That was sweet.

and this is the bit about GWTW from her previous blog.

 

click on May 2008 on the other link to read the blog in full.

 

 

 

Tonight I went out with Susie 2 and Jo to the theatre, Sally was invited but was working a long day and so couldn't come. We went to watch Gone with the wind, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was just breath taking, the scenery was quite basic, but the way the crew made it work so well to help the story was very clever.

The songs were good, not very many upbeat, high tempo numbers but then its not the happiest story in the world to tell by song, and some of the songs just made the hairs stand up on the back of your neck, they were so powerful.

Yep, overall an amazing night and a very good musical.

 

Further on she mentions that she used to be a keen participant in amateur dramatics.

thanks, BT thats great to read -

She saw the show as we did. It's nice to know it's only mainly critics that saw something else.

Thanks BT....but where is the link?

Follow the last one, it's probably her previous post.

well that would mean turning the page.....doh

I hope you managed to work out how to.

more blogs

 

http://down-in-london-town.blogspot.com/20...-with-wind.html

 

 

http://alansalmanac.blogspot.com/2008/05/gone-with-wind.html

Edited May 23, 200817 yr by Baytree

goes to show, if people see the show for themselves they find they enjoy it, I have read similar on ohter forums, people expecting to hate it after reading reviews and commnets from previews, then finding they loved it.

 

I had some ladies saying that if they hadn't prebooked they would never have gone to see it after the reviews. They loved it.

I suppose the problem is that commentaries on the reviews for GWTW were geefully printed in the news sections of papers and doom and gloom was spread with selective quotes, as we saw in the Sunday Mail.

 

The latter used the first half of a paragraph or even sentence to support the allegation that Darius had been slated for his performance, when the second half of the same section which they omitted, Happened to contain positive stateements about his Rhett.

 

I think the papers laid it on with a trowel because they wanted to kick Margaret Martin for daring to do it all as a first time writer and composer and Sir Trevor Nunn, to bring him down a peg or two.

 

Marguerite which opened last week also got pretty poor reviews but that's not all over the news. Of course, it was written by a team of well known musical writers and scored by the famous French composer Michel Legrand and it starred critically acclaimed and well experienced West End performers like Ruthie Henshall.

 

 

It was the feeling I got that it wouldn't be accepted by the critics because Margaret Martin shouldn't have written it and then shouldn't have got the interest of Trevor Nunn and then shouldn't have ngot a West End Theatre. Keeping the elite together - nothing new allowed.

Hi Im back. need a holiday to get over it. What Baytree has said about Marguerite is exactly what I had thought when I saw it was coming to the westend. Ruthie henshall as far as Im concerned leaves me cold but I expected just what Baytree has said. I didnt get to see D on the wright stuff as we didnt have channel five in the hotel so hope Rachel puts it up on DM. I saws the Searchers whilst there and they were very good performance and instrumental wise. Although there last cd was 45 years ago they have a new one out last week which went in at no.11 so that was good. It is amazing however what talent there is in the unknown/amateur ranks out there.

I thought Ruthie came over as the best Roxie on the 10th anniversary. I don't read reviews anymore after the stupid ones about GWTW. I was thwere - I know it was good.

The luvvies complain about jukebox musicals and feelgood standards like Joseph, Grease etc. taking over the West End and then the critics slate new musicals with serious plots like GWTW and Marguerite but rave about every jukebox musical the latest being Take That Never Forget.

 

It's a case of you get what you ask for.

Edited May 23, 200817 yr by Baytree

Critics just want to make a name for themselves. It's the fact that people listen to them that gets me.

The Wedding Singer, Mamma Mia and Zorro to name but 3, have been here in the past couple of months but I wasn't tempted in the slightest.

 

Mamma Mia's been going so long and so has We Will Rock You that I sort of feel I ought to go and see them but I never do when it comes to actually making the booking.

 

I think I've always preferred plays to musicals so I love GWTW's fusion where the songs are so well integrated.

I like musicals but, I never really see the tribute shows as true musicals - more of an excuse for a tribute act. Having said that, they have their place and there fans and that's fine by me.

Im off tomorrow night to see an amateur production of westside story with a very young cast. They did les mis and heard nothing but ravings about it so have made the effort for this. Just seen our local critics review and the headline is "befitting of the westend.Generally speaking would like to see critics done away with as a job. Saw film iron man whilst away and the critics have been en thusiastic but if youve seen superman, batman etc its along those lines.