Never Forget - preview first impressions May 10, 2008
Posted by Linda in : Never Forget, news, previews , add a commentNever Forget (Take That musical) opened a couple of days ago. I’d been wondering how it was going and today I found out. I got chatting to someone in the local coffee shop who turned out to have been at the second preview on Thursday.
She isn’t a big Take That fan but she was very favourably impressed. She thought the production was quite slick and had some great special effects. She particularly liked this rain sequence for ‘Back for Good’:
(this is from the tour so not the same actors - can you spot who the female is?)
Apparently Re-light My Fire has a great fire effect in the background too, very realistic.
It seems the story is well written and funny, although she was a bit worried by the slightly xenophobic portrayal of one of the tribute band as a comedy Spaniard. Too many funny foreign accent jokes wore thin and made her slightly uncomfortable. Still the story in general was good with a mix of dramatic moments along with the comedy.
As you might expect with a Take That theme there were quite a few dance numbers in the show. She particularly liked the one the Salsa Bar in Act 1 - high energy and sexy 
She was surprised to discover that, just like all the Take That fans in the audience, she knew all the words to many of the songs including ‘A Million Love Songs’. In fact she said it was surprising that she recognised and remembered so many of the songs, just shows what a big influence popular music has even when we don’t realise it.
Anyway, on Thursday the Never Forget cast got a spontaneous standing ovation from a packed house. She said the whole thing was a huge buzz
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