Batman Live

Cirque Du Batman meets David Copperfield meets a West End show,

there you go it in a nutshell,It is a good family show 2 hours of fun more in common with Joel Schumacher than anything else

its entertainment for the kids for Batman / comic fans its fun and so long as you don't analyse it you will enjoy it

The acrobats are amazing but the screen is the star of the show with the effects they manage to put on there,They have spent some serious money on the production and it shows the stage is something else it revolves raise and lowers parts  has many moving elements and various entrances and exists as well as having the many buildings of Gotham City 

The circus element was really effective and they were the star of the show the fights were clumsy loose and needed a tighter direction 

I got to see many references and the story of Robin Dick Grayson  was simply put there may be to many villains all jostling for time and lines and you cant help think that if left to just a few the show could have had better caricaturisation 
The Art is from the now co publisher Jim Lee and his style guide is used ad nauseum here same images everywhere reversed cut up etc

so if like me think its ok Art, not definitive you might get tired of seeing it and be put off some merchandise ,which is frankly ludicrously expensive and extortionate £15 for a program wasn't even funny  
and if your arena is like the MEN in Manchester that the wafen SS could learn a few tricks off you might have problems with refreshments and even leaving the arena for a smoke break 

Taking drinks snacks off people is ludicrous and then demanding £4 for a 80p bottle of coke is just beyond belief and the cost of snacks was off putting to say least 

luckily folks outside sell merchandise at right prices

    

CAST
BATMAN / BRUCE WAYNE – NICK COURT
BATMAN / BRUCE WAYNE – SAM HEUGHAN
ROBIN / DICK GRAYSON – KAMRAN DARABI-FORD
ROBIN / DICK GRAYSON – MICHAEL PICKERING
THE JOKER – MARK FROST
COMMISSIONER GORDON / THE PENGUIN – ALEX GIANNINI
CATWOMAN / MARTHA WAYNE – EMMA CLIFFORD
ALFRED PENNYWORTH – JOHN CONROY
HARLEY QUINN / MARY GRAYSON – POPPY TIERNEY
TWO FACE / RINGMASTER – GARRY LAKE
TONY ZUCCO – JACK WALKER
DR WAYNE – DARRELL BROCKIS

THE ENSEMBLE
ALICE CAPITANI,    SAM CATER,    BETH COLEMAN,    KATE COTTON,    STEFAN DERMENDJIEV
SAMMY DINNEEN,    LIAM DURBIDGE,    JONO FEE,    BENJAMIN HABGOOD
IAN HENDERSON,    MARIA HIPPOLYTE,    JACK HORNER,    ERIN ANNA JAMESON,    JACK JEFFERSON
VALERIE MURZAK,    DANUTA RAMOS,    MIKE ZWAHLEN

FLYING GRAYSONS
DARRYL CARRINGTON,    DANNY CHASE,    GEMMA MICHAEL,    TAMZEN MOULDING
OCEANE PEILLET,    ANTONY SOMERS