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Post by danb on May 14, 2024 16:09:09 GMT
I saw him as Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun and that convinced me to never watch him in anything ever again. It truly does take a great talent to play a Southern American man who regularly slips into an Australian accent but sings with a posh English accent. He doesnt do that for everybody. It's especially for you. If I have to come down there!!!! Shakes fist 👊 😂
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Post by danb on May 14, 2024 16:00:33 GMT
They’re not even the right age! 😂 I loves me a bit of targeted or even risky stunt casting, but he’s at least five years too young and totally lacking the smooth, Gomez Adams-esque charisma needed for this role. Thankfully Lance isn’t a massive part of this for me, and only really needs to have chemistry with the nurse character.
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Post by danb on May 14, 2024 10:39:13 GMT
What a smack in the face for actual performers. Panto? Fine, knock yourselves out, but a quality production like this? No thank you. Shame on them.
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Post by danb on May 12, 2024 11:19:53 GMT
I suspect barriers just aren’t on the model. They couldn’t risk performers falling down that entrance staircase (just above the ‘with’ on the still) surely?
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Post by danb on May 11, 2024 20:17:58 GMT
I think Olly has a great recording voice. I was surprised when he was announced tbh.
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Post by danb on May 11, 2024 18:35:16 GMT
The only real moments of emotion for me are when Larry Murphy finally breaks down, & ‘Words Fail’; Actual demonstrations of emotion rather than endless talking/singing about it. If they can tap into the real, rather than needing volume & multi-tracking to create effective moments they’ll be onto a winner.
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Post by danb on May 11, 2024 15:33:21 GMT
It thought that it was an awful lot cleverer than it actually was. I enjoyed Gosling, Blunt & Wadders performances but it didn’t really add up to the sum of its parts. Diverting enough but no classic.
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Post by danb on May 11, 2024 15:22:48 GMT
Would they re-configure an old classic like the Criterion for this or just stick in on the stage?
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Post by danb on May 10, 2024 21:09:09 GMT
THE DOMINION?
Am I in the middle of some crazy fever dream?
And those prices? For Rocky Horror? Maybe for a night, for an anniversary?
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Post by danb on May 10, 2024 16:35:24 GMT
She is a fab, if slightly too old Mimi. 19…ok, whatever 😂
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Post by danb on May 10, 2024 5:11:00 GMT
The set model looks exactly like the seating plan…like seats! 😁
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Post by danb on May 9, 2024 19:37:21 GMT
I think the confusion arose because Hugh is understudying Dolly at The Palladium. They haven’t said anything because folks haven’t been told that Tuesday night is Imelda’s darts night (which Hugh is doing.)
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Post by danb on May 9, 2024 16:10:52 GMT
2 £45 tix available on the first date I checked! Bravo!
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Post by danb on May 8, 2024 11:33:28 GMT
Because no other shows have casting breakdowns?
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Post by danb on May 7, 2024 21:27:13 GMT
He criticises the idea, in that article, of "shutting it down if it's not what you want"... but that's EXACTLY how commercial theatre works... If audiences don't like a show, they don't buy tickets and it closes. It's sad but true. So people should hate it and buy tickets anyway? Because it'll expand our tiny insular minds? There’d be none of this if it wasn’t w@nky & avant garde. Any whiff of being ‘other’ immediately puts peoples backs up. Folks like nice safe ‘know they’ll enjoy it’ fare.
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Post by danb on May 7, 2024 20:35:23 GMT
I think that a name as big as Holland would distract and overwhelm it. The show still needs to be the star. Maybe an ex-boybander in the Efron role.
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Post by danb on May 7, 2024 16:25:11 GMT
Sally Ann Triplett goes in as Schneider, but will need to wait for the next pairing to be able to see her...! Snap! Would love to see Sal in this; the others very much less so.
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Post by danb on May 6, 2024 22:37:56 GMT
Lengthy showstop in Bristol tonight, leading to it never really finding its groove. Cover AH was excellent (very LMM) and cover Angelica was fine. The nearby ushers radio going off constantly in the last half hour p!ssed me off, and was not fine.
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Post by danb on May 6, 2024 16:50:55 GMT
“We have a great script” Did you write it Glenn?
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Post by danb on May 6, 2024 11:31:52 GMT
Oh god not Barlow. You can take the kid out of the Working Mens Clubs but you can’t… etc etc Where’s your sense of ambition? Imagine the waistcoats!
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Post by danb on May 6, 2024 11:07:34 GMT
We don’t even have any new cross over ‘easy listening’ stars either though do we? Would Gary Barlow or Robbie Williams be interested? It needs a Groban type, of which we have none.
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Post by danb on May 6, 2024 11:00:56 GMT
It can’t be Ball or Boe can it?
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Post by danb on May 6, 2024 8:53:03 GMT
It doesn’t need a star name, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt to help launch it.
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Post by danb on May 5, 2024 16:30:46 GMT
I’d love to see/hear Celinde Schoenmaker play Jenny Lindt…and maybe Jamie Muscato as Zac Efron. Celinde Schoenmaker was great as Jenny Lind in Barnum at the Menier, best thing about that production in a country mile lol. I just imagine her ‘Never Enough’ would be effortless & sublime.
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Post by danb on May 5, 2024 16:07:49 GMT
I’d love to see/hear Celinde Schoenmaker play Jenny Lindt…and maybe Jamie Muscato as Zac Efron.
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Post by danb on May 5, 2024 9:50:38 GMT
So, is it the location of said venue that will be exciting? Obvs there aren’t that many green spaces sizeable enough for a large ‘big top’ in the heart of theatre land? Or has ‘Abba-voyage’ being in the arse end of nowhere made them hopeful that people will travel for it? As someone who lives in the doorstep of Stratford i can confirm that it is not in the "arse end of nowhere". In fact it takes 12 minutes to get to Stratford from Tottenham Court Road which is a lot quicker than getting from the west end to Hammersmith. When you’re coming from a small town in the South West for a day out, faffing around via Canary Wharf or Stratford to Pudding Pie Lane feels like schlepping to a barren industrial wasteland. I guess it’s the price you pay for finding a large enough space for your ‘purpose built venue’. But, yes obviously, anywhere that’s a couple of tube stops away from your home is perfect.
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Post by danb on May 5, 2024 7:54:21 GMT
Disney also have five years left of their lease on Drury lane… but I hope this show doesn’t go there! Again- It’s going to a Custom Built Venue. So, is it the location of said venue that will be exciting? Obvs there aren’t that many green spaces sizeable enough for a large ‘big top’ in the heart of theatre land? Or has ‘Abba-voyage’ being in the arse end of nowhere made them hopeful that people will travel for it?
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Post by danb on May 5, 2024 7:43:44 GMT
Hope you made it home in one piece. I quite enjoy that feeling on having put a lot of effort into seeing something, even if it’s not a guaranteed ‘enjoy’. I remember driving the three hours back from Chichester in torrential rain after ‘South Pacific’ not caring a bit because I’d just seen something so good, whereas I really resented driving home from ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ 20-odd miles away cos I could have been sat at home watching ‘Corrie’ at the end of a busy work week.
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Post by danb on May 4, 2024 8:50:42 GMT
I was interested as a potential for our NYC visit, but the more clips I watched, coupled with hearing that it wouldn’t be long til its London bow (back in late March) made us rethink. It looks like a cool way to spend 90 minutes if enough alcohol has been consumed and theres nothing better to see. Its still just another tribute show, albeit with interesting stuff going on in the foreground.
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Post by danb on May 3, 2024 19:11:28 GMT
Lock it in the Roundhouse for the rest of time…I don’t go on the Northern Line if I can help it so it’ll never bother me. But realistically, this has Drury Lane all over it if the Palladium is clogged up with Dolly. It would sit well in the Dominion too. Hello? Did you not read the bit where I said it was a custom built venue? This isn’t going to a THEATRE. “Doh! Yes purpose built does kind of insinuate that. 😂” can you not read?
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