RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN SONGBOOK
WHAT you see is what you get with this show but what you get is not quite the same as depicted in the programme and publicity material in this touring production of a tribute to America’s greatest creative musical partnership.
The programme tells you that the cast comprises four women singers and three men who are accompanied by a live band. In the event they were one woman short and the band was just a pianist with occasional input from a drummer, not quite up to the standard of last year’s visit to the Pavilion.
Having said that, the level of professional expertise of the artists was high in a celebration of shows such as Oklahoma, Carousel, The King and I and The Sound of Music where the songs were given a classy presentation by the operatic-trained voices of the good looking performers.
Star of the show was Andrew Morrison the keyboard player who accompanied the six vocalists throughout the evening, an amazing and faultless performer who gave energy and emotional depth to the wonderful arrangements which are so familiar to us all.
Favourites like Some Enchanted Evening and If I Loved You blended nicely with less well known compositions from the musical version of Cinderella and the show ended on an upbeat mood with selections from Oklahoma unlike last year when we all went home in sombre mood with You’ll Never Walk Alone ringing in our ears.
MARION COX
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