Collabro Tour Review – Royal Albert Hall
COLLABRO
A review by Abigail Kathleen
Ever since their win in 2014’s Britains got talent, Collabro has grown from strength to strength in their success. Originally a five man group that formed in 2014, is now a four man group who have just completed their fourth sell out tour, The Road to The Royal Albert Hall.
Collabro specialises in performing hits from musical theatre, according to their website they are the worlds no.1 musical theatre group. In honesty I do not watch Britains Got Talent, so I had not heard of the group before the invitation came through for The live Review to see them perform at The Royal Albert Hall.
Out of all the music venues I have been to The Royal Albert Hall has firmly remained my favourite, so for any group to perform must be well regarded in my opinion so as a lover of the venue, of musical theatre and being open minded I accepted the tickets.
The tour had two support acts, Larissa Eddie, who performed with her brother playing the Keyboard, she had fantastic vocals but sadly failed to get the audience engaged. The Second act, Georgia & The Vintage Youth, manage to get more engagement from the audience with their bluesy style songs, very quirky and extremely talented.
The general demographic of the audience on the night were women aged forty plus at a guess. Collabro’s style and genre would, in my opinion, attract an older audience who is more appreciative of the retro and musical style. When Collabro’s set started they kicked off with Grease and continued with hits from West Side Story and Miss Saigon.
One of the guest performers was a musical theatre queen, Kerry Ellis. I have been fortunate to see Kerry perform as Meat in We Will Rock You and Elphaba in Wicked. Her performance gave me goosebumps and she even responded to my Insta-Story! * pause for a fan girl moment*.
The group performed in perfect sync and showed the chemistry between them was positive, the audience reacted with enthusiasm and cheer. I thoroughly enjoyed my evening and first experience of seeing Collabro perform.
