It's also Road Show, not Road Trip... I kept calling it Road Home in my messages - it's a very unmemorable title!
I liked it too - as Ian says, it's a bit of an odd play - had 4 different names and lengths during its gestation. And having a gay lead (which fact isn't part of the plot at all - we got one passionate love song with snogging, then the brother coming in with another dodgy business plan, mentioning 'the newspaper called you partners. They meant business partners, but I saw.' Anyway, let's talk about me and my money-making scheme...) probably adds to why it never got a Broadway production. It's more of a sung play, using music to add to the emotions, rather than a musical. Imagine a TV episode with an excellent soundtrack, rather than a movie, transferred to the stage. Quite Brechtian, even.
It had 8 cast who were all good, and imaginative low-budget props. Similar in vibe to the Menier's Pacific Overtures last year, though partly because it was a similar size stage, auditorium, (possibly budget) and again, more of a play that happened to be sung, than a show with impressive numbers.
Definitely worth 20-odd quid, if you like Sondheim or theatre in general.
On the subject of TV supported by great soundtracks, Quatling and I just watched the Box of Delights, first time I'd seen it in 30 years. She loved it, while also laughing at what I told her had been impressive special effects, and nothing that the baddies are just having a great time being totally over the top.
Black Doves also made use of many great songs in its finale, aligning the words and the action beautifully. While it was hardly realistic, it worked in a Bondverse sort of way - even though there were a couple moments in eps 3 and 4 that were shout-at-the-TV worthy idiocy of the characters, it held up as stylish drama despite some potholes you could drive a JCB through. Turns out Keira Knightley can actually act well, though Ben Wishaw's flexible face is just amazingly talented.
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I kept calling it Road Home in my messages - it's a very unmemorable title!
I liked it too - as Ian says, it's a bit of an odd play - had 4 different names and lengths during its gestation. And having a gay lead (which fact isn't part of the plot at all - we got one passionate love song with snogging, then the brother coming in with another dodgy business plan, mentioning 'the newspaper called you partners. They meant business partners, but I saw.' Anyway, let's talk about me and my money-making scheme...) probably adds to why it never got a Broadway production. It's more of a sung play, using music to add to the emotions, rather than a musical. Imagine a TV episode with an excellent soundtrack, rather than a movie, transferred to the stage. Quite Brechtian, even.
It had 8 cast who were all good, and imaginative low-budget props. Similar in vibe to the Menier's Pacific Overtures last year, though partly because it was a similar size stage, auditorium, (possibly budget) and again, more of a play that happened to be sung, than a show with impressive numbers.
Definitely worth 20-odd quid, if you like Sondheim or theatre in general.
On the subject of TV supported by great soundtracks, Quatling and I just watched the Box of Delights, first time I'd seen it in 30 years. She loved it, while also laughing at what I told her had been impressive special effects, and nothing that the baddies are just having a great time being totally over the top.
Black Doves also made use of many great songs in its finale, aligning the words and the action beautifully. While it was hardly realistic, it worked in a Bondverse sort of way - even though there were a couple moments in eps 3 and 4 that were shout-at-the-TV worthy idiocy of the characters, it held up as stylish drama despite some potholes you could drive a JCB through. Turns out Keira Knightley can actually act well, though Ben Wishaw's flexible face is just amazingly talented.