I got an on the day £25 Rush Ticket through TodayTix. The face value of the seat seemed to be about £85.
This was Brilliant and so much better than I thought it would be. I hadn’t seen the stage show before but I was familiar with the film.
In my view, the live performance I saw surpassed the film. It was like a musical farce with songs from ABBA.
It was a funny, entertaining and uplifting tale of a bride who wants to find her dad before she gets married but finds out that her mum was very popular when she was younger, and there are 3 potential dads. She secretly invites them all, and hilarity and confusion ensue.
Although some selfish and stubborn people were flouting the law by not wearing masks, the Novello staff couldn’t have done much to pursue the minority – short of physically checking them out. This was the first time I had heard multiple announcements made in the auditorium telling the audience that it was 5, 3, 2 and 1 minutes until the performance started (and again at the end of the interval) and as part of a couple of these also said that everyone needed to wear face coverings.
The audience was surprisingly well behaved (a massive contrast to yesterdays audience at the matinee of Pretty Woman). A couple of people tried to film bits, but front of house was good at spotting them.
There were only 2 very minor problems – due to how they are set up to reduce covid, it wasn’t possible to get merchandise at the interval it the end (as the exit at the back if the stalls led to the street and it was possible to get into the foyer due to the people leaving. The other thing was a problem with cracking mics during one of the songs, burly they did not diminish the experience enough for it to affect the score.
10/10
