Showstoppers - again!
Mar. 12th, 2019 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI've been to Showstoppers a fair few times over the last few years and always enjoyed it. As it's improvised, it always has the potential to be a bit patchy, but it's generally been very good value for money and made me laugh a lot.
Last night was no different - but it definitely wasn't their best. At one point, one of the cast played a fountain that stole the focus away from what should have been quite an emotional scene, and I remember laughing really loudly a couple of times.
But the story of Toby and Sandra trying to cope as new parents while also working at a knicker factory wasn't very original and didn't go anywhere very interesting.
Still, the Tina Turner number was impressively rousing, if not very lyrically innovative and the cast did well with the requirement to include The Grinning Man as one of their musical influences for the evening.
I'm glad to see Showstoppers is continuing to appear monthly at the Lyric for at least the rest of the year, and I'll be going again I'm sure.
Last night was no different - but it definitely wasn't their best. At one point, one of the cast played a fountain that stole the focus away from what should have been quite an emotional scene, and I remember laughing really loudly a couple of times.
But the story of Toby and Sandra trying to cope as new parents while also working at a knicker factory wasn't very original and didn't go anywhere very interesting.
Still, the Tina Turner number was impressively rousing, if not very lyrically innovative and the cast did well with the requirement to include The Grinning Man as one of their musical influences for the evening.
I'm glad to see Showstoppers is continuing to appear monthly at the Lyric for at least the rest of the year, and I'll be going again I'm sure.
