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Post by anthony40 on Mar 5, 2023 20:14:48 GMT
Well, that was lots of fun. Quite frankly, I couldn't have enjoyed that any more that I did.
Thank you mattnyc for the ticket.
I've actually never watched a full series of Bake-off and thus have not become attached to any of the bakers and their back stories or personal journeys.
I have seen several episodes of An Extra Slice.
But I have seen enough get all of the references.
I found this to be not only be enjoyable, but well thought through and constructed. Clever lyrics.
Simple, yet effective sets.
For what it was, I would throughly recommend this.
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 4, 2023 20:49:03 GMT
All booked!
My Credit Card this month, ugh (holds his head in his hand and rocks back and forth!)
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 3, 2023 14:17:39 GMT
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 3, 2023 11:36:30 GMT
Just like the boy himself, this story never grows old, does it?
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 3, 2023 9:45:37 GMT
Are there any plans for a new cast recording? I'd find it hard to believe that there wouldn't be. Don't forget they'll be a whole new demographic discovering the piece for the first time. It's not unlike Disney re-releasing all of their animated classic films for a new generation every 7 years or so.
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 2, 2023 19:11:33 GMT
Booked!
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 1, 2023 16:22:09 GMT
I guess Cameron Mackintosh has an excuse to drag out his multi-million dollar animatronic pig that's been hiding in a shed somewhere in the English countryside all these years and get her working again.
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 1, 2023 14:03:00 GMT
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 1, 2023 13:59:50 GMT
Oh, I forgot Mr Saturday night
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 1, 2023 13:02:51 GMT
In the stage adaptation I saw, Frollo's brother Djan (I think his name was) is seen. It's all explained in the prologue of the cast recording. Quasimodo is Djan's son after a reckless affair, left to Follo's care on his deathbed and it's because of his deformities that Frollo locks Quasimodo up in the bell tower, out of sight. Jehan That's it! Jehan.
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 1, 2023 13:02:14 GMT
I have seen both the film and read the book, of which I still have copy but in truth, it was so long ago that I can't remember the actual story. I vaguely remember a black transvestite, a death/murder and an underlying gay thread of the storyline
I do remember that the film had Kevin Spacey, Jack Thompson and (a very young- in fact I think one of his first roles) Jude Law.
For me, Jason Robert Brown is the new Sondheim and I love most of his work. I even m
I have seen him in concert, twice at The Palladium. I also saw the concert of Honyemoon in Vegas with Samantha Barks, Arthur Darvil, Norm Lewis and Maxwell Caufield.
The Last 5 Years, The Bridges of Madison County, Parade, Honeyoon in Vegas- all (simply) brilliant!
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Post by anthony40 on Mar 1, 2023 12:45:58 GMT
In the stage adaptation I saw, Frollo's brother Djan (I think his name was) is seen.
It's all explained in the prologue of the cast recording. Quasimodo is Djan's son after a reckless affair, left to Follo's care on his deathbed and it's because of his deformities that Frollo locks Quasimodo up in the bell tower, out of sight.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 28, 2023 13:04:24 GMT
A new official look at Sebastian in the upcoming ‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’ Disney live-action has been revealed in a new book cover
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 24, 2023 15:35:36 GMT
You know possibly it's the way my brain works but every time (I mean very single time) I see Ashley Banjo, with that trimmed moustache I can't help think of the animated image of Jafar from Aladdin
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 23, 2023 21:17:48 GMT
I know it's been said on here many times but that case recording is simply glorious.
Even with the song A Guy Like You being cut.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 23, 2023 20:54:23 GMT
#envy jj9692
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 22, 2023 22:25:43 GMT
Without him in the role, it is unlikely the show would have transferred. Whether or not his star power brings in enough theatregoers for the show to do well financially remains to be seen, but he is the foundation upon which the show's hopes for success are built. Got a gut feeling- at this stage there nothing to support this- again, just a gut feeling, this will be pro-shot.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 22, 2023 21:48:19 GMT
As I type this i am on a hotel room in Belfast.
Today I walked past the Grand Opera House and rather excitedly (frustrating if truth be told) a semi-professional production of this is being staged from Mar 7- 11 March.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 18, 2023 20:47:05 GMT
A tweet from Bernadette Peters
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 17, 2023 20:31:15 GMT
Gaston used Antlers in all of his decorating, they've done similar with the thing that killed all those deers with antlers That’s a stretch isn’t it? Hmm, possibly
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 17, 2023 16:01:01 GMT
Gaston used Antlers in all of his decorating, they've done similar with the thing that killed all those deers with antlers
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 17, 2023 11:45:52 GMT
The concept album was released in 1999 prior to the show's new/pre-Broadway production in Chicago (which was a disastrous hybrid of the Atlanta production and the eventual Broadway production). Yes, that date line makes sense because in 2000 Sydney hosted the Olympics and I remember the building I was working in was supposed to be a major security centre and I hate sports so I left and went the UK and New York with a friend, and we saw the show on our last night. (Again) from memory when Amneris sentenced them to death the lovers were singing and holding/caressing each other as the sand poured into the tomb and panels slid across till eventually the tomb filled till there was nothing and then the met each other in the museum as the show had started.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 17, 2023 9:40:07 GMT
I’m going purely from memory here- again, it was over 20 years ago since I saw the show- however the show opens in the Egyptology department of a modern day museum and flashes back to Ramades, leader of the Egyptian army returning from war in Nubia with slaves, including AIDA.
He is engaged to Amneris, however from his end, this is loveless. He gives AIDA to be her handmaiden.
However it is Mereb, Ramades’ personal servant who recognises AIDA for who she really is- a Princess of Nubia.
She begs him to keep quiet for her personal safety however it is when she returns to the settlement where the slaves are their squalid living conditions that she realises that she must speak up, in doing so, reveal her true identity. This is where AIDA sings The Dance of the Robes, with the slaves.
I do remember her father, the King captured when Ramades and his army invaded and AIDA going to visit him in jail.
I don’t remember her mother
Then the problem is Ramades and AIDA falling in love and keeping it from Amneris.
The score and lyrics are great, with My Strongest Suite being a highlight- especially with the way it is staged- initially in a luxurious bathhouse and then on a fashion runway.
The other great thing about this song is, whilst there’s no doubt it’s playful and fun, you soon realise that as the character of Amneris starts to develop and grow, there is a seriousness brewing underneath, especially in the reprise.
Interesting fact- AIDA was released as a concept album, just had Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Chess before it (all lyrics by Tim Rice) and on this concept album, My Strongest Suit was recorded by The Spice Girls.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 21:01:45 GMT
Intermission
Initial thoughts, very cleverly staged. HUGE cast!
I don’t know any of these songs.
No problems with the accents
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 16:23:24 GMT
Gypsy- the Let Me Entertain You sequence
Rose Tint My World- The Floorshow in the Rocky Horror Show
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 15:41:10 GMT
Everybody's got the right to be happy.
No one can be out in jail for their dreams!
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 15:05:35 GMT
Depending on how its being staged, that could work.
I remember the theatre we saw it on Broadway was HUGE!
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 14:21:39 GMT
Phantom of the Opera has the opera where Carlotta starts croaking like a frog
Both Frederick and Ann go and see a show in A Little Night Music.
There is a show within a show in Newsies
There is the whole Honeybun sequence in South Pacific
The Small House of Uncle Thomas in The King and I
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 13:50:43 GMT
The Little Mermaid and The Hunchback of Notre Dame are my two favorite Disney animated films.
The Caribbean Sebastian the Crab and the way he puckers his lips (do crabs have lips?).
There are a few highlights for me:
When Ursula is was 'selling' the idea of being a human to Ariel and she's arching her back saying "Look at me, wasting away to practically nothing" and she's heaving out of her dress.
When Ursula is taking Ariel's voice with her skeletal fingers; and
The whole Kiss the Girl sequence where the flamingos draw the willow leaves back like curtains, the reeds snap like flutes, the frogs on the paddles on Prince Eric's boat, the way the ducks turn the turtles over and use their underbellys as drums and then the fish swim in circles are spitting water out of their mouths to form a fountain- brilliant!
These, and the sequence at the beginning of the film when Ariel and Flounder are chased by the shark is what I'm looking to see in this re-make.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 16, 2023 11:04:59 GMT
So excited for Assassins and to see Luke Brady again in something.
Will be booking a full priced matinee for this.
It will be my first time attending a show at Chichester
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