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Post by alicechallice on Aug 13, 2017 23:10:38 GMT
Saw the show a couple of Saturdays ago, and to say Audra is anything short of astonishing is just plain ridiculous. What a performance! She gives you everything. She sounds exactly like Billie, and sings the hell outta those songs, it is actually chilling. It is onw of those rare performances where you are completely compelled the moment she enters and cannot take your eyes off her and what she is doing. It helps too that the set and whole atmosphere is made to make you feel as though you are there, really watching her in this bar. Some of the scenes were truly heartbreaking and you just believe every, single moment in the safe hands of Audra. Having now seen it, it is incredibly tough to deny Audra the Olivier next year, even if she is up against Imelda. A West End debut of this calibre of performace and skill, she deserves every award under the sun. Welcome back, dearie
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 13, 2017 14:04:24 GMT
As with Tibidabo's aversion to Eamonn Holmes, I hope they don't focus on Tim Lovejoy much! Good heavens! You go for a quick whizz around TKMaxx and come home to find...eh? wha? Not only haven't I heard of the above Tim person or of the person actually doing the show, but I haven't ever heard of the TV programme you're talking about either. But you all seem happy, so I'll go along with that and hope the husband isn't shown too much for d'James' sake. (If you're lucky he'll be sitting next to Eamonn so wouldn't get a look in anyway ) Haha, they definitely aren't husbands! But they should be. Programme not to be confused with actual 'Lovejoy' too, of course.
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 12, 2017 14:54:44 GMT
Call yourself a proper bunch of gays & you don't know Joe McFadden?!! He was in Cranford & Sex, Chips & Rock n'Roll on the BBC1. And She Loves Me & How to Succeed in Business... at Chichester. Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier. And he's a bottom.
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 10, 2017 17:44:59 GMT
Just thinking about what I would like on Strictly: 1. No stupid make-up on Halloween or any other time. 2. No show dances except when they are relevant and appropriate, like at the end of the series. 3. No elaborate sets or furniture. 4. No props except perhaps in show dances (see No.2) 5. Correct music with the proper rhythms so that the waltzes have three beats in each bar, tangos sound Latin and charlestons have the proper kind of syncopated beats. 6. Camera work that stays sensibly on the couples so that we can see their feet as well as the rest of them. The cameramen should be forced to watch all of Fred Astaire's dance routines on film. I guess this is what's called pie in the sky! If I could like your post a million times, I would. It's also called Strictly series 1 to 5 - the good old days! If you two don't already have Radio Times subscriptions, I think we all definitely know what to get you for Xmas!
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 10, 2017 11:38:55 GMT
This has got to be one of my least favourite theatres Strange that you've never mentioned it before... 😜
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 10, 2017 11:15:17 GMT
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 10, 2017 8:09:20 GMT
Dame Gemma Atkinson!
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 9, 2017 14:56:50 GMT
So make sure your buckets of pig blood are ready to splatter the second that curtain comes down!
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 9, 2017 10:36:44 GMT
It is really though. She could have just acknowledged that'd she'd love to play the role and move on. Rather than mention that her casting was preferable to the person who ended up getting the part.
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 9, 2017 8:32:58 GMT
Carrie said that she got the part of Nancy in Oliver but turned it down because Truly in Chitty was a longer run. That's very professional of her. Not! Rampant egotist.
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 7, 2017 23:27:05 GMT
It's definitely started with some! Paul Danan's a right pl*nker.
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 6, 2017 17:00:33 GMT
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 4, 2017 13:07:48 GMT
I think it was a bit stronger
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 4, 2017 12:12:23 GMT
*ignore response being in quote bubble
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 4, 2017 12:11:18 GMT
*ignore response being in quote bubble
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 4, 2017 12:10:06 GMT
or Granny, will be left holding the baby! Only if that poison hasn't kicked in yet!
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 3, 2017 23:45:16 GMT
I wonder who will do it once he leaves ? There isn't much time left from him leaving until it's set to close, unless it extends. What's Jodie Prenger up to at the end of the year ? She strikes me as one of those people that gets up for the Next sale at 4am on Boxing Day
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 3, 2017 23:40:20 GMT
AND be doing Young Frankenstein at the Garrick?!! Clearly I didn't know about that. Only joshing. I keep tabs on all the A-listers! Did you know Helga from 'Allo 'Allo is making her RSC debut this year? Straight off the back of her role in Dunkirk!
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 3, 2017 23:33:49 GMT
Maybe Lesley Joseph can do Saturdays. AND be doing Young Frankenstein at the Garrick?!!
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Post by alicechallice on Aug 3, 2017 15:24:55 GMT
A total Z list but a couple of weeks ago I at Dreamgirls I saw Jason Gardiner (of dancing on ice 'fame') - it took me over a week to place him, I just knew I recognised him. Then I found this on his twitter: I once saw him on the tube on the way to see the Spice Girls at the O2. He was in Emma's 'Maybe' video, don't you know?
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 28, 2017 20:32:10 GMT
I was once sleeping with somebody who looked like Adam Garcia. And I share a chiropodist with Hugh Ross.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 28, 2017 7:13:46 GMT
No. He was Cornwall at the Old Vic, now playing Gloucester.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 21, 2017 13:06:56 GMT
Beloved of sea-front chip retailers from Shoreham to Hove... They surely don't eat deep fried potatoes in Hove actually, do they? No, we most certainly do not!! No more than twice a week anyway. I'd have preferred Portslade to have been the border.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 21, 2017 11:51:03 GMT
I feel like we should just divert everybody to an old thread, where this conversation has been thrashed out before. The fact of the matter is, we're never going to know whether Shakespeare would approve and if it does actually do the piece a disservice. He's not as readily available for questioning as Stephen Sondheim is and it's all a matter of opinion anyway, which is not fact. If we were to speculate whether Shakespeare would still want his plays to be performed using the same rulebook 500 years down the line with no opportunity for re-interpreation, invention or, God forbid, to go some way to creating a certain equality between genders within the acting world, I'd probably hazard a guess that he'd probably be quite encouraging of the practice. Is there a single example of a living playwright who has allowed roles to be gender-swapped in one of their plays ? Why not ? But you think dead playwrights would have been OK with it ? I cited it in my original response - Stephen Sondheim has just allowed a female to be cast as Bobby in Company. Simply saying "It works". And yes, yes, I do. Plays aren't sacred texts, they're stories, even when they're based on fact. People reinterpret stories, it's how storytelling began.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 21, 2017 11:17:39 GMT
And she used to write for the Brighton Argus. Shudder.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 21, 2017 11:09:48 GMT
Quite frankly, no-one is going to be taking a blind bit of notice of anyone else on stage in this production because the delightfully scrumptious Jonny B is playing Edgar. Ian who? 'nuff said. Is Edgar the one that gets naked?
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 21, 2017 10:50:35 GMT
"Fad", like all the female roles weren't originally played by boys and Sarah Bernhardt never played Hamlet. That's not the point that's under discussion at all. In Shakespeare's day Cleopatra (for example) was played as a female character even though the actor was a boy. What we're discussing here is the gender of the character being switched - so the character Cleopatra played as a man. Not the same at all. So no need to roll your eyes. I feel like we should just divert everybody to an old thread, where this conversation has been thrashed out before. The fact of the matter is, we're never going to know whether Shakespeare would approve and if it does actually do the piece a disservice. He's not as readily available for questioning as Stephen Sondheim is and it's all a matter of opinion anyway, which is not fact. If we were to speculate whether Shakespeare would still want his plays to be performed using the same rulebook 500 years down the line with no opportunity for re-interpreation, invention or, God forbid, to go some way to creating a certain equality between genders within the acting world, I'd probably hazard a guess that he'd probably be quite encouraging of the practice.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 21, 2017 10:39:47 GMT
Decent reviews? I just read from The Stage that it was an unimaginative disappointment! I also didn't like the Liverpool Everyman version either... She said 'unimaginative' but still gave it three stars. That's definitely the least appreciative review to come out so far but she does use the word 'samey' which is irritating, so I feel like we should just ignore this one.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 20, 2017 23:32:19 GMT
Carolyn Pickles (Broadchurch) at Mosquitoes last night. Was nice of the BO to exchange her ticket from Press Night seeing as since giving the Broadchurch Echo a royal FU, she's not entitled to attend anymore.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 20, 2017 22:15:49 GMT
On the one hand you probably are, on the other hand he might be aspiring and any publicity is good. On balance don't - try us with a description from your pic Fair point, but I'm terrible with descriptions A tall black man with short hair (I assume, he was wearing a beanie during part 1 and a hat during part 2... yes, he changed his clothes between parts). I think he was somewhere between 30-35 years old. His face reminds me a bit of Craig David, but it wasn't him. I love this game!! Was it OT Fagbenle? Previously of Hollyoaks & more recently The Handmaid's Tale?
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