Take 24

In this the 24th year of the company, the cast were energised and raring to go. The show opened with a selection of musical numbers with an ups and downs theme starting with the song ‘Everyone Get Up’ and finishing with the lively and rhythmic ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’. Within this scene, a particular highlight was the duet ‘Up Where We Belong’, performed by Ethan Dunn and Katelyn McCluskey. Scene two provided fourteen one hit wonders including ‘Play That Funky Music’, danced and sung by Paul Fraser, ‘Kiss Me’ - Catriona Owen, ‘Sugar, Sugar’ - Catherine Kennedy and ‘Waiting for a Star to Fall’ - Esther Douglas with supporting dancing provided by Emily Jones, Kieran Quinn, Aaron Jack, Abbie Priestman, Graeme Henderson and Erin Kennedy. Scene three had a numbers theme and the entire cast provided a great presentation of ‘Three Little Birds’, ‘Ninety-Nine Red Balloons’, ‘Knock Three Times’ with many others including ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’ by Paul Callaghan and a highly entertaining ‘Sixteen Going on Seventeen’ ably performed by Gregor Doran and Nel Grady. Act two took us on a trip to the Circus with colourful, creatively designed costumes and wide-ranging songs. The scene involved the entire cast and included an entertaining Human Cannonball (Sean Craighead), Hypnotist (Sean Crawford), dancing bears (Scott Dougan, Taylor Milligan and Martin Russell), a Clown (Judith Abubakar with dancers Katy Maxwell and Sophie Skilling) and other circus characters. The scene closed appropriately with a selection of songs from The Greatest Showman which included ‘A Million Dreams’ (Samantha Pirie), ‘Come Alive’ (Ellis Leggatt) and ‘This is Me’ and ‘The Greatest Show’ (the entire cast). With such variety in the show, it is difficult to fully capture all elements of the production or name each performer individually. There is much enthusiasm and talent within this group of performers which was fully acknowledged by the audience in their rapturous applause throughout, making it a thoroughly entertaining evening.  

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