drowned out the singing and so seemed a little out of balance to me. This revue did not have an MC who would link the numbers together with some dialogue and audience interaction, instead the numbers flowed one after another. The director had given a lot of thought into how this flow could seem seamless and not awkward. For example, he did a solo performance of the song “Pure Imagination” and held a plethora of balloons in one hand, giving them out to passing people but gave a final one to the next soloist, Alexa Mottershead. She held this throughout her cracking rendition of “Castle on a Cloud”. Alexa’s performance was even more striking when you consider her musicality, timing, singing and confidence at the age of nine. She held the audience spellbound as she sang this heart-breaking number from the musical, Les Misérables. There were thirteen numbers in each half from a range of musicals over many decades, from Funny Girl and Oliver! in the ‘60s, Mamma Mia in the ‘90s and the more modern Six, to name a few. Choosing the programme content is quite difficult as you want it to reach across ages and be known to audiences so they are familiar with the musical but at the same time, you want to introduce some more contemporary content to educate members of the public. In this
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