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Post by dazzerlump on May 27, 2016 17:40:14 GMT
I love how "Technical Issues" has a whole new meaning now after Funny Girl.. youll be seeing Aladdin's carpet out in Soho on a Friday night and then Saturday matinee he'll be suffering from Technical issues!
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 27, 2016 18:06:59 GMT
How can any Kenwright show have 'technical issues' when 40p is spent on them?
Except maybe it's that the set hasn't turned up.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 20:09:55 GMT
It's a small cast and a single piano! Technical issues?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 20:27:18 GMT
There may be lavish football special effects to perfect
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 27, 2016 20:29:11 GMT
Maybe technically no one has bought any tickets..
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Post by Jon on May 27, 2016 20:30:13 GMT
Maybe Michael Crawford is having technical difficulties?
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 27, 2016 20:33:23 GMT
I'm going next Wednesday, I hope it's fine.
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Post by synchrony on May 28, 2016 11:08:54 GMT
This should team up with Show Boat and Mrs Henderson Presents and do a buy two get one free deal. I cannot imagine this appealing to anyone 50 or below. Err, I am well under 50 and it appeals to me. I have never seen Michael Crawford perform so he is a draw. I also love English literature. I am excited to see something new. So I bought a ticket ages ago. (I also saw Show Boat in Sheffield and admittedly did feel like one of the younger people there. But the show was full, and the show was good so what did it matter? I hope I have many more years of theatre going ahead of me.) |
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 28, 2016 12:39:46 GMT
I'm not gonna lie, I'm 20 and I'm going only to see Michael Crawford before it's too late.
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Post by talkstageytome on May 28, 2016 12:41:50 GMT
I'm not gonna lie, I'm 20 and I'm going only to see Michael Crawford before it's too late. Same. I love him! He's the draw for me. |
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Post by horton on May 28, 2016 13:09:08 GMT
Maybe someone's locked in his dressing room. Oops I didn't say that!
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Post by wickedgrin on May 28, 2016 14:34:14 GMT
I am old enough to have seen Michael Crawford in his "heyday". Billy, Fields of Ambrosia, Barnum and Phantom - an extroadinary performer with tons of charisma. Later with Woman in White and Wizard of Oz - less so.
So he is no particular draw for me in this although I fully understand youngsters wanting to see him. The show does not appeal especially, there has been no publicity or buzz for this - I will await reviews on here before I risk going. But I smell a flop I am afraid.
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 28, 2016 19:23:52 GMT
I don't imagine many youngsters know who he even is?!
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 28, 2016 22:12:04 GMT
I don't imagine many youngsters know who he even is?! I think we youngsters know him for originating the title role in Phantom of the Opera |
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Post by Phantom of London on May 28, 2016 23:37:51 GMT
Oh Betty.
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Post by d'James on May 28, 2016 23:43:06 GMT
I don't imagine many youngsters know who he even is?! I think we youngsters know him for originating the title role in Phantom of the Opera Yeah. Even then though, wasn't the single of the title song sung by someone else? I would recognise him but honestly, I'm not young and I've only really seen him on telly as part of Sport Relief this year. (I only know his singing voice because he recorded a song from Starlight Express.) |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2016 7:17:39 GMT
The single was sung by Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel. He assumed the role on stage was his, but it all changed when it was revealed that this was the only song in the show that had any pop/rock feel... I remember reading a lengthy article about it in a magazine or newspaper some years ago. He wasn't happy, by all accounts, so I think it's safe to assume he's another one who doesn't send Andy a Christmas card.
Michael Crawford... Surely everyone has heard of him, haven't they? Even if they've not seen him in one of his many theatre roles (wasn't a Vegas show created for him at the MGM Grand? FX or something like that...) they'll have seen him in one of the endless clips of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em on TV.
Oh, and looking forward to The Go-Between next week, although MC wasn't the draw. I loved the original film- a great story, and an even greater score by Michel Legrand, although I dare say we won't be getting of that in it!
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Post by Scripps on May 29, 2016 9:20:17 GMT
I am old enough to have seen Michael Crawford in his "heyday". Billy, Fields of Ambrosia. Fields of Ambrosia? Perhaps you mean Flowers for Algernon. |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2016 9:28:48 GMT
I am old enough to have seen Michael Crawford in his "heyday". Billy, Fields of Ambrosia. Fields of Ambrosia? Perhaps you mean Flowers for Algernon. An easy slip... Ambrosia was the first song in Billy, wasn't it? Love your avatar, Scripps. |
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Post by wickedgrin on May 29, 2016 9:46:34 GMT
Oh yes, sorry, Flowers For Algernon! It was a long time ago!
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2016 9:48:54 GMT
Don't be ridiculous. Young people don't buy theatre tickets.
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Post by TheatreDust on May 29, 2016 10:57:06 GMT
Almost unexpectedly, I saw what ended up being the first preview of this last night. Bought tickets from TKTS about lunchtime. I spent the first 10 minutes thinking "I'm going to hate this" but then really liked it from that point on. It probably helped that I didn't know the source book/films so I was intrigued by the story and discovering where it would end. Michael Crawford as older Leo was on stage for the whole performance and I thought he was perfect - full of pathos and sadness. Presumably this mimics the approach in the films, but I loved the way his protagonist-as-narrator role was incorporated. It could have been gimmicky but you soon accepted him telling the story and very occasionally interacting with his younger self. A large weight of the production also sat on the shoulders of young Leo and the actor playing him was very strong. For a first preview I thought he and the actor playing his friend Marcus gave excellent and (as far as I could tell) faultless performances. The rest of the cast were also very good. The staging is simple but effective; I loved the dreamlike and ethereal quality the whole thing had. I thought the lighting particularly good. At one or two moments there was a touch of the Light Princess in the way Leo was lifted and manipulated by other cast members - but it was subtle. No dance to speak of, but quite a lot of carefully choreographed movement. I guess it is best described as a chamber musical, with a single pianist at a grand piano on stage (which blends in with the set quite well and is used a few times for the younger characters to scramble under). I didn't fall in love with any particular song but it was nice to hear them and particularly when Michael Crawford or Gemma Sutton were singing. The score provided an effective backdrop as the story and emotions built. If I had one gripe it would be... {Slight Spoiler - click to view}that in the final minutes, old Leo meets Marian many years after the original story. At that point she is a grandmother and presumably in her mid to late eighties. They did very little to age Gemma Sutton playing Marian - her voice was unchanged and she was just dressed in darker clothes, perched on a soft stool. I know I should have been able to suspend disbelief, but for that scene I would have chosen to put her in a wheelchair or a more obviously 'aged' chair and then backlit her so that her face and figure was largely obscured. Overall I really enjoyed this - partly because it is so different to anything else currently on the West End. A full standing ovation and Michael Crawford seemed visibly very moved by this. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 29, 2016 13:54:19 GMT
How olds a youngster anyway? I'm 39 and certainly not a youngster! I don't imagine even if the younger generations know who he is will book to see this on his involvement. He ain't Kit Harington. I don't imagine many youngsters know who he even is?! I think we youngsters know him for originating the title role in Phantom of the Opera |
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Post by firefingers on May 29, 2016 13:59:13 GMT
24. Know him for Phantom, Wizard of Oz at Palladium and Some Mothers Do 'ave Em. But definitely not a draw to see a show.
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 29, 2016 14:37:07 GMT
20. And I know him for what firefingers mentioned and Hello Dolly movie. And I booked specifically to see him, tbh
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