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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 15, 2021 11:28:18 GMT
I saw this and was bored to death.
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 15, 2021 10:17:59 GMT
Siobhan Dillon was asked to do a one take version of SUTBM. its linked to her work for 'Breast Cancer Haven' as she explains. There's another version on her album, One voice. I hate to say it, but I'm not keen on this rendition. It all feels a bit... placed. Overly planned somehow. The emotion doesn't feel genuine. She has a beautiful voice, but I'm glad they went with Lucie for the role if it was indeed a choice between the two of them. Jeez. She’s sat down on a sofa, without a proper sound mix, stage setting - I think it’s a sensational version with all this in mind!
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 15, 2021 10:09:40 GMT
I agree with every word she says. I sat through it a few years ago and never cracked a smile. I found it offensive and unfunny. Offensive and unfunny is WHY it is funny. Lol It’s like laughing at a dying person who has cancer and one leg. Though desperately sad, sometimes black humour is needed and you can (and sometimes) HAVE to find humour in this crazy life. Book of Mormon is funny because it’s so horrendously rude, UN PC, racist, mocks religion, sexuality and life in general
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 15, 2021 7:03:49 GMT
OH GOD
HERE WE GO
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 13, 2021 9:00:33 GMT
Will Mama Morton have leaves on her costume? Can she sing the part? Can Sinnita the singer - sing?
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 11, 2021 16:30:57 GMT
MEGHAN MARKLE THE MUSICAL
FABULOUS
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 10, 2021 0:03:31 GMT
Aidaaaaaaaaaaaaq’ I ADORED this show on Broadway. Saw it three times! I too saw it on Broadway with the original cast back in 2000 and it was the one of the several show that, to this day, still stands out. I still have the original cast recording as part of my i-Tunes library. Me too!!!! I adore it. I never understood why it went to Germany and around the world but NEVER the UK. I understand it was expensive to produce?
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 9, 2021 9:53:00 GMT
Aidaaaaaaaaaaaaq’
I ADORED this show on Broadway. Saw it three times!
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 8, 2021 12:39:08 GMT
One concern with Birmingham is -
A The are not many international tourists like London (millions visit the West End every year). B The socio-economic demographic of local population of Birmingham. Do people have money for a family to see Starlight?! C Southerner’s by large (sorry here but it’s true) do not travel to Birmingham. Theatre loving fabulous folk like us don’t count. D Birmingham is a ethnically and culturally diverse city.... and sadly audience members do not match the percentages of the city. In other words will the theatre be full every night? Full from what demographic? From where?
These issues will no doubt bring up many debatable political and social questions - but nevertheless VITAL for knowing if they CAN sit 1000 people every night in a theatre with everyone paying 70 quid a ticket.
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 6, 2021 5:38:28 GMT
As a big ALW fan the music is getting 6/10 from me at the moment.
The pants songs, no cast list, shiny silver set, amateur looking flats, revolving seats and closed circle/balcony is making this show FASCINATING
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 6, 2021 5:11:27 GMT
I saw Starlight Express in the magnificent Bochum production in Germany when they made all the crazy changes two years ago.
They removed characters Made Papa a Mama Added awful songs Cut good songs Made the whole show woke Destroyed Pearl Added awful new costumes Cut all the goosebump moments Removed all the wonderful melodic in-between songs. Added drones and a weird stomach laser to Starlight Sequence but the Mama/Rusty key and arrangement is now all over the place
Sadly Starlight Express like a botched surgery job has been played with so many times over the years ALW and Arlene Philips have destroyed it. Unless they bring the 2000 Bochum Caboose/There’s Me, Du Allein/Only You, LeibessExpress/Engine of Love, Lotta Locomotion version back in the Bochum setting in Birmingham. Ill be giving it a miss.
It was meant to be in Battersea for years in a huge arena type Bochum show but didn’t happen. I presume this won’t either.
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 5, 2021 16:04:02 GMT
Well the song is clunky ALW meets Stephen Ward sounding which I don’t like but that aside....
A what is Carrie wearing? B was this video made for 500 pounds? C didn’t the director tell Carrie that she must physically match the vocal power when lip syncing. D Any direction? Any? E Acting? F point of the theatre setting?
A rather BAD Cinderella! I so want this to be bad but it’s all a bit CRINGE. I’m sorry!
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 5, 2021 15:33:26 GMT
Yes, to get bums on seats it seems that well-known properties are understandably a safer bet. However, I think Fame, Saturday Night Fever and Dirty Dancing (not counting Grease because it WAS a stage musical initially that was filmed) lend themselves naturally to the stage because there's so much dancing in them. I don't see the need to translate "regular" movies to the stage, especially when it's a lame 1:1 adaptation that literally just slaps the movie onto the stage with a few mediocre new songs added. At least some stage adaptations like Billy Elliot manage to find new layers and I think those also do way better at the box office than the lame 1:1 adaptations. Pretty Woman was cheap dross on stage that let down Vivian especially and I think it won't run all that long once words get around how uninspired it is - was the same on Broadway. And will also be the same for Mean Girls, which didn't do well either on Broadway. Bring shows that are smartly written, that add new layers, make the stage version its whole own thing or that at least provide magnificent spectacle to enjoy live such as Moulin Rouge. I'm here for that, credit card in hand, but the Savoy Theatre won't see me for a while, which is just as well FYI I saw Moulin Rouge last Jan in NYC. Visually 11/10 story 6/10 Sorry
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 5, 2021 15:28:46 GMT
NOT AVAILABLE? I know I have a heart music video?
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 4, 2021 22:58:18 GMT
I thought that it looked like a bigger, wider ‘Other Palace’ in that last video and did indeed wonder where the circle was. The circle is still there - it’s in the video. Surely they wouldn’t take it off sale. HOW ODDDDDD
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 4, 2021 0:48:01 GMT
Carrie says she's never seen a show that is so immersive. And there are carts on tracks...with wheels that spin! The Gillian Lynne looks gorgeous with its new seats. If it’s in the round (circular) have all the seats been taken out at the front? Are they on sale? Surely the stage can’t move out? The cats seats move and stage comes out? Hmmmmmm! Thinking. I need to see seating and stage plans for this
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 1, 2021 15:00:44 GMT
Do we think Pretty Woman is just going to reopen at the Savoy, or stay at the Piccadilly until it needs to leave for MR? Cast member told me today - rumours are the Savoy on an unlimited run. Starting June/July. Whoop!
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 20, 2021 3:26:49 GMT
I hated Sheridan and hate everything she is in. Awful. Jodie on the other hand - would be GREAT! Super talent I have to ask. If you hate everything Sheridan is in why waste your money and go and see her. A it’s a musical and not a one woman show B I live in hope that she proves me wrong! C I actually liked Funny Girl and the entire show, cast, book, music, musical itself, set, costumes, lighting, direction, orchestra and sound design, Sheridan disappointed me with her average standard singing sadly. D I thought Joseph was bad for lots of reasons. The epic 1990’s RUG version it was not. E I pay for my tickets. She was very good in Cilla the ITV series on TV though.
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 20, 2021 3:18:11 GMT
ALW is on Jess Ware’s Table Manners podcast this week. He says Cinderella is going to “launch” Carrie. I wonder how Carrie feels about still being an ingenue after a lifetime in musical theatre 😁 I love his delusion 😂 Lauch her where? Into a UK tour or Eastenders? I doubt Equity would allow her to do Broadway.
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 18, 2021 11:15:12 GMT
I personally would love to know how much money they made from this.
Perhaps this is the future way of theatre?
I did smile at the Palladium show on BBC the other week. I thought the six performance in the auditorium dress circle was so stolen from the Sunset format.
May it long continue!!!! Amazing
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 16, 2021 19:40:53 GMT
The Clockmakers Daughter was one of the best new shows I’ve seen for years.
What happened to them? The composers are out there!
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 16, 2021 19:38:59 GMT
I think it’s terrible for them to keep 360 pounds from my group when they didn’t send any tickets. No postage paid.
If they keep 9 pounds from every ticket at 3000 seats that’s 27,000 times seven shows and that’s almost 189,000 a week on fees!
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 16, 2021 11:21:49 GMT
Can they legally take 9 pounds fee? I have 40 tickets and want a refund! Anyone work in box office and know the legals?
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 14, 2021 19:18:33 GMT
I hated Sheridan and hate everything she is in on stage. Awful.
Jodie on the other hand - would be GREAT! Super talent
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 14, 2021 19:15:04 GMT
Although I am pro the updates and am excited to see what is unveiled at Her Majesty's, I do understand people's loyal attachment to the original. I was the same with Starlight Express. But that has been chopped and changed like nothing on earth over the years so guess I am just used to shows changing and developing. I think Phantom is unusual that it remained totally unchanged for so long. I am excited and intrigued to experience the whole new show though - literally keeping EVERYTHING crossed - in June! Starlight in Germany is destroyed. I’ll never go and see it again. They actually took out the 6 goosebump moments in the show, ridiculous. Not that it’s running at the moment. Sad, Back to Phantom, I’m interested to see how the “action can be morphed into the audience” I hope cast members aren’t going to running up and down the aisles. Ugh.
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