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Post by GPG MY IDOL on Jul 2, 2012 21:45:21 GMT
Thanks for the link H, another great review  Love that pic of Gareth with that lovely smile and the glint in his eyes  thanks for posting it Carol and the review |
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Post by helpinghands on Jul 8, 2012 10:43:35 GMT
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Post by carol on Jul 8, 2012 10:56:16 GMT
[]What a wonderful review H, I particularly like that this journalist comments how hard Gareth has had to work cos of being a runner up in Ppp idol, and how well he has succeeeded! I am postig it in full with the pic, as I know you don't have time.
love carol xxx
Gareth Gates plays rich kid Eddie .
Friday June 29,2012
By Neil Norman Have your say(0)
HAVING been runner-up to Will Young in 2002’s Pop Idol, celebrated ex-stammerer Gareth Gates has had to work harder to maintain his profile.
His performance as the unsympathetic villain in Elliot Davis and James “Busted” Bourne’s new musical can only assist his endeavours.
Set in 1971, the show is a teenage geek romance set against the birth of email.
Blessed with a young cast, some making their professional debuts, it is performed with a bounce and commitment that would put many experienced professionals to shame.
In a nameless American high school, electronics nerd Michael Dork (Aaron Sidwell) is banned from the computer room at a crucial moment in his attempt to get computers to “talk” to each other.
While his fellow nerds sympathise, (“One day, every corporation will fear a geek in a garage”) they are far more interested in unlocking the codes of the opposite sex.
When computer-literate new girl Holly Manson (Eliza Hope Bennett) arrives, Michael finds his potential match dot com.
The design is a triumph of ingenuity over budget .
However, the path to true love, and IT evolution, does not run smoothly and Michael has to deal with Gates’ brainless jock Eddie, whose father owns a huge computer corporation, as well as inter-nerd jealousy.
If the actual music is an unmemorable mishmash of Seventies glam rock, the lyrics and the book more than compensate. There is a marathon running gag concerning the sci-fi novel being written by Michael’s best friend Lucas (Richard Lowe) which is set “in a galaxy far, far away”.
The mangled syntax of Russian girls Ivanka and Marina, for example, inspires the speech patterns of a gnome-like alien not a million light years from Yoda. Funny, it is.
The design is a triumph of ingenuity over budget, using giant notebooks to suggest streets, a bowling alley and even opening and closing credits.
The energetic dance numbers are Pan’s People basic that is entirely appropriate for the era.
The cast sing with gusto, especially Charlotte Harwood who plays high school “princess” Leia, and Lowe who delivers his number about jealousy with authentic teen angst.
Fresh, vivid and open-hearted, it brings the audience to its feet in a well-deserved standing ovation. Everyone leaves with a smile on their face, if not a song in their heart.
4/5
0113 213 7700 until July 14
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Post by carol on Jul 8, 2012 11:03:09 GMT
Here is the pic too. love carol xxx Attachments:
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Post by nicola on Jul 9, 2012 11:47:56 GMT
Lovely review, many thanks H and carol. ;D
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Post by GPG MY IDOL on Jul 9, 2012 16:55:11 GMT
Thanks H & Carol |
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thanks for posting it Carol and the review 
