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Post by couldileaveyou on Jul 1, 2021 9:31:04 GMT
Transferring to the Harold Pinter Theatre from Nov. 18 to Dec. 18
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 30, 2021 17:11:27 GMT
soundcloud.com/user-487955219/tom-deering-on-carousel-orchestrationFinally had a chance to listen to the Open Air Theatre podcast episode. Musical Supervisor + Orchestrator has excluded strings from the score of this piece and there will be changes to the key too to the songs. Theres a sample of how If I Loved You too. Not sure how I feel about this as I was hoping for a full orchestra but will wait to see it in person before I give a full opinion. Yeah, a couple of days ago Rebecca Caine was raging against the lowered keys
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 28, 2021 21:19:50 GMT
Was the original ever filmed? There’s so much merchandising around Harry Potter it seems odd they’ve not cashed in on the play more. By the time the pandemic hit Broadway it had started to struggle a little, the two plays format is harder to sell to tourists
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 28, 2021 19:19:01 GMT
Very interesting. Not unexpected but still interesting to see how they will handle it.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 28, 2021 10:18:22 GMT
Sedos have announced their new season of shows at the Bridewell in London... 28 September-2 October 2021: Ophelia Thinks Harder 26-30 October 2021: Working 24 November-4 December 2021: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 22-26 March 2022: The Mystery of Edwin Drood 10-14 May 2022: American Idiot 5-9 July 2022: Love! Valour! Compassion! 14-24 September 2022: A Midsummer Night's Dream 25-29 October 2022: Carrie: The Musical 23 November-3 December 2022: Amadeus I don't watch loads of amateur theatre, but frankly I don't know if there will ever be a revival of Love! Valour! Compassion! so I might give it a try
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 26, 2021 19:57:31 GMT
There are some absolutely gorgeous cemeteries that are wonderful to walk around, especially Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and Highgate Cemetery (in which you can also see the world's largest potted plant); Hyde Park Pets Cemetery too. I enjoy having a lunch break in the ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East, a church destroyed during the Blitz and turned into a public garden.
The underground Temple of Mithras is worth a watch, and the Old Operating Theatre Museum is creepy in a funny way and some times they show horror movies there. The Petrie Museum at UCL has a lovely and underappreciated collection of Egyptian Archeology. Also, despite being at the very center of the city, Banqueting Hall is very neglected by tourists and visitors: the Rubens' painting on the ceilings are just spectacular. From the top of One New Change there is a wonderful view of Saint Paul Cathedral.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 26, 2021 5:44:06 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 19, 2021 21:16:39 GMT
I always find annoying when they don't even try to cast a middle aged actress as Berthe. I understand the reasons why, but still it is not great. No Time at All is a great number and it's totally wasted on some 20 something chorus girl; it was particularly heinous in the recent Southwark production.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 18, 2021 12:33:55 GMT
I mean, I don't think the raising chandelier was ever in doubt, it's pretty much the main attraction
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 17, 2021 15:23:34 GMT
Just had a look at their website. Indecent says its a play with "small live Klezmer band". Looking at the cast there seem to be quite a few MT actors in it. Its not a production I am familiar with, does anyone know about it and if its a musical, play or play with music? Play
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 16, 2021 15:55:43 GMT
Joining the already announced Carly Bawden (Julie Jordan), Declan Bennett (Billy Bigelow), John Pfumojena (Enoch Snow), Joanna Riding (Nettie Fowler) and Natasha May Thomas (Louise Bigelow) are Brendan Charleson (Mr Bascombe), Jo Eaton-Kent (Mrs Mullin), Sam Mackay (Jigger Craigin), Ediz Mahmut (Young Enoch) and Christina Modestou (Carrie Pipperidge).
Appearing in the ensemble are Chanelle Anthony, Craig Armstrong, William Atkinson, Shay Barclay, Sarah Benbelaid, Madeline Charlemagne, Freya Field, Sebastian Goffin, Amie Hibbert, Tim Hodges, Lukas Hunt, Tessa Kadler, Lindsay McAllister, Matthew McKenna, Jack Mitchell, Charlotte Riby, Lisa Ritchie and Daisy West.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 16, 2021 7:53:23 GMT
Juliet Stevenson has a CBE (according to Wikipedia), but, yes, it's hard to believe she hasn't been offered a damehood. In reference to the RSC thread, I'd guess Alun Armstrong and Adrian Noble must have been offered honours and turned them down. Roger Allam too!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 15, 2021 19:18:13 GMT
I mean Jonathan Pryce got an Oscar nod last year, he's not exactly dwelling in obscurity. And he's also a two times Tony and Laurence Olivier Award winner. There are bigger names for sure, but I wouldn't say his career is inferior to SRB, especially on an international level.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 12, 2021 6:17:49 GMT
Well .... I saw this tonight. I was disappointed. The cast is great and it looks super - but it all falls a little flat. The singing was obviously all done in a studio beforehand... and there are no breaths/etc and it doesn’t look or sound natural, more like a lip sync recording. It’s all a little “plastic” if that makes sense and a tad over produced. Next up the book / changes. The story is thin anyway, but there were many times during the film where I was, well, bored. It’s almost 2 1/2 hours and it sadly dragged. I didn’t like the abstract drawing in mid air, that idea was never followed through. That said, the group street dance sections and montages are magnificent (though perhaps a tad busy and again over produced). The rap to pop to Latino melodies of this musical pre Hamilton are glorious as we all know. The music and dancing is what saves it - it was after all a wonderful stage show but this stage to screen version sadly lost its magic for me. Coming to the original stage show.... I was angry that they ramped up all the social division, politics and race issues too. Why? At one point I thought it was like watching social justice the musical. Also when was it meant to be set? 2015? 2020? Would there really be no white, Arab, Russian or Asian people living in the far upper east side area Washington Heights? Not ONE? Really? I thought this obvious Latino division meets ghetto made the film divided / especially the downtown scenes “where she met the white folk” and added sub text to characters journeys. Cringe. Empowerment and the fight for inclusivity I’m afraid can come across that you’re just fighting discrimination with discrimination. Ugh. For these book changes I sadly felt that it became a racially loaded musical about immigration, xenophobia (both ways), socio-economic tension in modern day NYC and racial division that it never EVER was on stage. Such a shame as the cast were superb. The book should have been left alone. I don’t understand your points regarding race whatsoever. Did you see the stage production - the London King’s Cross cast were the same diverse combination of ethnicities which you describe in the film. I personally find it baffling that you were even trying to look for a white actor. Actually the London production had a white Usnavi, a casting decision that got its own share of criticism. In a particularly unfortunate interview the actor acknowledged this but also said that he grew up listening to rap and hip hop, which for him seemed to equate being a person of colour somehow. But yeah the casting of the movie mirrors the casting of the original Broadway production, but to be fair there is little point in engaging with musicalmarge when they start railing against race and casting. Their "For these book changes I sadly felt that it became a racially loaded musical about immigration, xenophobia (both ways), socio-economic tension in modern day NYC and racial division that it never EVER was on stage" really tells you everything you need to know about their understanding of the show.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 11, 2021 14:35:12 GMT
Yeah I sincerely doubt it will be someone as huge as Dench, it would have been announced straight away. She'll be played by some recognisable name like Monica Dolan or Clare Burt. There's hardly a lack of well known middle aged actresses in British showbiz
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 10, 2021 15:46:42 GMT
The officially confirmed it is at the Playhouse Theatre
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 10, 2021 14:38:47 GMT
first trailer
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 9, 2021 14:42:23 GMT
To premiere on Netflix in December 2022
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 9, 2021 7:21:01 GMT
Not related to the London production, but Rebecca Caine is posting some interesting articles on her Christine days in Toronto:
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 7, 2021 11:33:07 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 5, 2021 6:53:18 GMT
Mark Shenton is once again doing cogent and important journalism I see
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 4, 2021 17:43:32 GMT
Returning on Broadway for 99 performances starting from September 25th, with Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Adrian Lester
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 2, 2021 19:36:05 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 1, 2021 17:07:36 GMT
Does anyone really want to see a dirty looking Sally Bowles croaking out Maybe This Time? No. Except the Broadway audience who saw the Sam Mendes' revival running for 6+1 years with mostly non belting Sallies? Or John Kander himself saying Judi Dench is the best Sally he has ever seen? Or more generally the audiences of most post-movie revivals which had healthy runs without powerhouse belters both in London and on Broadway?
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 31, 2021 20:51:44 GMT
Besides at this point of his career playing Cliff would be quite anticlimactic
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 31, 2021 18:40:05 GMT
I agree. There's the obvious problem that an insane murderer is treated as the most eligible of bachelors by every young woman who meets him, but apart from that it's an OK show with some great musical numbers. It absolutely baffles me that we are supposed to find it plausible that a young woman engaged to a rich, handsome Viscount who she had known since childhood suddenly decides just before her wedding to go & have sex with a psychopathic, deformed, multiple murderer & stalker! I remember the one time I saw the show live sitting there simultaneously hating the plot & what had been done to the characters while getting goosebumps from some of the music. If only the lovely music had been used for a better plot. Poor Piangi was still warm and yet she chose to ride the Phantom's gondola smh
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 31, 2021 18:31:09 GMT
Don’t you think that was possibly intentional though? Just because he has CP doesn’t mean he can’t be an arse. People can have disabilities and not necessarily be nice or sympathetic characters. The character’s sexual confidence grows massively during this season and many will recognise how that can change people. I think this series was as much about Ryan’s best friend and mum’s storylines which I really enjoyed. Ah, now I did wonder about that. Just seemed odd to write your own story and make you out to no be so great. But honest and realistic I guess. Felt very sorry for Tanner. Agreed. He definitely did a faux pass at the prom, but he also got an unnecessary amount of crap for other things, especially the douching accident (no pun intended!).
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 30, 2021 12:12:56 GMT
For me it's Fra Fee, I saw him in Les Misérables, Candide, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Ferrymen, Translations, A Little Night Music and Kings of Broadway
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 26, 2021 9:46:56 GMT
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