everyone seemed to be having a fantastic time.

The sound needs sorting out a bit, the balance was off in quite a few places, and I think they were going for an effect in Once and For All which didn't quite work (I really missed the moving set there). Nothing that can't be sorted out, and probably will be, it was a preview after all.

The only things I wasn't keen on were the whole 'in the round' aspect as a concept, though I felt they did well with it, and I really didn't like what they did with Brooklyn. Minor things though, and not enough to knock off a star.

It was a bit late starting tonight - around 7:45 - and finished at 10:25, so I think once they're actually able to start on time it'll be finishing earlier.

Forgot to add - there was a bit in King of New York that was a really nice callback to the film, not sure if it was intentional but echoes of the newsie on the ceiling fan.

Just to echo what was already said - was great! Sound was awful, but I felt like it improved halfway through the World Will Know? Suddenly, everyone became a lot clearer?

Chaotic start. Why they decided to open the doors only 10 minutes before show time is beyond me - people in wheelchairs were given no support.

Sound is a huge issue though. During the first 10 minutes, I genuinely thought that it was going to fall flat because of it. Glad they sorted it. Michael Ahomka-Lindsay was great - thought he developed really well as the show went on.

I do *hate* this obsession that some people have of screaming continuously though. The woman next to be howled the whole way through it - she genuinely sounded like Toad from Mario! Left genuinely half deaf in one ear as a result. So incredibly inconsiderate to those around her.

As a production? Perfection. Everything theatre should be. Exciting. Genuinely jaw dropping. Vibrant. Exhilarating. Genius.

As performances? Pretty basic across the board (I really liked Brontë Barbe though). Jeremy Jordan was not the best dancer in the world but he made those songs soar and was genuinely moving - unfortunately Michael is not the best dance, not the best singer nor the best actor, and the show does sit heavily on him.

4 stars, and I actually don't think that will go up for the reasons above. The performances just aren't good, and so once you look underneath the spectacle...there's not a lot there.