The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
A Curve production
At Curve: 7 – 19th June 2021
“Curve are doing a phenomenal job in keeping everyone safe”
After 14 long, silent months Curve is at last returning to life with an actual audience and live music.
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber is the perfect show to kick start the recovery of live theatre. Drawing on an incredible back catalogue covering more than 50 years The Lord has a wide range of styles with which to entertain us.
Starting with a lively montage of snippets of numbers from a myriad of shows the cast set the tone using no scenery and no costumes. The music is all.
Each batch of songs is introduced by Lloyd Webber on video with biographical facts.
The cast of seven, 4 girls and 3 men, work hard and are almost upstaged by the lighting rig which seems to have a magnificent life of its own being designed by Ben Bracknell.
Madalena Alberto, Jessica Daley, Tim Howar, Ria Jones, Karen Mavundukure (performing in a wheelchair due to a leg injury), Shem Omari James and Tim Rogers are joined by Alyshia Dhakk for a breathtaking performance of Pie Jesu.
The cast are supplemented by teams of dancers/singers from the Curve Youth Group
All of the cast except Shami and Alyshia are Andrew Lloyd Webber veterans and several are returning to Curve after previous successes.
The show is directed by Nikolai Foster and was originally co-devised by Richard Curtis.
Now, much as we all love musical theatre and can’t wait to buy tickets I am sure the question on everyone’s lips is is it safe? I have to admit I was a little dubious myself. However, Curve are doing a phenomenal job in keeping everyone safe. Everything is contact-less wherever possible, sanitisers are everywhere, there is a one-way system throughout the building and capacity is reduced so there is social distancing between every party whether you are 2 or 20 people. The middle wall between the main theatre and the studio has been raised so the entire production is done in the round utilising the awesome triple revolve kindly donated by Cameron Mackintosh from the original Les Miserables set.
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber is on til 19th June
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