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The worst show ever Review by: kit kat 75, Aug 8, 2011 |
Truly awful!! Not fit for any stage let alone one as fine as the London Coliseum! It was pure rubbish. At one point they said let us show you what we can do to which several people including myself said about time, but still nothing.
This was like a kids production, that had been made up by kids! To think someone choreographed that is truly shocking. The worst thing I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot. NO Stars |
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Napolitango - disappointing! Review by: Fofo, Aug 8, 2011 |
| As the son of a true Neapolitan and fully understanding the dialect, it was an absolute delight to be taken by my daughter to this wonderful theatre and I also was hoping to see some tango as our family is a dance family and lovers of that dance. I agree with the two previous reviews. When the 'dancers' came into the audience to invite people to dance with them, the chap who invited my daughter apologised for not being a dancer!!On a ... read more positive note and you do need to understand Neapolitan to appreciate this was that the mother who knew that her deceased son wanted to learn the tango, was a very touching scene. The only two dancers in the show were reasonable, but having spent many a time in Blackpool Tower Ballroom and Blackpool Winter Gardens, the contrast was evident. The cast worked extremely hard, but I feel that improvements can be made if the scenes were shorter and not so repetitive and please more actual dancers and more tango which is how the show was advertised. As an Italian, I was sorry to hear many English people present complain outside the theatre! I wonder what Antonio Carluccio and Bruce Forsythe thought as they were present. I hope that something can be done with this show because fundamentally it has quality, but both my daughter and I were very disappointed and had I not been hosted by my daughter for my birthday present then I would most definitely have complained as the show bore no resemblance to the promotional description! A. C. |
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Review by: , Aug 7, 2011 |
| I agree. It was dissapointing. No sense. And full of gratuity nudidy. Don´t go! I wish I could have my money back. |
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No-plot-to-tango - rip-off of the year! Review by: lulu, Aug 7, 2011 |
| One of the worst shows I have ever been to - no plot, no talent, hardly any dancing and most of it worse than a starters ballroom class, no musicians, nobody could act - at £49 per seat, this is a total rip-off and I want my money back - in fact they should have paid me to go! |
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Little Tango in Napoletango. Pity. Review by: Skiddo, Aug 6, 2011 |
I just did not get this show.
I know there is a story in there - something about a family who crave to dance the tango. I came hoping to see some tango. There was very little on offer. A lot of prancing, strutting, posing, etc but very little tango. And how about the curtain calls? The actors, having taken a bow, would only get to the edge of the stage before they turn right round and return to bow again. Somebody please tell them ... read more that the idea is to stay away, wait for the applause to continue and if it does, then, and only then, should you come back to take a bow. The show was nowhere as good as the number of bows they came back to take (the audience carried on calpping because the actors kept coming back!)
4 out of ten - is my score for Napoletango.
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A pointless piece of theatre not worthy of the London Coliseum. Review by: Liam, Aug 4, 2011 |
Awful. Almost no dance. Don’t go. Lots of theatre people pretending to be graceless Napolitano tango dancers faffing around on stage half dressed in sequins and even that wasn’t interesting. Who okayed this thing for the Coliseum? Act 2 rose past annoyed frustration to embarrassement with the headline “My dead son wanted to dance Tango”. Stocky Mamom is sitting on a Cabaret chair legs wide apart in her high heels,... read more, black stockings and suspenders and black Teddy, holding a huge bunch of red roses out to her deceased son who is Tango dancing in the lime light in front of her. Could the clichés get any worse? Presumably with the most embarrassing parent in town, the jaws of death were the only place the poor boy could get any peace.
If the words “ some nudity” hook you, it’s the rather innocent group “shower” in the shower of light the boys and girls have for about 2 minutes in the first act, longer an than any dance scene. That was interesting visually, and had no place in the plot.
A frustrating representation of any kind of dance. A pointless piece of theatre not worthy of the London Coliseum. If you want to see Tango, go to a Tango club.
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