We stayed in the hall for this. I’d read the early reports from the first rehearsal and I wasn’t expecting very much but it’s really not that bad. The song is on the light side but with the great bass in the hall it doesn’t sound at all bad. The staging is bordering in the ridiculous but to my eye they manage to pull it off, on the whole.
The Tolmachevy Sisters rise and fall on their see-saw before the criminally under-used Rui Andrade minces centre stage for a quick glimpse before he opens a fan resembling the sunrise and shits himself behind it. What a waste!
This is qualifying with ease, helped by a diaspora keen to support their home entry. It won’t be a popular moment in the hall, I imagine…
Monty x
Edit: I’d like to point out that the above line should read that Rui Andrade SHUTS himself behind the fan… Me and my fat fingers…