The Hills Are Alive!

I think it is time for a review, as that's in the title of this blog. I'll ramble later, unless I'm actually rambling now, which I might be. Well, after much back scratching, begging and credit card transactions I was able to obtain for my darling wife and I, tickets to The Sound Of Music at the London Palladium. We have been married now, eleven years! But not to each other. No, that was a joke, of course to each other. So, to the delight of my wife we went and saw Connie off the telly. And it was very good. (When do I give a mark out 5? I'm not sure.) It was also Lesley Garrett's last performance as the Mother Superior so there was much blubbing and flower throwing at the end. The songs are excellent in this musical, instantly recognisable, apart from the three that weren't recognisable. Because they weren't even in the movie. Connie was excellent (come on, she's had some time off recently.) The set was amazing, children cute and characters well defined. But whenever the wonderful (as seen on "Celebrity Fame Academy"!) Lesley Garrett was onstage, and sang or, "belted out" as is probably more the case any number, I kept thinking, wow! that poor, lowly Mother Superior must have spent a lot of time in the opera. She must have been classically trained at some point. She was so overwhelmingly operatic that it sort of pulled me out of the production, because she sounded so different to all the other nuns. But, if anyone didn't have a tear in their eye at the end of act one as the Mother Superior sang, "Climb Every Mountain" and it came to it's crowd pleasing, rousing conclusion, then they should probably be checked for a pulse.
So all in all a fantastic night out. Glad to get such sort after tickets without having to resort to selling a kidney. I just had to lend one to someone for a week.
4 and a half stars out of 5 (would have been 5 out of 5 but Lesley sang almost too well!)