On the 2nd JanuaryI headed off to London with my mum to go and see Loserville the Musical whichI'd brought her tickets to for Christmas. I didn't really know anything aboutthe show but being a theatre freak I had to see it before it closed this Saturday(5th January).
When we got toLondon we headed to my favourite cocktail bar, Balans, for some lunch and adrink. The food was very nice and incredibly reasonable but the highlight wasthe Pornstar Martini I had...it was even better than I'd remembered. We thenheaded to Covent Garden to do a quick bit of shopping before going to theGarrick Theatre.
I've walked pastthe Garrick Theatre many times but have never actually been in so I was quiteexcited to be going to a new theatre. Also, Rock of Ages is transferring thereso I was interested to see the theatre it was going in to. After looking roundthe auditorium I can just about see Rock of Ages working there but would needto see it to get the full impression...I think some changes will be made!
Anyway on withLoserville...because we'd booked our tickets in a 48hr sale on lastminute.com(I love this site so much) we could only pick them up an hour before theperformance. I always get a little nervous doing this but really should learnthat there's no need as this time solidified even more as we got Row B 15 and16 in the stalls (three rows from the front as an extra had been added) whichwere dead centre and had the most perfect view ever!
And then the showstarted...well to start with I was a little underwhelmed but by the 2nd song Iwas hooked and totally in love with the whole concept of the show.
The story is astory about geeks, computers, love and overcoming adversity. There wasn't toomuch complexity to the story but its message packed a punch which is somethingI like to see in a show. There were quite a few Star Trek references that Ididn't quite get not being a Trekkie and all but the show could still befollowed without this knowledge.
The thing I wasmost impressed with was the sets. The main back drop was lots of metalcontraptions that were made to look like the insides of a computer. However, tocreate different area cardboard type panels with pictures on were held by castmembers and could be folded or flipped to change the picture. These were, also,used to introduce the characters and who was playing them at the start, which Ithought was a really nice touch. This probably doesn't sound very impressive inwriting but the scenery that was created was amazing. This was added to by themajority of props being made from pencils put together in different ways, forexample to create binoculars, I thought this was very creative andexceptionally refreshing.
Additionally thelighting deserves a mention. For most of the show the lighting was verystereotypical of your average musical about life, with not much going on.However, there were two bits of lighting that were spectacular. Firstly, at onepoint a shooting star shot out from either side of the stage which was justbeautiful to behold. Secondly, there was a scene in the planetarium which wasjust beautiful...enough said.
Carrying on, themusic was superb and very much to my liking. It was quite rocky with quite abit of it being taken from Son of Dork's album 'Loserville'. I'd never heard ofthis band (please don't kill me hard core fans!) but am contemplating gettingtheir album as I loved the songs in the show so much. The music was quirky,happy, a little bit random and totally amazing; very much to my taste! I thinkit's a real shame that a cast recording hasn't been done as I, for one, wouldhave certainly booked it.
Finally, thecast...all that really needs to be said is WOW!!! Everyone was totally amazingand it really felt like a team effort. It would be wrong to say that no onestood out because they all did! The only two I'll mention individually are the leads;otherwise I'd be here all day raving on about this fantastic cast! Eliza HopeBennett played Holly and was brilliant for the role, her acting was reallyfresh, her dancing was sharp and her singing was phenomenal...a true performerin the making! Aaron Sidwell played the other lead, Michael Dork. I was quiteexcited about seeing Aaron as I'd seen him play Ham in Children of Eden andthought he was super then...well I'll tell you one thing, he's only gone andgot better with time...I don't think anyone could have made a more perfectMichael Dork!
So what would Isay overall, well really all that needs saying is that I really don'tunderstand why it's closed as it was a truly fantastic show and deserved to runfor years!!!
I hope you enjoyedreading about Loserville. We're any of you lucky enough to see it before itclosed? If so what did you think? Please contact me by commenting below ortweeting me on @GreenGirlsRox...I'd love to hear from you.
I'll leave youwith some pictures of my trip to enjoy...
Covent Garden at Christmas
Love you lots
Kat
Xx
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