Val4Gareth Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Thanks Janice. Glad you and your friend enjoyed the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorksheather Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Glad you enjoyed the show Janice , and survived all the Osmond fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NicolaJayne Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Sounds such a fab show and great to hear that your friend who is not a G fan kept saying Gareth is lovely. It seems Gareth is winning over more new fans with this show, I have a FB friend who is an avid Chico fan and has shared the Puppy Love Video and a pic of Gareth with the Osmonds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solveig Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Yorksheather, thanks so much for the video, the whole performance must be fantastic to watch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorksheather Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 Janice's friend took lots of fab pics from Boogie Nights at Guilford , thans Janice for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val4Gareth Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 Those pics are great. Thanks Janice for sharing and thanks Heather for posting them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorksheather Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 I missed this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo999 Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 how could u miss that one heather lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khelda Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 LOL They certainly made me smile. Great pics, thanks Janice and Heather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorral Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 Thanks Janice and Heather,great pictures,Can't wait to see the show on Saturday,Gareth looks so funny dressed in his Daisy Dukes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo999 Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 my sister in law gone tonight wonder what she think of show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal Posted February 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 Janice so glad you had a good time. Those photos are absolutely fab. Please thank your friend. They have made me smile too. Gareth is brave isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo999 Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 Janice so glad you had a good time. Those photos are absolutely fab. Please thank your friend. They have made me smile too. Gareth is brave isn't he? we did we never did stage door just had a nice meal before and really enjoy the whole show chico is topless quite a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NicolaJayne Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 WOW! These pics are fantastic Thank you so much to Janice and Friend and Heather for posting them. It takes courage to go topless alongside Chico but Gareth looks pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_1981 Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Thank you so much everyone for these wonderful pics love them. I'm glad you enjoyed the show Janice and your friend did too and was surprised x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 my sister in law gone tonight wonder what she think of show Any verdict from her yet Janice? A review from Northampton http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/theatre/theatre-review-boogie-nights-1-4760261 Published on Wednesday 6 February 2013 15:30 You know that when your husband sitting next to you at a theatre show looks at you with a “help, please let’s escape” look in his eyes that you are in trouble. But no, I did not obey his request to flee the ‘70s musical Boogie Nights last night at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton, but I stuck it out, instead obeying my commitment to cheesy nostalgia. In one way that was a good decision and in another it wasn’t. The show revolves around the story of bad boy Roddy O’Neil (Shane Richie Junior) whose love of women and boogie-ing gets him into trouble with his girlfriend Debs and ends up changing the course of his life. Describing the tale in this way gives the illusion that this is the kind of musical that depends greatly on its storyline, but the plot comes across as fairly incidental to the show. What greets the audience is a chaotic mass of ‘70s songs, some performed in full, and some just snippets, delivered one after the other with loosely linked dialogue in between. This may sound like a criticism, but I didn’t actually mind this. The story was so cringingly unrealistic, poorly characterised and, in my opinion, not terribly well acted, that I yearned for the entertaining musical interludes. The show really turned itself around for me when three of the Osmond brothers, Jimmy, Merrill and Jay, made their way onto the stage. These three are real stars, giving fantastic vocal performances of hit after hit, including their own Crazy Horses. I was particularly impressed when they started speaking to the crowd and asking for requests, spontaneously bursting into harmonious song in perfect unison without the support of any backing music. I realised quickly that these brothers are famous for a reason. At one point singer Gareth Gates, as Dean, gave a performance of Puppy Love with the brothers (taking Donny’s place) and he rose to the challenge brilliantly. Former X Factor finalist Andy Abraham, as the soul singer Spencer, also belted out some excellent vocal numbers. If this show had simply dedicated itself to being a humorous ‘70s concert I think I would have preferred it, but the badly woven passages of storyline seemed to interrupt the brilliance of the show...its music. As an added point, in my view, Louisa Lytton as Debs could do with working on her vocal performances to appear in a musical of this kind as, although she hits the right notes, her voice seems to fail to pack the punch needed to fill a theatre. Having said this, the performers work really hard to generate a lot of audience participation and energy and, despite the weak story and dodgy outfits, Boogie Nights spreads a lot of joy and definitely inspires audiences to sing, dance and have fun; a trait which has to be commended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo999 Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 sis in law says gareth is good and its nice to go to a show and u can sing a long to all of the songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorksheather Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Thanks Eternal for posting this interesting review . Glad your Osmond fan sister in law thought that Gareth was good Janice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorksheather Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 You can hear Gareth singing Puppy Love ,lovely on this vid , which is blurry for a few seconds , then it's great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cris Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 There fantastic Gareth looks great carnt wait to go now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Having seen this video I think it's worth seeing the show just to see this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val4Gareth Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Thanks Heather. I've put the link on Twitter for everyone to listen to this fantastic recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floz Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 That really made me smile. he really does do it justice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal Posted February 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 sis in law says gareth is good and its nice to go to a show and u can sing a long to all of the songs Brilliant. Seems this show is a roaring success! Am loving the video of Puppy Love. What a fantastic recording. Thanks so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NicolaJayne Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Thank you Heather for putting the "Puppy Love" video on here, What a performance from Gareth and the Osmonds and agree it would be worth going for this one song, always liked the Osmonds but can see now why they are still such big stars. Thank you also to Chris for the review, I hope all Gareths fans can get to one of these shows, which is what is so good about it touring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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