After dinner, Teresa, Susan, Abigail, Evangeline, Sandeep and I went to see Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. We got seats in the dress circle. Got a good view, though I do wish we were closer. The theatre was actually pretty empty, and I'm pretty sure at the interval people from the back moved to the seats in front. Tsk tsk.
Anyway.
THE SINGERS WERE SO GOOD *drools*
Glinda was defs classically trained. So so so good. Except she switched between her classical voice (the voice she has to sing with to hit her notes) and her ditzy voice (the voice that her character has). That was a bit distracting
Elphaba made me a bit nervous sometimes cos her quiet notes were a bit wobbly. But usually after she got a bit into a song it relaxed and she was an AMAZING belter. Defying Gravity was SO GOOD!
Totally fell in love with Fiyero's voice.
Singing was definitely not Madame Morrible's forte... hmmm. Shan't comment further on that one.
I've listened to the songs so many times but never bothered to find out what the musical was about, so I finally learnt the context of all the songs!
We got out about about 10.20, and we were freezing cold while waiting for the bus. It was windy!
fun fact: The original actress who played madame morrible in Broadway was recruited for her acting chops even though she told them she couldn't sing.
ReplyDeleteso what, every other madame morrible after her has to follow in her footsteps and sing badly?
ReplyDeletelol no. i mean it was written as a non-singing part basically
ReplyDeletehmmm there were still "singing" parts though.
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