Newsies/Alan Menken

I will be there tomorrow. Vey excited!

At the intermission now. Brilliant! And a brilliant venue. Thank you very much WhatsOnStage

It was the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles/Hollywood. It is indeed a huge (and beautiful) theatre - I've seen the Beauty and the Beast tour there in November 2015.

So glad you enjoyed this, I'm booked for Sunday next week and can't wait to see it on the big screen, even though the German subtitles will annoy the hell out of me.

I second this. Please release a Blu Ray and a new cast recording. Pretty please.

Saw it today not knowing too much about it expect looking at a few clips on YouTube and reading a bit about it. I really enjoyed it. The songs were really good and the cast great as well as the sets but the dancing was incredible!!! I had known it was good but it blew me away. It was nice and feel good Andy a niceness end to the weekend.

I so wanted to see this but could only find 1 random cinema in North London showing it. Nothing at all in central london.

It's the interval at my screening in Derby and I am absolutely loving this show, such a shame it never made it to London.

I saw this earlier today and must echo everyone's comments. I was blown away by the whole show! The choreography is just so energetic and dynamic, the cast (in particular Kara and Jeremy) were first class and pure talent and the songs were brilliant. I left my local cinema with a big smile on my face. Must also say the Pantages Theatre, where it was filmed, is just stunning.

I'm holding out some hope for a DVD release. I do hope that due to previous shows being successfully filmed and screened to cinemas (Phantom, Miss Saigon etc) that it means Disney won't hesitate to release this.

(On a side note, to avoid any confusion, my username has recently been changed from Mystifyre. My profile is still all the same!)

I always wonder why US tours don't play limited engagements in London. In the same way that UK tours go and play for a couple of months in Manila/Hong Kong etc, surely a US tour could do a (very) limited UK engagement if the right theatre were to be available?

Also saw this today and I'm afraid I'm going rather against the tide of opinion when I say it wasn't for me, which I think was a lot to do with the appalling way it was filmed.

Yes, the images (when they were steady) were crystal clear, which worked wonderfully for the solos, duets and close ups. But my goodness it was dreadful for the big production numbers. The whole point of screening a show should be to show it as if you were in the theatre so you get the full experience of it. I wanted to see the width of the stage, see the dance numbers in widescreen so I could pick who to focus on and see who caught my eye. I didn't want to see jumping between different cameras every half a second (no exaggeration), and jumping from a full stage shot, to someone's feet, to a close-up of someone who wasn't even doing the focal section of the dance break, to a bit of scenery, to finally the person doing the solo. It was distracting, unfocused and took a lot away from the show. Whoever edited it deserves the sack - I left with an impression that I really hadn't seen half the show, or at least half the good parts.

That was the general sentiment from everyone around me in my screening as well - the filming really let it down. Also no need for a full-length intermission when it's not a live broadcast, and the shots of the audience screaming and giving standing ovations randomly mid-show really were cringeworthy. I paid to see the show, not the audience.

As for the show itself, I thought it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. Even if you didn't know it was Disney you could tell pretty quickly, it's very nice. Nice lyrics, nice threads to the story, but I'd struggle to say more than "nice". The cast are undeniably very talented, and I thought Jeremy Jordan and Kara Lindsay were great (though the former was a bit pitchy at times), but I found some of the acting choices a bit too predictable and big. A bit more subtlety at times would have helped (though Jordan was good at that in his solos).

It's like all Disney productions I've seen really, it has one big selling point (in this case the madly talented dancers in the cast and those dance breaks which I'm sure would have been brilliant if I'd been able to get the full panoramic effect of them), but the overall production leaves me feeling a bit flat and thinking there's something missing. I can't quite put my finger on what it is missing or why I feel it's overhyped, but I unfortunately just didn't love it, and I was really hoping I would.  Perhaps if I actually saw it on stage I'd feel differently.

When this was first announced Disney said it would get a dvd release. However whether the UK gets a release is another matter

Saw this in Harrow today -knowing nothing about it, I loved it! Huge energy, great songs. Yes, as with pretty much all these screenings the numerous close ups lose the impact of the full stage, But if this is the only way I'll see the show then I'll put up with it.