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Post by karloscar on Jun 13, 2024 19:03:46 GMT
Sharon D Clarke gives a lovely performance as the foster parent who's been caring for Jake, and was promoting it on Morning Live saying how proud she was to be part of such an important story that would've been impossible to make for mainstream TV only a short time ago.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 12, 2024 19:17:57 GMT
It's still possible for a new male pro to join the team before September. Vito and Lauren were not announced until much closer to airtime when they joined a couple of years ago.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 10, 2024 13:38:53 GMT
I saw the original cast in in London and was just old enough to get the innuendo that was rife in a lot of Richard Stilgoe's lyrics. There's no way Control could have been a kid at that time, or the kid had serious issues!
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Post by karloscar on Jun 9, 2024 20:12:55 GMT
Since Joe Stilgoe has collaborated on a new song for Starlight Express, maybe that's a relationship that could be developed. He's got the musicianship and a strong enough personality to hold his own with ALW.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 7, 2024 17:00:12 GMT
Sunak in a way got lucky with Boris Johnson becoming PM because becoming Chancellor was his way to the top job. I’m not sure having to defend Johnson and his record at the next election is lucky? it's his record too! He was there all the way. Sunak only got promoted to chancellor because he was easy for Cummings to manipulate. Javid quit because he'd had enough of Cummings's interfering and Blojo's incompetence.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 7, 2024 9:41:41 GMT
France has indicated that Tetchy Titchy Richie originally had no intention of attending the DDay commemorations at all, as he had more important things to do. His pathetic partial performance was a compromise it seems. He REALLY wants to lose and lose badly, doesn't he? Is it to late for his local party to reject him as their chosen candidate? That would be hilarious.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 5, 2024 14:04:29 GMT
First past the post only favours those who are already in power and wish to keep hold of that power. The argument that it gives us strong and stable government has been blown apart in the last ten years. A system of PR which gives a broader range of parties and independents a chance can only be a good thing. You'd have to reform the way parliament works with more sanctions and accountability for the feckless, idle, corrupt and incompetent and bring the institution into the 21st century. As a long-time staunch advocate of a more proportionally representive system, I think First Past the Post (FPTP) does tend to give stronger governments than PR, but the problem is that strong governments don't usually make for good governments. You need some brakes on power to stop governments taking reckless measures. I disagree with your first sentence though, and probably so would Sunak right now! We are so used to the Lab/Con two-party system that, until recently, it seemed unthinkable that either could be dislodged, but a scenario where Farage's Reform supplants the Tories might no longer be so far-fetched. Labour survived the split of the right to the SDP (although it then took them until 1997 to regain power), but how would it fare if a leftish faction managed to get organised under a disappointing Starmer government? Under FTPF in the UK, we have had parties achieve an overall majority with less than 40% of the popular vote, and that's been when there were just three main English parties. As politics fractures further, FTPF offers the possibility of a single party dominating with a lower overall share. I would include Labour and the Tories together as "those who hold power" (two cheeks of the same ass anyway). That's why neither of them would consider proper reform of our system of government other than tinkering round the edges.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 5, 2024 12:12:05 GMT
...Of course if we had PR voting Farage, Galloway and Corbyn would permanently be MPs, unable to be removed and unaccountable to the voters, and with about 5-15% of all MPs each. The LibDems never explain quite why that would be a good thing. Yes they do. They believe all voters should be represented, no matter how strongly you may disagree with them. The terrifying danger of First Past the Post is that a sudden groundswell of sentiment around an election could land an untested extreme party with a majority. First past the post only favours those who are already in power and wish to keep hold of that power. The argument that it gives us strong and stable government has been blown apart in the last ten years. A system of PR which gives a broader range of parties and independents a chance can only be a good thing. You'd have to reform the way parliament works with more sanctions and accountability for the feckless, idle, corrupt and incompetent and bring the institution into the 21st century.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 5, 2024 8:09:39 GMT
Watching the debate and quite honestly neither Starmer nor Sunak is coming across well in this for me. When the choice is between these two in a few week's time, it really is a depressing situation for the future of this country. No one is forced to vote If everyone abstains it will send a clear message Instead people are obsessed with “exercising their right” The plain truth is ANY government is too spineless to confront the issues we face in our society We have a nanny state with a populace unable to stand on their own feet either, financially and socially with no resilience This dependence cannot be reversed no one has the balls to do it Any solutions offered by either leader fail to see the scale and gravity of the problems we face Any tokens offered are a tiny speck and will make no tangible difference 300, 000 extra appointments in London per year under Labour People expect an appointment for one hour of sore throat or one day of a cough You can offer unlimited everything, appointments, education, support As long as people don’t know how to take what is on offer appropriately and it’s free it will never be enough [br Yeah, take away voter's rights and ditch the "nanny state" and make everyone fend for themselves. Are you Nigel Farage, Parsley???
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Post by karloscar on May 30, 2024 15:22:58 GMT
I'll probably get shot down but I find the choice of actor a bit odd. I see Mama Rose as an actor who belts out the songs, Ethel Merman, Bette Midler, Imelda Staunton, Patti, where Audra is a soprano with a wonderful voice but I don't see her as a belter. She may have a soprano's range but she's also got a strong chest voice that's very adaptable. If you look at her repertoire, there's a wide variety of songs and styles. If she can play Deena in Dreamgirls and Billie Holliday, she's not going to struggle with the Gypsy score at all.
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Post by karloscar on May 30, 2024 13:47:56 GMT
It'll be interesting to see if they address the race issues of the time in this production. An African American burlesque performer would've been perceived very differently from her white counterpart, not to mention the difficulties of travelling around trying to get work as a single woman with children.
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Post by karloscar on May 25, 2024 8:26:42 GMT
Jack Butterworth is ace isn’t he? Always so watchable and present (and his Samuel Seabury track always made Hamilton better). Not loving the whole sweaty vibe though. isn't sweaty the whole point of the number?
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Post by karloscar on May 24, 2024 9:09:04 GMT
With Labour parachuting English candidates into Scottish seats due to lack of viable local candidates, gaining seats in Scotland may not be the walk in the park they seem to think.
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Post by karloscar on May 20, 2024 9:49:13 GMT
I am never going to 'catch up' with, or view as 'progressive', an ideology that tells young people that they're 'born in the wrong body' and need surgically 'fixing' if their behaviour doesn't conform to a set of regressive pink and blue stereotypes. I was lucky enough to be a child in the genuinely progressive 70s and 80s, when we could dress and behave pretty much how we liked, and no one told me it made me 'more' or 'less' of a girl - bliss it was in that dawn to be alive etc. This stuff now is taking us back to the 1950s and before. And all the gays and lesbians in the seventies and eighties were trying to convert/corrupt your children to homosexuality and destroy their lives! This right-wing scaremongering sounds very familiar!
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Post by karloscar on May 5, 2024 19:52:24 GMT
[br Or he dumps Nicole and insists on Sarah for Broadway! History repeating....hahaha I am here for it! Again, how ironic would it be if he does an ALW and replace the actress for Broadway with someone else that he adores. I doubt it will happen, because I don't think he has that sort of hold on the JL production. He is also a big fan of Nicole Scherzinger, but as we know, he has always said that Sarah is very special to him. Also, while SB can still dance a bit and definitely 'twerk' a little as well (seen on her last tour), I don't think she would be able to do the choreography in the JL version which involves a lot of running around and writhing/rolling on the floor. I also feel that despite her sensible rehearsal clothes, that she would insist on glamorous gowns, beautiful slippers for the actual show, which wouldn't work in Lloyd's show. If the show going to Broadway was a full scale production like the ENO one, I could certainly see him replacing anyone with Sarah if he thinks she is amazing. It wasn't meant as a serious suggestion.
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Post by karloscar on May 1, 2024 19:40:44 GMT
Tim must be taking this seriously if the beard has gone!
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Post by karloscar on Apr 30, 2024 1:34:45 GMT
Sarah looks great. Hold on folks, for another twist in the ALW Sunset Saga, if he decides Sarah is the ultimate Norma, and wants the film to be made - with her....! Lol [br Or he dumps Nicole and insists on Sarah for Broadway! History repeating....hahaha
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Post by karloscar on Apr 29, 2024 14:20:52 GMT
Sharon D Clarke as Lady Bracknell? Well, that's one Olivier award spoken for and possibly a Tony if it transfers.
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Post by karloscar on Apr 23, 2024 20:16:45 GMT
My admiration for Stamp would definitely go up if he's doing heels at 85!
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Post by karloscar on Apr 23, 2024 14:11:02 GMT
Doxxing implies malicious intent which is clearly not the case here.
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Post by karloscar on Apr 23, 2024 12:37:28 GMT
Quite telling that the Huey Lewis jukebox musical where the hero's dilemma is choosing between a life of rock'n'roll and working in a cardboard box factory has had a somewhat warmer reception from the critics than Cabaret! "Eddie Redmayne wishes his Emcee were this bonkers" NYPost.
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Post by karloscar on Apr 22, 2024 17:10:53 GMT
Although the Mendes production started out at the Donmar, London never had the full Studio 54 production which had two substantial runs in New York with Alan Cumming, Natasha Richardson and all the stars who followed them. Memories of that production do linger on Broadway, so it's not surprising that the reception of this new version has been mixed at best.
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Post by karloscar on Apr 17, 2024 7:59:52 GMT
Odd that Miss Brightman is completely missing from any publicity and rehearsal footage so far. Is she there and her Norma is elusive and camera shy, or are we back in the days when opera divas would park and bark their "Norma" in different productions without much rehearsal?
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Post by karloscar on Apr 7, 2024 16:59:33 GMT
Piccadilly was the graveyard of so many new musicals that she probably had a lucky escape despite the Prince Edward being a barn.
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Post by karloscar on Apr 7, 2024 9:31:01 GMT
Three million wasn't a huge budget even twenty five years ago, and there were no star names attached to bump up the costs. Judy Craymer was taking a huge risk with a show that few people believed would succeed, but it paid off big time.
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