Rock Apocalypse - Perth

I went and saw the show last Saturday. Yes, the hall was hot and yes the show was too long but aside from that, there were some good bits in the show and there were not so good bits. The main problem for me was the seeming lack of energy directed towards the audience.. there seemed to be little thought towards making the production flow for the audiences benefit ie. long and clunky scene changes; meaningless and unnecessary dialogue. The sound wasnt great the night I saw it; the neverending saga of mics cutting out and the singers performing a whole verse before someone actually thought to turn their mic up. The band was quite loud in some songs, but a live band in a relatively small hall with a full drum kit is going to be loud, so there's not much that could be done about that. Great idea to have a band (and a competent one at that) for the show and not use (cough cough) backing tracks; they lifted the shows energy levels with the music and I know I started tapping my foot quite a few times. Well done band! AAGGGHHHH Accents!!!! I'm a big believer in not doing them if you can't maintain them. Ash slipped in and out of his American accent all the time and since I only saw it once I cant be sure, but there seemed to be quite a lot of 'added' in jokes which killed the flow of the scenes. The dominatrix girl was probably the only person who attempted an accent and actually worked hard to keep it all the way through her performance. Ricky was good; lovely voice in his solo song (cant remember the name of it). Dawn powered out her part of the love song and this was one of the songs in which she could have easily been overpowered by the band, but she found her voice! I liked the gospel song; so hard to do well. Noooot quite sure about the insertion of some songs... Poison? ? I'm sure there was a reason. Each group is different and chooses whether to follow theatre etiquette or not, but there were some weird things happening that I didn't understand. Backstage people walking through the audience, sight lines being ignored, cast wandering out the front at half time to talk to their friends, directors speech at the end on a non-closing night.. I just didn't get it. Anyway, I applaud the group on their efforts. I saw some good performances and listened to some great music (I might use that band for a show. Does anyone know where I can find them?) and it was not an unpleasant experience. Some refining of skills would benefit I think though. Thank you for your hard work in putting on the show.