Just For One Day
I had a good afternoon at a matinee of this musical on the last day of the run. The play is framed through a contemporary lense via a grumpy Bob Geldof dealing with questions from a sceptical Gen-Z-er about this event that she learnt about in her history lessons. The production obviously knows its audience because it gave us a moment to be horrified that our youth was someone else’s history lesson. It was true though that the vast majority of heads bobbing along to the music were grey. A juke box musical in many ways I really enjoyed the reworking of hits so that we never got impersonations, instead reimagining of the music. That’s obviously for the best when you are dealing with Bohemian Rhapsody - it’s a brave singer that takes that on (we had a really powerful version actually from the company) but possibly my favourites were Message in a Bottle and Blowin’ in the Wind, both reimagined for maximum emotional punch. The cast and live ban...