DaveReading
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Les Miserables isn't set during the French Revolution.
The Musicals Thread
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I sit corrected. Its during the French uprising of 1832 30 years after the French Revolution of 1799 and 16 years before the French Revolution of 1848. I'd always thought of it as being the French Revolution but they did have quite a few of them...
Pross
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Musicals are very popular in my family, my daughter is just about to graduate on her musical theatre degree - next stop loads of auditions and a career in waitressing! Off to watch Kinky Boots on Saturday for the first time. Les Mis will always be my favourite, I haven't seen many I didn't enjoy but other favourites are Book Of Mormon (first watched it after lockdown ended when we still had to wear masks and ended up covered in snot from laughing so much with the mask on!), Avenue Q, Blood Brothers and Matilda so quite an eclectic mix.
Well, we look forward to your review of Kinky Boots.
FYI - Cam Mac has a shiny new production of Les Mis on. My daughter has just seen it and thoroughly recommends.
Took the family to see "Operation Mincemeat" at the weekend. It's on at the Fortune Theatre in the UK and also on Broadway.
It's an absolutely brilliant night out. Very very funny and also moving. Far better than the film of the book I understand. It reminded me a bit of Come From Away in that you have an unlikely story to set as a musical but which offers both comedy and pathos.
It's quite a small theatre and there is a cast of 5 who play multiple roles (actually two casts as they rotate due to the demands of the show. Everyone is on stage for 90% of the show and everyone plays multiple roles).
The cocktails are also good :-)
It's an absolutely brilliant night out. Very very funny and also moving. Far better than the film of the book I understand. It reminded me a bit of Come From Away in that you have an unlikely story to set as a musical but which offers both comedy and pathos.
It's quite a small theatre and there is a cast of 5 who play multiple roles (actually two casts as they rotate due to the demands of the show. Everyone is on stage for 90% of the show and everyone plays multiple roles).
The cocktails are also good :-)
Richard A Thackeray
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Daughter & chap went to see Book Of Mormon a few weeks ago
Hull, rings a bell??
I watched Calamity Jane on TV a couple of weeks ago
Plus, surprised one of the girls at work last week, by playing her Hugh Jackman, in ‘Oklahoma’, singing Oh,What A Beautiful Morning (Maureen Lipman, was in same production)
She thought he was over-dubbed for ‘Showman’, & didn’t realise he was a theatre actor first
Hull, rings a bell??
I watched Calamity Jane on TV a couple of weeks ago
Plus, surprised one of the girls at work last week, by playing her Hugh Jackman, in ‘Oklahoma’, singing Oh,What A Beautiful Morning (Maureen Lipman, was in same production)
She thought he was over-dubbed for ‘Showman’, & didn’t realise he was a theatre actor first
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wiggydiggy
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Saw Chess performed by the Leeds G&S Society last night
I've always liked some of the songs from Chess (One night in Bangkok probably being my favourite) but knew very little about the story, and now having seen the show I've realised there are a lot of the songs in it missing from my CD I have of it, little wonder I had little comprehension of the story lol. Essentially its a love story set against a cold war background of political manoevering with Chess as a game being treated as another weapon in the cold war. Not too dissimilar to how things played in real life at the time with various sports featuring the USA vs USSR.
The songs are brilliant, as can be expected when its written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (of Abba) and Tim Rice. It may not have had the brilliant singers of the original but everyone was good, and overall it was an excellent production.
As a tip Leeds Carriageworks theatre does not contain comfy seats, I recommend taking a cushion!
I've always liked some of the songs from Chess (One night in Bangkok probably being my favourite) but knew very little about the story, and now having seen the show I've realised there are a lot of the songs in it missing from my CD I have of it, little wonder I had little comprehension of the story lol. Essentially its a love story set against a cold war background of political manoevering with Chess as a game being treated as another weapon in the cold war. Not too dissimilar to how things played in real life at the time with various sports featuring the USA vs USSR.
The songs are brilliant, as can be expected when its written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (of Abba) and Tim Rice. It may not have had the brilliant singers of the original but everyone was good, and overall it was an excellent production.
As a tip Leeds Carriageworks theatre does not contain comfy seats, I recommend taking a cushion!
It's a fun show but incredibly difficult sing particularly for the American. I had the joy of being in the first UK amateur production when I was at University (I was Walter - probably the most evil character I have ever played tbh).
wiggydiggy
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Yeah The American did seem hard but the performer did his best and I enjoyed it. The hardest I actually thought (and never seen the original I don't know if this relates) but was The Arbiter, not because of the singing but that he spends a lot of the performance stood looking stoically over the proceedings, I'd find it hard to stand still for that long!
It does - I think the Arbiter has the most stage time doing very little :-)
Mad Doug Biker
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What would
'Cyclechat, The Musical'
Look like one wonders?
'Cyclechat, The Musical'
Look like one wonders?
wiggydiggy
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I don't know what it would look like but let me sing and it would sound like a dying giraffe being beaten with a broom
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