Bring It On (UK Tour)

12 days of cancelled performances enough to sink a tour and that isn't considered close to the wind? I'd already cut them slack prior to this after sitting through the same godawful Flashdance production mentioned above. Not inclined to cut them any more.

Would also like to add their Little Shop of Horrors tour in 2016 to the list of good productions they’d put on, was well cast and reasonably priced with a decent Audrey II puppet. I think they usually come through when you want to produce a small production of a show.

The 13 cancelled shows which must be about 2 weeks worth, may well have been the large straw that broke the camels back. Especially if they know or suspect they will have other completly lost weeks elsewhere.
If producers were making massive margins such that they could lose all the takings from 2 weeks (out of what 20, 30 weeks?) then I'm sure plenty here would be complaining about ticket prices and profitering!

What's the running time for this? Can't find any mention of it on the Southbank Centre website.

The cancellation of this show is really sad. It's such an exuberant show, with bags of energy and an utterly winning triple threat performance from Amber Davies. It was my first show of 2022 last week and I absolutely loved it.

I'll admit that the Southwark Playhouse version offered up more convincing teenagers (that was its charm)), but this show gains so much from the trained grace and athleticism of its more experienced choreography and dancing. It is an utterly dazzling and joyous watch, that uplifted me immensely, particularly during Lin Manuel Miranda's full cast rap and chorus numbers.

The book is probably a bit by the numbers, as this doesn't have the edgy satire of something like Heathers or Dear Evan Hansen, or even Legally Blonde, but it's Teen Movie/Rocky mashup of clichés actually work, and both Amber Davies and Vanessa Fisher succeed in bringing real conviction to it, and in a small role, Marvin Charles, as Twig, is an absolute hoot!

Shows like this make our troubled times infinitely more bearable, so to see our troubled times get the better of it is upsetting.

Definitely see this before it closes in 11 days.

4 and a half stars from me.