Flashdance The Musical Reviews

Jonathan F. from Toledo, OH

WONDEFUL SHOW

Victoria Hamilton Baritt steals the show as Alex and her ability to perform all the classic dance moves is just mind-boggling. At the end of the show the cast is dancing in the aisles and the crowd is up tapping their feet and giving the great cast a standing ovation. The iconic water scene leaves the viewer wanting more at the end of ACT I and makes you even more eager for the show to continue during intermission. Just Fabulous! A must see.

Becky145 from LONDON

OMG MATT WILLIS

SO I have been in total love with matt willis since I first started listening to busted! He was so cute back then, but he is such a man now! Seeing Flashdance was great as I finally got to see him in person. He has this really moody song that called Wake Up, (I think.) and he just killed it. He emotes so much while running around the stage and singing. He did not dance as much as I might have liked, but he was so funny and so good at singing that it did not matter. But I was surprised to find that all of Flashdance was better then I expected. I loved the 80’s film, and had no idea how they were going to make it work on stage, but they totally did. They have some of the original songs from the film and its really funny to watch them be sung by the whole cast. In particular I loved GLORIA. They manage to take a song that I do not think of as a particularly sexy song and make it HOT. Of course the dancing is great, so good it looks effortless. The whole play just this great feel and

Husband from Maidstone from Anytown, AT 55555

FIRST TIME EXPERIENCE, GREAT SHOW!

My wife was a huge fan of the movie back in the 80’s when she was growing up. She used to tell me that she and her friends would dance around their yard and take turns dumping buckets of water on each other. This was not an activity I partook in in my youth. For her birthday I got tickets to the show and I have to say that I was impressed enough to write this review. It is a sensational play. Now I have not seen many West End Musicals, but I find it hard to imagine that there are many other ones that are better then this production. All of the performers are very talented being what my wife calls ‘triple threats.’ There is a lot of street dancing that my wife says was not in the film, but it fits well with the play as a whole, which is an unabashed celebration of all things dance. The songs were all very well sung and I do not want to give anything anyway about the plot per say, but ACT TWO opens with a Helicopter and some I LOVE ROCK N ROLL which was a good laugh to hear.

Anonymous from Mile End

ARLEEN I LOVE YOU

I have been working as a contemporary dancer for ages in the London area and have followed Arleen Philiips career with religious zealotry since I first saw her chorography in saturday night fever. FLASHDANCE exceeded my expectations for what a ceorgrpaher could do with dance in a musical theater piece. Most plays I have seen on the west end have seem to have included dance as an afterthought, tacking it onto the end simply because the audience expects it. In Flashdance the dancing is evocative, loud and as intregal to the piece as if it was the star right along with Alex Ownes. The final product is a testament to the skill of the production team as a whole which clrealy embraced all elements of the play, notably the dance, song and acting with equal measure in order to make a wonderful layered production. Congradulations for a wonderful play and also a wonderful set, which took my breath away.

MW from UK

BRAVO

great stuff! Entertaining through and through. great dancing great music, just great theater all the way around! will definitely be back for more!

Iain McM from London UK

WHAT A GREAT NIGHT!

Ok so its not going to clear up at the awards. But it knocks the leg warmers of Dirty Dancing. Just for the fact all the songs are sung! The hip hop interludes between scenes are well produced and work well. The sets and whole stage set up is fantastic. Vocally the four main female leads were fantastic.Storyline it is what it says Flashdance! A few storyline changes to oomph it up a bit. Totally 80's nostalga. The dancing was superb and cast work really hard to deliver vocally while. So yes yes at times it not pitch perfect but you can't dance and sing to the amount they do without some impact on vocals. i dropped it one star because Flashdance really does not have much of a story line anyway. The flow of songs at times struggle. i always judge a musical by rating by would i pay agin to see it in the future and the Answer is yes just for the nostalga and sheer fun! And by the sheer reception from the crowd at the end so would a lot of others. Judge by yourself!

Shelley from London, UK

FLASHDANCE FEVER

I went along to see Flashdance whilst in previews and was astounded by the standard of the performances given by all the cast members. In particular Victoria Hamilton-Barritt proved herself to be a true professional, she was confident, sexy and kept the whole show together very tightly. She is the central figure in the show and she achieved this splendidly. Her singing, dancing and acting were all of an incredibly high standard, she is a true West End Performer and I think she will go on to perform on Broadway and will do well in films and t.v. Good luck to her she has obviously worked her socks off and deserves all the fantastic reviews she has received, one standing out especially 4**** given in The Independent which in my opinion is the one to follow.

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