REVIEW: Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour
- Posted on January 29, 2008 2:25 PM
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Strictly Come Dancing
Wembley Arena, Sunday 27th Jan.
Review By Zarina Raja
The live tour brings you all the Strictly magic you could ask for. It takes you out of your living room and throws you into the thick of the glamour.
Sunday night saw in the last Wembley date for the Strictly team. The energy was electric as thousands of fans cheered on their favourite couple.
Joining judges Craig Revel-Horwood, Len Goodman and Arlene Philips, were eight celebrity dancers and their professional partners.
In order of appearance, the couples were: Lilia Kopylova and Darren Gough, Denise Lewis and Matthew Cutler, Louisa Lytton and Vincent Simone, James Martin and Camilla Dallerup, Christopher Parker and Nicole Cutler, Leticia Dean and Darren Bennet, Matt Di Angelo and Flavia Cacace and finally, Zoe Ball and Ian Waite.
The show was split into two Acts; Ballroom and Latin, with an interval in between rounds.
The first couple of the night, Lillia and Darren, set the standard for the whole evening. Dancing to Hey Big Spender, Lillia and Darren glided across the gawping dance floor and whooshed through the routine without a glitch.
As the evening progressed, the judges grew more and more animated, excitedly throwing about terms such as ‘wikid’ ‘a-may-zing’ and ‘marvellous.’ Although the comments and jokes between judges seemed slightly scripted, the sarcastic judge banter and derogatory comments towards Arlene got the crowd laughing throughout the show.
Christopher Parker, notorious for being a bad dancer, tickled the audience with his dreadful routines which involved a lot of running and not much else.
Craig Revel-Horwood, the one-we-love-to-hate of last night’s show, was not amused. With a face like stone, he entertained the crowd with his dry comments and cutting remarks.
‘I think your problem is your feet,’ quipped one judges to Christopher, ‘it’s best to stay in a wheelbarrow.’ Aww, poor Chris, he got my vote.
Matt Di Angelo received lashings of high-pitched screams as he swaggered under the lights to do his stuff. Leticia, Louisa and Zoe were all also very popular with the Strictly fans.
The dancing was of a very high standard. Routines were sleek, most of them nearing perfect. The judge scores were high, apart from the obvious disasters from Chris Parker and James Martin.
The dresses were as beautiful as ever, some having been seen in the show. The girls glimmered under the staggering lights, glittering and twinkling like scattered diamonds.
Wembles Arena resembled something of an exploded rainbow. The whole night was a feast to the eye, dripping in various colours that oozed from the costumes and the dazzling lights.
At the end of the second act, after viewers had cast their votes via text message, the winning couple was revealed. An ecstatic Matt Di Angelo scooped up the Strictly Come Dancing disco ball and wildly grinned back at a screaming Wembley.
The live tour is certainly entertainment for the whole family. The dancing, glamour and humour was wonderfully blended into a sparkling spectacle that encompassed everything that you would ask of Strictly Come Dancing.
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Ralph
Regarding the lighting..
I went to the show to see dancing. Not have piercing white lights shone into my eyes..
Stop this flash bang wallop lighting effects..
Posted on February 4, 2008 7:59 PM
louise burt
went to see strictly come dancing at wembley and it was very very good the dancers were amazing and excellent they did the dance to dirty dancing and it was very good if you are going to see it have a great time theatomsphere was excellent in wembley i went in january the 26th on a saturday night with goldline coaches louise
Posted on June 14, 2008 8:42 PM
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