Okay so as a staging geek time for my opinions on how they did in first semi
He did Croatia and Cyprus last night and just DAMN he clearly knows what he's doing, best stagings of the night, just pure perfection on both of those, made me even more mad that Croatia didn't make it through, very existed on what he'll be giving to us in the second semi
Malta and Sweden, Malta had a few camera direction choices I didn't like but otherwise very strong entries for both, Malta had been very well done and Sweden took just the right things from mello and changed the ones that did not quite work
He did Ireland and this was my biggest disapointment of the night, I loved Måns' staging in 2015 and I can't believe the same guy did this, it just looked like a children's show, I always joke that I could have done a better staging but this time I really mean it
Did Belgium tonight and another one I was very disapointed with, the guy made Arcade look so cool and came back with this??? There's nothing happening on the stage??? I just wanted to scream DO SOMETHING to my tv last night
Lithuania's stage director and damn, I don't know his earlier works but he did amazing, perfect opening for the show, the nf performance was very beautifully transfered to a bigger stage
Mari Forsman Ryberger / Tine Matulessy
I was positively surprised!!! They did North Macedonia last night and also in 2019 and they finally learned what Eurovision needs, greatly elevated the song and made me actually like it
Another name I just found from the internet without knowing his earlier works, last night he did Romanua and it was AMAZING, this was exactly what I wanted from the staging of this song, great job
Did Azerbaijan this year (earlier works include the Danish vikings and Azerbaijan 2019) great staging, the singer looked so much more like herself when compared to the music video and this time the dancers were in sync, best outfits of tonight, well done
Politics aside because these people in the end have nothing to do with Israel's politics (i won't judge a chinese athelete for representing china in the olympics so why should I judge Israel entry for the same reasons) very well done, perfectly placed pyroeffects, good choreo and costume change, solid entry but did not have those big wow-moments
And then the ones I couldn't find the stager for, starting from Slovenia
Solid, basically exactly what I would have done with it but I would have added pyro effects but the floor animation was a good idea too
Perfect Eurovision aesthetics, loved it so much, I cried when he took his sunglasses of, the only thing I was missing was the dice-necklace from the MGP and him wigling it to the cameras and laughing to the Norwegian music journalists
PER-FECTION, perfectly elevated from the rushed out nf, amazing, made me speechless, the using of the back-screen was amazing and I got chills
While I understand that Australia maaaybe doesn't have a Eurovision-level staging budget for a three minute song it still looked a bit too cheap for me, it looked like she was performing in a late night talk show, just eh not my style
HECKING GOOD, so perfect, I cannot find words to describe it but one of the best stagings of the night, everything about it was just so Eurovision-like
