Thursday, March 28Royal Holloway's offical student publication, est. 1986

Author: Paula Manuela Reyes Santos

A Night At The Theatre
Culture & Literature, Theatre & Performance

A Night At The Theatre

'A Night at the Theatre' was a collaborative show for Royal Holloway's Creative Arts societies and included performances from Absolute Harmony, Ballroom and Latin, Dance, Drama, Fashion, Gospel, Musical Theatre, Saavoy Opera, Shakespeare and Voices of Holloway. The show began with a performance from MTS of ‘Nicest Kids in Town’ from the musical Hairspray. I believe the audience enjoyed the uplifting vibe of the song but the melodies would have worked better without a microphone, as each individual solo singer had a different approach to it. At times, it was difficult to hear the individual performer’s voices, unfortunately. This happened throughout the course of the majority of the singing acts. Having individual microphones, like some other singing acts had, would have helped. Gospe...