Well hello everyone, I back...did you miss me? To start off with let me give you my reasons as to why I haven't been blogging; the first part is that I have now officially finished uni so, basically, up until the end of April I was busy, busy, busy writing essays and putting on a play with my friends. Also, the other major thing that's been going on is I found out at the end of January that my mum had been diagnosed with breast cancer so life has been a whirlwind of hospital appointments meaning that there's not been a lot of time to sit down to do blogs. On that matter, two weeks ago I completed the Race for Life at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, in 36minutes and 4 seconds, to raise money for Cancer Research UK; if anyone would like to sponsor me for this please click to be taken to my JustGiving page.
Anyway, back to blogging...now I have a bit of a backlog due to the time I have taken off but coming up shortly, and i do mean shortly, are my blogs on: The Duck House; We Will Rock You; Rock of Ages on Tour; the closing of the Priscilla Tour; and West End Live. Please keep your eyes peeled for these as I will be posting them in the next few days.
So that's all the background information, now it's time for June's Musical of the Month...I know it's now July but I hope you can forgive me. I bet many of you have guessed from the title of this post that the musical I am going to be talking about is Frozen...now I know this is technically a Disney film but it does have songs set to the story line, there is talk about it turning into a stage musical and the music (the songs with singing) was written by Robert Lopez who, also co-wrote the music to The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q.
The music is one of my favourite things about Frozen as you seriously cannot get the songs out of your head and I have ended up singing them for days on end. The other thing is how much Olaf from Frozen sounds like Elder McKinley in Turn It Off (Book of Mormon), Elder Cummingham in Two By Two (Book of Mormon) and the Bad Ideas Bears (Avenue Q). It always makes me smile when I hear the songs and can see the other characters singing them. Additionally, it's nice to see that Lopez can create beautiful, serious music as well; let's just say Let It Go always gives me goose pimples, which I know is partly due to the amazing-ness of Idina Menzel's voice but is, also, due to the beautiful way the song has been written...well done Lopez :)
I, also, think the story is pretty cute, no, it's not the most complex and in-depth plot but it definitely does have some good features and shows that self sacrificing love doesn't have to be between a romantically involved couple but can be between two sisters, two brothers, two friends, etc. The film, also, has some really sweet quotes like, 'Some people are worth melting for.'.
The final things I love about Frozen is how cute the characters look, particularly Sven. Additionally, it's nice that they used well known people is the musical theatre world; Jonathan Groff as Kristoff who is known for Glee and Spring Awakening amongst others, and Idina Menzel as Elsa who is best known for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked in addition to starring in Rent and the concert version of Chess and is currently starring in If/Then on Broadway.
(From Left to Right and Top to Bottom: Anna, Hans, Else, Kristoff, Olaf, Sven and Pabbie)
The other thing I want to share with you on the topic of Frozen is this little video that a friend from uni filmed of me singing Love Is An Open Door, now it's not the most technical but it is quite funny, or so everyone at work has told me.
Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed this blog and if you haven't already please go and watch Frozen :)
Love you all
Kat
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