Musical - School of Rock, again

I did enjoy going to see School of Rock in March.  I loved the feeling of being so uplifted and impressed with the performers.  John then suggested they perform it as their end of Year 6 production.  It was quite an effort but suited the year group well and I really enjoyed getting to listen to the songs again.  And my class loved watching it and we recreated it lots in the classroom! 

I decided I wanted to see it again and suggested to my girl friends that we might like to go as part of our Christmas outing.  They were all game so we went on Friday 1st December.  First we went to the soft opening of a steak restaurant.  It made me feel very hip and trendy to be going to a soft opening!  And it really was just opening.  They were still putting signs up outside and taking covers off chairs.  We had a funny time when we sat down at our table and tried to order from the menu.  It seemed everything we decided on then wasn't available!  We couldn't really complain though as we knew it was a the soft opening and the food was going to be half price - a good job really as the steaks were £30-something and then the sides were extra.  The restaurant did start to smoke up, but we enjoyed our food and our time.  We were then utterly gobsmacked when the bill for the 4 of us came to £27...??? It turned out that all the food was on the house - £150 off our bill.  We wished we hadn't shared the sides!!

Then it was on to the show.  I enjoyed sharing my knowledge of the theatre and Andrew Lloyd Weber and trying not to give to much away.  The show was good again and I was pleased to get up and dance at the end.  There were a few minor differences that I noticed from the songs (which I now know so well!) and from last time.  Dewey seemed more a physical actor this time and didn't do the very high singing at the end.  The girls seemed to enjoy it which pleased me greatly and we listened to the soundtrack the next day in the car. My fave songs were still You're in the Band, Stick it to the Man and the only ALW sounding song, the ballad Where Did the Rock Go.

This was the first one on my list that I was hoping to see before life changes in March!  I also hope to see Phantom (having just read the book) and The Woman in White which is back for a limited run.