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Post by 49thand8th on May 14, 2016 17:04:17 GMT
The show is actually not that "edgy" or dark at all. It's all about feeling like an outsider, getting comfortable in your own skin and accepting yourself with all your beauty and flaws. Blah Blah Blah, but with a couple of great power ballad duets throughout. There's also some gender, sexuality and race politics thrown in. I've never seen it but was hooked on the OBC since the 90s. If you'd seen it you probably would've called it edgy or dark. But you're not wrong in your second sentence.
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Post by ali973 on May 14, 2016 17:07:56 GMT
I think the first number could be slightly creepy, but otherwise..I don't know if I can classify it as edgy or dark. I've seen videos of the OBC way back when and recently of the tryout in La Jolla..
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Post by alece10 on May 15, 2016 11:23:49 GMT
I am probably going to be in a minority of one but I am not that impressed with Louise Dearman recently. She did a Friday Night is Music Night concert I was at and also the last John Wilson Orchestra concert and I was quite disappointed. Anyway still glad I booked for this when it went on sale.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 11:53:57 GMT
Louise came into my school a couple of years ago to do a workshop with our children, ahead their "Sing Up" performance - and taught them Let It Go. I've never been in so much awe. Best day at work ever.
I haven't seen her in a production since, just as Glinda, two years previously, so I'm super excited for this!
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Post by ali973 on May 15, 2016 12:10:14 GMT
She's actually fabulous. She's got a great soprano, and a mesmerizing belt where it has a slight huskiness to it that makes it very special. She's also quite funny, I saw her with Kerry Ellis in concert at the Prince Edward and she's quite a goofball. I think personality and voice-wise she'd be more suitable for the Emily Skinner character.
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Post by mallardo on May 15, 2016 14:10:45 GMT
She's playing the Emily Skinner character, Daisy.
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Post by shady23 on May 15, 2016 20:04:38 GMT
I am probably going to be in a minority of one but I am not that impressed with Louise Dearman recently. She did a Friday Night is Music Night concert I was at and also the last John Wilson Orchestra concert and I was quite disappointed. Anyway still glad I booked for this when it went on sale. You've not seen her in the Guys and Dolls Tour then? She is wonderful in that.
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Post by notmymuse on May 17, 2016 13:03:45 GMT
I am probably going to be in a minority of one but I am not that impressed with Louise Dearman recently. She did a Friday Night is Music Night concert I was at and also the last John Wilson Orchestra concert and I was quite disappointed. Anyway still glad I booked for this when it went on sale. I have mixed feelings about her. Her singing was the best thing about the Water Babies at Leicester, but I didn't love her in Wicked. It's a fairly decent name for Southwark though. Laura Pitt-Pulford, however, I am very excited about. Ever since Parade I've loved her. Very much looking forward to this now the names have been announced, feeling smug for booking tickets so early!
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Post by spendleb on May 17, 2016 14:48:57 GMT
I am probably going to be in a minority of one but I am not that impressed with Louise Dearman recently. She did a Friday Night is Music Night concert I was at and also the last John Wilson Orchestra concert and I was quite disappointed. Anyway still glad I booked for this when it went on sale. I have mixed feelings about her. Her singing was the best thing about the Water Babies at Leicester, but I didn't love her in Wicked. It's a fairly decent name for Southwark though. Laura Pitt-Pulford, however, I am very excited about. Ever since Parade I've loved her. Very much looking forward to this now the names have been announced, feeling smug for booking tickets so early! Me too, I bought a ticket on the front row ages back, I've loved the cast recording for ages.
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Post by broadwaylover99 on Aug 3, 2016 16:44:35 GMT
This seems to have gone very quiet. Knowing that the announcement for the Xanadu cast came out around this time last year makes me think that an announcement is imminent since SS is running at the same time Xanadu did. Who is everyone wanting for the three guys?
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Post by benny20 on Aug 14, 2016 21:14:29 GMT
Any tips on seating for Southark?
Is the seating Raked?
Is it best to be facing the Front?
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Post by broadwaylover99 on Aug 14, 2016 21:21:10 GMT
Any tips on seating for Southark? Is the seating Raked? Is it best to be facing the Front? Centre block is always my preference although it is always set and blocking dependant, as at Grey Gardens, I much preferred sitting on the side block due to some of the staging. Usually though, you can't go wrong with the centre block. And yes, it's raked
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Post by westendwendy on Aug 31, 2016 22:38:09 GMT
Any other casting updates? I've booked twice to see this already!!
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 31, 2016 22:39:06 GMT
A friend auditioned not long ago so I guess they're either still casting or coming to an end soon!
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 8, 2016 18:29:22 GMT
All rather quiet on this. The social media accounts haven't even been active since June.
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Post by westendwendy on Sept 8, 2016 22:42:51 GMT
Paul Taylor Mills needs to serious step up his social media for Side Show and stop ranting on about In The Heights that finishes in Jan!!!
Bring on the Freaks!!!
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Post by firefingers on Sept 8, 2016 23:34:43 GMT
If industry rumours are to be believed, he announced Side Show a lot earlier than he wanted to, to flex his muscle over Southwark as other producers announced shows that were running before it, including one he believed he had exclusive rights to, hence all going quiet. Though that is all friend of a former lover's roommate's nan as a source of course.
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Post by theatremadness on Sept 12, 2016 21:16:39 GMT
Not long to wait, then!!
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Post by mrsdanvers on Sept 13, 2016 14:44:22 GMT
That's a terrible hashtag!
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Post by ncbears on Sept 13, 2016 14:48:46 GMT
Eyes peeled. Business day is almost over. Perhaps their "tomorrow" is not my "tomorrow"?
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Post by 49thand8th on Sept 13, 2016 15:07:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 15:19:03 GMT
Surely not - Ian "H" Watkins??!
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Post by ncbears on Sept 13, 2016 15:29:31 GMT
They are following 734 people.
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Post by 49thand8th on Sept 13, 2016 15:43:38 GMT
Hey, you never know!
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Post by ali973 on Sept 13, 2016 15:49:51 GMT
So clever, this one! I can totally see Ashley Day as Buddy. I love Louise and I think she'll kill the singing, but I'm struggling to place her as young, naive and green. Who is she playing, Alice Ripley or Emily Skinner (the only way I identify these two characters).
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Post by 49thand8th on Sept 13, 2016 16:06:29 GMT
So clever, this one! I can totally see Ashley Day as Buddy. So can I, but the timing doesn't work out with American in Paris, does it?
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Post by ali973 on Sept 13, 2016 16:16:28 GMT
Oh I didn't know he was in AIP. I barely paid any attention to what that show is up to. Doesn't Side Show end on December 3rd and AIP begins in Feb?
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Post by ncbears on Sept 13, 2016 16:25:53 GMT
The cast will come out....tomorrow. Side_ShowUK @side_ShowUK 45m45 minutes ago One of our snakes escaped which caused havoc with our admin today. Press release containing all our freaks to land 10am tomorrow.
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Post by mallardo on Sept 13, 2016 16:32:37 GMT
So clever, this one! I can totally see Ashley Day as Buddy. I love Louise and I think she'll kill the singing, but I'm struggling to place her as young, naive and green. Who is she playing, Alice Ripley or Emily Skinner (the only way I identify these two characters). I believe she's Emily Skinner.
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Post by broadwaylover99 on Sept 13, 2016 17:37:18 GMT
So clever, this one! I can totally see Ashley Day as Buddy. I love Louise and I think she'll kill the singing, but I'm struggling to place her as young, naive and green. Who is she playing, Alice Ripley or Emily Skinner (the only way I identify these two characters). I believe she's Emily Skinner. Indeed she is. That's also the only way I can identify them
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