Return to The Forbidden Planet

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET

Presented by

Stone Revellers

Stone Revellers take us back to the future, with Return to The Forbidden Planet, a jukebox musical from the pen of Bob Carlton based on the kitsch 1956 film The Forbidden Planet, ultimately on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It’s a musical romp through the stars, featuring a well selected string of familiar hits of yesteryear.

Great live costumed band augmented by various cast members picking up guitars and trumpet throughout, helped the musical flow of the show.

A well thought out multi-level and very immersive set presenting in the U, really helped cement the suspended reality for a few hours, in this lively performance with tongues firmly planted cheek ward.

The Revellers engaged the audience with their pre-show build-up, the cast mingling, settling passengers ready for lift-off, going through the pre-flight checks, including the all-important polarity reversal procedure with us, “All aboard the USS Albatross”

Very much an ensemble show, all the excellent cast were very much on song involved in the numbers, be it dancing, lead and/or backing vocals, the different levels utilized added even more interest to some great classic numbers featured in the show, my personal favourites being Good Vibrations, She’s Not There and Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, all performed extremely well, great harmonies and attention to detail.

As stated earlier, this is very much an ensemble piece, that said I would be remis without a mention to a few of the leading roles, Sean Galloghly as Captain Tempest, Amanda Morris as Gloria the Science Officer, Lucy Wild as Miranda, Dave Wild as Prospero, Rob Stanway as Cookie, Angela Whitney as Navigation Officer and Emma Wilson as android Ariel. Adding a good deal of experience and elan to the whole space pastiche

Costumes and make up were excellent. Sound and lighting overall were very good, a few space gremlins on the screen projections distracted from the action, as did several late mic cues. There were some great cast ad-libs in response to audience comments.

Stone Revellers did themselves proud, I know certain roles were altered due to dreaded Space virus. Director Mark Doran, Co-Director Amanda Brumley, Choreographer Angela Whitney, MD Carl Gratty and Producer Craig Chesters, Cast and Crew, all pulling together, and it shows.

An evening of Stellar entertainment.

 

 

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