Original London Cast – 2015 /
Music by Howard Goodall and Lyrics by Charles Hart
Starring: Natalie Dew, Lauren Samuels, Jamie Campbell
Bower, Sophie-Louise Dann, Preeya Kalidas, Jamal Andréas, Tony Jayawardena,
Natasha Jayetileke, Raj Bajaj, Irvine Iqbal and Sohm Kapila
Rate: 2 (from 1 to 10) / Photos by Ellie Kurttz
Review: This is one of those movies that I never
imagined would be transform into a musical, but it did. I was curious about it
and I expected a funny exciting Bollywood score, but Howard Goodall &
Charles Hart wrote a pop score, heavy on ballads and with a touch or two of
Bollywood.
This is the kind of score
that doesn’t appeal to me, but I know there’s a huge audience for this kind of
music. Some of the songs, like for example “People Like Us”, are kind of monotonous;
while others (“The Wedding & Football Final”) are too loud for my taste and
others (“Glorious!”) reminded me of the Eurovision Song Contest. There are a
couple of songs, that although sound too much alike, are for me the best ones
of the score, “More Fool Me” and “First Touch”.
I don’t have anything to
complain about the cast, because everyone has good singing voices. But this
kind of music is too far away from what I love and I just wish there was more
fun to enjoy in this score.
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