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Post by TallPaul on Jan 5, 2024 18:09:02 GMT
I need that cast recording asap I've just told my eldest daughter off for secretly recording the second half audio of last night's performance on her phone. She takes after her father then? The 😉 |
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Post by ruthieh on Jan 5, 2024 18:34:05 GMT
Brilliant Insta/Facebook post by Christina Bianco on auditions for the Broadway alternate! 🤣
I just can’t work out how to save it and post it on here. But very clever!
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Post by n1david on Jan 5, 2024 18:53:23 GMT
Brilliant Insta/Facebook post by Christina Bianco on auditions for the Broadway alternate! 🤣 I just can’t work out how to save it and post it on here. But very clever! |
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Post by chernjam on Jan 5, 2024 18:58:59 GMT
Brilliant Insta/Facebook post by Christina Bianco on auditions for the Broadway alternate! 🤣 I just can’t work out how to save it and post it on here. But very clever! OK I'm not the biggest theatre fan who follows all of those actresses and nuances carefully and closely as I suspect many others do but that was friggin brilliant and I couldn't believe how spot on they were (and that I actually caught the subtleties)  |
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Post by ruthieh on Jan 5, 2024 19:02:42 GMT
Brilliant Insta/Facebook post by Christina Bianco on auditions for the Broadway alternate! 🤣 I just can’t work out how to save it and post it on here. But very clever! Thanks for that! Mixture of first day back at work and being hangry didn’t help my IT abilities! |
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Post by danb on Jan 5, 2024 19:23:28 GMT
Single ticket for tmrw matinee on Todaytix for only £340. Bargain 🤣
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Post by hannechalk on Jan 5, 2024 20:33:22 GMT
I actually have an entire vision of how they should reimagine it!! And Sheridan would fit perfectly into that, come to think of it. Why don’t we have a ‘love’ button? She would be the ultimate ‘now’ Mrs J…and set it now too. I'm in two minds about setting it in current times. Intriguing, but not sure. |
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Post by hannechalk on Jan 5, 2024 20:35:02 GMT
God yes. Fantastic score. But production wise, the descent since the early days at The Albery has been quite depressing. Hopelessly dated and cheap are the right words. (What's more depressing is despite this it seems to remain a money making machine for BKL so there's not much incentive to do something with it). Re-invent it and stick Sheridan in it I say. They'd pay £89.50 for that! I suspect they have to wait for BKL's rights to run out which could possibly happen now Bill's passed away although IIRC BKL don't have WE rights anymore so in theory someone might be able to do it. They either get rid as soon as they can, or they'll keep it forever in a tribute to Uncle Bill. |
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Post by appoul on Jan 5, 2024 20:49:32 GMT
Single ticket for tmrw matinee on Todaytix for only £340. Bargain 🤣 A bargain indeed compared to £366 on another platform!!! |
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Post by archibaldi on Jan 5, 2024 21:44:18 GMT
I need that cast recording asap I've just told my eldest daughter off for secretly recording the second half audio of last night's performance on her phone. But damn, it sounds good. The note hold goes on forever... Could you send it to me perhaps  ? |
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Post by ceebee on Jan 5, 2024 22:09:46 GMT
Just for curiosity, I timed the "I've come hooooooooome at last..." section from last night... Nicole held the "home" note for fourteen seconds. FOURTEEN!
I read into the elongation that Norma's desperate to prove her legitimacy and longevity. Whatever it is, it brought audible gasps and whoops on the night.
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Post by toomasj on Jan 5, 2024 22:30:36 GMT
That sounds a touch self-indulgent and would harm the integrity of the song in my opinion. I appreciate that’s what they’re going for, but all this stuff which people rave about on here were the bits I especially disliked. What I enjoyed about the production was when it had a little soul to it and wasn’t doing the campy stuff.
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Post by Being Alive on Jan 5, 2024 22:40:49 GMT
Oh she's absolutely got self indulgent with the length of that note she's holding - people have got tubes to catch!!
Still obsessed with her tho 😂
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Post by jm25 on Jan 5, 2024 22:43:05 GMT
Just for curiosity, I timed the "I've come hooooooooome at last..." section from last night... Nicole held the "home" note for fourteen seconds. FOURTEEN! I read into the elongation that Norma's desperate to prove her legitimacy and longevity. Whatever it is, it brought audible gasps and whoops on the night. It’s earned multiple mid-song “Brava!” shouts and cheers when I’ve seen it. Delightfully overindulgent! |
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 5, 2024 22:44:07 GMT
Just for curiosity, I timed the "I've come hooooooooome at last..." section from last night... Nicole held the "home" note for fourteen seconds. FOURTEEN! I read into the elongation that Norma's desperate to prove her legitimacy and longevity. Whatever it is, it brought audible gasps and whoops on the night. And fourteen whole seconds of no emotion whatsoever. Wonderful. |
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Post by toomasj on Jan 5, 2024 22:49:17 GMT
Just for curiosity, I timed the "I've come hooooooooome at last..." section from last night... Nicole held the "home" note for fourteen seconds. FOURTEEN! I read into the elongation that Norma's desperate to prove her legitimacy and longevity. Whatever it is, it brought audible gasps and whoops on the night. It’s earned multiple mid-song “Brava!” shouts and cheers when I’ve seen it. Delightfully overindulgent! That sounds horrendous to my tastes! Each to their own. I maintain I’m glad I saw it but it sounds like the longer the run has gone on, it has gotten even further away from the soul of the story, not closer as I’d hoped. Broadway could go either way, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the critics hated it and audiences loved it. |
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Post by ceebee on Jan 5, 2024 22:56:58 GMT
Just for curiosity, I timed the "I've come hooooooooome at last..." section from last night... Nicole held the "home" note for fourteen seconds. FOURTEEN! I read into the elongation that Norma's desperate to prove her legitimacy and longevity. Whatever it is, it brought audible gasps and whoops on the night. And fourteen whole seconds of no emotion whatsoever. Wonderful. It clearly provokes an emotional response from many of the audience, so must be doing something right... |
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Post by BVM on Jan 5, 2024 22:58:28 GMT
Just for curiosity, I timed the "I've come hooooooooome at last..." section from last night... Nicole held the "home" note for fourteen seconds. FOURTEEN! I read into the elongation that Norma's desperate to prove her legitimacy and longevity. Whatever it is, it brought audible gasps and whoops on the night. It’s literally astonishing. What’s even more astounding is that after the “home” that lasts forever she continues into “at last” without breathing. Like, how? Her lung capacity must be like an Olympic athlete. In other news I remembered today the melody of this bridge section in AIWNSG is identical to “time they say is relative, infinite as space….” etc in Half A Moment from Jeeves. |
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Post by jm25 on Jan 5, 2024 22:59:12 GMT
It’s earned multiple mid-song “Brava!” shouts and cheers when I’ve seen it. Delightfully overindulgent! That sounds horrendous to my tastes! Each to their own. I maintain I’m glad I saw it but it sounds like the longer the run has gone on, it has gotten even further away from the soul of the story, not closer as I’d hoped. Broadway could go either way, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the critics hated it and audiences loved it. Fair enough - as you say, to each their own! The way I read it, the overindulgence is deliberate. It shows Norma’s still got talent, but has perhaps fallen out of touch with what works or is appropriate. So it works on a narrative level - and on a purely surface level, it’s really impressive hearing a note held for so long. Incidentally, I’m sure Nicole didn’t hold the note for as long at the start of the run. I wonder if she’ll hit 20 seconds for the closing show tomorrow, haha! |
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 5, 2024 23:01:32 GMT
And fourteen whole seconds of no emotion whatsoever. Wonderful. It clearly provokes an emotional response from many of the audience, so must be doing something right... I agree, it gets the response it sets out to get. The held note has become a bit of a cliche for Norma’s over the years. The mid-song cheering, the instant standing ovation afterwards. I believe Lloyd (via Scherzinger) is taking the piss out of this moment, just as he takes the piss out of the whole show during the title number, and by extension is taking the piss out of the audience… who lap it up by screaming and finger snapping and generally playing the fools he expects them to be. |
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 5, 2024 23:05:36 GMT
In other news I remembered today the melody of this bridge section in AIWNSG is identical to “time they say is relative, infinite as space….” etc in Half A Moment from Jeeves. And the rest of it is “One Hot Afternoon” from Cricket. |
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Post by BVM on Jan 5, 2024 23:10:12 GMT
In other news I remembered today the melody of this bridge section in AIWNSG is identical to “time they say is relative, infinite as space….” etc in Half A Moment from Jeeves. And the rest of it is “One Hot Afternoon” from Cricket. Still never come across a full (I assume poor quality) recording of Cricket. Must be on the internet somewhere. Think pretty much all of it went into Aspects or Sunset though. (And maybe some motifs are in Amigos Para Siempre - or I might have dreamed that 🤷🏻♂️). |
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Post by BVM on Jan 5, 2024 23:16:00 GMT
It clearly provokes an emotional response from many of the audience, so must be doing something right... I agree, it gets the response it sets out to get. The held note has become a bit of a cliche for Norma’s over the years. The mid-song cheering, the instant standing ovation afterwards. I believe Lloyd (via Scherzinger) is taking the piss out of this moment, just as he takes the piss out of the whole show during the title number, and by extension is taking the piss out of the audience… who lap it up by screaming and finger snapping and generally playing the fools he expects them to be. Who knew the power of Jamie Lloyd was so immense! Can anyone even remember the name of whoever directed Lyric Aspects….. Thank God audience at Savoy has been mercifully free of finger snapping/yes kween antics but I do certainly have the fear it could head that way and I wonder how it will be in NYC. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2024 23:46:05 GMT
"Finger snapping" and "yes kween" antics is veering into 🤨 territory, have to say.
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Post by toomasj on Jan 5, 2024 23:50:14 GMT
Would have been a great idea for an original piece though. A forgotten/cancelled/past it YouTuber or TikTokker in her 50’s still doing the finger snapping and “slaaaaaay” and all that business long past everyone growing out of it. Her friends are all settled down living normal lives, and they’re still on Twitch to the remaining 80 people left behind, begging for donations and avoiding debt collectors as they live beyond their means.
It just didn’t need to be Sunset Boulevard, which has a definitive setting, themes and grandeur which Lloyd set aside to fit in his vision.
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