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Post by princeton on Feb 15, 2018 23:26:01 GMT
Interesting - the website image for the production (yes - the one which has divided opinion here) features Dylan Mason who is one of Stuart Neal's covers in 42nd Street. Not that this, of course, means he'll be in the show - though he did do Anything Goes for Daniel Evans at Sheffield. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 16, 2018 4:03:49 GMT
I’d say it very clearly is the poster they are going with.. Chichester does have form when it comes to bad poster design |
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 16, 2018 14:02:07 GMT
Quite apart from anything else, isn't that the wrong dress for the period? It's a bit Alexandra Burke being Mary Poppins!
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Post by emsworthian on Feb 17, 2018 11:43:10 GMT
Quite apart from anything else, isn't that the wrong dress for the period? It's a bit Alexandra Burke being Mary Poppins! I do hope they are not going to change the period and set it in the 50s. I didn't feel the "Sweeny Todd" production gained anything by being switched from the Victorian era to 1930s. |
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Post by musicalmarge on Feb 17, 2018 15:41:37 GMT
I’d say it very clearly is the poster they are going with.. Chichester does have form when it comes to bad poster design Looks exactly like LA LA land. Ugh... |
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Post by loureviews on Feb 18, 2018 10:52:13 GMT
Miss Quentin is playing the Duchess I presume. She has a great voice, even if it isn't much if a singing part. It's great to see both Joanna Riding and Gary Willmott together in Flowers For Mrs Harris. I'm pretty sure they played opposite each other in Me and My Girl! They did indeed. Lots of fun, that production. |
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 23, 2018 10:14:56 GMT
I was hoping Ashley Day, but obviously he’s just gone into 42nd Street. Stuart doesn’t seem like an obvious choice to me, but happy to be proved wrong. Now that Emma Williams is not available, what do people think of Katie Brayben as Sally?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 11:33:34 GMT
I thought Louis Maskell and Laura Pitt-Pulford would do a fab job
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 23, 2018 11:42:53 GMT
Laura would be a wonderful choice - I don’t know Louis as an actor (I do know his dad though) so can’t comment on how good he’d be.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 11:52:56 GMT
Laura would be a wonderful choice - I don’t know Louis as an actor (I do know his dad though) so can’t comment on how good he’d be. I saw him in Flowers back in Sheffield and have seen him doing songs from Grinning Man and he's truly remarkable. |
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Post by samjane92 on Feb 23, 2018 14:30:52 GMT
I was hoping Ashley Day, but obviously he’s just gone into 42nd Street. Stuart doesn’t seem like an obvious choice to me, but happy to be proved wrong. Now that Emma Williams is not available, what do people think of Katie Brayben as Sally? Yes to Katie Brayben! She did a wonderful version of the title song with John Dagleish at the Oliviers concert in 2015. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 14:37:55 GMT
Now that Emma Williams is not available, what do people think of Katie Brayben as Sally? Well that would just be beautiful. |
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Post by zak97 on Feb 24, 2018 21:43:40 GMT
Unlikely to happen but I’ll put in a request for Lara Pulver please.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 23:54:20 GMT
Laura Pitt-Pulford or Carly Bawden.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 25, 2018 16:25:58 GMT
Laura Pitt-Pulford or Carly Bawden. Laura would be a wonderful Sally. |
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Post by dazzerlump on Feb 28, 2018 9:14:22 GMT
oh I agree on Carly Bawden, and if Louis Maskell was to be Bill it would be a My Fair Lady Reunion
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2018 10:28:37 GMT
Matt Lucas to play Bill Snibson
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 1, 2018 10:29:45 GMT
Matt Lucas to play Bill Snibson And this was going so well! |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 1, 2018 10:34:38 GMT
That is .... unusual ... casting
He is a capable comic performer - and will bring something different to the role.
But it is certainly a left-field choice.
Catherine Tate for Sally???
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 1, 2018 10:35:16 GMT
That is .... unusual ... casting He is a capable comic performer - and will bring something different to the role. But it is certainly a left-field choice. Catherine Tate for Sally??? I mean, that was who I was going to suggest next!! |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 1, 2018 10:36:56 GMT
You will need someone of a similar personality size to match Lucas. Also has to be older (even though Lucas doesn't really look mid 40s, he will need a Sally who has a playing age of mid-late 30s at the youngest)
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 1, 2018 10:38:28 GMT
and I was so looking forward to this.......
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 1, 2018 10:41:09 GMT
I am sure people were surprised when Woolfie (Citizen Smith) was cast as Bill back in 84 - particularly with a Sally who was a posh bird from Cambridge called Emma
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 1, 2018 10:45:16 GMT
I am sure he will be very good - especially with the comedy "business", but he is a performer I just don't warm to, I'm not sure why?
I'll book a cheap seat - I love the show!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 1, 2018 10:46:51 GMT
I suspect casting like this increases the likelihood of a fairly rapid West End transfer
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