We will we will...rock you!

[erilyn]

I saw the Queen musical "We Will Rock You" at the Lyric Theatre last night. Indifferent dinner before-hand (I don't recommend the buffet), but quite good seats, middle of the fourth row of the dress circle. Which was particularly good at we got the seats at a good price through a friend of my sister-in-law (who organised it), only fifty three dollars.

I love Queen. Big huge mad love. And the show has all the big hits. And it is fucking funny (which I wasn't expecting. But sadly, I wasn't enthralled, because of the singing. For some reason, there was a tendency to yell rather than sing properly. And sadly, the lead guy was the worst offender. I don't know whether he just isn't that good a singer, or if it was cause he was trying to keep the terrible accent he was speaking with, or what, but damn his delivery annoyed me for most of the show. I'd see the show again in a heartbeat - if they changed half the leads and guaranteed that they would sing.

But it is very very funny, and a bunch of it is Australian-specific *g*.

Comments

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

I saw it in Melbourne and *loved* it. Mind you, this was over a year ago in a different city, so cast changes are probably involved. I agree, the funnies were the best part.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Not being musical myself, I find it hard to describe my problem with the singing. It's was part yelling, part sliding around the note, just generally a bit odd with the phrasing. I was really looking forward to it, so I was a bit sad that I kept getting put off by the singing rather than gettting really into it. The best sung song was probably "Only the Good Die Young" by Oz.