Hello everyone, I know I haven’t been blogging regularly, it’s been
quite a hectic summer with full-time work and then trying to get a place on a
PGCE and then getting a place and sorting out finance and somewhere to lives,
this list is practically endless. However, all that has calmed down now so I
have enough time to sit down and write my blogs.
In this blog, as you can tell by the title, I’m going to talk about a
trip I took to central. I began my day on Oxford Street with my friend Amy
(pictured below), where I visited a few shops. I did plan to do a lot of
shopping as I have just received my Student Finance but then I forgot that
going shopping midday on a Saturday in Oxford Street is not the best idea I’ve
ever had L
So in the end I managed to go in Primark and HMV before feeling completely
claustrophobic and departing to head to Charing Cross.
As I mentioned earlier I have just received my Student Finance and when
this happens it usually means I’m going to see a West End show… or two. I have
always wanted to go and see a Matinee performance followed by dinner followed
by an evening performance; this is exactly what I did.
The first show I went to see for a Matinee performance was Forbidden
Broadway, an Off-Broadway revue parodying musical theatre, particularly
Broadway musicals. It was created in 1982 and has spawned 20 different versions
of the show (West End being the twentieth). Forbidden Broadway took the current
West End shows and mocked them, the show was performed by four actors
(Including Christina Bianco who you may remember from her diva impressions for
the song Let It Go: http://www.mstarz.com/articles/17891/20130813/christina-bianco-diva-impressions-adele-cher-britney-spears-aguilera-more.htm)
. This show had me wetting myself, it was literally one of the funniest things
I think I have ever seen. I advise anyone to go and watch this, even if you
don’t know much about musical theatre then I still advise you go as you will
still find some laughs in it.
The second play I went to see was Speed-the-Plow at the Playhouse
Theatre in Charing Cross. As you may have heard on the news or on the internet,
this did star one of my favourite people ever… Lindsay Lohan. I was quite
excited and nervous about seeing this performance, I had heard mixed reviews on
the play, so I really didn't know what to expect. I did see an article on the
Daily Mail website that had gathered loads of reviews and made a report on the
show, quite a few Theatre reviewers that
I had studied on my drama course had rated the show quite high, so that made me
feel a little bit better about going to see Lohan’s performance.
In terms of the show itself, at first I did not rate the play at all.
The performances were great, Lindsay Lohan, Nigel Lindsay and Richard Schiff
all did fantastic in their performances but I just felt like the play itself
was a bit boring. However, as a drama student I thought I would still buy the
play text and give it a read as some times I find that the play is really good
but then a production of it could be quite crap. I was right, when I read the
text on the train home it was actually an alright play.
So that’s all that happened really. Obviously the highlight was seeing
Lindsay Lohan because she is one of my favourite people in the world. Speak
soon. J
