Musical - Sister Act

I saw this was coming to Oxford and was interested in going to see it as it seemed to have been quite a hit in the West End and on Broadway, although I have never seen the film.  It did occur to me that I could see if anyone wanted to see it at school with me and make it into a staff night out, but I was too shy to suggest it in case no body said yes!  But then someone else was braver than I and organised it and about 10 of us ended up going!  It was a Thursday so we went to Fire and Stone first.

We were in two lots of seats, some of my normal ones in the restricted view section - which I really like - good views in my opinion (if you can work around the bar!) and nice leg room and half the price of the row behind which always feels good.  Have I gone in to this before... how when I was young I had the understanding that front row of the circle was the best seats in the house.  But now I fully feel that it doesn't really matter where you sit in the theatre as you will be seeing the very same show, so why not pay the cheapest with theatre tickets being oh so expensive these days.  I haven't yet decided if I prefer stalls or circle, price tends to be the default.

So the show itself - it was fab!!  I didn't know any of the songs, they were all different from the film, not that that would have really helped me!  And I normally feel that the more songs you can sing along to, the better it is.  But we all came out singing some of these and they got us moving in our seats.  There were lots of big numbers that I really liked.  All the nun ones really!  I do really love big choreography!  I also really liked all the singers.  It seemed to me (although I know the musically trained members of the school didn't think so ;-) ) that all the minor characters who would suddenly have a song of their own, were really great and impressive.  The show was also really funny.  It was the sort of obvious comedy that I would have normally thought would rather annoy me, but I did actually go with it and enjoy it!  And there was a great finale (not in Joseph league... but good) with a few audience members up on their feet and I was really pleased when the teacher next to me said she was getting up and we boogied away!  I was sad John wasn't there as I think he would really have liked it!