Tag Archives: Gracie Lai

Sleeping Beauty, Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Danny Burns, Stephanie Hockley, Adam Keast, Gracie Lai, Greg Last, Holly Mallett, Jamie Noar, Matthew Quinn, Anna Soden, Stanton Wright.

Tis the season to be jolly…even in dreams, for sleep maybe be restful, but it is to the Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto that the pulse is raised, the glitterball comes out of hiding and the lights sparkle, all of which only can mean that music, theatre and the uplifting seasonal fantasy is back; that there is no time to nap, for Sleeping Beauty will keep you feeling alive and ready to party.

Sleeping Beauty, Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto, Theatre Review. Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(377 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Footloose: The Musical, Theatre Review. Royal Court, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Gareth Gates, Maureen Nolan, Joshua Dowen, Grace Lancaster, Reuven Gershon, Emma Fraser, Lauren Storer, Gracie Lai, Laura Sillett, Luke Dowling, Dominic Gee Burch, Connor Going, Alex Marshall, Lawrence Libor, Lindsay Goodhead, Thomas Wolstenhome, Jamie Ross.

 

Dancing is a right, unalienable and not for removing, it is up there with singing, being able to stand on stage and deliver a poem, recite a monologue or doing anything that gives you pleasure and in which does not hurt another person. Even if you cannot do something well, even if you make yourself look a fool in the eyes of others, does it matter, does it mean a thing if you get an ounce of self worth from the very act.

Footloose: The Musical, Theatre Review. Royal Court, Liverpool. full post

(436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Avenue Q, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Stephen Arden, Sarah Harlington, Arina II, Richard Lowe, Richard Morse, Jessica Parker, Etisyai Philip, Rhiane Drummond, Gracie Lai, Cameron Sharp, Josh Tevendale.

Life is complicated, life is not always a bed of roses, neither is it a series of petals that cover up a piece of human anatomy at a time; life, like Time, is brutal, funny, sarcastic and sometimes downright terrifying, we have no way to control it, we have no way to subject it to our own whims; when you share a planet with seven billion other souls, getting everything you want is impossible and for that life is so much more interesting than ever.

Avenue Q, Theatre Review. Empire Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(416 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)