This blogger saw the show in London:
http://phdconfessions.blogspot.com/2012 ... views.html
Bloggers' Reactions to the show
- ERinVA
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Ellen
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Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show
Love the closing sentence:ERinVA wrote:This blogger saw the show in London:
http://phdconfessions.blogspot.com/2012 ... views.html
"Billy Elliot also contains two of the best lines I’ve heard in a long time ‘You look like a spastic starfish’ and ‘Yer Dad’s as pissed as a platypus’"
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- Miner
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I totally agree with this line.What comes across most in Billy Elliot is the staging, hats off to Stephen Daldry this is possibly his best work.
- porschesrule
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This popped up today. It's a blog piece on the show although, as the author says, it's not intended to be a review. I've posted it here for lack of a better spot. Though it was written before the latest cast changes, it's got a lot of good info about BETM.
http://sammioneill.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... ia-palace/
Note: Post copied over from the April 2014 Reviews in the London section.
http://sammioneill.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... ia-palace/
Note: Post copied over from the April 2014 Reviews in the London section.
- porschesrule
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Here's another blogger's review of the show. It's of the May 23rd show with Elliott as Billy:
http://lucyloveheart87.wordpress.com/20 ... -may-2014/
http://lucyloveheart87.wordpress.com/20 ... -may-2014/
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- Billy
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Re the Bloggers review, I cannot quite understand the comment concerning 'seeing the orchestra playing their instruments', since, at the VPT, the orchestra is below stage level, is not really visible since it is behind a glass partition.
- porschesrule
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Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show
Here's a blogger's review that, while short on specifics (no cast names or specific songs etc mentioned), is glowingly positive (the writer was seeing the show for the 3rd time) and there's even a restaurant review thrown in for good measure
http://lilminx91.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/billy-elliot/
http://lilminx91.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/billy-elliot/