Anyone who read my post yesterday will probably know it's not about Les Mis. I wrote it in code so not to get abuse, but you know what, bring it, I don't care.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and a blog is just one the ways people use to share it.
So no Aoife's Brooke wasn't for me and not because she came back off maternity leave and kicked Tamara out. I have been seeing the show since the previews and saw Aoife playing the role before I saw Tamara. I never disliked Aoife's Brooke, just once I had seen others I preferred them. Aoife is one of 5 Brookes I have seen, she isn't my favourite, but then again she isn't my worst either.
Aoife puts a completely different spin onto the role and it's not one I like. She plays the role very soft and personally I like the fierceness that Tamara and Jane bring to the role. When I saw Tamara as an understudy playing the role I always thought she had a much stronger voice and to be honest was confused as to why she was only an understudy
When she got the part full time I was so excited. I attended both Aoife's last show and Tamara's second official Brooke show (I did have tickets for her first but due to Sheridan illness and my cousin only wanting to see her as Elle, we had to swap). Tamara was perfect for the role and they were right in giving it to her.
I loved going up to the Savoy and giving her my support, especially when they wanted to replace her with a "name"! We know how Legally Blonde love a "name" (Name normally meaning some Z list celebrity who has appeared on telly once or twice e.g stunt casting).
I have since then attended the show on a regular basis and love watching Tamara as Brooke. I have seen both understudies, Jane and Tara, and have also seen the tour Brooke, Hannah Grover. Jane and Tara put a similar spin on the part as Tamara, were as Hannah played the part very much like Aoife.
Now, like many LB fans, when it was announced it was closing I was upset, this show has been a massive part of my life. So then the next day to find out Tamara wouldn't even be ending the run, this upset me even more. Tamara has been a massive part of the show and played a big part in why I enjoyed it so much.
Now I know everyone was "horrified" by the way Tamara took to twitter about the whole situation, but she was upset and I'm sure we've all taken to twitter in a time of upset and said things we shouldn't. What happened next was what horrified me more! A bunch of Aoife's "Friends" and "fans" taking to facebook to slag Tamara off, yea that's really grown up! Then topped off with a bunch of so called fans of the show (Who haven't actually seen the show with Tamara as full time Brooke) Jumped on the band wagon and also jumped on facebook to defend her and slag Tamara off a bit more! Many of these "fans" who hadn't seen her as full time Brooke, still found the need to lay into her about something, that quite frankly without being in the situation, you don't understand! If you haven't seen them both in the role full time, then you don't have an opinion!! Tamara was upset and if anyone (Papers included) had bothered to speak to her, they'd have realised how the whole situation had effected her. Tamara was one of only 6 original cast members left, she has been there since day one, I'm sure even the smallest minded of people can understand that she would want to finish a show she's been in for over 2 years!
Now I'm not a total dickhead, I have always known Aoife was only on maternity leave and that she would come back, but I just find it all very convenient that they chose the day after the shutting is announced to tell Tamara she's out of a job. If this was, as Aoife claims, been the plan since Nov/Dec time, then why was it that no-one was told! If Tamara had known before they knew it was shutting, she wouldn't have reacted the way she did. Tara would have been informed also and the cogs would have been set in motion to move Tamara back to her original roles (Yes she was completely within her rights to take her old roles back as Tara was also only maternity cover, but after knowing the way she felt finding out she wouldn't end the show, she didn't want to do that to someone else. Anyone who bothered to take the time to speak to her would also have known this).
Everything still seems a little bit suspect to me, I mean you'd have thought for her big first night back her friends/family/fans would want to be right up front to give her the support she deserves (Like on Tamara's last night when the whole front row was filled with fans showing their support) but instead they appeared to be somewhere up in either the dress or grand circle :/
So anyway lets get onto the show itself! Everything I said in the last blog was true, the wig was one of the strangest ones I've ever seen on a cast member! Like a peroxide blonde wavy thing with massive fringe and chavvy side ponytail, I am aware this was probably not her choice, but why they couldn't have just used her old wig I've no idea. Oh and the whole coming back midweek thing ¬_¬!
So obviously she's not in much of the first half, then we move to the second half! Her voice was weak, she had a lot of trouble hitting and holding some of the notes. And yes she has been off for over a year looking after her baby, but if she always knew she was going to return than you'd have thought she'd have kept her voice trained. It's clear she's been hitting the gym or working out as she has regained her pre-pregnancy figure
As previously described the whole show was like a car crash! I couldn't not look at her! I missed so many of Tamara's little bits she did and cheering for her! Her little facial expressions and There! Right There! will never be the same again :(! Oh on FYI it's just 'Ladies', there's no 'sing it with me' and the line is 'A delta Nu would never sleep with a guy wearing a thong'
Now I'm sure many of you are sitting there thinking why did I even go? Well it's simple, I wanted to get it over with. With the end in sight I didn't want to put off seeing it for to long, as I did when Sheridan left, since it is my favourite show in the westend I want to see it as much as I can before it closes. To be honest, at the moment I'm not in a mad rush to go back, I don't feel the need to get out of my bed at 4am tomorrow to rush up there as I normally would on a Saturday morning. I do need to get over all this though as I do not want the last 8 weeks to be ruined because I can't watch half of the second act! The atmosphere of the show was very weird and I'd go as far as to say it is in my top 3 worst times I've seen it!
My name's Nkki, I don't like change. Feel free to send me abuse via idontgiveshit@hotmail.com failing that you can always contact me on twitter
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