I saw a trailer for the tour on a BBC show and truthfully thought I was seeing that line up so the girls who appeared I can't help but feel really underwhelmed by. But moving on from that none of them wowed me, I expected a performance or two would impress, whilst none were awful, no one here for me stood out.
They charge £25 a seat to this at the cinema and I'd say that's double what I'd expect to pay at a theatre for a show of this quality. I saw an amateur performance of the Addams family for £7 and both females voices were far better than this.
The lad was extremely weak and poorly cast, he had no presence or charisma and just blandly did the basics very averagely.
I'm also not convince the story in this is good or makes sense, Veronica technically kills someone and although they try and loosely make it look more his fault, technically it's still on her, it took very little persuasion to hide it and not report it etc. Also the heather who goes didn't really do much that I'd say it was fair. Then the actions continually of supposed heroes of the story are just odd. Veronica isn't particularly likeable and her attempts at humour aren't very good, her voice becomes grating and her mannerisms poor.
I'm not getting personal but I feel for this kinda musical the girls should have some "sex appeal" none of these did. None had that X factor that'd make them top girl, they were all just ok.
I'm not sure how sensitive it is to bullying, school violence and suicide, it feels like it's trying to be a positive show but you don't get any real warmth, positivity or even leave with a message that'd cheer you up, it misses the mark.
Lastly and most surprising. I watched SIX which I'd seen on the same bbc show and literally every song is class, catchy and I instantly bought the album. I left this and couldn't remember anything but one weird line about "being god" the music is bland and not particularly memorable, no song have much about them and some are lyrically very weak. It's rare that's there's not one big number, I think the one that mashed some together was about the best but overall just barely toe tappers.
Stop over charging people for things, in 2 showings of this you sold 6 tickets, it's more expensive than AAA titles like avatar, Mario etc.
Defenition of average.
