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Post by loureviews on Jun 1, 2016 21:08:59 GMT
We're going. And like you, booked an awfully long time ago. I'm very much looking forward to it.
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Post by loureviews on May 29, 2016 13:43:39 GMT
A couple of talkers by me at Show Boat last night. Yes, we get it, you remember earlier productions. Yes, we get it, you know the songs. Yes, we get it, you want to hum along to the songs you know. Yes, we get it, you want to point out bits of the staging all the way through the show.
FGS.
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Post by loureviews on May 28, 2016 22:39:14 GMT
Well that was rather marvellous, and despite missing our on all the great deals we felt it was worth £60.
The ending though remains problematic. On balance I prefer the way it was handled in the 1950s film (i.e. without the huge time leap).
Sandra Marvin is brilliant. But a great cast, and lovely orchestrations.
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Post by loureviews on May 28, 2016 12:09:56 GMT
The OLC recording and original show were superb. The WYP version was terrible and the lyric changes laughable.
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Post by loureviews on May 18, 2016 6:24:04 GMT
I'm not sure about seeing Art again. I saw the tour with Nigel Havers, Roger Lloyd Pack and Barry Foster and it was an excellent play, but once seen not sure a revisit would have the same power.
I wonder who they will get this time?
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Post by loureviews on May 17, 2016 20:29:14 GMT
My mother liked Anton Lesser and therefore couldn't watch his death, she said he had better hair at the start, I suggested there were rather a lot of wigs involved, she was most disillusioned. He had a very impressive thatch as Fagin in 'Dickensian' recently as well. With that and 'Endeavour' he seems to be popping up everywhere right now so your mother shouldn't have too long to wait to see him again.
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Post by loureviews on May 16, 2016 19:40:27 GMT
Sleeping Beauty, Russian ballet company, Bradford St George's Hall. Front row.
Prince hops on in pink tights. Entire row gets the giggles. He did have a rather eyewatering box.
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Post by loureviews on May 16, 2016 11:20:06 GMT
Got my ticket super quick today. Front stalls. Loads gone in early booking periods.
Looking forward to this.
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Post by loureviews on May 12, 2016 17:26:02 GMT
La McCutcheon is practicing her Brooklyn accent as we speak. It's not a comeback. It's a return . . . . God help us. No.
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Post by loureviews on May 11, 2016 17:07:17 GMT
Jeremy Northam as Hamlet as the National in 1989 at the start of his career. Replacing two leads, in difficult circumstances.
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Post by loureviews on May 11, 2016 11:24:16 GMT
A friend pointed out that it has had next to no publicity which might also account for its London failure.
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Post by loureviews on May 10, 2016 21:36:06 GMT
I love the diverse opinions on here - personally I thought Nicole was terrible!
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Post by loureviews on May 9, 2016 17:29:10 GMT
*Sigmoidoscopy: Medical technique in which a camera on a flexible tube is inserted via the anus to inspect the digestive tract. Alarmingly, the procedure is often referred to as a "flexible sigmoidoscopy", which leads to the suspicion that there is such as thing as an inflexible sigmoidoscopy, which doesn't bear thinking about. It isn't remotely flexible, I can tell you from painful experience.
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Post by loureviews on May 8, 2016 16:35:04 GMT
And still performing and going strong. She played the role on Broadway not that long ago. Her performance of 'Liasons' at the Oliviers a few years back was sensational. She is pushed around in a wheelchair for her few scenes. And in Blithe Spirit she displayed an enviable amount of energy for a lady of her years. She'd be fantastic as Mme Arnfeldt.
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Post by loureviews on May 8, 2016 8:35:40 GMT
No, no no, My Man is totally the wrong song in the wrong place. Whatever its virtues musically it undercuts Fanny's journey with its soft sentiment. Michael Mayer or Harvey Fierstein, or whoever made the decision (I doubt Sheridan had anything to so with it), was right to exclude it. But it was Brice's signature song!
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Post by loureviews on May 3, 2016 6:51:19 GMT
Now you're just being silly.
But of course just as if you like classic musicals you will know Show Boat, Guys and Dolls, Carousel, Gypsy, King and I, maybe Pal Joey, Babes in Arms, Call Me Madam, then if you like 50s music you will not only know Elvis and Buddy Holly but also Bill Haley, Carl Perkins,Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde, Michael Holliday, Frankie Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Brook Benton, Bobby Vee, Alma Cogan and The Drifters ...
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Post by loureviews on May 2, 2016 17:13:04 GMT
Mine were all sorted alphabetically (and then chronologically for show repeats) but I had to transfer them rapidly from blanket box to cupboard recently and they're now just stacked in there randomly. A rainy day project, methinks! Mine outgrew the blanket box and are now in there and in several see-through plastic boxes. I don't worry about the order anymore.
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Post by loureviews on May 2, 2016 17:09:31 GMT
Just to perk up the conversation and take it away from Sheridan's personal life, can we all just take a moment to appreciate how much Sheridan has barely aged in 20 years and has been a huge talent since she was 13/14 in this video as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone... I can actually remember Sheridan as a little girl with The Daltons ...
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Post by loureviews on May 1, 2016 12:41:41 GMT
Thats a bit like saying that if you like music you can name all of the classic artists from the 50s. Which I can ...
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Post by loureviews on May 1, 2016 9:31:47 GMT
If you like musicals surely you will know all the classic titles?!
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Post by loureviews on May 1, 2016 9:30:46 GMT
I was told that someone proposed to their partner during Phantom last week. Right in the middle of 'All I Ask of You'. There was a mid song ripple of applause in that section of the audience when the person said yes. When we did that at least we waited until the interval (at the Connie Fisher Sound of Music)!
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Post by loureviews on Apr 28, 2016 11:26:54 GMT
Some adults don't understand blue material! Years ago I was at a comedy charity thing hosted by Liz Dawn which had Vince 'Ron Dixon from Brookside' Earl on the bill with some very questionable material, and a sweet old lady next to me kept asking me not just to repeat what he said but also explain it. It was a very long joke something to do with a snooker table and a potential male rape, if I remember correctly ...
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Post by loureviews on Apr 27, 2016 12:29:18 GMT
There's always the Bernadette Peters' version where she sings completely out of sync with the orchestra (I know there's a name for this but I have forgotten it!). I just love this. It's another of my all time favourite play it LOUD and singalong songs. I can even do it out of sync like she does! Available on the Hey Mr Producer! concert recording. Back-phrasing is possibly the word you're looking for here, and I must confess that Bernadette's Hey Mr Producer version is probably my favourite too. Every time I think of it in my head I think it can't be as bad as I'm imagining, then I watch it and yup.....there she is just completely ignoring the orchestra, conductor and tempo and doing her own thing and I just love it!!! But it is just a beautiful and amazing rendition of that song, so it doesn't matter one little bit.
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Post by loureviews on Apr 27, 2016 7:03:34 GMT
I love the original album. Have seen it live twice, as a full show with Rebecca Storm as Florence, and at the RAH in Concert.
It may be an uneven show, and obviously its politics with 'the US versus USSR' are dated, but the score and songs are excellent.
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Post by loureviews on Apr 24, 2016 21:02:31 GMT
If Glenn remains off and Ria goes down with something, they could always ask the other amazing Jones sibling to play Norma:
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Post by loureviews on Apr 24, 2016 9:33:53 GMT
The iPlayer version appears to be 35 minutes short of what was shown as it massively ran over.
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Post by loureviews on Apr 23, 2016 21:26:09 GMT
Didn't do them all but there were some gems including Jessie Buckley as Juliet, Toby Jones as Falstaff, Gemma Arterton in Love's Labour's Lost, the Pryces in The Merchant of Venice, James Norton as Richard II, etc. There were five screens not working between nos 5 and 25.
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Post by loureviews on Apr 23, 2016 18:14:54 GMT
Amazing that Ria Jones had never sung with the orchestra before her first night on Thursday! Isn't this rather unusual? And doesn't it reveal that the producers were really quite confident that she wasn't going to be going on? 'Speaking at the stage door, Jones admitted she completely understood the audience’s initial resentment, saying: “Of course. I'd have been disappointed if I'd turned up and found Glenn Close wasn't singing.”
Asked how she felt about her standing ovation, she added: ''I was gob smacked, just gob smacked.
'I'd never sung with the orchestra before. I've really just been watching her [Close] from the wings and learning that way.'' 'I thought she did the first rehearsals before La Close came into town?
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Post by loureviews on Apr 23, 2016 10:08:16 GMT
I would have liked to have seen Georgia Brown as Norma.
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Post by loureviews on Apr 22, 2016 18:15:02 GMT
I'd love to see Elaine Paige do it (if she could still sing it, which I doubt) No let's remember Elaine way back when she was an amazing Norma.
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