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Monday, November 06, 2006

The Sound Of Music...


On Friday Stuart took me to go and see The Sound Of Music at the London Palladium. Yes, Andrew Lloyd-Weber's much anticipated production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical has finally had it's first night. And the verdict? Very much worth the wait.

Connie Fisher is simply delightful. Sounding and looking chillingly like Julie Andrews she wowed us with her voice, her dancing and her acting. Having won the role of Maria through BBC1's Saturday night show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? hopes were high. And she has delivered big time. During Do-Re-Mi I had tears running down my cheeks.

Sadly Simon Shepherd playing the captain was poor but all the kids were great. As expected veteran belter Leslie Garrett as the Mother Abbess stole each and every scene she was in.

Highly recommended.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:38 pm

    Simon Shepherd's dropped out now, apparently, "by mutual consent". So possibly you weren't the only who thought he was poor...

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  2. Think we must have been posting at the same time there :)

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  3. Ooh, you lucky blighter! How did you get preview tickets so early?

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  4. Stu booked them the day they came out. Being the big SoM fan he is.

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