Scenes from Melbourne Friday
Scenes from... , originally uploaded by Paul-in-London . Not that I would like to admit it normally, but on Friday I did see Miss Saigon as it was either that or Menopause the musical (making its third return to Melbourne)... Miss Saigon is a show that takes itself a little too seriously and does go on forever (especially during the prancing er marching soldier sequences)... The cast seemed a little tired as well as if they were over the show before it closed... Although when lead David Harris appears in a floating bed in his boxer shorts in the first act (don't ask) I was hitting Adrian for his binoculars so I could get a closer look at the production... I was disappointed that the little brat in the show (who yawned at least once) didn't get his own song too... I think he could have done with a number like "There is a rice paddy in a field"... But I guess we can't have everything... Finally I think the message for the show is that if you are going to giv...