There's A Fine Fine Line Between Reality & Pretend

animalstalkinginallcaps: SKIP YOU, REVERSE TO ME, IT’S YELLOW,...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:52:23 +0000

SKIP YOU, REVERSE TO ME, IT’S YELLOW, GO FUCK YOURSELF, DRAW TWO, DRAW ANOTHER TWO, REVERSE TO ME, REVERSE TO ME, I NEVER LIKED YOU, IT’S GREEN, SKIP YOU, SKIP YOU AGAIN, RED, DRAW FOUR, UNO, IT’S YELLOW AND I’M OUT! DIE!

I’M SORRY! I DON’T KNOW WHY I’M STILL YELLING! I GET REALLY AGGRESSIVE WHEN I PLAY UNO! I DIDN’T MEAN MOST OF THAT!

Wicked Day - London’s South Bank - 30th October 2011! Be...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:15:04 +0100

Wicked Day - London’s South Bank - 30th October 2011! Be there!

A few of the shows I’ll be off to see over the coming...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:42:00 +0100

An Audience With Kerry Ellis

A few of the shows I’ll be off to see over the coming weeks! :)

I could not agree more.

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:20:35 +0100

I could not agree more.

I might be turning 20 in about 2 weeks time, but I will never...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:14:00 +0100

I might be turning 20 in about 2 weeks time, but I will never grow up :)

Photo

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:06:55 +0100

New logo for the Riding society at Uni It’s going to be a...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:03:13 +0100

New logo for the Riding society at Uni

It’s going to be a good year :)

Virginia, USA20th - 28th August 2011 Williamsburg, Yorktown,...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:39:00 +0100

Always wondered how they do that...

Our resort - The Palace

Had to have a carriage ride naturally.

Sailing on the Schooner Alliance

Jamestown - First English Settlement

Hurricane Irene!

On the 19-seater plane to Toronto!

Virginia, USA
20th - 28th August 2011

Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown was about as much history as I could cope with in a week (seeing as I haven’t studied history for 5 years!) However, the largest earthquake since 1897 and Hurricane Irene made sure my trip was suitably Geographical!

Love Never Dies - closes the 27th August 2011!

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:39:43 +0100

Love Never Dies - closes the 27th August 2011!

An Andrew Lloyd Webber Production

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:36:07 +0100

So last night me and two friends went to see Love Never Dies at the Adelphi Theatre on London’s West End. This show was given a lot of hype when it was first introduced as the long-awaited sequel to the ever popular Phantom of the Opera which is now in its 25th year on the West End! However, when it first opened some reviews were not as forthcoming with praise as one might have expected and as a result, Andrew Lloyd Webber closed the show and re-worked it, adding various aspects and taking away others to make it the show that it is today. Sadly, due to the lack of people on seats, it was announced that the show would close for good on the 27th August this year.

This news meant that Love Never Dies became the next must-see show between my group of friends and I. So today was that day! Top price tickets for £25 (got to love having theatre contacts), row B of the Grand Circle and an amazing view! Although I had read the storyline of the show on Wikipedia months earlier, it was still a surprise with all the staging and although I have had the soundtrack for months, I’ve never really listened to it properly so it was great to see it all come together. Also, although I knew what happens at the end (look away now for anyone who doesn’t want to know) the gunshot still scared the life out of the entire audience!

Overall it was a brilliant show, particularly if you take it as its own show rather than simply a sequel to a very well established show. I agree that there are parts that are a bit over the top (*ahem* huge creepy drumming monkey) and some that aren’t entirely realistic (sitting up when you’ve been shot in the stomach, and there being no blood?), but this was all made up for by a fabulous score, incredible staging and actors that just blew you away. I’m talking shivers all over by both leads and visible goosebumps as Celia Graham (Christine Daae) sang her solo and the title song ‘Love Never Dies’. Other notable performances came from Haley Flaherty as Meg Giry and despite a few pitching problems at the end, Connor Fitzgerald as Gustave. The 3 ‘circus freaks’ Fleck, Squelch and Gangle played by Tracey Penn, Adam Pearce and Charles Brunton were also brilliant, adding a great deal to the Phantasma feel and creepy atmosphere and not forgetting the Mirela Golinska who, as part of the ensemble, spends a great deal of time doing acrobatic stunts in a ring suspended above the rest of the ensemble below and who I genuinely could not look away from!

Although both Phantom and Love Never Dies are both quite dark in terms of musicals, they are both well worth seeing in my opinion. They are not everyone’s cup of tea, but even just to say you’ve seen them, I’d definitely recommend both, but as I said above, do try to take them more as separate shows rather than LND as just a sequel. Having said this, I’d also recommend seeing Phantom first if you can just to set the scene and add increased emotion to LND.

Just a quick side note: If you really get into shows like I do, you are very likely to be blubbing by the end - wear waterproof mascara girls!

So, having been in the centre of London all evening, I’m very happy to say that a wonderful evening was had and there was not a riot in sight. Don’t get me wrong, I do not believe all this is over, not by a long-shot, but I’m grateful that it ceased for yesterday evening and I’m thinking of everyone that has been affected by this awful behaviour.

I do believe that the next shows will be South Pacific, Wicked (I have lost count as to how many times I’ve seen this show - maybe 7?), Soho Cinders (Kerry Ellis leads a cast for charity) and An Audience with Kerry Ellis at the Shaw Theatre. No doubt there will be reivews like this in the future of some if not all of these!

Hope you’ve enjoyed this, sorry about the rambling!

xAx

Your token Harry Potter geek.

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:04:41 +0100

No word of a lie. You are welcome to think me sad and boring but I, along with the rest of my generation have grown up with Hogwarts, and therefore will always love it and everything else Harry Potter. So much so, that guess who got early entry to Pottermore today!?

For all those people who are failing as HP fans right now and have never heard of ‘Pottermore’, I’m not going to tell you, go and google it for yourself.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pottermore

Got a username and everything (no I am not that much of an idiot to paste it on here) which is all very exciting! No doubt you will hear all about it when the e-mail eventually comes through that allows me to enter!

xAx

"Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start"

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:56:16 +0100

So, as with many people who have jumped on the tumblr. bandwagon recently, I thought I’d give it a try…

Therefore, whoever stumbles across this page, prepare to to be bored witless unless you’re into any of the following:

Geography
Student Life
Theatre
Horses
Harry Potter

I’m sure there are a number of other categories that should be included in there so apologies if I ramble about things that I haven’t warned you about in advance. However, if any of you lovely people are one of the cool kids, and do take a liking to the categories above, then feel free to read on :)

A little bit about me:
I am a (nearly) 20 year old Uni student from Surrey - hold the ‘ooerr’ and all those kinds of noises if you please.

I’m currently studying for a Geography degree - yes, I do in fact like colouring in.

I’ve been a horserider since I was around 6 years old - and do do all the messy bits too, none of this “I only ride my horse, nothing else” malarky!

I love going to the theatre, particularly London’s West End - you will hear all about it, whether you like it or not. However, despite what I sound like, I’m not made of money in the slightest, so stick with me for tips on cheap tickets ;)

Travelling is my ultimate dream. Lucky enough to have spent a month travelling Iceland, I have been bitten by the travel bug and intend to do much much more asap.

Oh and I can be quite arty farty occasionally, when the mood takes me so look out for bits and pieces along those lines!

Enjoy! :)

xAx