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Post by poster J on Nov 21, 2017 21:44:58 GMT
With Strictly Come Dancing, which I've applied for every year for about a decade without success, I usually don't hear anything either way until about 10 days before the show, when I invariably get a rejection email. It really would be nice of the BBC to let people know the worst as soon as possible. And in this case there's only 11 days to the show anyway. Having dug back through the PPGW thread, it looks like the successful people last year were notified the day after that ballot closed, so I'm still pathetically clinging onto vain hopes! It would, but it seems to be random luck as to whether they email at all or not - I haven't had either a success or rejection email for the Strictly Christmas Special and that is being recorded on Monday!
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 22, 2017 20:05:59 GMT
Having not heard anything I assume I have failed. I'm a bit surprised, though, that I can't find any tweets from people jubilant that they've got tickets. I know it's Oop North but I think Twitter has just about reached there? ;-)
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Post by shady23 on Nov 22, 2017 22:43:13 GMT
I hate to say it but for events such as this I'm sure most of the tickets have been given to BBC employees and their families!
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Post by musicalfloozie on Nov 23, 2017 10:39:23 GMT
I think emails are coming out as just got my rejection. Oh well will just have to watch of the telly!!
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Post by londonmzfitz on Nov 23, 2017 12:03:01 GMT
Yup, got my no luck email at 10am this morning. Sorry Dawnstar.
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 23, 2017 13:47:43 GMT
Yes, I've had my rejection too. Damn you BBC & fate!
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Post by cherokee on Nov 23, 2017 14:52:53 GMT
Having never seen any of their stuff before, I tuned into last year's Peter Pan Goes Wrong. I lasted about ten minutes - I found the whole thing OTT, irritating and unfunny. I can only assume it works better in the theatre.
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 23, 2017 18:01:06 GMT
Seconding @theatremonkey 's comments. I love PPGw on stage, it's my favourite Mischief show & I've seen it 15 times, but I haven't re-watched the TV version even once. Among other things, I don't think you get the sense of jeopardy on TV that you do on stage. One of the many reasons why I really wanted to see ACCGW filming is in case it to doesn't come over that well on TV, though I'm hoping that as it's written for TV it'll work better.
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 23, 2017 18:41:34 GMT
Probably Trevor just grabbed the first 300 applications that came in, and binned the rest. I would have thought mine would have been one of the first applications, as I applied several hours before the BBC sent its email saying the ballot was open.
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Post by freckles on Nov 23, 2017 20:09:52 GMT
Seconding @theatremonkey 's comments. I love PPGw on stage, it's my favourite Mischief show & I've seen it 15 times, but I haven't re-watched the TV version even once. Among other things, I don't think you get the sense of jeopardy on TV that you do on stage. One of the many reasons why I really wanted to see ACCGW filming is in case it to doesn't come over that well on TV, though I'm hoping that as it's written for TV it'll work better. Totally agree that, much as I love Mischief Theatre live, Pan Goes Wrong didn’t work nearly as well on TV as on stage. I’m hoping that they’ve realised this and have scripted this more as a designed-for-TV piece. The publicity material, suggesting that the Cornley Polytechnic Society have turned up at the bbc uninvited, gives them lots of scope for a play-within-a-play format. I imagine it will be a performance of Christmas Carol going wrong with more surrounding TV business, a bit like when they did Radio 4 last year.
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Post by cherokee on Nov 23, 2017 22:57:55 GMT
Even the "Cornley Polytechnic" feels like lazy, hackneyed comic shorthand. There haven't been polytechnics for 25 years!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2017 15:22:58 GMT
There's "lacking in credibility" and there's "reference so ridiculously out of date that it's a miracle the creatives even came up with it" though.
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 24, 2017 17:06:11 GMT
I think "Polytechnic" is perfect. The word conveys an impression of not being first rate, and no-one could say the Cornley Polytehcnic Drama Society are anywhere near first rate! However, those who dislike the word can always go & see the Broadway production, where it's called the Cornley University Drama Society. I doubt many if any of the international productions use the word either.
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Post by cherokee on Nov 24, 2017 17:10:18 GMT
But polytechnics were abolished in 1992. Are their productions set in the early 90s or something? If they're supposed to be set in the present, it just doesn't make any sense and smacks of smugness, laziness and lack of research.
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Post by shady23 on Nov 24, 2017 18:26:15 GMT
It doesn't do anything of the sort.
Yes there are no longer Polys but the "it's not a red brick university" snobbery exists to this day.
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Post by Elisa on Dec 1, 2017 15:09:45 GMT
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 1, 2017 18:44:16 GMT
Is anyone else more interested in trying to work out which Cornley characters are playing which Dickens characters, based on the costumes in the press photo, than in who the guest stars are, or is that just me?!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 19:06:20 GMT
I’d hazard a guess at Nancy playing Fezziwig.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 1, 2017 20:16:09 GMT
I've had to revise my previous guess of Dennis playing Tiny Tim, as from the photo it looks like it's Lucy. (I was previously deducing from incomplete data, as Ellie Morris wasn't on the cast list in the prevoous press release.) None of the costumes look particularly ghost-like so I guess some of them must be doubling ghosts with other characters.
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Post by danielwhit on Dec 2, 2017 17:04:42 GMT
Hopefully I'll be able to let everyone know who's who after this evening, currently standing in the queue to get in at Salford.
Newspaper article has Jacobi playing Scrooge and Diana Rigg as an "aunt" - so presumably Max's aunt has been given a cameo as she keeps paying the company (or in the TV version, she runs the Beeb).
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Post by danielwhit on Dec 9, 2017 15:53:11 GMT
As it turns out Diana Rigg is playing herself as Sandra's aunt - and is the true definition of phoning it in.
There are some excellent gags in the piece - Dennis' latest way to cope with learning lines, Robert's determination to be the lead, Trevor trying to stay out of shot as much as possible, Chris' scrooge overall and Lucy still not managing to get through a Cornley production without being injured by her uncle..
The concept (which gives away the first 2 minutes but no more) is that after last year's disastrous Christmas production, this year the BBC have handed it back to the professionals for this year's live drama. However, Cornley have been rehearsing their own identical production and manage to bundle all the professional cast/crew out of the way to stage their own version. It's a bit of a peculiar concept which I'm not entirely sure works in itself - but serves to get the action underway neatly.
There's also an entire subplot going on about the love lives of Max/Sandra which will be liked by those of us who have seen this progress through Play and Peter Pan, but will probably go over the heads of many casual viewers.
Without giving much away, they've done a splendid job - I just hope it gets a decent slot in the Christmas schedules!
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 9, 2017 17:23:02 GMT
There's also an entire subplot going on about the love lives of Max/Sandra which will be liked by those of us who have seen this progress through Play and Peter Pan, but will probably go over the heads of many casual viewers. Good, that's what I want. I've been waiting nearly 4 years to see if their romance works out! It's scheduled for 7.10pm Saturday 30th, per the Radio Times website. (Which I'm hacked off at because I'm at Mischief Movie Nights then so won't be able to see it till the next day.)
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Post by danielwhit on Dec 9, 2017 22:09:52 GMT
That's almost the same slot Peter Pan Goes Wrong got last year, right?
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Post by poster J on Dec 22, 2017 16:18:16 GMT
I had thought this was full length, but according to my TV guide It's only 50 minutes long - seems rather a waste!
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 26, 2017 12:54:32 GMT
Just leaving my own tweet here in case anyone is interested.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 30, 2017 15:02:31 GMT
Bump to remind everyone that it's on this evening, 7.10pm. Ironically I can't watch it because I'm at Mischief Movie Night (again) but as soon as I've iPlayered it tomorrow morning I'll be checking this thread & hope there'll be plenty of comments.
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Post by No. on Dec 30, 2017 15:03:39 GMT
Really looking forward to this, loved Peter Pan last year so I hope this lives up to that
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Post by lynette on Dec 30, 2017 15:30:01 GMT
Thanks for the reminder, Dawnstar.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 20:03:33 GMT
Doesn’t work a studio drama. God only knows what the laughter track audience were watching, because it wasn’t this. Two minutes in and I thought the same. You don’t get the ‘whoops!’ feeling that you get with a live production.
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Post by The Matthew on Dec 30, 2017 20:13:10 GMT
I thought it worked well enough at the start but when they went to the green-screen section it seemed to lose its way and once they left the set completely it was well into trying-too-hard territory. If they'd maintained the style that was used at the beginning then it would have been great.
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