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« Reply #275 on Jul 3, 2008, 1:02pm » | |
God help us, they're doing a stage version of Rain Man at the Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue this autumn, starring Josh Hartnett in the Tom Cruise role. I may have to stalk him with a pair of tweezers, screaming "You're supposed to have two eyebrows! But you could be so pretty!"
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« Reply #276 on Jul 3, 2008, 1:21pm » | |
Josh Hartnett as a West End Leading ManTM concerns me, given that in pretty much every film I've seen him in he's had all the charisma of a piece of cheesecloth. He might surprise, I suppose, but I sincerely doubt I'll be paying out to find out.
In other news, I'm going to see Avenue Q tonight. Again.
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« Reply #278 on Jul 3, 2008, 1:41pm » | |
You're making quite the assumption that I will be paying attention to anything besides Daniel Boys.
I kid, I kid.
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« Reply #279 on Jul 4, 2008, 8:30am » | |
Avenue Q update: the new Gary Coleman is very good. He's a little more subdued than the last guy, but I still like the way he plays the part. And he has a fantastic voice.
We had the understudies for Kate Monster and Brian last night. Kate's understudy was fantastic (although she did sing the same part of 'The Internet is For Porn' twice, but that's forgiveable) and Brian's understudy was great (and kind of hot).
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« Reply #280 on Jul 4, 2008, 1:10pm » | |
A little more subdued might not be a bad thing. I liked Delroy Atkinson but he did come across as smug at times, and I know people who hated him. I wouldn't mind seeing the understudy Kate - Rebecca Lock's got a great voice but she can't seem to bring the puppets to life.
Gah. Somehow, I'm simultaneously thinking "I've clearly seen this show far too many times" and "Hmmm, it's about time I went again."
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« Reply #281 on Jul 4, 2008, 1:33pm » | |
The weird thing for me is that both times I've seen Avenue Q, I've never felt that the actress playing Kate/Lucy really grabs my attention until she comes on as Lucy the Slut to do 'Special', and then after that she seems much more lively and engaging, even when switching back to Kate again. I don't know why that is, but I've seen videos on YouTube of Julie Atherton in the show and she didn't seem to have that problem. I wish I'd made a point of going to see the show when she was in it.
Oh, and nixxxon, you can never see this show too many times. I'm already trying to figure out how quickly I can justify going again. (Tip to people going to see it: the first time I booked directly through the theatre, and the second time I booked through lastminute.com. With lastminute.com, I had WAY better seats and I paid less money for them. Just FYI.)
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« Reply #282 on Jul 4, 2008, 7:48pm » | |
Jul 3, 2008, 1:02pm, nixxxon wrote:| God help us, they're doing a stage version of Rain Man at the Apollo Shaftesbury Avenue this autumn, starring Josh Hartnett in the Tom Cruise role. |
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It turns out a couple of my mates have been harboring crushes on Josh Hartnett, while I feel my weekday culture-consumption should extend a bit beyond E4 Hollyoaks. We have got cheap preview tickets for 23 Sep (via Lastminute.com if you want to try and get one). I'll report back, hopefully giving a non-biased opinion as I'm not a big lover/hater of either the film or JH.
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« Reply #283 on Jul 19, 2008, 1:32pm » | |
One of the oddest theatrical experiences in a long while at Spamalot last night, now with Sanjeev Bhaskar as King Arthur. I am fairly sure most of the cast were pissed most of the way through - loads of corpsing, random ad libs (though not sure anyone who's seen the show fewer times than me would have noticed), missed entrances, and yet it was still brilliant.
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« Reply #284 on Jul 20, 2008, 12:21pm » | |
Re Avenue Q, what's Mr Boys like? I managed to get the understudy when I went along (who was very good et al, but wasn't a Joseph).
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« Reply #285 on Jul 20, 2008, 6:54pm » | |
I have just read they are making a musical of "Valley Girl" for Broadway. Bitchin'!!
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