BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM:

June 17^th

     This was an interesting show. I had seen the movie a long time ago and thought it was okay. It is not my favorite kind of movie. The musical also made me feel the same way. I could go on forever on why this just wasn’t a great show but this blog needs to be more about the lighting and sound and technical aspect. I don’t know much about lighting in any aspect but it was cool to look at during the show. I felt at certain points there were too many cues in a song where it didn’t feel needed. The lights became a distraction during those times and I think in my opinion the audience shouldn’t be seeing when the lights change because the cues flow with the music/show.

     As far as the music is concerned, there were some good songs and some songs that just needed to be cut. I honestly think that most of the songs needed to be cut from the show or trimmed down so they didn’t last as long. The song I did like was the song with the mothers and daughters which portrayed the sides of all them really well, and the other song was the soccer team’s song when they are about to play the Germany team. I just don’t think the music flowed well together as a whole for the show. Musicals usually have a musical note or theme that flows in different ways throughout the show to keep it all together and Bend It Like Beckham did not have that. So by the time we got to the new song I had forgotten the last one and I think that I should have a flashback of the previous songs earlier to make me excited to see where the story is going to go.

     Even though the show was still in previews I don’t think they will change it much or change it enough to make an impact, which is sad. I had moments during the night where I thought this would be a cute fun musical to do but then I would loose that feeling in mundane directing and complicated and excessive songs. However, after hearing Neil talk about how it is harder to cut songs and scenes because of actors contracts I could see why things weren’t cut that could have been earlier due to that rule. But such is producing world, shows come in and out all the time and every once in a while a star makes it through and unfortunately this one was not a star.