Post by jek on Mar 25, 2017 11:05:02 GMT
Went to see a production of this Carner and Gregor show performed by Rose Bruford third year actor musician students last night. It is on a very short run (ends this afternoon) at my local venue, Stratford Circus. According to the programme notes what prompted the college to do the show was the number of youngsters choosing songs from it as their audition piece. Carner and Gregor have worked with the college to rework the show for a cast of fifteen. I came to it cold, unlike my 15 yr old daughter who knew some of the songs, and thought it had much to recommend it. There were some fantastic performances. The youngsters are around the appropriate age so there was none of that disjunct you get when a 20 something is playing someone of fifty. We saw students from the same college perform Urinetown last year which was equally impressive. The show has its own twitter handle @rbislandsong where there are photos of the production etc.