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Post by crabtree on Jul 10, 2022 9:46:32 GMT
I am always disappointed in films, as they feel the need to suddenly be literal, and the joyous artifice of the stage is lost. you can see enjoy artifice and stylised design and staging on film, but films tend to play it straighter. The thought of a chorus singing usually terrifies producers and arer usually the first casualties.
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Post by crabtree on Jul 10, 2022 9:16:44 GMT
Well the text suggests that whilst Frederick and Desiree may have got back together, or at least rekindled their friendship, but the demands of a touring actress are going to get in the way as they ever did. Maybe they are wiser and can make it work.
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Post by crabtree on Jul 9, 2022 20:28:08 GMT
where were you sat Addison - on the front row. to me this is simply the best sondheim production I have seen, and Night Music is of course a masterpiece, here given a superlative production. Intimate, and big, sexy and sad, funny and profound, full of ideas all suggested by the text or score. Utter joy.
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Post by crabtree on Jul 7, 2022 21:12:08 GMT
Well it's not the film of Little Night music
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Post by crabtree on Jul 7, 2022 13:09:28 GMT
anyone seen the revival back at the leeds playhouse of this truly splendid production from last summer. Can't wait to see it again on saturday.
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Post by crabtree on Jul 6, 2022 11:25:55 GMT
That's great news, and I'm sure ms Redgrave is a performer who doesn't take missing a show lightly.
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Post by crabtree on Jul 4, 2022 12:29:43 GMT
I particularly enjoyed his pared down, raw Carmen. I wonder how his Dream would be received today. Oh yes and the brilliant and disturbing Marat/Sade
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Post by crabtree on Jul 1, 2022 20:27:45 GMT
I've been meaning to say how impressed i was at the speed that Summer went from car Man back to Poppins. two more different roles there are not,
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Post by crabtree on Jul 1, 2022 8:26:37 GMT
And whilst i have absolutely no objection matthew bourne does usually include a gay couple or two or five in his scenarios. as well as a dance pastiche of Martha Graham or some such icon.
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Post by crabtree on Jun 12, 2022 9:02:23 GMT
and let's not forget the staggering, astonishing production at the Wythenshawe Forum. None of us knew what had hit us. Such spectacle and such an unexpected venue.
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Post by crabtree on May 16, 2022 22:05:05 GMT
Bits of it were clearly live and some were not, a nd the edting was frankly a bit of a mess, jumping into the middle of narration - I mean it was a huge event but a lot of padding to begin with and a lot of'what are we watching?'. Very fragmentted.
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Post by crabtree on May 16, 2022 17:13:02 GMT
so the broadcast last night was day four of the event - I'm assuming Helen Mirren and Tom Cruise did not appear the other nights. Anyone any idea who the B team were?
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Post by crabtree on May 11, 2022 16:24:43 GMT
This production seems to have an as erratic and unpredictable life as it's titular character. And how disappointing that life Godot, said titular character does not make an appearance.
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Post by crabtree on May 11, 2022 10:47:05 GMT
Ethel as Momma Rose
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Post by crabtree on May 10, 2022 21:02:03 GMT
I'd happily pay that to see the RSC Nickelby again, live.
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Post by crabtree on May 1, 2022 19:51:56 GMT
And, of course, Pick Ou a simple tune, from Kipps - from a plucky plectrum to organised chaos.
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Post by crabtree on May 1, 2022 18:25:34 GMT
anxiousoctopus - i know what you mean, but chitty is actually only a story until she flies in the last minutes
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Post by crabtree on May 1, 2022 12:30:21 GMT
And Riverdance
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Post by crabtree on May 1, 2022 12:29:04 GMT
And I guess 'One from chorus Line, and the kingdom of the shades from La Bayadere. thanks for those examples.
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Post by crabtree on May 1, 2022 10:41:38 GMT
Here's one for you. I'm rather enjoying, and then enjoying once more the opening to act two of ENO's Pinafore, where it starts with a small lad alone on stage doing a hornpipe, then two others join him, then two more, until the whole chorus are there in a regimented cross between a clog dance hornpipe and riverdance - almost. It does break the build for a few solo moments and doesn't quite deliver with everyone doing the same steps at the end but it is joyous. What numbers do just build and build from solo to full company?
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Post by crabtree on May 1, 2022 9:11:28 GMT
preposterous nonsense, with as usual, major plots coming and going so quickly, but i loved every absurd cliche ridden second of it - the Singin in the rain thread was so obvious but gave such pleasure, and our cinema loudly cheered the Guy/Barrow plot. i hope they will be happy.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 29, 2022 17:42:56 GMT
The programme for the Prince Edward production just fell out of the shelf, and there's James Corden looking about 14. Did the show ever find a format that worked fully. Such a glorious score, but in each version i think they gave the game away, the plot twist, too early.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 28, 2022 21:15:08 GMT
I've always been a bit disappointed with the anything goes number itself as i seems a bit formless. If you want a great beautifully constructed number with sailors, and much wit, catch the opening of Act Two of HMS Pinafore from ENO and showing on sky arts twice this weekend.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 28, 2022 19:15:38 GMT
Pinafore is repeated on saturday at noon on sky Arts, and on sunday. Look hard as it is under the 'anyone can sing' series title.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 28, 2022 12:02:11 GMT
Heck, if i was at a show where Janis Ian was performing, i'd want to hear every heartbreaking word, not the darn audience.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 28, 2022 10:07:17 GMT
I rather like a shaved headed Higgins, especially as the floppy wig is rather clumsy.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 27, 2022 22:00:36 GMT
and on the back of the sky arts/ENO Anyone can sing series, my video recorder whirred into action for the ENO Pinafore tonight. I missed tha it was screening, but oh what joy, lost of fun business, movement, great design and the opening o Act two, a supplementary piee but very in keeping, made me giddy with pleasure - four times on the go. I think that was the performance the 'anyone Can sing' singers did their bit and i was hoping that section would be included, but it looked as if it would have gone past the two hour mark. But a rather gorgeous evening - thank you ENO and Sky arts. (all this and sewing bee - certainly brightened up a fraught day)
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Post by crabtree on Apr 27, 2022 20:24:03 GMT
are we allowed to have a man crush on Patrick?
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Post by crabtree on Apr 27, 2022 20:22:42 GMT
And Jo Davies did a brilliant, well thought out Ruddigore for opera North. Yep, Jack Point - a great character - will he expire at the end I wonder.
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Post by crabtree on Apr 27, 2022 14:47:36 GMT
Any mention of who is playing Jack Point in Yeomen - please let it not be a him off t'telly casting.Y eomen does contain some wonderful music and i hope they bring out the darkness. I didn't see ENO's Iolanthe or Pinafore but I sufferred, oh and i did suffer, their Pirates. I was lucky to see the legendary, truly inspired Patience, and the jaw dropping Ida, and of course the gorgeous Mikado.
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