{"id":331,"date":"2009-09-07T18:07:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2009-09-10T22:55:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T21:55:24","slug":"331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2009\/09\/331\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ciaran Campbell kindly agreed to pen the following review of Chicago at the Grand Opera House for whatsonni. Thanks Ciaran!<\/p>\n<p>Ciaran is a very good fb friend of ours &#8211; he is a live entertainment promoter and graphic designer (add him on facebook &#8211; Stage Door Entertainment and check out his upcoming events) .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-333\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-333\" title=\"chicago\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/chicago-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"chicago\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Chicago in Belfast&#8217;s Grand Opera House was simply outstanding. Sassy, classy and sexy are the words best used to describe it. One young performer Twinnie Lee-Moore from London easily stood out as her vocal and dancing capabilities were amazing &#8211; not bad for a 22 year old playing Velma Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Wilmot &amp; Emma Barton (Honey &#8211; Eastenders) were the headliners in this cast as smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn while Emma played murderess Roxie Hart. Unfortunatley I attended a matinee and didn&#8217;t get to see Emma perform but her Understudy Miriam-Eli Sutton was more than capable of stepping up to belt out me and my baby, we both reached for the gun and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Wilmots voice had a superb tone and quality and simply a pleasure to listen to particularly during All I Care About.<\/p>\n<p>Over all a fantastic show and I&#8217;m glad I caught it while I was in town &#8211; the entr&#8217;acte in 2nd act was a pleasant surprise &#8211; a melody of all the Chicago songs that got me in a lively mood. Well worth the money. Hats off to the production team on this one as they&#8217;ve done the best possible job they could do to make this as true to the original production as possible, yet not creating a cover version.<\/p>\n<p>The re-creation of Bob Fosse&#8217;s original choreography was a joy to watch. Chicago is currently in Dublin&#8217;s Olympia Theatre&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ciaran Campell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ciaran Campbell kindly agreed to pen the following review of Chicago at the Grand Opera House for whatsonni. Thanks Ciaran! Ciaran is a very good fb friend of ours &#8211; he is a live entertainment promoter and graphic designer (add him on facebook &#8211; Stage Door Entertainment and check out his upcoming events) . &#8220;Chicago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2009\/09\/331\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12,5,13,11,10,6,9,3,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}