Act Reviews 2024 / 2025 Season

CABARET Directors Megan Ashbrook & Katie Fisher Music supplied by backing tracks. Alderley & Wilmslow Musical Theatre Company There is something in the. British psyche to mean we love being entertained. This group, with enough energy to run Blackpool illuminations, presented a Cabaret musical feast. The presentation of the production started by dressing the function room turning it into a cabaret lounge. The main performance space followed the theme with a lit voile back drop and twinkling topiary trees. The scene was set and so a welcoming ambience greeted the audience on arrival. The all-important front of house team welcomed everyone. The concept went a little deeper than delivering a set list of musical numbers. Engaging a cabaret audience requires a whole different set of skills. As there is no proscenium arch the company entered by singing as it passed through the audience. On the stage area there was an intimate exchange with the audience ensuring the delivery and phrasing to be personal. The movement was so important, whether solo or company: the creative team’s choreography and movement was both clever and sophisticated. There has to be a special mention to the technical departments – the lighting enhanced the evening’s musical delivery. The backing tracks and vocals were very well balanced at a level just right for a cabaret floor show. Completing the event imagery the company was dressed in black but with the men adding white braces. The lights dimmed: M.C. Steve Sheppard entered with his warm welcoming delivery with minimum wordage setting the opening. Music came from over twenty musicals from “Oklahoma!” to “Songs from The New World”. There were just a couple that did not work as well out of

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