East Lansing Reviews
East Lansing Reviews
Here's a very positive review on the opening show yesterday ... nice to read a review that appreciates Elton John's music.
http://www.mlive.com/lansing-entertainm ... t_and.html
http://www.mlive.com/lansing-entertainm ... t_and.html
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Loved it!BEtourfan wrote:Here's a very positive review on the opening show yesterday ... nice to read a review that appreciates Elton John's music.
http://www.mlive.com/lansing-entertainm ... t_and.html
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Another very positive review, this one focusing on challenges of playing Billy.
http://www.fox47news.com/news/wearespar ... 72591.html
http://www.fox47news.com/news/wearespar ... 72591.html
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And still another great review from last night's show.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/arti ... ng-Wharton
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/arti ... ng-Wharton
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And there's this from the Lansing City Pulse:
http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing ... ccess.html
I think the reviewer liked the show.There’s a scene near the beginning of Act II of “Billy Elliot the Musical” when the 12-year-old title character (played by Ben Cook) has a vision of himself as a grown-up ballet dancer. As the lights dim and the theme from “Swan Lake” begins, smoke pours across the stage and the two start to dance in unison. True ballet is rarely incorporated into these kinds of shows. Seeing the majesty and the beauty of the professional dancer was nearly heartbreaking.
Then, as the music swells, they begin to interact, with the older version lifting his younger self higher and higher into the air, before hooking young Billy up to a wire and physically throwing him to the ceiling where he hangs, suspended in mid-air, spinning in tight circles.
It was one the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen on stage.
http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing ... ccess.html
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That was indeed a good review, though I believe she was wrong about the canned music:
plus the musicians that travel with the show.Unfortunately, the mostly canned orchestra (there were five local musicians playing along to a pre-recorded track),kept any of the show’s crescendos from really getting your heart pounding.
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LOVE it!!!It was one the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen on stage.
I think the problem is with the word "mostly" and not the word "canned". I wish a couple of bits weren't "canned" but it's definitely not the majority, nor have I experienced the phenomenon of losing something because of crescendo issues. =) The exception was in Philadelphia when they re-orchestrated Dream Ballet to get around the no-flying issue. Then again, maybe something happened in one or two places that performance that we don't know about.Unfortunately, the mostly canned orchestra (there were five local musicians playing along to a pre-recorded track),kept any of the show’s crescendos from really getting your heart pounding.
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I expect she was not aware of the fact that the musicians are not all visible. We've learned that some of them are isolated for purposes of balancing the sound.
I expect she was not aware of the fact that the musicians are not all visible. We've learned that some of them are isolated for purposes of balancing the sound.
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She doesn't recognize the fact that there are several (6-7) musicians that travel with the show -- so it's an 11 or 12 piece orchestra that plays at every Billy show.
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Anyone know how many musicians are in the orchestra at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London ? Seemed like quite a few folks down there when I sat near the conductor at one of the performances there last month.porschesrule wrote:She doesn't recognize the fact that there are several 6-7 musicians that travel with the show -- so it's an 11 or 12 piece orchestra that plays at every Billy show.