Now. Here. This.

A talented team brought Now. Here. This. to Edinburgh Fringe. The characters, their past experiences, their personal growth and their blossoming friendships were portrayed with such sincerity and attention to detail that the audience felt all their emotions along with them. The four-part harmonies were flawless and the musicians talented. The director's decision to include the musicians as characters and for the cast to inter-change with minor characters made the relationships within the musical feel shared and strong. A light dusting of humour and fantastic vocals made this an absolutely amazing show.

I got to see the Wednesday evening matinee and the show was wonderful! The cast is very tight on their cues and in their music. It is a show that will make you cry and then ten seconds later will make you laugh.

Seven very talented performers blew me away this afternoon. They have very bright futures ahead of them and this production has given me yet another reason to come back to fringe in the future.

Can we all agree that sometimes, the musical can be a ridiculous format? Whether it's from paper thin plots padded with too many songs, or a show that seems completely lacking in awareness from all involved, bad musicals can quickly turn absolutely ridiculous.

Now. Here. This. is the polar opposite, and absolutely NOT ridiculous because the show is excellent. I'm still affected by the show while writing this, many hours later. The show can be described as a series of vignettes wrapped together by an interesting framing device; however, that seems to me to be a very limited description, as the show is so much more, but (and I'm usually an articulate person) I'm having a hard time describing just how the show transcends its format via its excellence.

The actors are perhaps playing themselves, but they are not. They all play multiple parts but they all seem to be playing something more. There are moments in the show in which the performers are not just an ensemble, they are a collective, and they're playing a collective in the moment, onstage.

Again, the show is a musical, but it is also something more than a musical by virtue of its artistic merits. There are many moments in the show that hit many emotional buttons at one within the audience. One scene brought me back in vivid fashion to when it became obvious that my last, living grandparent was not going to be with us much longer. Another scene made me recall missed opportunities in my life to expand my social circle when I was younger. Potential audience members should rush to Now. Here. This. It's so good, it transcends itself.

This show was simply stunning. Everything from the directing, producing, script, acting, singing and music were phenomenal making the show as a whole captivating. Superb comedy balanced out the important hard hitting themes, watching was a pleasure x