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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2017 21:19:48 GMT
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Post by wickedgrin on Feb 9, 2017 22:08:07 GMT
Just......no!
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 9, 2017 22:10:31 GMT
Just.......yes!
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Post by Marwood on Feb 9, 2017 22:24:37 GMT
Sorry, but the whole idea just seems...wrong
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Post by crabtree on Feb 9, 2017 22:35:22 GMT
no, please no....isn't theatre meant to give us an experience we don't get on tv and film. I guess this has been prompted by producers thinking about the success of the plays that go wrong. Physical slapstick on stage, but is Pasquale that physical...well there he was dropping from the roof of the Palladium recently.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 9, 2017 22:52:51 GMT
Surely he is far too old for this. 55 is not the age for a Frank Spencer...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2017 23:54:12 GMT
Surely he is far too old for this. 55 is not the age for a Frank Spencer... 2018 is not the age for Frank Spencer... |
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Post by Phantom of London on Feb 10, 2017 1:43:08 GMT
Oh Betty
Worst theatre news I have heard since Coronation Street the Musical.
Also I thought Joe Pasquale was appalling in Spamalot.
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Post by stefy69 on Feb 10, 2017 7:44:01 GMT
Hate being negative, but this just seems so wrong on so many levels.
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Post by edmundokeano on Feb 10, 2017 8:29:29 GMT
Oh dear....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 9:36:34 GMT
What kind of cocktail of drugs and booze were the producers on when they thought of this?
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 10, 2017 9:43:03 GMT
What kind of cocktail of drugs and booze were the producers on when they thought of this? A Bettini....? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 9:56:23 GMT
On one hand...awful. The other I get to tell my favourite (only) Joe Pasquale story...
When he was in Panto a few years back in Cardiff, his Mrs rocked up looking for him. Except she was at the Sherman Theatre not the New Theatre. She flounced in and declared to Box Office "I'm Joe's wife" as we had nobody called Joe in the cast/staff at the time Box Office were very confused. After a bit of confusion, we established who she was looking for and that she was in the wrong place. So we explained, and proceeded to give her directions (it's less than a 5 minutes walk) to which she responded 'Oh no I'm not walking' and flounced away.
Despite the flouncing and obviously being a bit confused she was lovely...I hope she found her husband at some point that night.
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Post by d'James on Feb 10, 2017 10:13:39 GMT
I am in two minds about this (well probably four or five but anyway). I'm sure there is an audience out there for this. It's not me. Why couldn't they create a new character for Joe, rather than re-using an old one. That'd be too much of a risk probably.
I'm too young to remember the series and have only seen clips. However if they tried to put on a show of my favourite sitcoms I would never want to see it with different actors.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 10:16:55 GMT
I am in two minds about this (well probably four or five but anyway). I'm sure there is an audience out there for this. It's not me. Why couldn't they create a new character for Joe, rather than re-using an old one. That'd be too much of a risk probably. I'm too young to remember the series and have only seen clips. However if they tried to put on a show of my favourite sitcoms I would never want to see it with different actors. I know what you mean. That recent remake of 'Are You Being Served?' (which is quite possibly the best TV sitcom EVER, and I am unanimous in that) made me physically sick. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 14:55:55 GMT
Two hours of Frank Spencer. This is literally the best thing I've ever heard.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 15:13:06 GMT
I only hope it's up to the standard of Pasquale's "Rentaghost - the Musical"
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 10, 2017 16:06:57 GMT
I only hope it's up to the standard of Pasquale's "Rentaghost - the Musical" Oh, sometimes you just have to hold your nose and hope, I guess.* *Those who know, will. Those who won't - you are disgustingly, really, really disgustingly, young... sorry, but you are... Okaaaaaay..........Yay! I'm disgustingly young.........or was it on ITV?  |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 10, 2017 19:27:37 GMT
Ah, that explains why I've never heard of it @theatremonkey - after Newsround I used to have to get the coal in and practise my square lashing.
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Post by duncan on Feb 10, 2017 23:07:32 GMT
Roy Hudd is Huddlineing a 12 week tour of a version of early 90s sitcom "Waiting for God" sometime around June, I assume he's playing Graham Crowden and Nicola McAuliffe is Stephanie Cole.
I saw the Duty Free revival a couple of years ago and decided never again to one of these sitcom tours.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 11, 2017 12:52:05 GMT
Given what Mischief Theatre have shown can be done (and, for those who remember it, "No Sex Please, We're British," and the Gielgud "Blithe Spirit" as examples), I don't think the wild stunts will be a particular problem done live. All the Mischief Theatre members are in their 20s & used to doing very physical shows. Is a comedian in his 50s, coming to it "cold" really going to be able to manage that sort of level of physicality? |
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Post by Marwood on Feb 11, 2017 13:23:47 GMT
I can still remember my disappointment on discovering that Michael Staniforth (Timothy Claypole) had passed away in the late '80s and then trying to come to terms with the fact I'd never see him on the West End stage...
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 11, 2017 13:26:40 GMT
Good question, Dawnstar. There's lots of ways around it. If you use a lot of scenery stunts, it isn't an issue, and if the "physical" stuff is given to a younger cast member, it covers it up - for example "Frank" swings a plank, and the younger cast member is knocked out of the window. It's Frank who gets the laugh, and the other person does the actual stunt. "No Sex Please, We're British" worked like that. Come to think of it, that was Michael Crawford as Runnicles, wasn't it? Can't help on that one, it was before my time. The only thing I can remember about Some Mothers Do 'Av 'Em is seeing a clip of Crawford on roller skates being towed along behind a van. Granted that particular stunt isn't possible on stage anyway but I couldn't imagine Pasquale managing that level of physicality. Maybe they could hire some ex-TPTGW cast members to do the difficult stuff around him! |
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Post by Jan on Feb 11, 2017 13:34:46 GMT
Good question, Dawnstar. There's lots of ways around it. If you use a lot of scenery stunts, it isn't an issue, and if the "physical" stuff is given to a younger cast member, it covers it up - for example "Frank" swings a plank, and the younger cast member is knocked out of the window. It's Frank who gets the laugh, and the other person does the actual stunt. "No Sex Please, We're British" worked like that. Come to think of it, that was Michael Crawford as Runnicles, wasn't it? Yes. In fact that role was why he was offered Some Mothers and he played the character in a very similar way. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 15:37:00 GMT
The only thing I can remember about Some Mothers Do 'Av 'Em is seeing a clip of Crawford on roller skates being towed along behind a van. "I've been articulated!" |
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