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Young Voices Thread: Kinky boots review by Megan Cannell

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I love musicals. In fact I love them so much that I listen to “Wicked”s sound track every morning on the way to school. When my grandma offered to take us up to London to watch Kinky Boots, I could not refuse. My friend went to see it on Broadway and told me it was amazing and that the songs were so catchy.  At first I was a bit sceptical because of the name but when it started I knew that I was going to enjoy it so much.

 

The story is about Charlie Price, who turns an Northampton shoe factory which is on the brink of closing, into a success by making boots for drag queens who want thigh-high red boots. Hence the name, Kinky Boots.

 

At the same time, we see how Lola, the project’s design consultant who is also a drag queen, makes Charlie and his co-workers overcome their dislike of men in frocks. All ends happily at a Milan shoe fair where the collapsing business is joyously ‘rebooted’.

 

The songs were super duper good and the story line was very interesting and personally, I had my eyes glued to the stage the whole time. I would say that this particular musical is great for lots of people, but I personally would recommend it for ages 10+, just because of some of the language and scenes. The show was really funny and had me and my sister laughing, but some of it was quite emotional. Don’t worry I won’t spoil it. All in all I would really recommend this musical and I have been listening to the songs nonstop after seeing it.

 

 

See it at the Adelphi Theatre, The Strand, London.

 

 

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Frost is delighted that Megan Cannell has agreed to be the editor of Young Voices. Megan is fifteen. She aspires to be a Forensic Scientist and loves reading and writing. After a holiday sailing off Greece, she has added that sport to her list of likes. Megan lives near London and hopes that more young writers will add their voices to Frost magazine’s new column. Just send to Frost@margaret-graham.com

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For our first contribution we are excited to have Rowan’s story of his Chinnor six-a-side team’s success.

 

Perhaps this sport should make the Olympics?  By Rowan Evans aged 12

 

Our manager thought it would be a good idea to put me in the top team for our annual Chinnor six-a-side football tournament. But was it?

 

We’d already played in the Risborough Tournament, and hadn’t been successful. In fact neither of the Chinnor teams made it past the group stages. What made it doubly disappointing was that we had won the Risborough Tournament for the past three years. All right, the weather hadn’t been good for training, but it had been much the same for everyone. So would we do any better this time?

 

As the six-a-side tournament was only a week away it was going to be tricky. The manager chose his team, and the coaches chose theirs. We had time for just one more training session. The day arrived. It was raining but by now we were used to it. We had to play four matches as there were five teams in our group. We won two, drew one, lost one, which brought us to second place.

 

We were so pleased as we were through to the quarter-finals. Now we had to play the group leaders from another group. The score at the end of the game was… 2-0 to us!  We were in the semi-finals.

 

Our manager gave us a team talk, and told us to keep on doing what we were doing – so we did.

 

We played a Risborough side – and it was the side we could never beat. Believe it or not, Chinnor Six a Side Team were into the final. Another team talk, the same advice as last time – keep doing what you’re doing. So yet again – we did.

 

We played Chalfont. The weather was cloudy and a bit cold. The game was nerve wracking. We scored first but they equalised one minute before the final whistle. Arghhh. It was a draw, which meant we had to go into extra time. Extra time didn’t alter the score, so it would go down to penalties. But not before I was subbed off in favour of a good penalty taker with a rocket of a left foot.

 

But would this late substitution be enough?

 

Chalfont scored their first penalty, but we equalised. Chalfont took again… but our goalkeeper made a great fingertip save. If we scored with out next penalty kick we would win the tournament…  Goal. Yes, yes. We’d done it.

 

The trophy was ours. We were soaked, muddy but the winners of the Chinnor Six-a-Side tournament 2016. We were sprayed with champagne as we celebrated – what could be better.