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Post by stompboy on Feb 24, 2017 9:10:16 GMT
This made me so mad. Yes there are worse shows to do it in. But I'd be furious if I'd been in the audience. I'm watching. Chicago, not Mel B making a prat of herself Jeez! Calm down. She literally sang less than 10 words of one of her biggest and most iconic songs... so what! I thought it was fab, as did most of the audience by the sounds of it - good on her! I've seen far worse pranks on final cast shows which would be more annoying and confusing to anyone who didn't get what was going on (costume and wig mix ups, ad libs, etc). I would love to see her perform Roxie (ad libs and all) in the UK sometime.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 24, 2017 10:15:22 GMT
But its the principle of it - she's playing Roxie in Chicago. Roxie in Chicago wouldn't do that. It just grates on me that someone would do that
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 16:58:25 GMT
This made me so mad. Yes there are worse shows to do it in. But I'd be furious if I'd been in the audience. I'm watching. Chicago, not Mel B making a prat of herself Oh for goodness sake, lighten up!! It was her final show. She was once part of the biggest group on the planet. People in that audience are probably fans of her and will know who she is. She came out of character for what 5 seconds and it's not like she did that each show, is it? Yes she is playing Roxie in Chicago but she is Mel B (who people might've booked specifically to have seen) and Mel B would do that. Fair enough if she did the whole show as Mel B but she didn't. The audience obviously loved it and I'm sure you wouldn't be so "mad" if say you were at Wicked for one of those muck up matinees and they did something different?!
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Post by jgblunners on Feb 24, 2017 17:10:06 GMT
This made me so mad. Yes there are worse shows to do it in. But I'd be furious if I'd been in the audience. I'm watching. Chicago, not Mel B making a prat of herself Oh for goodness sake, lighten up!! It was her final show. She was once part of the biggest group on the planet. People in that audience are probably fans of her and will know who she is. She came out of character for what 5 seconds and it's not like she did that each show, is it? Yes she is playing Roxie in Chicago but she is Mel B (who people might've booked specifically to have seen) and Mel B would do that. Fair enough if she did the whole show as Mel B but she didn't. The audience obviously loved it and I'm sure you wouldn't be so "mad" if say you were at Wicked for one of those muck up matinees and they did something different?! I don't think its fair to compare this to West End muck-ups. From what I've heard, they are often full of silly little things that don't break character and would be mostly un-noticable to people who haven't seen the show before. This was a blatant break of character and the clip that was posted earlier makes her look very unprofessional. I know people are entitled to their own opinions on these things, but surely just because she's an ex-pop star it doesn't give her licence to behave like this when any regular musical theatre performer would surely face untold scrutiny for breaking character so blatantly?
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Post by d'James on Feb 24, 2017 17:27:26 GMT
Half the fans would probably rather she did the whole of Wannabe than the Chicago score, but this was their only chance to see her.
I've always had a soft spot for Mel. I'm sure if it was someone else I would be annoyed like everyone else though.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 24, 2017 18:55:35 GMT
That's exactly the point. It's not a Muck Up Matinee. It's, as far as most of the audience are concerned, just a regular performance.
Do that in Mel B in concert, not in Chicago.
I thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 19:35:43 GMT
That's exactly the point. It's not a Muck Up Matinee. It's, as far as most of the audience are concerned, just a regular performance. Do that in Mel B in concert, not in Chicago. I thank you. I'm sure half the audience who visit a muck up matinee at Wicked don't expect it to be a muck up show, just a regular performance? Same here. It was her last performance in that role...ever! You obviously hate celebrities in shows but Mel B did nothing wrong. A 5 second slip of her most famous song. Usually people just laugh it off...I bet you would if it happened in Wicked
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 24, 2017 20:24:00 GMT
Can't stand her in anything. Gobby!
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Post by johartuk on Feb 24, 2017 21:34:45 GMT
This made me so mad. Yes there are worse shows to do it in. But I'd be furious if I'd been in the audience. I'm watching. Chicago, not Mel B making a prat of herself Jeez! Calm down. She literally sang less than 10 words of one of her biggest and most iconic songs... so what! I thought it was fab, as did most of the audience by the sounds of it - good on her! I've seen far worse pranks on final cast shows which would be more annoying and confusing to anyone who didn't get what was going on (costume and wig mix ups, ad libs, etc). I would love to see her perform Roxie (ad libs and all) in the UK sometime. The problem with it is that she disrupted the performance. By the looks of it, the audience took a while to settle down, and Mel had to actually say she was going back in to character. It's one thing having a 'muck-up' performance to celebrate someone leaving the cast, but the 'muck-ups' shouldn't disrupt the flow of the performance.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 25, 2017 1:24:00 GMT
I'm not going to defend myself against what I would and wouldn't haven't done if this had happened at Wicked (it's also become very obvious who you are as well after the 'I hate celebrities' remark.
Let's leave it at this - the audio I saw of her singing Roxie was good - I don't have a problem with her playing Roxie as she's actually ok at it, it seems. I'd just like her to stick to that.
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Post by infofreako on Feb 25, 2017 1:45:55 GMT
It wasnt something just to be laughed off though. The muck ups you refer to at Wicked rarely if ever interrupt the flow of the performance. This clearly did!!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 25, 2017 8:15:11 GMT
When I saw Oliver! It was Neil Morrissey playing Fagin. In his first scene he broke character, broke the fourth wall and made a comment to the audience about Bob The Builder, can you fix it?
If I didn't hate him to start with I certainly did then. I left at the interval.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 8:39:36 GMT
I'm not going to defend myself against what I would and wouldn't haven't done if this had happened at Wicked (it's also become very obvious who you are as well after the 'I hate celebrities' remark. Let's leave it at this - the audio I saw of her singing Roxie was good - I don't have a problem with her playing Roxie as she's actually ok at it, it seems. I'd just like her to stick to that. Agree (also on its very obvious who Kathy123 is). Muck up matinees to me are a very self indulgent arrogant thing by performers, people paying £70 to see a show and they think it's OK to treat this performance as a joke. But at least most keep it to a barely recognisable level, in this case it's very unprofessional and shows a lack of respect to the cast and audience Also I think all Fagins in the last revival broke the 4th wall and made jokes that referred to their careers. Brian and Omid certainly did
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Post by tom on Feb 25, 2017 9:32:07 GMT
It wasnt something just to be laughed off though. The muck ups you refer to at Wicked rarely if ever interrupt the flow of the performance. This clearly did!! I saw a wicked show where Andy Mace was so full of himself that he changed the accent of dr dillamond and changed lines etc. How arrogant was that? It also affected the story greatly as it turned the bits where he is taken away into comedy!? Of course the obsessives found it hilarious and there was a competition as to who could laugh the loudest to show they "got it". I felt sorry for the audience that hadn't realised it was a "muck-up matinee" I have disliked Andy Mace since. If the cast are going to do something it should not affect the performance. I don't think Mel was that bad as Roxie is a comedic song anyway and she's sort of supposed to be speaking to the audience then anyway.
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