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Post by hulmeman on Jul 20, 2020 13:46:09 GMT
Scott Hunter (Yank!) for the lead please.
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Post by hulmeman on Jul 20, 2020 10:36:09 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53332613"Before coronavirus I'd started work on what I think is a great idea. We were trying out a new version of Tell Me On A Sunday, the musical Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote 40 years ago and I did the lyrics for. It was a hit in London and on Broadway." In 1979 it was a one-woman show about the romantic problems of a young Londoner living in the USA. The new version keeps the same basic era but makes the central character male and gay. It's not often I claim " theatre visionary" status, but it's true. Example one. About 150 years ago, I was living in digs near that there London and my landlady had only one "pop" LP and that was the soundtrack to "Summer Holiday". As I listened to it for the eight hundredth time, I mused how it could be adapted for the stage using a bloody big cut out bus and projected scenery. Now, I ask you, did it come to pass? Example two. I always thought "Tell me on a Sunday" would make a great "gay" musical. The emotions and the attitudes are the same and the story might even be sharper with the change of angle. Now as steve10086 points out, Don Black (the original lyricist and national treasure) has only gone and announced he and Lord Lloyd Andrew of Webber have already "workshopped" such a production. Give me a NODA medal now.
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Post by hulmeman on Jul 1, 2020 10:45:12 GMT
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Post by hulmeman on May 8, 2020 9:50:41 GMT
Look over there - La Cage aux folles
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Post by hulmeman on May 5, 2020 9:09:39 GMT
Young Frankenstein
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Post by hulmeman on May 5, 2020 9:06:06 GMT
You can't take it with you
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Post by hulmeman on May 4, 2020 13:04:56 GMT
Separate Tables
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Post by hulmeman on May 3, 2020 14:57:28 GMT
Hay Fever
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Post by hulmeman on May 2, 2020 14:58:54 GMT
Lettice and Lovage
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Post by hulmeman on May 2, 2020 13:03:33 GMT
No sex please we're British
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Post by hulmeman on Apr 27, 2020 9:07:43 GMT
Don't forget you crazy kids, 12:45 today, Channel 5!
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Post by hulmeman on Apr 7, 2020 9:21:45 GMT
Wonderful story, and they are the actions of a real star.
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Post by hulmeman on Apr 6, 2020 18:25:34 GMT
Honor Blackman was a regular musical theatre performer notably the 1981 acclaimed production of "The Sound of Music" and more recently was a perfect Mrs Higgins in "My Fair Lady" in 2005 and then "Cabaret". May she rest in peace. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52189803
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Post by hulmeman on Mar 17, 2020 14:37:14 GMT
Oh gosh, the monkey has just made the move I was about to make.
I thought I was the only one old enough to remember the Angel when it was a life-endangering experience to walk along that extremely narrow underground central platform between the two tracks, but one had to get to Sadler's Wells somehow to see all those Australian opera singers singing in very clear English.
In which case, despite my semi-self-isolation, I have no option but to offer my now local station, which brings a smile to my face (the name, not the station):
Upney Oh good move tonyloco. Memories of Dame Nellie Melba busking on the "Up Barking" platform. They don't write songs like that anymore.
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Post by hulmeman on Mar 17, 2020 14:31:57 GMT
Lockdown Rules? Not been in play since the "great doughnut collapse" of 1872 in the Congolese Tea Room at the New Moulting Theatre, Redditch after a Tuesday matinee in November. Still, at least it means tonyloco is permitted to play as it grants self-isolating immunity to pianists - the only way the tea-room one survived until they started serving theatre-dinner at 6.30pm, if I recall correctly. Angel. Thank you, you are pretty heavenly yourself. BUT Why theatremonkey do you have to complicate thing with these over explanations. Rather than all that rigmarole about Congolese tea rooms, just come clean and say it was BurleyBeaR's debut performance of the dance of the seven veils. Therefore - Cockfosters
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Post by hulmeman on Mar 17, 2020 12:42:24 GMT
So, many of us will be in a lockdown or a self isolating situation and to remedy the boredom this will bring, I suggest a game of Mornington Crescent, lockdown rules.
If any of you are unsure of the rules, turn to page 27 and all will be revealed.
I'll start us off with
THEYDON BOIS
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Post by hulmeman on Mar 16, 2020 11:17:12 GMT
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Post by hulmeman on Feb 17, 2020 20:10:09 GMT
Mary Poppins matinee booked! Chat in the evening booked!
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Post by hulmeman on Feb 15, 2020 10:16:02 GMT
Currently playing "The Bird Woman" in Mary Poppins, Petula has seventy odd years of entertainment stories to tell many of them from musical theatre and movie musicals! www.petulaclark.co.uk/news.html
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Post by hulmeman on Feb 15, 2020 10:07:18 GMT
I downloaded an album a couple of years ago with Cheyenne Jackson and Michael Feinstein called "The Power of two" a very good and interesting listen. Great rapport between the two of them and of course, great voices.
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Post by hulmeman on Feb 10, 2020 11:13:00 GMT
Phillip's private life is his own but he is a well known celeb and if him and his wife were divorcing or he'd run off with a younger woman then that would have been news as much as him coming out. Exactly right! This news was never going to sneak under the tabloid radar. Which is why I have formed the conclusion that all those keyboard warriors saying he should keep it to himself are saying that to disguise their dislike of matters homosexual.
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Post by hulmeman on Feb 9, 2020 20:11:55 GMT
If you want to see some thinly veiled homophobia take a look at some of the comments on the Dancing on Ice facebook pages (there are a couple!) There is a fear that J.Barrowman and H.Steps might show some solidarity with P.Schofield and if they do, "they" will never watch again. Their ire is also directed at H and Matt who apparently barely stood up on the ice tonight and should be struck down for their audacity and if they get through (they didn't) it would be because Barrowman kept them in (he didn't) . I suspect that DOI is just a bit to much for the reactionaries to cope with these days.
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Post by hulmeman on Feb 4, 2020 14:09:30 GMT
So just to summarise, the guy voluntarily retires, gets cold feet and decides he wants to be back in the panto, in the meantime the theatre have sensibly already moved on with plans to do something different, so he gets cross and basically kicks off a campaign to destroy the theatre and its finances, blaming everyone but himself? Wow. In a nutshell, yes!
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Post by hulmeman on Feb 4, 2020 11:08:52 GMT
Award winning Evolution Productions are producing this years Theatre Royal panto. "Cinderella". They'll need a few big names to make any headway against the Opera House.
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 31, 2020 10:51:49 GMT
Indeed, Mr Kaller does (to the outsider) seem like a bit of a pain. HE decided to retire from performing but still maintained a presence directing and appearing in a video as part of the show. Then, apparently, quite out of the blue, he joins in the curtain call last week and gave the TR bosses 3 days to change their mind....or else. Well clearly the "or else" was his deal with QDOS to move bag and baggage to the Opera House. Now don't tell me that deal was cobbled together overnight! He knew what he was orchestrating from the start.
The TR bosses don't come out of this at all well. They have cited falling audience numbers since 2008 as a reason for the change. Why didn't they do it when Mr Kaller retired last year and have a clean sweep. They also allowed the cast to make disparaging speeches from the stage at curtain call. They should have put a stop to that pdq! They are indeed now in a loose/loose situation.
I went to see Mr Kaller's final season, just to say I had. Clearly the man is a "god" to the audience, and I had been warned that I might not know what was going on at times. Not only did I not know what day of the week it was, I felt I'd stumbled in on a private party. Yes, I'm glad I went. Yes Mr Kaller is so very inventive and so refreshingly different, but the chaos which he conducts around him takes away so much of the enjoyment.
Me babbies me bairns indeed!
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 25, 2020 10:47:47 GMT
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 6, 2020 23:12:08 GMT
Only on this board is it a short hop from an honour for EP to a banana based cracker snack!
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 3, 2020 16:02:11 GMT
If you still need a panto fix I have four performances left at Altrincham Garrick Playhouse! Shameless isn't it!
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 3, 2020 15:56:56 GMT
I saw Danny in panto a few times, one of the great drag acts/female impersonators of all time. I wonder what happened to all his old costumes as they were fabulous. I met him once or twice after shows as I wanted something signed by him. He was always very gracious with his fans and apologised for taking a long time to leave as he explained that he and his dresser had to put all his costumes away with great care as he used his own costumes in panto. I can remember reading that he'd lost a lot of money in a con but he was quite philosophical about it saying he earned and spent a lot over his career. His old friend and (I think) gown maker Annie Galbraith still has many of his outfits and they are occasionally exhibited. There is a facebook page dedicated to him and here is a link to a documentary on his life, which is very enlightening. I saw him at the Hippodrome, Birmingham in the 1970's in a try out for the show which became "Danny at the Palace" it was a huge production. Toward the end of his career, I saw him in panto in Halifax and it was hard to imagine the fall in fortune he had endured because of being the victim of fraud. He really did have to work to make ends meet towards the end. It was a shame because he was way past his best. But, his best was brilliant.
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Post by hulmeman on Dec 27, 2019 11:23:33 GMT
Sad news this morning that the musical genius Jerry Herman has passed away aged 88.
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