Super backlog! Anyway decided to do this post before the rest because it’s one of the highlights of London for me. What’s London without a musical??? There’s tons to choose from! It was really hard for me to choose which musical to go to because my travelling buddy gave me the power to choose. I was really thinking between Phantom of the Opera, Matilda, Jersey Boys or Wicked. I watched Wicked and POTO before and actually wasn’t too keen to watch them again, especially since I watched POTO at MBS in August. My travelling buddy wasn’t much of a literature, musical girl, so I had to find one that she will not sleep on and my best bet is Wicked, since I’ve watched it before. Wicked is the one and only musical so far, that I wouldn’t yawn in it, because the plot is interesting and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is going to watch a musical for the first time.
We did not buy the tickets online because we wanted to buy it last minute at a cheaper rate for a better seat. But who knows, after the scamming incident at Westminster which we eventually played smart but still got conned of 1 pound and a few Euros, we decided that having so much pounds on us ain’t a good idea. So I was like “Let’s just go ahead and the get good seats.” We randomly stopped by a ticketing office which is small, off Oxford street if I remember correctly. There’s a two selling discounted tickets but we got ours at Picbox because the guy was quite friendly despite us not buying the first time we went. So we got seats in the first 20 rows, for 46 pounds, close to 92SGD!
Apollo Victoria theatre
It’s not difficult to locate the theater because it’s near Victoria station, just 5 mins walk! We had a look on the map at the subway station just in case!
still have time to spare, so let us take a selfie first
We were actually quite infront!
Decided to get popcorn since we were had time to kill before it starts and still cash rich in pounds due because we didn’t have the luggage space to buy anything in London. Popcorn costs 5 pounds, which is roughly 10SGD.
Verdict: Good show. As much as my quiet friend is shy about her comments, I’m pretty sure she enjoyed it as much as I did. The theater was abit old but the orchestra did an amazing job. I guess sitting in front changes the perspective. The theater weren’t filled up, so maybe if you’re lucky you can shift to the front, but let’s have some integrity shall we?
This could be my imagination, but I seemed to have heard “Let It Go” sang by Elphaba, because when I listened to that song, my first notion was “WICKED”.
always sauntering. 