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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 12:05:16 GMT
Revival of this starring You-tuber Tanya Burr. The irony of 'no shortcuts to success' and starring a you-tuber potentially lost on the producers?
(disclaimer if someone knows more about Burr than me and she's actually an actor in a previous life, I stand corrected but my google searches return only that she's a 'beauty blogger')
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 9, 2018 12:12:31 GMT
Never ejven heard of her. Snap! |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 9, 2018 12:14:54 GMT
She has been taking private acting lessons for the past couple of years. I have no idea whether that means she can act - but it is something she has been working towards for some time.
Yes, it looks like stunt casting to bring in someone with millions of YouTube followers - but at least she has been wanting to become an actor and has taken tuition.
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 9, 2018 12:26:10 GMT
Is she related to Aaron?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 12:58:06 GMT
I had heard of her before (I confess there is no limit to the sh*t I will watch on youtube to avoid doing anything useful) but didn't really know anything about her.
It apparently crashed the website, and the company (it's not a SP production) are dedicated to bringing in young audiences. So fair play on that count they've certainly succeeded. Let's just hope she's good enough to mean they come back for more.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 9, 2018 13:05:59 GMT
Looking at the reviews of the original production, it would seem that the role was played by someone else making their professional debut.
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 9, 2018 13:26:00 GMT
The problem is, if the producers are targetting the YouTube generation, won't the audience be looking at their screens, rather than the stage?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 9, 2018 13:27:16 GMT
Perhaps the action will freeze every few minutes for an advert to be screened?
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Post by BGLowe on Feb 9, 2018 23:55:19 GMT
As someone who was in Tanya’s demographic (I’m definitely out of it now!) I know bits about her. She is originally a makeup artist,that’s how her YouTube fame started, but she rarely does that now and has books out about baking and mainly does lifestyle vlogs. She has no drama school training but she has been having private acting lessons for the past couple of years.
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Post by lonlad on Feb 10, 2018 0:42:31 GMT
Who??? Any relation to Aaron Burr??? (!!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 10:19:55 GMT
Who??? Any relation to Aaron Burr??? (!!) Psst... if you read the whole thread, you'll find 1) the answer to your question and 2) that your joke has already been done. Honestly now, it's not like it's an 80-page behemoth of a thread... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 10:40:15 GMT
She has been taking private acting lessons for the past couple of years. I have no idea whether that means she can act - but it is something she has been working towards for some time. Well good for here. I would guess that in this case she probably has confidence in confidence alone. |
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Post by No. on May 27, 2018 10:17:48 GMT
Has anybody heard much about Tanya’s performance? I’ve seen things about the production itself but nothing about her other than her fans insisting that she was amazing
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 10:29:53 GMT
The Time Out review wasn't very flattering and went into some detail as to why, but if her fans thought she was amazing, then at least the reviewer is wrong that the fans will be drawn by her name yet ultimately disappointed by the show.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 18:03:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 21:38:21 GMT
I’m personally not a fan of Tanya at all. She seems so fake and rude in her “vlogs”. Just look at her file on GuruGossiper and you’ll see some glowing reports about her.
I think it’ll be good for the Southwark Playhouse. They’ll get a lot of trade from ridiculously stupid rich kids who worship her, “Zoella”, “Sprinkle of Glitter” and others.
God forbid she is announced as Elphaba or Glinda...
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Post by adrianics on May 29, 2018 8:10:09 GMT
We saw the second preview last week, didn't realise there was a thread.
There isn't a lot more to say about Tanya Burr other than her performance in this show is an absolute disgrace, it's appallingly amateurish and belongs nowhere near a fringe theatre as reputable as the Southwark Playhouse, and her being cast in a professional production simply due to her fame and profile in the absence of any kind of charisma or talent on stage is a huge insult to the hard work and graft of professional performers everywhere. Her line delivery sounded like the table read at an amdram production, and her characterisation is almost completely non-existent - Not even a token attempt at an accent, and just dumbly staring at her co-stars waiting for her next line to come along rather than attempting to engage with the scene and react in character. That this is happening because she decided one day that she wanted to give acting a go spits in the faces of all the trained, genuinely talented performers out there who work their arses off for a break that never comes. The more I think about it, the angrier I get, so it's probably best that I stop talking about it.
The play itself is... Okay. Not really my cup of tea but I love Brighton and spend a lot of time there, so welcomed the storyline of working class Brighton kids dreaming of better and getting in over their heads with the darkness that surrounds them. The rest of the cast work very hard in the sweltering venue to keep the audience engaged, with particular props to the very convincing and terrifying Rhys Yates. Otherwise it's kind of dreary and the pace slows down to a crawl on several occasions.
The theatre was completely packed with Burr fans, so no doubt this will be good for the SP... But at what cost?
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Post by MrsCondomine on May 29, 2018 12:28:07 GMT
Just looked her up, had no idea she was 28. If ever there was an advert for avoiding the sun and using good skincare, darling #catty
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Post by Steve on May 29, 2018 17:54:21 GMT
Tanya Burr isn't a disgrace. She just has no nuance. Some spoilers follow. . . She fires off her lines like bursts of machine gun fire, which works, at first, to convey something of the selfish single-mindedness and determination of a callous callow self-promoter, adept at conning everybody around her, but the performance stops right there and goes no further. There is nothing beneath the surface. I was reminded of one of the lines from "Red" about how great art should "pulsate" with an inner life. Well, no pulse. Still, reflecting on ENO's "Carousel," to aid an understanding of where Burr's acting sits in the scheme of things, Burr is much closer to finding her character than Alfie Boe's strident clumsy attempt, and is about on a par with Katherine Jenkins, who also managed to find a single characteristic of her character (a sappy sweetness) but could go no further in bringing her character to full vibrant life. For a first time actor, I think Burr's performance ok, and far from a disgrace. That gurugossiper website, referred to above, however, is a total disgrace, seemingly existing to send it's users down a rabbit hole of schadenfreude that cannot possibly do anything but mire those users in a relentless negativity, that ultimately will make them all unhappy. The reviews are right about this play. It's a shallow affair about the conman in everyone. I did enjoy the meta element of a determined amateur conning people into casting her in a role in a shallow professional play, in which a shallow determined woman cons just about everybody around her into giving her a new role in life. 2 stars for the play, 3 stars for the meta-chuckle.  |
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Post by adrianics on May 29, 2018 18:37:48 GMT
Yes, I too went on GuruGossip and heavily regretted it. A performer's private lives and interactions have literally no relevance whatsoever on whether or not I enjoy their work, and I really wouldn't put any real thought into the rantings of the obsessively hateful.
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Post by Snciole on May 30, 2018 9:58:06 GMT
Just looked her up, had no idea she was 28. If ever there was an advert for avoiding the sun and using good skincare, darling #catty I was very confused that actual young people were into her, she is not a good advert for her make up tips. |
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Post by dani on May 30, 2018 11:59:17 GMT
Isn't her vlog to a large degree advertising for products made by companies she has relationships with? I watched this one and it was moronic:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 16:05:11 GMT
I had a friend who went to the show. Whatever Tanya is doing on that stage, according to them, is an embarrassment.
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