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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 10:10:30 GMT
I would imagine that as soon as Callard was announced it was all over the Corrie fan sites and that would have shifted a fair few.Add Nolan into the mix and that would have done the trick because of that dreadful tv programme she does every day. The fact that she’s never acted in her life won’t make one jot of difference to the Loose Women demographic. Callard didn’t particularly work for Rocky Horror Show at the Opera House, they were comping nights and others were fairly sparse. At the point 80% of the Thunder Girls capacity was already sold, Callard was the only name associated with it.
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Post by NorthernAlien on Aug 13, 2019 10:25:33 GMT
Oh good grief - do we really need yet another show (play? musical? what *is* this thing?) where women are falling out with each other and especially over a man?
From the trailer, this seems to me like it will be a one-set play, with a dinner table as the main item of set. But maybe there are flashbacks and things, and the walls fly out and they're 'on stage' at a concert or whatever? That way they can crowbar in the 'musical' bit?
Also - from the trailer, you can't just rip up a contract and then it's not valid! FFS, that is not how the law works! (Sorry, I'm a qualified solicitor, and this nonsense just annoys me - because people then believe this stuff - making my job around 12 times harder than it needs to be.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 10:27:09 GMT
Rocky Horror Show is a very different kettle of fish though. A lot of people wouldn’t go to it no matter who’s in it, because of perceptions about audience involvement, subject matter or sweet transvestites.
Thunder Girls feels much less edgy.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 13, 2019 11:20:37 GMT
Oh good grief - do we really need yet another show (play? musical? what *is* this thing?) where women are falling out with each other and especially over a man? From the trailer, this seems to me like it will be a one-set play, with a dinner table as the main item of set. But maybe there are flashbacks and things, and the walls fly out and they're 'on stage' at a concert or whatever? That way they can crowbar in the 'musical' bit? Also - from the trailer, you can't just rip up a contract and then it's not valid! FFS, that is not how the law works! (Sorry, I'm a qualified solicitor, and this nonsense just annoys me - because people then believe this stuff - making my job around 12 times harder than it needs to be.) And the finale will be a ‘reunion concert’ where the audience are encouraged, if not tricked, into standing up and dancing or something so that a facsimile of a standing ovation is achieved. I can see glow sticks being handed out or some such nonsense 😑. (DAMN I want to see this! 😬)
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Post by theatreian on Sept 26, 2019 9:16:47 GMT
Saw this yesterday and felt sorry for the cast having to deliver the atrocious script. They tried and it was just about entertaining but I certainly would not rush back! We all got given a copy of the paperback of The Thundergirls. An indication as to how well it has sold. Having said all that the audience was largely female and I did hear some say they enjoyed it.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 26, 2019 11:10:37 GMT
Saw this yesterday and felt sorry for the cast having to deliver the atrocious script. They tried and it was just about entertaining but I certainly would not rush back! We all got given a copy of the paperback of The Thundergirls. An indication as to how well it has sold. Having said all that the audience was largely female and I did hear some say they enjoyed it. More details please!
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Post by theatreian on Sept 26, 2019 15:44:17 GMT
Well the whole script seemed outdated and poorly thought out. The cast of which Colleen Nolan only appears in the 2nd act apart from one line at the end of the first act did their best. I think it largely appeals to women , although the script seems to set the current Me too movement back decades. It basically consists of a repetitive slagging off of each other. If this is how groups of women speak to each other , admittedly this is a drama , then pity help them. It seemed a poor relation to dynasty , even including a fight! As I said earlier a lot of the audience seemed to enjoy it, but it wasn't for me or my partner. I cannot see much of a future for the piece in it's current state. The repeated bad language also seemed to denigrate the drama as if used more sparingly it may have had more effect.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 26, 2019 15:52:32 GMT
What is it? Musical? Comedy? Melodrama?... Does Beverley Callard do a step areobrics routine in the middle?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 26, 2019 15:57:58 GMT
Well the whole script seemed outdated and poorly thought out. The cast of which Colleen Nolan only appears in the 2nd act apart from one line at the end of the first act did their best. I think it largely appeals to women , although the script seems to set the current Me too movement back decades. It basically consists of a repetitive slagging off of each other. If this is how groups of women speak to each other , admittedly this is a drama , then pity help them. It seemed a poor relation to dynasty , even including a fight! As I said earlier a lot of the audience seemed to enjoy it, but it wasn't for me or my partner. I cannot see much of a future for the piece in it's current state. The repeated bad language also seemed to denigrate the drama as if used more sparingly it may have had more effect. What’s Nolan’s acting like? Whats Callard’s singing like? Is there an orchestra? Is it thinly disguised Spice Girls?
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Post by theatreian on Sept 26, 2019 16:24:03 GMT
Colleen Nolan was actually as good as the others acting wise. I had previously seen in her in a Panto some years ago. Probably good experience for this. The 2nd half was better than the first with Colleen in it. The four each had a song although only Coleen and Sandra Marvin sung live. Carol and Beverley mimed. There was a group song at the end where again probably just Colleen and Sandra sung live.Carol's and Beverley's vocals sounded autotuned. I have heard worse. No orchestra just backing track as there were only 5 songs and even they weren't too long, though that may have been a blessing as chart material they were not! There were comments about other girl bands through the show. Sandra Marvin, recently of Emmerdale had obviously take over from Mina as I hadn't realised she was in it until we got there. This will I am sure appeal to some. I haven't been able to find a review yet.
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Post by theatreian on Sept 26, 2019 16:26:16 GMT
What is it? Musical? Comedy? Melodrama?... Does Beverley Callard do a step areobrics routine in the middle It is a play with music. Only 5 songs , each character having a solo number and a group one at the end. It is being hyped up on twitter.
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Post by xanady on Sept 26, 2019 17:45:05 GMT
...sounds absolutely ghastly.
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Post by NorthernAlien on Sept 26, 2019 20:49:55 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 26, 2019 21:31:16 GMT
There's a Branagh involved...though not Ken!
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Post by theatreian on Sept 27, 2019 17:27:34 GMT
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Post by xanady on Sept 28, 2019 8:12:46 GMT
Don’t think I have read a negative regional newspaper of a show in absolute years....perhaps see themselves as supporting the local community with their positivity?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 28, 2019 8:20:52 GMT
Ad-libbing? Wtf?
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Post by theatreian on Sept 28, 2019 17:00:22 GMT
There was no ad libbing from what I could tell. Admittedly Colleen did enter to applause as I am sure as the performance had already been on for an hour and a quarter the audience were glad to see her!
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Post by Rukaya on Sept 28, 2019 17:21:11 GMT
Really poor form from whoever manages Coleen's Twitter today: Review in question: ilovemanchester.com/review-the-thunder-girls-lowry/The quote: "It would work better if there were scenes with younger actors playing the band when they were girls. The reunion scenes when they appear as jaded and angry older women would then have more bite and fire." I think the whole review is really fair, and the way this quote is being misconstrued by those in the show is pretty gross, especially when the reviewer is just suggesting that having younger actors for the flashbacks would make the scenes stronger, not implying that it should be younger actors full stop.
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Post by xanady on Sept 28, 2019 18:05:24 GMT
Coleen ad-libbing? Forget the script,let’s just make it up as we go along.Have worked with some am-dram musical directors who would have a seizure if such shenanigans were happening on the lead into a song...maybe it’s spontaneous improv MT? Btw,from what I know of him,Glenn has always struck me as a very fair and impartial reviewer.
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Post by shady23 on Sept 28, 2019 23:16:39 GMT
The show have also responded in response to the post on twitter.
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Post by shady23 on Sept 28, 2019 23:18:05 GMT
"Three standing ovations nightly"
Don't you know.
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Post by shady23 on Sept 28, 2019 23:21:05 GMT
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Post by johartuk on Sept 28, 2019 23:42:50 GMT
That comes across as so big headed, especially as the twitter account it's posted from is Coleen's! She needs to have a word with the person who tweets on her behalf (her 'Ghost Tweeter'?)!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 29, 2019 4:25:15 GMT
How tacky.
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Post by theatreian on Sept 29, 2019 16:06:25 GMT
"Three standing ovations nightly Don't know where this came from. When I saw it a few people stood but that was it.
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Post by danb on Sept 29, 2019 16:27:04 GMT
Three individual people?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 29, 2019 16:40:50 GMT
All with the surname Nolan.
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Post by danb on Sept 29, 2019 17:31:33 GMT
I’m picturing Christopher Nolan scoping out talent for his next blockbuster and MikeNolanfromBucksFizz waiting for ‘I’m In The Mood For Dancing’.
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Post by figill on Oct 6, 2019 11:43:40 GMT
I was lucky enough to be at the sold out , The Thunder Girls Premiere at the Lowry . I personally thought it was a very funny and entertaining show . Yes it is a Preview so there is bound to be the odd tweek needed here and there , thats understandable . Coleen Nolan did a fantastic job in her first acting role as did all the cast .I personally would have liked to have heard abit more singing but then again it is a play ( with music ) rather than a musical so they had the right balance . The performances i attended the whole audience were up on their feet clapping and singing along . Congratulations to Melanie Blake and team .
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