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Post by Sue on Feb 24, 2024 1:53:44 GMT
I’ve just listened to it viserys, it is indeed gorgeous!
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Post by Sue on Jan 17, 2024 20:59:43 GMT
I’m obsessed with Chess på svenska (2002)! Not that I can speak or understand Swedish but I don't need to, I can feel it all through the music and singing. Love this interpretation and Helen Sjoholm, just wow what a voice. Her delivery of Lämna inga dörrar på glänt (Nobody’s Side) is the best version I’ve ever heard. Tommy Korberg puts in a cracking performance too. Helen Sjoholm has a fine voice and has been associated with both Denny & Bjorn for quite some time. She plays the female lead in Kristina in a concert version of the musical at Carnegie Hall, New York, on 23 and 24 September 2009. She sang as her previous title character while Russell Watson sang as Karl Oskar. Vocally, she was in Mamma Mia- Here we go again. In the scene where they're dancing at the party, she can be heard singing Hasta Mañana. She also sang extensively with Benny Andersonn's band. I had no idea she’s in Here We Go Again 🤷♀️ Maybe I’ll have to try for the umpteenth time to sit down and watch it. Maybe I’ll enjoy it if I know she’s in it!
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Post by Sue on Jan 17, 2024 20:12:12 GMT
I’m obsessed with Chess på svenska (2002)! Not that I can speak or understand Swedish but I don't need to, I can feel it all through the music and singing. Love this interpretation and Helen Sjoholm, just wow what a voice. Her delivery of Lämna inga dörrar på glänt (Nobody’s Side) is the best version I’ve ever heard. Tommy Korberg puts in a cracking performance too.
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Post by Sue on Jan 17, 2024 19:55:33 GMT
Just listening to Elaine Stritch At Liberty. I saw this show at The Old Vic years ago and it was something to behold. Well worth a listen to, it's a mixture of songs and fantastic stories from her career and very, very funny. Aw yes, once a month or so I play this album - so lovely to listen to hear her sing and tell such fantastic stories because (embarrassed) I was only familiar with her name when I heard that she’d died. Such a character and what a life lived.
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Post by Sue on Jan 17, 2024 18:45:12 GMT
Does it constitute bad behaviour when two (not small) guys in the front row snag booster seats for themselves in front of a highish, but not that bad, stage? If I’m sitting behind them, then yes cos I’m a short arse and struggle at the best of times with people in front of me!
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Post by Sue on Mar 16, 2018 20:54:06 GMT
Steady. I'm from Yorkshire, tha knows!!! Skills! So can you help me too pleased?! I'd like to see 'Northern Exposure', 'Pacific Drive' and 'Eldorado' again - all blasts from my past and hugely enjoyable at the time. Those last 3 words may apply specifically to NE and PD!
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Post by Sue on Mar 2, 2018 18:28:03 GMT
Hopefully flying from Birmingham on Sunday for a week in Fuerteventua - hopefully! Booked months ago.
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Post by Sue on Mar 2, 2018 18:06:55 GMT
I ❤️ Helen Sjöholm
The late, incredibly great, Josefin Nilsson was also sublime as Svetlana in that production.
Not from the production itself but a live performance from Swedish show 'Allsång på Skansen' just shows how glorious they were.
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Stunningly beautiful, Ryan and sadly another voice of an angel taken far too young x
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Post by Sue on Feb 27, 2018 9:40:20 GMT
I love this score and so wanted the casting to be good enough to warrant the trip to London but given the recent casting news, I'll happily stick with watching and listening to the Swedish production on YouTube! Helen Sjoholm as Florence was phenomenal and wish I'd been able to see that live. I love the staging and her performance for 'Nobody's Side'.
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Post by Sue on Feb 27, 2018 9:27:14 GMT
The fact that the same issue has occurred at every show I've seen there bar one tells me it's a Hippodrome issue. I usually sit in stalls somewhere between row D and J but I've also sat further back of stalls, in the boxes and the Grand circle but wherever I sit, it's the same old. And before someone says it, hearing tests I've had over the years show that I'm all good on that front!
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Post by Sue on Feb 27, 2018 9:15:20 GMT
My partner and I were just talking about this show at the weekend and both said we'd like to see it again if it toured. I saw it in the West End some 17 ish years ago and she saw it at Bristol on a previous tour around the same sort of time (but she's rubbish with dates!). I'll watch developments with interest.
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Post by Sue on Feb 27, 2018 9:01:40 GMT
Anyhoo, so here's what I think!
So I saw this in Bristol last week and had the privilege of seeing Amy Ross. Wow, that girl's got a pair of lungs! She knocked it out of the park and her acting was just as good as her singing! Never seen her before but I'll keep an eye out for future shows to see if I like her just as much doing something different. Helen Woolf was also on but I found her voice quite weak and nasally and her acting wasn't there. And then there was Aaron Sidwell...ahem.
Wicked had been on my list of shows to see for ages so I'm really pleased I've seen it. I didn't love it but I did enjoy it.
Sadly there was the ever present issues with sound at Bristol Hippodrome. A number of times Amy started speaking and singing and her mic didn't pick her up so the lips were moving but there was no sound. And Helen's mic struggled with her weaker voice apart from when she did her screachy bits. I don't know why Bristol is unable to sort this out but it's always been the same issue at every single show I've seen apart from WNO's Sweeney Todd (which was abs shamazing by the way!)
So that's what I think x
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Post by Sue on Feb 10, 2018 21:47:38 GMT
Chilling with a Chinese and a cheeky cider on my birthday. Happy Birthday!
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Post by Sue on Oct 19, 2017 20:37:34 GMT
We definitely had a good behaviour thread on this forum, but I've been through General Chat twice now and can't find it. Shout out to the woman at the Soho Theatre who not only made sure her phone was switched off prior to the play starting but also removed the battery, presumably to make sure the phone didn't switch itself back on in her bag. Now that's commitment to being a good audience member! Or she's wanted by the Police or security service and knew that her phone would still be traceable (turned on or off) whilst the battery was still in?!
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Post by Sue on Oct 14, 2017 22:24:35 GMT
Madalena Alberto for Florence.
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Post by Sue on Oct 14, 2017 19:54:26 GMT
She was in character. Hot character...so she had to keep the hair off her face you see!
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Post by Sue on Oct 14, 2017 19:51:22 GMT
Plenty of time, she's a Tina fan, she can dance, she can (apparently) act - it's gotta be!
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Post by Sue on Oct 14, 2017 19:48:52 GMT
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Post by Sue on Oct 14, 2017 19:24:49 GMT
Alexandra Burke could do it. With her finger in her ear I'm not a Burke fan but I've just watched her dance to Proud Mary in Strictly (wonder whose song choice that was) and heard her react in awe when Bruno said he'd worked with Tina. Mmm....I wonder.
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Post by Sue on Aug 23, 2017 20:54:32 GMT
Oh yes...have I told you the story of the friend who told me she 'couldn't really talk to me anymore because you don't have a husband' Wow... maybe she's one of those people who can only talk about one thing? Like people from work, constantly talking about work... And like parents who can only talk about their child/children. And talking of which...I saw a consultant today due to ongoing and escalating lady-related matters and he told me that I'd be unable to have the medically and personally preferred op BECAUSE I haven't had children naturally. So yet again, I've been f***ed over by not having children!
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Post by Sue on Aug 11, 2017 17:57:09 GMT
Left work at 4pm. So that means I don't have to lay eyes...or ears...on my idiot, loud and lazy colleagues until 8am Monday. Yay!!
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Post by Sue on Aug 8, 2017 19:01:20 GMT
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Post by Sue on Aug 8, 2017 18:53:49 GMT
I've got sore lips now thanks to the badly finished, rough rimmed plastic flute I was given at Birmingham on Saturday night. You don't get that with glass!
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Post by Sue on Aug 8, 2017 18:30:19 GMT
My thought exactly Monkey!
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Post by Sue on Aug 8, 2017 12:11:25 GMT
Who is Zowie Cavie? I think Joreen Bautista was Kim for the evening show. It would have only been her or Aynrand (who did the matinee). If you're being serious... Taffy was a character in the utterly brilliant cartoon Captain Caveman and she would regularly screech "zowie Cavey" having just come up with a plan! I suspect it was Joreen I saw, simply because she did look really young.
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Post by Sue on Aug 6, 2017 20:48:35 GMT
I was at Birmingham last night too. I didn't take to Chris, due to the tone of his voice and I felt his acting let him down but I loved the Kim that was on - Zowie Cavie, now SHE can sing!
Gigi was Marsha Songcome (I believe) and I loved her performance. Movie in my Mind was the standout for me and the entire ensemble was really strong. I was otherwise really disappointed with this show though - it didn't flow well, with chunks that could easily have been omitted.
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Post by Sue on Jul 19, 2017 20:52:50 GMT
Had a gorgeous holiday in Fuerteventura but I'm now back at work...hmph!
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Post by Sue on Jul 6, 2017 21:57:29 GMT
I don't know what it is, but this looks totally wrong. I think it could be her "there's a dirty old smell under my nose" facial pose.
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Post by Sue on Jun 28, 2017 6:14:29 GMT
Cheers cheesey, I'll check it out.
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Post by Sue on Jun 19, 2017 19:23:58 GMT
Did scarper in the interval of Shawshank Redemption...oh my, what on earth was I thinking booking those tickets?
Wanted to scarper in the interval for Billy Elliot, Bodyguard and Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time...over-hyped and not that good.
So so SO wanted to scarper in the interval of Cats...oh my days...what the? I mean...really?
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