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Post by lonlad on Dec 11, 2016 1:08:43 GMT
Alison's point is well taken but the simple answer is that press were in tonight so they needed everyone present .... and thank heavens coz I can't imagine a better Jimmy Early than Adam J Bernard - quite quite spectacular. The Curtis sounded a bit under the weather but was certainly more than up to the task and moves very well. All three Dreams were thrilling. Ms Jack has the most SENSATIONAL voice.
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Post by lonlad on Dec 8, 2016 1:07:42 GMT
I like "in its own rite" :-)
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Post by lonlad on Dec 7, 2016 15:31:07 GMT
SHEPPEY and iHo at Hampstead have both cancelled shows within the last fortnight.
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Post by lonlad on Dec 7, 2016 15:30:09 GMT
Word on the street is that it will be Lucy Bailey, most likely. She was on the shortlist last time and has straddled all the various regimes - and she's radical without being rabidly so.
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Post by lonlad on Dec 7, 2016 13:10:37 GMT
Bring back Paul Rogers and Freddie Jones - the original Sirs in New York (Rogers) and London (Jones) - neither has ever been surpassed, certainly not by Stott - a great actor in entirely the wrong part for him.
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Post by lonlad on Dec 7, 2016 13:08:17 GMT
Parsley's comparison up above is ridiculous. What in heaven's name do sales for a tiny venue like the Almeida (325) have to do with a huge commercial playhouse like the New London?
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Post by lonlad on Dec 7, 2016 9:47:14 GMT
Ah, I love power naps !! There should be a shortlist somewhere of the best places to take them :-)
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Post by lonlad on Dec 6, 2016 14:40:03 GMT
Yes, it's pretty hoary stuff and Rintoul more or less eats the scenery whole but it has a great performance by the young actor Alex Bhat and the play itself will make you steer clear of medics for the rest of time ..... :-)
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Post by lonlad on Dec 5, 2016 1:25:39 GMT
The Irish Hospitals Sweepstake *was* a lottery:
>>The Irish hospitals' sweepstake was a horse-racing based lottery established in the Irish Free State in 1930 to build new hospitals and improve facilities.
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Post by lonlad on Dec 4, 2016 23:36:45 GMT
It's quite wonderful but friends had tickets on Thursday and said the show was canceled due to absence of understudies - as was true with the Hampstead Theatre/Kushner play the day before - any idea if performances resumed Friday/Saturday? John Ramm is brilliant in the title role.
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Post by lonlad on Dec 4, 2016 23:34:51 GMT
If this is as good as their HAPGOOD, we are in for a treat - one of the best productions of 2015!
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Post by lonlad on Dec 3, 2016 23:58:11 GMT
It was 30 years ago at the Lyttelton - and was brilliant !
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Post by lonlad on Dec 3, 2016 0:28:12 GMT
It's a gorgeous curio of a musical, always has been and always will be. Done well, it is a near-total enchantment. Time will soon tell if this one is done well. And, yes, the Ruthie Henshall/Traci Bennett version won five Oliviers, rather amazingly.
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Post by lonlad on Nov 29, 2016 1:48:32 GMT
What's the scoop on this (off Facebook)
Dreamgirls had paramedics and a prolonged interval!
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Post by lonlad on Nov 25, 2016 18:09:18 GMT
These swapping overs are beginning to seem less aesthetically driven and more a tiresome gimmick. Then again, Lia Williams is so astonishing that one wishes she could be in everything; the same is not so of her esteemed co-star, helas ....
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Post by lonlad on Nov 25, 2016 15:58:09 GMT
Is the play happening tonight? I have rebooked for tomorrow afternoon.
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Post by lonlad on Nov 24, 2016 1:13:53 GMT
Victoria H-B is the wrong ethnicity for Hamilton unless she were to play the King ??
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Post by lonlad on Nov 24, 2016 1:06:48 GMT
Casey Nicholai/Nicholas/Nicholaw ... pick one, fellas
(it's like a question from the National Theatre quiz)
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Post by lonlad on Nov 23, 2016 12:51:11 GMT
And it's all sold out and closing Saturday so there will be a lot of playgoers who presumably won't get into see it ... I wonder who it is who's ill?
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Post by lonlad on Oct 15, 2016 23:11:50 GMT
Saw it tonight and thought it was largely wonderful --- Valerie Cutko (referenced in the above post: she plays Emma Goldman) does have a sort of man-in-drag look but she's always had that vibe and it certainly is distinctive. The acting in the show is very strong, especially Tushaw, who is unbelievably touching, and the Evelyn Nesbit, who is quietly brilliant. Earl Carpenter nothing special but the production around him is, and I welcomed a change from the Garth Drabinsky-inspired Broadway overkill.
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Post by lonlad on Oct 11, 2016 13:01:13 GMT
and Ben Forster is REALLY a poor Phantom - can't act at all and has the strangest singing voice, which veers from being nonexistent and virtually inaudible to an ear-splitting bray with almost nothing in-between to seduce the ear. That is a real problem in a show where that character HAS to play the seducer, otherwise it makes no sense (Crawford of course understood all this entirely). But Celinde by contrast was a total revelation - possibly the best-sung Christine I have ever seen and without any doubt the best acted. I don't know how many other roles there are for her around the West End, but she is a major talent. (The Raoul was a blank, and not especially prepossessing.)
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Post by lonlad on Oct 11, 2016 1:23:32 GMT
What's the big deal with 2 hrs no interval??? Most Oscar candidate films are a lot longer than that and ALSO have no interval. Not worth comment.
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Post by lonlad on Oct 6, 2016 11:43:13 GMT
Sorry to say but this is puerile tosh, of interest I suppose mostly to people for whom Fifty Shades of Grey is profound. The cast work hard (some more than others) but the whole thing is so pointlessly risible that you need Ramin's bare chest to generate at least some mild audience reaction. Poor Kerry kept getting entangled when it came time for her supposed disrobing. Embarrassing tripe masquerading as trendiness.
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Post by lonlad on Sept 25, 2016 13:19:54 GMT
I wouldn't say it's "pointless", it's just not very good, and only 1 of the 4 actresses even begins to connect with her character. the design, however, is GORGEOUS - Fotini Dimou is the star here. otherwise, best avoided.
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Post by lonlad on Aug 31, 2016 0:15:27 GMT
Yes, Roy Cohn
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Post by lonlad on Aug 31, 2016 0:05:06 GMT
Times 2* The Arts Desk 3*
I would give it 3 --- second act a lot livelier than the first - quite a few walkouts, it seemed, up in the Circle -- not a patch on the Lindsay/Ferris production
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Post by lonlad on Jul 27, 2016 12:28:07 GMT
and he was also Stephen Fry's partner for a good long while - works constantly -
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Post by lonlad on Jul 21, 2016 23:14:39 GMT
Just home from press night and this is far and away the best JCS I have seen (and I've seen at least a half dozen or so over the years) - profound bravi to all concerned! :-)
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Post by lonlad on Jun 20, 2016 23:30:35 GMT
Didn't see it at the Old Red Lion but I caught the transfer, which is pretty dreadful. Most of the cast can't get to grips with the sounds of the characters, let alone anything deeper, and the play would have been better left untouched - sad to say, there's often a reason why esoterica remains precisely that.
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Post by lonlad on Jun 12, 2016 15:26:27 GMT
thank you so much - incredibly helpful !! :-)
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