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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 8, 2017 5:57:10 GMT
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Post by Mr Snow on Dec 8, 2017 7:41:03 GMT
I think this is a great idea.... How about All Star Dentistry. I’d watch that even though it would be someone I think i May have heard of, working on someone I definitely haven’t. Can improve it by allowing the public to vote on who gets to sit in the chair and who gets to shine in white. I’ll have my agent call ITV today. |
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Post by danb on Dec 8, 2017 9:21:50 GMT
I think this is a great idea.... How about All Star Dentistry. I’d watch that even though it would be someone I think i May have heard of, working on someone I definitely haven’t. Can improve it by allowing the public to vote on who gets to sit in the chair and who gets to shine in white. I’ll have my agent call ITV today. Not strictly an original idea as I did something similar on ‘Granada Men & Motors’ with Dental Hygeinists... |
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Post by profquatermass on Dec 8, 2017 9:25:57 GMT
It sounds like some harmless fun, and if nothing else it'll be entertaining to see Rebecca Front butchering Memory whilst they pan to a pained looking Elaine Paige in the audience. Why would you think she can't sing? As well as the aforementioned Donmar Company, I remember her in a production of Marry Me a Little at the Bridewell. I'm sure she's done the usual student revues and so on |
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 8, 2017 13:47:11 GMT
Perhaps next they can have All Star Plumbing Then, after recording has ended, they can pop round and fix Tibidabo's boiler! |
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 8, 2017 15:01:12 GMT
Then, after recording has ended, they can pop round and fix Tibidabo's boiler! The mother-in-law's just fine now, but thanks for the sentiment! I share everyone's horror with everything about this. Also, I love Michael Crawford and went to see him last year in The Go Between. He seemed frail and a wispy shadow of his former, extraordinary self. I regretted seeing the show. I really hope whatever they get him to do somehow manages to demonstrate his talents. |
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Post by sf on Dec 8, 2017 17:41:11 GMT
I'm sure I'll really enjoy not watching it. I might even not watch it more than once.
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Post by richey on Dec 24, 2017 19:25:03 GMT
Oh dear. It's really not great is it.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 24, 2017 19:35:55 GMT
Denise Lewis was terrible
I’m hopeful for Rebecca Front
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Post by anthony40 on Dec 24, 2017 19:48:32 GMT
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Why?
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Post by talkstageytome on Dec 24, 2017 19:49:41 GMT
Watching it now. Uninspired song choices and are they miming?
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Post by richey on Dec 24, 2017 19:51:17 GMT
Michael Crawford's not doing much!
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Post by Boob on Dec 24, 2017 19:54:38 GMT
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 24, 2017 20:08:35 GMT
All these “stars” fawning over Crawford as the master of musical theatre should have seen him in Dance of the Vampires...
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 24, 2017 20:22:45 GMT
Just seen all the ‘professional’ actors ‘sing’ and let me say to all of them - don’t give up your day jobs, but what seeing these people who done all the songs no justice at all made me appreciate more, how great the people who we pay to see, that unknown featured actor who delivers that song brilliantly and consistently 8 Times a week, who do not get recognised and pick up a meagre paycheck and yet so much more talented.
Just hope they don’t do a cast recording.
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Post by johartuk on Dec 24, 2017 20:26:54 GMT
"Our very first 'All Star Musicals' winner" - does that mean they're going to do it again at some point?
It seems to have gone on forever! And none of the 'All Stars' was gobsmackingly good or entertainingly bad - they were just...meh!
It might have worked a bit better if each 'All Star' had a WE performer to help them, rather than just having Michael Crawford helping them all.
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Post by musicalmarge on Dec 24, 2017 21:05:22 GMT
"Our very first 'All Star Musicals' winner" - does that mean they're going to do it again at some point? It seems to have gone on forever! And none of the 'All Stars' was gobsmackingly good or entertainingly bad - they were just...meh! It might have worked a bit better if each 'All Star' had a WE performer to help them, rather than just having Michael Crawford helping them all. ITV is celeb obsessed network that cares more about ratings and revenue than talent. That Sheridan show (I mean sure she’s ok) and this DREADFUL offering proves it. Think of all the sensational musical theatre talent we have and then there is THIS!! The commissioning editor should be shot. |
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Post by karloscar on Dec 24, 2017 21:26:04 GMT
So they think\know there's an audience for music theatre on television. Why not get the best young talent and a few established names to do it to a really high standard, rather than feed us half-baked, badly performed turns where someone is the "winner"? The production costs won't be any different, but the quality infinitely better.
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Post by djp on Dec 24, 2017 21:36:16 GMT
Pellow's job is safe. Why would people who can't sing well enter a singing competition? And probably the most pleasant rendition won, so at least the audience proved not comnpletely tone deaf.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 24, 2017 21:42:12 GMT
So they think\know there's an audience for music theatre on television. Is that it though? Or is it that there’s an audience for “celebrities” doing anything... up to and including eating kangaroo c*ck. How many ITV viewers would have bothered watching this without it being “All Star...”? |
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Post by shady23 on Dec 24, 2017 22:36:25 GMT
They couldn't even be bothered to credit the amazing ensemble in the credits.
I'm throwing Quality Street at the screen in outrage!
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Post by richey on Dec 24, 2017 22:38:54 GMT
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 24, 2017 22:44:08 GMT
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Post by musicalmarge on Dec 24, 2017 23:03:18 GMT
So they think\know there's an audience for music theatre on television. Why not get the best young talent and a few established names to do it to a really high standard, rather than feed us half-baked, badly performed turns where someone is the "winner"? The production costs won't be any different, but the quality infinitely better. The answer to this is easy. The general public doesn’t know who Louise Dearman or Kerry Ellis is. My family wouldn’t have a clue - they would know the cast of Corrie, Loose Women or Freddie Flintoff. It’s annoying beyond words but that’s the sad reality. Even established musical theatre names Elaine Paige, John Barrowman and Micheal Ball aside won’t be seen to bring in ratings for the demographic wanted. |
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Post by karloscar on Dec 24, 2017 23:26:54 GMT
Plenty of talentless idiots become household names on reality shows, so having some triple threat talent on telly might raise their profiles and the result is win win.
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