Let us be clear. Millennials is not a musical, there is precious little plot or storyline to progress. It is a song cycle performed by six talented professionals with a loose theme about what are the concerns of the generation that followed Generation X.
The Studio space at the Other Palace doesn’t need reviews to increase business for their more experimental space; TikTok has done that already and I suspect that there is plenty of repeat business.
Firstly, it doesn’t look like a theatre with Barbie shocking pink shiny paper crumpled on the walls, bean bags to sit on or in a ball pool or even a bath. There are beach balls, slinkies and tiny rubber ducks everywhere. The playing area is avocado shaped with the stone pit being a trampoline with a band on the higher level. Steps decorated with avo stickers lead you down to the Millennial shrine. Dancing spotlights introduce you to the rhythm although later they are responsible for severe lighting spill directly into the eyes of some of the audience.
Secondly, it doesn’t have the distancing of a theatre with the cast mingling with their adoring audience beforehand and inviting them to dance at moments during the show, a dream scenario for fans.