So on Wednesday a group of us from college headed to London for the day to see Charlie and the chocolate factory at the theatre royal dury lane -which, by the way was fab- and to do a tour of the BBC studios. Unfortunately the BBC tour was cancelled the week beforehand due to strike action, thus our plans were changed and we ended up doing a musical theatre at the pineapple dance studios instead.
The workshop did surprise me, as I didn't really except to enjoy it quite as much (Charlie and the chocolate factory didn't really appeal to me at the time) but it was a lot more fun then I had first imagined it could be. Plus, actually being in the pineapple dance studios was amazing, especially seeing the professionals in for classes, if anything it's given me more drive to strive for a career in the business.
Other then a few hours walking around convent gardens the next notable thing we did was actually go to see the musical. Which was pretty good.
Personally I'm not really a fan of this type of musical theatre and much prefer the older aimed ones, I.e. Mamma Mia, Chicago, once, we will rock you etc. but I was rather impressed with how well the story was adapted and worked for a musical on stage. And the "pure imagination" scene was just incredible! I don't really want to give too much away but if you haven't seen and are able to, you definetly should! That scene alone worthies a 5 star rating for the musical.
Other then that, there isn't much to tell on our day trip and so I'm going to diverge for a little bit and tell you about the next production we're doing.... "Hairspray"!
The cast list was posted yesterday and yours truly has been cast as the leading role Tracy Turnblad, so you can expect countless blog posts about rehearsals and costumes and performances between now and February. Until then,
Jess xo
