★★ REVIEW: Aspects of Love (Revival) | Andrew Lloyd Webber West End musical starring Michael Ball

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OHMYGOD HEY!

Last week I was invited to attend the opening night of the new revival of ASPECTS OF LOVE at the Lyric Theatre in the West End.

The show, which features a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Don Black, currently stars Michael Ball, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Jamie Bogyo, and Danielle de Niese.

Check out today's brand new review for all of my thoughts on this polarising new production...

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[sunlesban]

“Everyone applauds for this impromptu moment of lesbianism” is definitely the best sentence I’ve heard this week

[wonderingdryad]

Never audibly gasped so many times at a synopsis 😂

[morley]

Gotta love how no one in the show can resist Alex, the man who shot a woman and then groomed a 12-year-old. Truly he bristles with sexual charisma.

[berlinflight_tv]

Random observation: YouTube auto-generated subtitles turned "Andrew Lloyd Webber" into "Antelope Webber" and later "Android Webber", which made me laugh.

[luctownend]

The way my jaw dropped when he shot her, then my mouth just kept opening wider and wider with an expression ever-growing in concern as Mickey ezplained the plot 😮

[nicolemeiner]

"If you have wine nearby, I suggest drinking it now." - I have never regretted my decision to not drink alcohol more than in this moment.

[benjaminsagan]

The Forbidden Broadway parody of this show isn't necessarily one of their strongest, but the last line makes it worth it. To the tune of "Love Changes Everything", they sing "I Sleep With Everyone", culminating in "And if you're in the audience, then you'll sleep too!"

[coffeeavenger]

I saw Aspects of Love on the West End in 1989. I remember two things: I couldn’t get “Love Changes Everything” out of my head for months, and I left the theater thinking, “What did I just watch?” I’m glad to know that I didn’t hallucinate seeing that show and how bonkers the story was.

[stephenho]

I saw Aspects of Love during the Broadway run with Michael Ball in the early 90's. None of the plot bothered me at the time, but I was in high school and 'love' was pretty abstract to me at the time. Toxic relationships weren't on my radar either. I do remember my mom being aghast that she took us to see this show.

[laurena]

The fact I assumed the plot ended, only for it to be the end of the first act. 😂

[michaelmartin]

I saw the original Broadway cast in the 90s, just a week or so after it opened in NY. To answer your question about how we as an audience processed the young age of Jenny in context, I think Americans just thought, rightly or wrongly, "well, that's Europeans for you." My elderly grandmother went to see the subsequent American tour with me and her reaction was "holy Toledo, that's his cousin!"

[nobody]

One "yes" vote from me for a review round-up for this show.

[lisa-lisa-lisa]

my first trip to London in my teens I knew I wanted to see a play on the west end. somehow I ended up choosing aspects of love. it was so bad and I couldnt admit to myself that I had wasted my one chance to see a play and paid so much to see something so awful that I lied whenever anyone asked about it. I told people it was good. I still feel guilty.

[TzarinaMystra]

ALW must be a glutton for punishment to roll this revival out right on the heels of Bad Cinderella's closure.

[corinnehall]

The Alex/Jenny relationship in the novel is even more problematic because there are sizable hints that Alex and not George could be her father.. the show does discuss love in all its different forms but the downfall is when jealousy enters the love it signals a downfall

[Nadia]

The plot is so convoluted and incestuous makes me run in the opposite direction. And that's without considering the production itself. Who decided is a good idea to revive it in 2023?

[karenday]

Another Jenny/Alex "ick" factor - there's a strong possibility he's her father, not George.

And they've aged Alex by a year in the first act. He was 17 in the original (Rose sang "seventeen...." during the train journey).

[FreddyMyLove]

I so agree with everything you’ve said! Despite that I did enjoy the show 🤣 but I’m SO glad you were honest about the performances… I read all the reviews the next day and not ONE acknowledged the poor performance and the fact that it illicited a huge laugh at the pinnacle tragic moment 😳 have they all been paid off?! What’s going on!

[GotLostProductions]

Jenny’s age this Jenny’s age that, but does anyone wanna talk about Jenny’s conception happening after Alex and Rose’s hookup when she’s been with George for years and apparently never fallen pregnant in that time and never since?

I just can’t shake the feeling that I really WANT them to be first cousins because my hindbrain is screaming he’s her biological father.

[madisonkramig]

I didn’t realize that this show even had a plot and I wish I could go back to that time.