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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2020 12:25:32 GMT
Couldn’t tell you @sharpe12. I had never seen it before and found it extremely forgettable. She was in a flat, there was the one about the zoo, the one about take that look off your face, and a telephone was involved. That’s all I can remember! Haha! I mean certainly that’s a pretty realistic summary of all versions! |
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 24, 2020 12:43:02 GMT
Didn't the DVO production have text messages being sent back and forth, and wasn't there a scene set on an aeroplane?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 24, 2020 12:49:57 GMT
God no, there were no text messages on the Prenger tour. It wasn’t even a mobile phone. In fact I’m wondering now if they set it in the original period. It might have been a trimphone! There may have been a tightly belted white mac, but don’t quote me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2020 12:55:53 GMT
Didn't the DVO production have text messages being sent back and forth, and wasn't there a scene set on an aeroplane? Yeah. Was called Haven In The Sky and had a VO by Julian Clary! Wasn’t great lol. Don’t recall texts but they went on about e mails a lot. 1st letter home became 1st e mail home I think?! Etc etc. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 24, 2020 12:59:20 GMT
Well, I wasn’t far off. Looks like the GPO8746 rotary, widely in use at the time of the trimphone. And the Mac is brown. So shoot me!  |
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Post by steve10086 on Jul 24, 2020 13:34:14 GMT
Not sure if ALW and Don Black can fully get in the head of a gay man If what Sarah Brightman said about ALW is true, it would need to be a gay man with talent  |
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 24, 2020 14:17:37 GMT
Thanks @sharpe12. That'll be it. To a luddite like me, text messages and emails are all the same! 🙂
I think we had a GPO8746...in advocado. We were on a waiting list for about 10 years, and when it was finally our turn, it was a party line, or nothing. When Mater wanted to talk to 'Aunty' Win down the road, she'd send one of us to ask her to pick up the phone. This, of course, was in the days of state ownership.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 24, 2020 14:50:45 GMT
Thanks @sharpe12 . That'll be it. To a luddite like me, text messages and emails are all the same! 🙂 I think we had a GPO8746...in advocado. We were on a waiting list for about 10 years, and when it was finally our turn, it was a party line, or nothing. When Mater wanted to talk to 'Aunty' Win down the road, she'd send one of us to ask her to pick up the phone. This, of course, was in the days of state ownership. I remember when we got ours and my mum told me that when I got home from school that day there would be a phone in the house. ”what colour are we having?” I squeaked, even at that tender age the unhealthy interest in interior design was evident. Would it be the classic yet elegant Ivory? The exotic Avocado? “It’s a lovey mushroom colour” came the reply. I spent all day racking my brains what the hell a mushroom phone looked like because I knew for a fact I’d never seen one. Ran home excitedly to find this monstrosity  Two Tone Grey. The dreariest and most utilitarian of the lot. Thanks mum 🙄 |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 24, 2020 15:08:55 GMT
I think the key to what they are attempting is keeping it with the original period setting. So pre-internet (and possibly pre-AIDS) - which would avoid any references to Grindr and online stuff.
I know how I want it to be - just hope it matches what is in my head!
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Post by distantcousin on Jul 24, 2020 16:27:39 GMT
Didn't the DVO production have text messages being sent back and forth, and wasn't there a scene set on an aeroplane? Yeah. Was called Haven In The Sky and had a VO by Julian Clary! Wasn’t great lol. Don’t recall texts but they went on about e mails a lot. 1st letter home became 1st e mail home I think?! Etc etc. Correctamundo. I saw this production with Faye from Steps - much preferred it to the Claire Sweeney tour. |
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Post by alece10 on Jul 25, 2020 8:24:22 GMT
I still remember the original production at the Palace Theatre with Marti Webb which was part of Song and Dance with Wayne Sleep. Saw a further production of Tell Me.... with Denise Van Outen a few years ago but it wasnt that memorable
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Post by distantcousin on Mar 23, 2023 8:51:21 GMT
This is being shown on BBC4 this Saturday - for what must be the first time in decades?!
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Post by richey on Mar 23, 2023 9:39:39 GMT
This is being shown on BBC4 this Saturday - for what must be the first time in decades?! is that going to clash with the Lottery Musicals show on BBC1? |
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Post by distantcousin on Mar 23, 2023 10:43:08 GMT
This is being shown on BBC4 this Saturday - for what must be the first time in decades?! is that going to clash with the Lottery Musicals show on BBC1? Beg your pardon, next THURSDAY |
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Post by robertb213 on Mar 23, 2023 10:52:24 GMT
A lower-quality recording has been on YouTube for a while.
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Post by newyorkcityboy on Mar 23, 2023 11:49:57 GMT
Intrigued by a gay male version of this, I - like many it seems - had the idea to do one thirty years ago, while studying music at Uni. Mainly cos the songs were in my key. (Easier than transposing!) I fiddled around with the lyrics a bit but never got round to performing it.
We played the album to death at home when I was a little child. Never seen the tv version so will be ‘tuning in’ for sure!
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 23, 2023 13:18:15 GMT
Maybe they’re screening it for a future DVD/Blu-Ray release?
It was previously released on VHS.
I have the Bernadette Peters cast recording on CD.
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Post by newyorkcityboy on Mar 31, 2023 6:48:13 GMT
This, apart from School of Rock, was ALW’s only contemporary work; all his other shows are period or fantasy pieces. Maybe his next show should be hyper-modern. Love Island, The Musical? Or The Ballad of Harry & Meghan?!
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Post by dazzlair on Mar 31, 2023 13:15:32 GMT
This, apart from School of Rock, was ALW’s only contemporary work; all his other shows are period or fantasy pieces. Maybe his next show should be hyper-modern. Love Island, The Musical? Or The Ballad of Harry & Meghan?! Does School of Rock count? |
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Post by Oleanna on Mar 31, 2023 13:49:02 GMT
This, apart from School of Rock, was ALW’s only contemporary work; all his other shows are period or fantasy pieces. Maybe his next show should be hyper-modern. Love Island, The Musical? Or The Ballad of Harry & Meghan?! Does School of Rock count? Why wouldn’t it? |
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 31, 2023 14:20:24 GMT
I've never actually ever seen this, only the Sarah Brightman version on VHS, many years ago.
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Post by karloscar on Mar 31, 2023 16:19:10 GMT
Nothing new under the sun. ALW leading lady armed with a can of spray paint. No not BadCindy, but Marti Webb during the titles for Tell Me On A Sunday. (Watching it again there's humour and wit, subtlety,variety and delicacy and a huge range of emotions totally missing from all the bombastic beltiness of his recent offerings.)
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Post by distantcousin on Mar 31, 2023 20:26:39 GMT
Watching now. Not entirely sure if it was sung live or mimed?!
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2023 21:02:21 GMT
Remember going to buy this from the record shop in Stockton Heath aged 7. I wasn’t taken with the waistcoat but loved TTLOYF…the album as a whole took some time to like. Several high points made it worthwhile but its not classic LW is it?
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Post by karloscar on Mar 31, 2023 23:04:19 GMT
Watching now. Not entirely sure if it was sung live or mimed?! Lloyd Webber says it was live at the start for what it's worth, and it's different from the version released on record. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 31, 2023 23:40:00 GMT
I had never heard the full Marti Webb version before watching this.
I think I still prefer the Brightman Song and Dance version of the score. But then that is the cassette and video I had.
Any version without Unexpected Song isn't right!
It was good to see it on TV. It is still a show for which I have a lot of time.
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Post by mkb on Mar 31, 2023 23:49:49 GMT
Watching now. Not entirely sure if it was sung live or mimed?! Lloyd Webber says it was live at the start for what it's worth, and it's different from the version released on record. Just watching now. On the first track at least, Webb is singing live but with pre-recorded backing singers who are her as well I think. |
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Post by saral on Apr 1, 2023 15:45:04 GMT
Not TMOAS but the the 50 yr old film version of Jesus Christ Superstar was on BBC4 before it, wasn't a fan when i saw the show but enjoyed the film, it's on IPlayer
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Post by steve10086 on Apr 1, 2023 18:43:00 GMT
Just watched the recording from Thursday. Marti was (and is) a class act. This was long before I became an ALW fan, but it was this kind of thing that intrigued me about him - all the varied works, not just blockbuster West End shows. I wish he’d continued that way.
I saw Marti take over from Denise van Outen in the revised version, then again at the Other Palace (St James?) years later. That was a surreal night when Marti reached down from the stage and took my hands at the end of the show.
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Post by drowseychap on Apr 2, 2023 1:42:43 GMT
I had always wanted to see marti live and finally got the chance just after covid when theatre opened social distancing…. It was a wonderful evening She looked so nervous as she walked on and even said my first live show in over 18months I’m scared … so much love for her was only about 60 in the audience… some songs were fab some not so her voice cracked on quite a few and missed the money note on 2 songs from this show and she visibly winced looked very upset with herself and then mouthed sorry … we were just willing her on we didn’t care it was Marti Webb ! Her stories and anecdotes were very interesting too
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