Lagos Hots Up For Love Is… The Musical

After a year’s wait, promoters of Love Is… The Musical recently announced that the show would make a return on Friday, February 5, at the Eko Hotels, Lagos. Promising a cast of highly talented artistes and a theatrical experience never experienced on the Nigerian stage, the show has become talk of the town theatre show in recent time.

In five years, Love Is…The Musical has proven to be one of the country’s most eclectic and theatrical portrayal of love. Each year, the show reinvents itself, bringing an even more exciting experience, than the previous year. The Creator and Director of the stage production, Ice Nweke, expressed that this year’s show has aroused so much interest, because of plans to make it bigger than it has ever been in the past.

This year, the show would be staged in its full and unabridged version for the first time, according to Nweke, explaining that, though the show had to be cancelled last year because of unavailability of a suitable venue, the audience can be assured of an unforgettable experience this February.

“This edition promises to be bigger and better,” he boasted.He also added that one of the exciting things expected this year is a walk-in exhibition and a performance that would open the audience to a concerted art form that narrates an exciting love story.

“This year’s version will be different, and absolutely fantastic. We are bringing the show to the stage in the original form it was conceived and I can assure you that the show will run for more than one-and-half hours without break. Every moment would be exciting.”

The show parades artistes such as Yinka Davies, Timi Dakolo, EmmaOhMyGod, Igos and Gordons as well as widely known spoken word poets, Efe Paul-Azino and Donna the Poet.

“We want to tell a love story that resonates, a love story that can be yours because it really is. Love means several things to several people, and we have stretched its possibilities in this play,” Nweke said.

Commenting on the stage production, Timi Dakolo said, “Love Is…The Musical gave me a pleasant experience of the theatre last year, and this year, with the plans being made, I am sure this would be one thing I would certainly not forget.”

The show is the love story of three ladies; a passion-filled poet, a professional dancer and a business woman in search of love, narrated with five art forms; choreography, music, spoken word, visual arts and short Film. It is a performance of assumptions, feedbacks and observations on the idea of love, and it tells this emotion so intricately, and with a careful presentation of collective perceptions that it could be called the most structured, assemble of different forms that tell a universally confounding emotion.