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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2018 18:21:35 GMT
I hate to break this to you but I think it was the 70s! Late... Can you remember where you saw it??? I've a feeling I saw it with Su Pollard at the Shaftesbury. After a bit of research I see that was July 1978. Can you remember who played Jesus??? I can't and Su couldn't, and when I offered Allan Love, who sings the role on the much later recorded Turn Back, O Man, she thought not...! More sleuthing has brought me to ebay where someone was selling the OLC recording from 1977 but signed in 1978 by the then cast featuring Su and... Anthony Head!  I really should get those old programmes down from the loft! Have managed to unearth another Godspell programme. This one is dated August 1977 and does star Allan Love as Jesus but Su Pollard wasn’t in this one You’re not going to believe this but... You prompted me to get my box of programmes* down from the loft today. I couldn’t find the Su Pollard Godspell one (although I did find a Richmond panto one featuring her as Dick Whittington!) But I did find the Her Majesty’s one featuring Allan Love! (I see that Tricia Deighton was in it. Her name seemed to keep cropping up in lots of other musicals I saw in the 80s.) I also found a Godspell programme from the Fortune Theatre featuring Davy Jones as Jesus. Hey, hey with the monkees! *Most now in the recycling bin...  |
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Post by peggysue on Apr 22, 2018 18:40:25 GMT
Have managed to unearth another Godspell programme. This one is dated August 1977 and does star Allan Love as Jesus but Su Pollard wasn’t in this one You’re not going to believe this but... You prompted me to get my box of programmes* down from the loft today. I couldn’t find the Su Pollard Godspell one (although I did find a Richmond panto one featuring her as Dick Whittington!) But I did find the Her Majesty’s one featuring Allan Love! (I see that Tricia Deighton was in it. Her name seemed to keep cropping up in lots of other musicals I saw in the 80s.) I also found a Godspell programme from the Fortune Theatre featuring Davy Jones as Jesus. Hey, hey with the monkees! *Most now in the recycling bin... Well done for getting your programmes out but I could never thrown any of mine away! I never knew that Davy Jones had been in Godspell but did see him in a play called The Point at the Mermaid Theatre. |
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Post by firefingers on Apr 22, 2018 19:06:44 GMT
Having worked with Su, what you see is most definitely what you get. She is lovely, but very eccentric so just trying to deal with her can make her a little bit of a handful. Very, very funny though.
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Post by justfran on Apr 22, 2018 19:57:35 GMT
I’ve also worked at a venue a few years ago when Su Pollard appeared in panto. She sent boxes of chocolates and Christmas cards to each department, which was a lovely gesture.
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Post by wickedgrin on Apr 22, 2018 20:27:49 GMT
Yes, loving this series - it's very bitter sweet.
Some inevitably come out better than others in the edit of course. Loving Sue Pollard.
I also love Anita Harris who I saw many years ago at Leeds Grand Theatre as Peter Pan - she was excellent. I feel that she never got the big breaks in her career really. That's show business of course you either get the break or you don't - lady luck plays a huge part.
The bits I most enjoy though are Frank Moreno rehearsing with them. Las Vegas is very different to the UK and some of the British acts will undoubtedly struggle but then I think he would probably struggle here - mime drag isn't big in the UK with audiences preferring live singing. Frank would probably just be working the drag pub circuit here!!! Again lady luck plays a big role.
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Post by loureviews on Apr 23, 2018 7:02:19 GMT
Frank Moreno looks better as Joan Rivers than as himself!
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 27, 2018 12:22:18 GMT
Should any Board member find themselves in the steel city on a Friday morning, they would be very welcome to 'watch' Bernie Clifton records his Radio Sheffield show, Live-ish. (It's recorded, as live, on Friday, but not broadcast until Saturday afternoon.)
It's complete nonsense, and rather old-fashioned, but nothing wrong with that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 12:33:27 GMT
Watched the last 2 episodes last night. There has to be a space for a tour of "Bernie, Ken and Sue Too" surely? For me, they were the three stand-outs, and Kenny's "Nightingale" was just so special.
Was also nice to hear Anita sing "Memory" again.
Pretty interested in how tacky Vegas presentation is. Terribly outdated in every respect, and they may have the leggiest dancers on the planet, but the movement and choreography is no better than average - the current "42nd Street" in London out-dances them by a mile.
Oh, and Cannon and Ball really should get some material that hasn't been knocking around since the 1980s...
Still, all in all, a delightful series, hope they do another. Having seen quite a few shows on the Strip, I can tell you that what we saw in this programme is hardly representative of the top Vegas shows where the standards are incredibly high... The Orleans is nowhere near the leading hotels, the 'theater' looked tiny by comparison and the show itself looked naff and incredibly dated, I agree. Nice they all got a chance to say, "I played Vegas" which is more than most of us will be able to say when we're old(er) and grey(er)... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 12:55:34 GMT
Stayed in a hotel recently which had a signed photo of Su Pollard on the wall, which is pretty much the sign of a quality hotel in my view  |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Apr 27, 2018 12:59:23 GMT
Still to watch the last one, but I've seen shows at the Orleans Showroom, back in 2008 ... well, the same show, 3 nights running ....
Donny Osmond. Sigh. I still love him ..
(The Orleans is a couple of miles off the Las Vegas strip, the Hotel runs a shuttle bus there and back).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 13:08:12 GMT
^ The 'O' Theater at Bellagio for Cirque du Soleil:  Colosseum Theater at Caesars Palace for Celine Dion's A New Day |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 13:28:36 GMT
Still to watch the last one, but I've seen shows at the Orleans Showroom, back in 2008 ... well, the same show, 3 nights running .... Donny Osmond. Sigh. I still love him ..(The Orleans is a couple of miles off the Las Vegas strip, the Hotel runs a shuttle bus there and back). I woke up to Donny's face every morning when I was there for my Big 5.0. a few years back...! He's on the Strip now!  |
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 27, 2018 13:42:14 GMT
Stayed in a hotel recently which had a signed photo of Su Pollard on the wall, which is pretty much the sign of a quality hotel in my view She's a terrible speller! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2018 13:52:53 GMT
Su Pollard's finest moment was her guest appearance as Heidi Honeycombe, music teacher and Linda La Hughes doppelgänger in 'Gimme Gimme Gimme'.
And I am unanimous in that.
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Post by drowseychap on Apr 28, 2018 0:52:44 GMT
Finally caught the last episode really loved this series and do hope ratings were high enough for another series ... I bet there bookings are up for the next year now .... yes agree terribly dated staging etc saw phantom Avenue Q jersey boys and Bette in Vegas now they were productions and agree frank the highest paid drag queen ?? Only in America as others posted his whole divas show is mimed and I’m sorry he looked nothing and sounded nothing like JR ..... over here hed be playing pubs he’s no Jim bailey or even ceri Dupree . Last ep was cleverly edited and watching the full show after the real standout was berni. And mick who knew ? Nice to see Anita she has such star quality still but she struggled desperately on some songs and seemed to have more stage time than anyone ...,. Loved su as always such a belter .... Bobbi. They loved him very talented. The big let down I thought was. Canon & ball thought it all fell very flat and jess well he’s was the Jc .... but hilarious to watch and listen to ..... ok there must be a summer tour on the cards surely esp round the coast ...... and come on who would we live to see with the krankies next year  ? |
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Post by macksennett on Apr 28, 2018 9:28:48 GMT
Anita and Kenny are about to do a short UK tour with Jimmy Tarbuck and Jessica Martin in a show called Swing With Laughter. Shame Su isn’t involved.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Apr 29, 2018 19:24:21 GMT
Still to watch the last one, but I've seen shows at the Orleans Showroom, back in 2008 ... well, the same show, 3 nights running .... Donny Osmond. Sigh. I still love him ..(The Orleans is a couple of miles off the Las Vegas strip, the Hotel runs a shuttle bus there and back). I woke up to Donny's face every morning when I was there for my Big 5.0. a few years back...! He's on the Strip now! <=== My big 5-0 with Donny in Vegas. Still running at The Flamingo. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2018 19:36:43 GMT
^ Fan-tas-tic!
How good is that...?!?
c x
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Post by alece10 on Apr 29, 2018 21:17:31 GMT
I recorded the series and watched the lot in one go this afternoon. I'm afraid I thought it was dreadful. A load of old codgers who would stab each other in the back given half the chance. 30 minutes spend arguing who was going to have which room in the villa and a producer who for the first 2 episodes was referred to as a Vegas headliner comedian and turns out to be a botoxed drag queen.
When we finally get to see the show in quite a small theatre that looked as if it was more fringe than Vegas Strip. If you watched the audience carefully a lot of them just sat there with their arms crossed probably thiking "is this the best of British?" and not applauding.
Judging by the other comments I'm very much in the minority but it just was not my kind of entertainment.
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