Hello people of Theatreboard! Can I ask you what (if any) theatre replays / broadcasts / radio programmes you know of coming up this holiday that you would recommend? We read that Glenda's Lear was cancelled, but maybe you know of other TV/radio theatre performances over the hols?
A few years ago, flopped out on late night Boxing Day cognac, I was delighted to catch the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross. It was a total channel-hopping accident, but I feel that this year I should be organised and three-line whip our family viewing/listening with something we might see on the stage in the future.
We don't have sky or fancy pay-per-view channels, just ordinary BBC/ITV.
And if there isn't anything wondrous, I wonder what is your dream theatre-on-the-telly scheduling?
(I'm sure that mine would be heavy on the Hollow Crown...)
This is an excellent post and I'll be watching the answers closely! I know there is some Alan Bennett on Christmas Eve on BBC2, but other than that the festive TV schedule is a blank sheet for me. Any other tips??
Thanks for the heads up guys.looking forward to the Alan Bennett and Dawn French progs. Saves me forking out £4.50 on the Radio Times. Caught a film yesterday afternoon called Nativity with Martin Freeman that was surprisingly good. It was pratically a musical.
Thanks for the heads up guys.looking forward to the Alan Bennett and Dawn French progs. Saves me forking out £4.50 on the Radio Times. Caught a film yesterday afternoon called Nativity with Martin Freeman that was surprisingly good. It was pratically a musical.
The stage adaptation of Nativity opens next year, which i am cautiously optimistic about! www.nativitythemusical.com/
Sounds hilarious or insufferable depending on your view of Mischief Theatre.
The Mischief Theatre Company take over the Radio 2 airwaves on Christmas morning.
As they attempt to make merry and present their very own radio show expect mayhem, mischief and mirth to kick off your Christmas in style.
Jonathan Sayer, Henry Lewis and Henry Shields founded Mischief Theatre as an improv group in 2008 after they graduated from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda). The success of their play, The Play That Goes Wrong spawned Peter Pan Goes Wrong. After that came The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, which opened at the Criterion Theatre this year.
Henry, Jonathan and Henry are the youngest writers ever to have three shows playing simultaneously in the West End. And next year they take The Play That Goes Wrong to Broadway.
Join the Mischief Makers for festive fun and jolly japes this Christmas morning for The Christmas That Goes Wrong on Radio 2.
That's exactly what I thought when I heard they were doing a radio show. I suppose they can do a bit with sound effects but it's not the same. Oh well, only 2 weeks to wait & see... er, hear!
Thinking of no visuals, has anyone tried reading the TPTGW & PPGW scripts before having seen the shows? If so do they work when you don't have memories of the visuals?
A Christmas Carol themed Friday Night Is Music Night on Radio 2. On 23 Dec - featuring JOJ, Rosalie Craig and Mark Gatiss.
I was at the taping of this Saturday night at The Royal Festival Hall. Great evening, also has Louise Dearman (she and Rosalie do a "Sisters" from Whire Christmas duet). Sean Escofrey (excuse spelling). Katie Melua does a stunning, stinking number with a Georgian choir.
Post by theglenbucklaird on Dec 15, 2016 18:50:06 GMT
Not theatre but great drama and very funny to boot. Bill Nighy playing Bill Nighy. Well Charles Paris in the latest mystery. Tomorrow is episode 3 of 4 but all still on radio iplayer.
An ADMIRER of the DRAMA and a FREQUENTER of the THEATRE
May 27, 2016 crabtree said: Just my naïve opinion, formed after 45 years of going to the theatre.
Railway Children tonight, don't forget. Sky Arts (via Now TV for me), interesting it's filmed at The Kings Cross Theatre when the DVD was filmed in York, well according to Amazon.
Not theatre but great drama and very funny to boot. Bill Nighy playing Bill Nighy. Well Charles Paris in the latest mystery. Tomorrow is episode 3 of 4 but all still on radio iplayer.
I still think he's the best Bill Nighy but sometimes Hugh Grant is comes close and Tom Hollander is showing early promiss...
Turns out that the really unmissable thing for us oldies was the BBC4 documentary "Bob Monkhouse - The Last Stand". Extraordinary. Available on BBC iPlayer.
Smell it. Touch it. Kiss it. Kiss it! It's the mother lode...
The Mischief Theatre Radio 2 thing on Christmas Day was so well received that if you complain about anything else they ask you before you submit the complaint whether your complaint is addressed by this - ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complaint/R2Xmasshow/ or by an answer to complaints about Robbie Williams' New Years Eve concert on BBC1.
^Ye gods! I've just read that & I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. I guess most if not all of the complainers missed the point that it was deliberately incompetent. I loved it, of course, but I did wonder at the time if people who hadn't seen the stage shows would get it.