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It\u2019s Theatre Thursday!\nToday\u2019s show is Shida, playing at The Vaults theatre until October 13.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biographical musical Shida<\/em>\npremiered off-Broadway six years ago, the summer of 2013, when I still lived\nclose enough to NYC to see shows almost every single weekend and considered\nmyself pretty in the know and yet this show wasn\u2019t on my radar so like WHAT THE\nHELL WAS WRONG WITH ME? Don\u2019t be like me \u2013 if you are close enough to see the London\nproduction of this impeccable, heart-breaking, soul-building show before\nOctober 13, you must see it. Oh I just checked my travel spreadsheet (yes of\ncourse) and apparently I was in Croatia for some of the NYC run but GUYS this\nshow is BETTER THAN CROATIA so no excuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay obviously saying a show is better than a country is not\nthe hill I\u2019m going to die on (but also all musicals are better than all\ncountries? because musicals are the magic of life and we shouldn\u2019t have\ninternational borders anyway? I didn\u2019t expect this review to get here) but Shida<\/em> is truly special. It\u2019s been a\nminute since I\u2019ve seen something that reinforced the power of the art form AND\nthat I didn\u2019t have any critiques of. I\u2019ve always got some little improvements\nor changes I\u2019d love to see made, even for my favorite shows! I could not find\nanything to change in this show if you paid me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Okay except that it started like 15 mins late but then it\nwas immediately so good that I DIDN\u2019T EVEN CARE!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shida<\/em>, written and\nperformed by Jeannette Bayardelle, follows a young black girl named Shida\ngrowing up in the Bronx, her mother, her mother\u2019s boyfriend, her new best\nfriend Jackie, her favorite teacher, and more characters shaping Shida\u2019s\nchildhood and influencing her future. Except all these well-defined characters\nare all played by Jeannette, a master at dipping in and out of characters as seamlessly\nand fully as if there were a full cast up there. It begins by showing grown-up\nShida as an addict on the streets of New York and then circling back to her\nchildhood and the trauma that led to her that point so you know from the start\nthat you\u2019ll be getting stabbed in the heart. Musically. And yeah it took more\nenergy that I\u2019ve expended in months to keep myself from ugly crying in that\nloud disruptive manner that sometimes (often) happens to me in the theatre\nwhere if I were in your audience you\u2019d be like \u2018SHUT UP GIRL THIS ISN\u2019T ABOUT\nYOU\u2019 but man alive is this show beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of the flawlessness is owed to director Andy Sandberg (not that one) (it\u2019s actually Samberg, the one you\u2019re thinking of (I know I don\u2019t like that either)) helping maneuver the many changes in and out of the various characters and making a one-woman show feel fuller than most West End musicals with large ensembles. And I don\u2019t know who is responsible for the smooth change that occurs whenever Shida is handed her special bracelets but it\u2019s probably god, that\u2019s how powerful a tiny movement was. As for Jeannette, I\u2019m simply in awe. Her nuanced facial expressions and vocal inflections, telling so much so efficiently, would be enough to grant her a medal from me (for whatever, I don\u2019t know, \u2018Most\u2019) but her singing?? and her acting?? and her humo(u)r! AND SHE WROTE THIS! I can\u2019t deal with her brilliance. I\u2019m not going to spoil the post-show reveal of who the real people involved were because it\u2019s too much to handle.Maybe I shouldn\u2019t recommend that you all go because anyone weaker emotionally than I am would probably explode and that\u2019s just gross for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shida<\/em> is at The\nVaults, which is behind Waterloo Station and a little tricky to find if like me\nyou don\u2019t realize that you can\u2019t walk through the brick walls surrounding the\nstation. Aim for the intersection of Launcelot and Lower Marsh and it\u2019s on that\nblock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s pretty small (one central aisle) and there are no bad seats, although the seats themselves feel like they might break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programmes are $5 (that\u2019s in pounds) and they\u2019re also selling CDs for $10 (pounddollars).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure if she stagedoors; she didn\u2019t come out in the\n15 minutes or so it took me to return to normal breathing, buy a programme, and\nuse the bathroom but it\u2019s probably for the best because I would have been like\nWHAT HOW WHAT. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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