The students at the Welsh College of Music and Drama have been performing West Side Story over the past fortnight and last night was the final performance, so they gave it a bit of welly. And then some! Wow! It was one of those magical occasions when the audience has a perfect rapport with the cast and the magic of theatre creates a electric atmosphere that raises the whole performance to new heights. Of course, we all know the songs, veiled as they are for most of us in our younger romantic years and hearing them again, with the emotion of the story, I found the tears just pouring down my cheeks.
But it was just so well done. The choreography was perfect - perfect - the design could not be bettered, the energy of the boys and girls, who will in a year or two be taking their parts in West End musicals and in the Bill, Casualty or Coronation Street, was abundant, the singing, raw with feeling and deeper meaning, the orchestra superb, brassy, rhythmic, passionate.
At the end the 700 hundred seat Sherman rose in acclamation. A standing ovation and worth every thunderous minute and whistle. That is what live theatre is all about.
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