Theatre

One of my favorite things about living in London is the opportunity to see theatre productions. I had the great pleasure to see a lot of plays this year, because seeing shows in London is a lot cheaper than seeing shows in America.  I'm going to talk about them in groups, so that I don't go on and on about them.
Plays/Musicals I've Seen in London (excluding Shakespeare)
Hangmen
Ticking
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Women in Black
Our Country's Good
War Horse
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked
Book of Mormon
Jersey Boys
Mousetrap

Theatre 200
                                                                                    

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

These are all plays I saw because they were a part of my THEA 200 class. My favorite among the group is Woman in Black, which is just an incredible show that stars only two people and is extremely terrifying. I actually ended up seeing this one twice because I loved it so much, I took my family to see it.
The worst one was clearly Ticking, but what was cool about it was that I saw one of it's first runs and it was in a really small theater that had only three rows of seats on three sides of the stage. Also, it started Anthony Head, who played Uther Pendragon in Merlin, which is a show I really enjoyed so I was a bit star struck.
Seeing The Importance of Being Earnest was nostalgic because I played Lady Bracknell in One Act Play durning high school. I had to restrain myself from shouting out the lines along with the actor who played her.
Hangmen was really good, but it had a lot of British humor that when right over my head. Also, it had David Morrissey, or the Govenor from The Walking Dead. #starstruck
Our Country's Good was not what I expected it to be and it was very graphic. I was sitting next to a very young girl and I just wanted to lean over and cover her eyes most of the time. This play also really puzzled me, and I still haven't really decided what I think about it.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime was really good, but definitly aimed towards a younger audience.

Musicals
               

I've seen both the Phantom and Wicked before, so this was round two for me. Wicked was excellent, but there are a lot of reasons why I didn't like this particular cast for Phantom. To put it simply, they were very flat.
I actually won cheap front row tickets to Book of Mormon. It was really crazy and the first time I've ever gotten to sit in the front row. I made eye contact with the main character (Kevin Price). At one point I looked at him and there was shock in my eyes; he nodded and laughed at me. That's a good word for Book of Mormon: shock.
Jersey Boys was terrible. I don't know why people like it because it was like hearing a news report about them and listing to one minute covers of their songs. No story or characters.

Other Plays
   

War Horse was really really cool, the puppetry was amazing. I love that book, so it was cool to see it adapted for stage.
Mousetrap is the longest running play in London and is a who-dunnit, murder mystery. I called it by the way. We bought day of tickets for this and got to sit in the front row!

Theathre is one of my favorite things, and I'm so glad I've had the oppurtunity to see all of these plays. Can't wait to see more in the future!

Cheers,
Sarah