1 January 2006
Went to see Sunday in the Park with George at the Menier Chocolate Factory after dinner at Roast. It was very good. The theatre really squeezes them in because they are profit-making and it's all benches in the auditorium, so they can squash you in. Maybe they should make tickets for larger people more expensive.
The theatre is a studio and very small and it was hard to see how they were going to manage the set. It was done brilliantly, with projections on the walls of the paintings and people. Couldn't work out how they did it without the actors casting great shadows on the pictures. The ensemble were fantastic and all-in-all, after adjusting to not having Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin in the roles, the leads did admirably - particularly the Seurat character. Music direction was very tight and impressive.
We left the theatre and BB said 'Let's go again' before we even made it out of the foyer - so the highest compliment indeed.
The theatre is a studio and very small and it was hard to see how they were going to manage the set. It was done brilliantly, with projections on the walls of the paintings and people. Couldn't work out how they did it without the actors casting great shadows on the pictures. The ensemble were fantastic and all-in-all, after adjusting to not having Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin in the roles, the leads did admirably - particularly the Seurat character. Music direction was very tight and impressive.
We left the theatre and BB said 'Let's go again' before we even made it out of the foyer - so the highest compliment indeed.
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