On Monday night we met up in London's West End to see the musical We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre. We had dinner at 'mybar Bloomsbury' first, which was really nice. It's a small, modern restaurant/cocktail bar close to the theatre with a really relaxed atmosphere. The food was really good.
We Will Rock You has been playing in London for eight years now. It features music by Queen (obviously) and Ben Elton, including 32 of Queen's greatest hits! The show took six years to develop, with the help of the surviving members of Queen! The show also uses over £1 million worth of LED screens, which make its production and set design the most expensive and dynamic set ever seen in London theatre.
The story is set in the future, in a place that was once called Earth (now called Planet Mall). Globalisation is complete. Everywhere, the kids watch the same movies, wear the same fashions and think the same thoughts. It’s a safe, happy, Ga Ga world. Unless you’re a rebel. Unless you want to Rock. On Planet Mall all the musical instruments are banned. The Killer Queen's company computers generate tunes and everybody downloads them.
But resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. They call that time The Rhapsody. Legend persists that somewhere on Planet Mall instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man?
We won't ruin it completely in case you want to go and see it yourselves. But it is a very funny story and the music and dancing (particularly from the Ga Ga girls) is absolutely brilliant. Surely one of the best shows out there.
Freddie
Megs -
very excited
"Meat"
The Ga Ga
Girls
Scaramouche
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