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The Carpenters Story at the Waterside Theatre Aylesbury Review

CarpentersStoryThe Carpenters Story
Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury

15 October 2015

www.atgtickets.com/aylesbury

Reviewed by Katherine Christensen

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre is now in its 5th year and is a clean and modern theatre that not only benefits from a central location with ample parking, but most importantly it has leg room with the seats. As always the staff were friendly and knowledgeable about the show concerned and most importantly have a smile on their faces.

The Carpenters Story is a beautiful and fitting tribute to such an iconic band, I grew up listening to their music and being no doubt embarrassed as my mum would sing along telling me that one day I’d love the music… fast forward a couple of years (decades) and there I was singing my heart out to every song, somehow the words are ingrained in my brain and had a thoroughly fantastic evening.

The songs are interspersed with a little bit of background information either about the song or what was happening at the time, it certainly helped give a perspective to it all.

The band as a whole were fantastic blending into the background when necessary and each member taking centre stage when needed.

In my mind they performed every song that you wanted them to – with such a large catalogue to chose from they certainly didn’t seem to miss any of the favourites.

Claire Furley was superb – her voice was clean and crisp and at one point she sang with no backing at all and the hush in the audience was purely caused by the effect it was having on each of us.

All in all I would recommend the show for anyone with an appreciation of pop music over 30!!– even those who would claim not to know a single song of theirs would find themselves singing along.

Rating: 5/5 thumbs_up

The Carpenters Story is currently on tour around the UK, for more information or to book tickets at a venue near your visit www.facebook.com/TheCarpentersStory.

For other shows at the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury visit www.atgtickets.com/aylesbury.

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Exchange Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1UG

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