The Thorn Birds: The Musical

The music was beautiful...then they started sing overall only the main characters could sing these include Meggie (Helen Anker), Ralph (Matthew Goodgame), Fee (Llinos Daniel) and even Cardinal di Conti-Verchese (Peter Karrie)... some others had voices that were not heard often enough to make an impression. The music was so loud it was hard to actually hear what they were singing... the lyrics by Colleen McCullough (Author) could also have been improved. Andrea Miller played Mary Carson comically, which dissapointed many Thorn Bird's fans as many scenes with Mrs Carson were sad and very serious. The relationsip between meggie and her mother Fee seemed to be too happy together as the point is that there relationship was bad because Meggie often saw Father Ralph and her eldest brother Frank (Gareth Richards) as more motherly figures during her childhood. As it was a very long book I understand the difficulty of reducing it to a theatre production though they missed out some main parts in the book. I did feel that they actors and actresses were capable of a much better preformance though I stood on my feet and clapped for all the good looking men and beautiful women who stood on the stage before me. I enjoyed it though I feel it would have been better just as a play rather than a musical.

Claire F, Birmingham