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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 25, 2022 12:03:16 GMT
Ooh! Happy with that for Manc! Glad I booked now!
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Post by d'James on Mar 25, 2022 12:05:04 GMT
Looking at the dates, they might want Summer 2023 in London too.
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Post by Paul on Mar 25, 2022 13:01:32 GMT
Really disappointed to hear that Sandra Marvin will be playing Deloris on tour. I saw her twice in Hairspray years ago and then recently in Waitress, I don't rate her voice and find her very nasal and difficult to understand.
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Post by christya on Mar 25, 2022 13:28:05 GMT
Booked for the tour - I'll be honest, it's mainly because I want to see Lizzie Bea but also I'd like to wipe the memory of that godawful version I saw last time out of my brain.
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Post by d'James on Mar 25, 2022 13:28:43 GMT
Booked for the tour - I'll be honest, it's mainly because I want to see Lizzie Bea but also I'd like to wipe the memory of that godawful version I saw last time out of my brain. The Craig Revel Horwood version? |
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Post by tommy123 on Mar 25, 2022 14:44:22 GMT
I’m guessing Sandra Marvin will be doing the dates Beverley isn’t in London? Standing by as well I guess?
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 25, 2022 15:16:04 GMT
Sandra is standing by in London yes
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Post by christya on Mar 25, 2022 21:09:21 GMT
Booked for the tour - I'll be honest, it's mainly because I want to see Lizzie Bea but also I'd like to wipe the memory of that godawful version I saw last time out of my brain. The Craig Revel Horwood version? That's the one. With Alexandra Burke (couldn't understand a word she said), and for some reason, nuns playing instruments. Awful. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 25, 2022 21:41:42 GMT
The Craig Revel Horwood version? That's the one. With Alexandra Burke (couldn't understand a word she said), and for some reason, nuns playing instruments. Awful. Alexandra was awful in it. I think I saw it early in the tour but she really struggled. |
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Post by anthem on Mar 25, 2022 23:41:39 GMT
That's the one. With Alexandra Burke (couldn't understand a word she said), and for some reason, nuns playing instruments. Awful. Alexandra was awful in it. I think I saw it early in the tour but she really struggled. She was the best thing about the show, which was one of the highest grossing touring productions of 2017. For an awful performance, she & the show picked up some decent reviews. |
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Post by shady23 on Mar 26, 2022 8:28:35 GMT
You can't go on what the papers say about shows as they have been given free tickets and perhaps advertising money etc. and are not exactly impartial.
Normal attendees, yes.
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Post by ptwest on Mar 26, 2022 8:41:16 GMT
The CRH version was the only show where I was very tempted to leave at the interval but for me Alexandra wasn’t the issue; poor casting elsewhere and just a general misfiring of the production was enough. I did stay and the second act picked up a bit, but a shadow of the joyful production at the palladium.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 26, 2022 9:50:01 GMT
Alexandra was awful in it. I think I saw it early in the tour but she really struggled. She was the best thing about the show, which was one of the highest grossing touring productions of 2017. For an awful performance, she & the show picked up some decent reviews. Well I saw it in August ‘16 and at that point (I think Manc was the second stop on the tour) she couldn’t reach the higher notes without a very apparent struggle and her acting was basic to say the least. It doesn’t surprise me that months later she was doing much better, because practice does indeed make perfect. Im a fan of AB, I think she’s got a great voice and I like watching her but she has her limitations. She struggled with some of those big notes in The Bodyguard too. |
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Post by d'James on Mar 26, 2022 11:58:04 GMT
The CRH version was the only show where I was very tempted to leave at the interval but for me Alexandra wasn’t the issue; poor casting elsewhere and just a general misfiring of the production was enough. I did stay and the second act picked up a bit, but a shadow of the joyful production at the palladium. Sister Act is one of my fave shows ever, but I’m glad I didn’t see that version. I like Alexandra Burke but it was the idea of the nuns playing musical instruments that put me off. |
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Post by A.Ham on Mar 26, 2022 12:11:02 GMT
Really interesting reading the comments on here about the Alexandra Burke touring production. That’s the only version of Sister Act I’ve seen and I saw it in Southampton in June 2017. I really wasn’t blown away, even though I thought she was great in The Bodyguard and Joseph. Perhaps it was the instrument-playing nuns or something else I still can’t put my finger on, but I just didn’t overly enjoy it.
I’ve booked for the Hammersmith Apollo version now, primarily based on the amazing cast they’ve lined up, so I’m hoping this new production delivers some of the magic you guys have described the original Palladium production had… fingers crossed!
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Post by FairyGodmother on Mar 26, 2022 12:28:51 GMT
Craig loves his actor-musicians — I saw the Fiddler on the Roof he did like that.
I always wondered how it would work with covers though, presumably they'd have to play the same instrument?
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Post by d'James on Mar 26, 2022 17:01:06 GMT
Craig loves his actor-musicians — I saw the Fiddler on the Roof he did like that. I always wondered how it would work with covers though, presumably they'd have to play the same instrument? Maybe it made sense if you saw it, but it didn’t work in my head: Amazing instrument players can’t find a single person to make their choir sound OK/good?! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2022 17:56:01 GMT
Craig loves his actor-musicians — I saw the Fiddler on the Roof he did like that. I always wondered how it would work with covers though, presumably they'd have to play the same instrument? Maybe it made sense if you saw it, but it didn’t work in my head: Amazing instrument players can’t find a single person to make their choir sound OK/good?! I guess that's the flaw with Sister Act as a musical, not just CRH's production. You have a group of nuns belting and singing wonderfully about not being able to sound good in a choir. |
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Post by d'James on Mar 26, 2022 18:05:43 GMT
Maybe it made sense if you saw it, but it didn’t work in my head: Amazing instrument players can’t find a single person to make their choir sound OK/good?! I guess that's the flaw with Sister Act as a musical, not just CRH's production. You have a group of nuns belting and singing wonderfully about not being able to sound good in a choir. I don’t think so really. There’s only one song they sing really before Raise Your Voice (How I Got The Calling/It’s Good To Be A Nun), and that depends on the production as to how they interpret it. |
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Post by inthenose on Mar 26, 2022 18:29:30 GMT
Craig loves his actor-musicians — I saw the Fiddler on the Roof he did like that. I always wondered how it would work with covers though, presumably they'd have to play the same instrument? Chess, Fiddler and particularly Sunset Boulevard were all absolutely terrific. I really like his directing. Additional: I know from people who work with him that he can be a little catty if things aren't being done his way. The key seems to be standing up to him, he respects strong personalities. Also, his style is very visual, he blocks everything out to an aesthetic he has in mind, and fills the gaps later, which is actually very old-school musical theatre/opera directing. He doesn't get too involved with performance notes, unless he is going for a particular "moment" i.e. "Too Much in Love to Care" in the Watermill production. He works very, very closely with a lovely lady whose name escapes me temporarily, who is by his side constantly discussing ways to get the instruments around the stage, who needs to be free to play what, etc. |
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Post by stagebyte on Mar 26, 2022 22:17:33 GMT
Craig loves his actor-musicians — I saw the Fiddler on the Roof he did like that. I always wondered how it would work with covers though, presumably they'd have to play the same instrument? He really does. It ruined Chess for me. Didn’t see his Fiddler. But don’t the folks in Anatevka have enough issues without being forced into a klezmer band ? |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2022 18:28:18 GMT
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Post by ilovewemusicals on May 29, 2022 11:34:56 GMT
Cast, looks to include Beverley Knight as Deloris, to perform for the first time on the Britain’s Got Talent final (Sunday 5th June).
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Post by A.Ham on May 29, 2022 14:08:59 GMT
Cast, looks to include Beverley Knight as Deloris, to perform for the first time on the Britain’s Got Talent final (Sunday 5th June). Thank you. One to set the Sky box for so I can skip to the good bit and miss the rest! The Moulin Rouge cast are performing on there tmrw (Mon) night too. |
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Post by Being Alive on May 29, 2022 14:19:08 GMT
Youd assume they'll do Spread The Love Around in order to get the whole company in, or Take Me To Heaven.
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