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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 13, 2016 0:14:10 GMT
Julien Clary could wear his costumes all over again and Lee Mead for that matter. I can't see Paul O Grady doing it again.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2016 13:17:06 GMT
Here is a picture of the salvation army type song towards the end, performed by Paul O'Grady & The Two Sisters
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 17:20:44 GMT
This show will tour next Christmas as well as the new panto at the Palladium again.
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Post by daniel on Dec 14, 2016 17:31:22 GMT
This show will tour next Christmas as well as the new panto at the Palladium again. It won't tour, it'll play in one city and be adapted for that city, as pantos always are. Birmingham, I do believe. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 17:38:19 GMT
This show will tour next Christmas as well as the new panto at the Palladium again. It won't tour, it'll play in one city and be adapted for that city, as pantos always are. Birmingham, I do believe. Ah okay. Was reading Baz's column and it the show will tour, didn't know that meant just play in one city |
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Post by daniel on Dec 14, 2016 17:46:30 GMT
It won't tour, it'll play in one city and be adapted for that city, as pantos always are. Birmingham, I do believe. Ah okay. Was reading Baz's column and it the show will tour, didn't know that meant just play in one city The way that Qdos pantos work is that they play one theatre for the whole festive season, and then each year they're swapped about, with a new one added to the circuit every couple of years. So the Palladium Cinderella will go to Birmingham next year, and then onwards in the years after that. |
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Post by Jon on Dec 14, 2016 17:51:24 GMT
I'm sure that's how most Christmas musicals and pantos work as a business model, White Christmas used the same sets and costumes for years in different cities so it could make money from a short season
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 14, 2016 18:21:22 GMT
The Cinderella pantomime has been (and still is) touring for years, so does this mean they intend replacing the sets, "magic", costumes etc with the new ones?
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Post by daniel on Dec 14, 2016 18:25:51 GMT
The way that I envisage it (which of course may be wrong) is that this version won't be the only Cinderella that Qdos have doing the rounds, there's normally a couple each year. This is the one that will play the Birminghams and the Southamptons and the Glasgows and the other venues that can take the biggest of their productions, but their "other" productions of Cinderella will continue.
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 15, 2016 0:53:01 GMT
Seeing this tomorrow evening and have to admit that as a grown man I am ridiculously excited! Is this wrong? Should I seek medical assistance?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 11:17:30 GMT
With the thought it would be slightly yrimmed from the three hour run, the WOS review still sats it is still around 3 hours! Longest panto ever by the sounds of it, but I love panto so i'm not complaining! May well be catching this tomorrow!  |
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 15, 2016 12:03:05 GMT
QDos tweeted that it was running at 2.45 - in an effort to contradict the 3 hour marathon word of mouth.
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Post by CG on the loose on Dec 15, 2016 12:15:20 GMT
They lied...
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Post by johartuk on Dec 15, 2016 13:29:48 GMT
To be fair, that clip is a few seconds long and the sound quality (and balance) is terrible, so it's difficult to tell anything from that, even when using headphones to listen (as I was).
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Post by johartuk on Dec 15, 2016 17:44:08 GMT
Just had another look and noticed them. Shades of Shrek!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 20:15:44 GMT
There are a number of fairytale characters in that number
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 16, 2016 0:09:19 GMT
Oh Amanda.. I so want you to be better than you are. Such a shame.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 0:59:22 GMT
So somehow managed to just bag a £30 seat for this afternoon... in Row H of the Stalls on TodayTix!  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 13:10:10 GMT
Quentin Letts in the The Daily Mail writes....
"Prince Charming is played by Lee Mead, running to podge a little but still blessed with a lovely head of curls and those Bugs Bunny upper teeth"
and he's meant to be a serious critic, but then he does write for The Daily Mail....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 13:28:46 GMT
So somehow managed to just bag a £30 seat for this afternoon... in Row H of the Stalls on TodayTix! So false alarm, I can't go this afternoon as I have managed to get food poisoning.  Hopefully my friend will love it instead though! |
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Post by d'James on Dec 16, 2016 13:29:39 GMT
Feel better soon.
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Post by shady23 on Dec 16, 2016 14:40:23 GMT
The way that I envisage it (which of course may be wrong) is that this version won't be the only Cinderella that Qdos have doing the rounds, there's normally a couple each year. This is the one that will play the Birminghams and the Southamptons and the Glasgows and the other venues that can take the biggest of their productions, but their "other" productions of Cinderella will continue. Yes we have Cinderella in Newcastle this Christmas. Thankfully without Amanda Holden. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 16, 2016 14:41:31 GMT
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Post by johartuk on Dec 16, 2016 15:11:33 GMT
Quentin Letts in the The Daily Mail writes.... "Prince Charming is played by Lee Mead, running to podge a little but still blessed with a lovely head of curls and those Bugs Bunny upper teeth" and he's meant to be a serious critic, but then he does write for The Daily Mail.... It wouldn't be the Daily Mail without a bit of body shaming thrown in! BTW - Hope you make a swift recovery DJ14 - food poisoning is vile. |
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 16, 2016 16:57:58 GMT
So as regular readers to my posts will know I was hideously excited about seeing this pantomime at the London Palladium and I am delighted to report I was not disappointed. I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it was fabulous!
It's not quite perfect, with 8 "above the title" stars to accommodate, they jostle for stage time and some of them are in normally minor roles which skew the story but still......
Without doubt Julian Clary steals the show. He has around 10 (I lost count) fabulous costumes which must have swallowed up most of the production budget. I can see him wearing them in various cities around the country for the next 5 years! "Next year they want me to go to Wolverhampton" he cries and pulls a disgusted face. He has the most OUTRAGEOUS double entendres and even manages to illicit huge laughs on innocuous lines such as " I'm the Princes' right hand man!"
In order to get two characters together on stage who normally would not be, the script tries to have us believe that Dandini (Clary) and the Baroness Hardup (O'Grady) once were an item - which stretches credulity even in a pantomime but of course it results in the one of the many highlights of the show with Clary and O'Grady exchanging insults, comments and banter and trying to make each other laugh.
O'Grady delivers, channeling Cruella De Ville with again the most fabulous costumes.
Giving Clary a run for his money in stealing the show, however, is Paul Zerdin as Buttons who has a likeable personality and the most adorable rude puppet boy Sam who almost steals the show from the human cast. The script is very funny and the vent act superb.
Nigel Havers, also delivers a winning personality receiving huge laughs and applause at the curtain call for his limited role as Lord Chamberlain - the script making a running gag about his lack of stage time.
Amanda Holden looks lovely in her gorgeous costumes and gives a masterclass in how to make a little talent go along way.
Given all the above scene stealing "turns" poor Cinderella and her Prince get very little stage time to shine. Lee Meads numbers are cut short or he is simply made to be the straight foil for Julian Clary's gags. He either has no stage personality or he plays a very drippy Prince very well. His one attempt at humour on an entrance was met with a withering "It's far too early in the run to try and start ad-libbing" from Clary!
Natasha J Barnes makes a lovely Cinderella with gorgeous singing voice but we hear very little of it, unfortunately.
Count Arthur Strong ( whoever this character is supposed to be) fell completely flat and the character could have been cut altogether for me saving both a wage and cutting down the running time of 3 hours - yes it still 3 hours - too long.
I missed the Ugly Sister played by men - I never think it really works with women playing the roles.
But the show is lavishly staged with some fabulous effects - the costumes sumptuous!
A hugely funny "if I were not upon the stage" music hall routine, brilliantly choreographed and executed but the stars. This received the biggest applause of the evening.
A couple of footnotes - a very nice glossy programme/brochure for £5 which I thought was good value although O'Grady remarked from the stage "oh nobody buys a programme - have you seen the price!"
My other footnote is that normally I am prepared to tazer audience members who talk, use phones, cough, unwrap noisy sweets etc. I have zero tolerance, but as it is panto I am usually prepared to allow plenty of slack - it is panto after all. However, I have to report the most well behaved audience at a family show EVER! It may have had something to do with the fact that the packed theatre had very few children in it - 90% adults I would say - probably the prices too steep for the kids! Or a credit to the show that they were totally engaged, silent, huge laughs, huge applause and a full standing ovation at the end.
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