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Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:28 pm
by ERinVA
This blogger saw the show in London:

http://phdconfessions.blogspot.com/2012 ... views.html

Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:29 pm
by dongringo
ERinVA wrote:This blogger saw the show in London:

http://phdconfessions.blogspot.com/2012 ... views.html
Love the closing sentence:

"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’"

Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:34 pm
by mrmikerocks
What comes across most in Billy Elliot is the staging, hats off to Stephen Daldry this is possibly his best work.
I totally agree with this line.

Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show

Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 12:27 pm
by porschesrule
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.

Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 1:43 am
by porschesrule
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/

Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 11:52 pm
by dancingboy
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.

Re: Bloggers' Reactions to the show

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2014 3:56 pm
by porschesrule
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 :D

http://lilminx91.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/billy-elliot/