Musical Nights. A Royal Connection

This show provided a feast of musical numbers with some direct and indirect of royal connections throughout. The company opened with a selection from ‘The Lion King’ with great harmonies which also included the number ‘Your Song’ superbly sung in the style of Sir Elton John by Dylan Allison.  The voices of Cartiona Turk and Darren Tasker blended well in their rendition of ‘Written in the Stars’ from Aida as did Eilish Toal and Jordyn Patrick in ‘I Know His So Well’ from Chess. Further great selections were presented from musicals Mama Mia and Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’ which had great energetic choreography. Victoria Daly’s presentation of ‘Give My Life for You’ from Miss Saigon was sung with great passion and feeling leading into Graeme Scott and the gentlemen of the chorus joining with ‘Bui Doi’.  Two particular highlights for me included ‘Shine’ entertainingly performed by Chris Hogg, Darren Tasker, Grant-Scott Johnston and Graeme Scott as the ‘Manzone’ group and the well-choreographed ‘Cell Block Tango ‘from Chicago presented with attitude and characterisation from Susan MacFarlane, Carole Sutherland, Marion Dixon, Hannah Gillies, Jordyn Patrick and Lindsay Brown.   The show also included numbers from Les Miserables, Hamilton and a selection of title ‘007’ songs within which Amy Sutherland gave a great delivery of the number ‘Diamonds are Forever’.  The selection of Kings of Swing numbers also added to the entertainment and in particular Darren Tasker’s presentation of ‘In the Ghetto’ with solo guitar.  There were some fabulous musical moments throughout show and I regret I cannot name each and every one but all in the company should be pleased with what they accomplished in providing a highly entertaining show.

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