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Post by sf on Feb 11, 2018 19:53:46 GMT
Literally nobody needs to worry about the cast. The tilting lighting up mega revolving chessboard will be the star! It's even more key than turbans are to Sunset. Btw pretty though she may well be, can Mans act? He has appeared in Swedish productions of Grease and Romeo and Juliet: the Musical (who among us doesn't maintain a shrine to the works of Gérard Presgurvic?) , so your guess is as good as mine. The ability to act is (ahem) not always necessarily the very highest priority in casting those particular shows. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 11, 2018 19:59:08 GMT
The American needs you to play arrogant, self-absorbed, cocky and petulant. I am sure most pop stars can give that sort of thing a good stab!
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Post by Scswp on Feb 11, 2018 21:13:55 GMT
The American needs you to play arrogant, self-absorbed, cocky and petulant. I am sure most pop stars can give that sort of thing a good stab! Yes, but parts of The American’s role are difficult to sing, especially Pity The Child, so it’s not an easy fit at all IMO |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2018 22:12:09 GMT
The American needs you to play arrogant, self-absorbed, cocky and petulant. I am sure most pop stars can give that sort of thing a good stab! Yes, but parts of The American’s role are difficult to sing, especially Pity The Child, so it’s not an easy fit at all IMO ...so difficult that it is known in the business as Pity The Singer by all accounts. (I have a recording with Zubin Varla which sounds more like Pity The Audience...) |
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Post by danb on Feb 12, 2018 7:20:27 GMT
Yes, but parts of The American’s role are difficult to sing, especially Pity The Child, so it’s not an easy fit at all IMO ...so difficult that it is known in the business as Pity The Singer by all accounts. (I have a recording with Zubin Varla which sounds more like Pity The Audience...) Shame that Adam Lambert isn’t available for this... |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 12, 2018 7:25:04 GMT
Shame that Adam Lambert isn’t available for this... I nearly hyperventilated when I saw this....that'll teach me to read stuff, blurry-eyed before the second cup of coffee. I'd listen to him sing the Yellow Pages. Heck! I'd even go back to Hamilton if he were in it.... |
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Feb 12, 2018 8:00:37 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 8:00:37 GMT
...so difficult that it is known in the business as Pity The Singer by all accounts. (I have a recording with Zubin Varla which sounds more like Pity The Audience...) Shame that Adam Lambert isn’t available for this... If he were, it’d be Pity The People In The Audience Who Have Never Heard Of Me...
(*** Googles ***)
No, couldn’t give Two Fux about this one... |
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Post by danb on Feb 12, 2018 8:05:02 GMT
Shame that Adam Lambert isn’t available for this... If he were, it’d be Pity The People In The Audience Who Have Never Heard Of Me...
(*** Googles ***)
No, couldn’t give Two Fux about this one... Pretty sure he’s devastated...🙄 |
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Post by viserys on Feb 12, 2018 8:06:07 GMT
Hey, even I have heard of Adam Lambert and I stopped caring about pop music 20 years ago.
Not sure if I'd book for him though... Måns Zelmerlöw though, THAT would be an inspired choice. I don't even like the guy much (I can't stand the trashy noisy plastic pop Sweden pours all over the ESC every year), but he's known enough in the community by now, he has musical theatre creds and he feels new and fresh. Heck, I would probably book for him.
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Post by talkstageytome on Feb 12, 2018 8:07:51 GMT
Well I personally would LOVE Adam Lambert to be in it! What a voice!!
Gutted I'm too skint for Queen tickets, so this'd be a nice alternative 😉
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Post by danb on Feb 12, 2018 8:42:10 GMT
Well I personally would LOVE Adam Lambert to be in it! What a voice!! Gutted I'm too skint for Queen tickets, so this'd be a nice alternative 😉 ...yes, because Chess is much cheaper! 😂🙄 |
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Post by talkstageytome on Feb 12, 2018 9:42:14 GMT
Fair point 😂 I guess it is if you don't mind sitting up in the nosebleed seats!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 16:17:44 GMT
Well I personally would LOVE Adam Lambert to be in it! What a voice!! Gutted I'm too skint for Queen tickets, so this'd be a nice alternative 😉 I've already spent money on Queen tickets so not sure I'd pay to see him in this as well! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 12, 2018 16:23:37 GMT
Things have really got bad when we’re having a discussion about people who AREN'T in the cast of Chess.
Do you think the Grade/Linnit production office is reading this and having a right old laugh?
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Post by danb on Feb 12, 2018 16:36:00 GMT
Things have really got bad when we’re having a discussion about people who AREN'T in the cast of Chess. Do you think the Grade/Linnit production office is reading this and having a right old laugh? No, I think they are kicking themselves because they didn’t think of asking Adam Lambert.....and I’m only assuming that his commitments with Queen rule him out of this. He may well be their pop star! Praying 🙏 |
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Post by danb on Feb 12, 2018 17:38:11 GMT
They could get Stormy Daniels to play a porn, sorry, pawn... Is that an Erinsborough Daniels? |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 12, 2018 17:51:12 GMT
Have we now actually exhausted the list of people who could be in it?
No idea what language the last couple of posts are in!
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Post by danb on Feb 12, 2018 17:53:20 GMT
Have we now actually exhausted the list of people who could be in it? No idea what language the last couple of posts are in! I fear for a generation that doesn’t know of Helen Daniels. |
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Post by ali973 on Feb 12, 2018 19:06:14 GMT
Have we now actually exhausted the list of people who could be in it? No idea what language the last couple of posts are in! Same. I had to take this conversation offline. I needed a Cliffs Notes version of who these people are. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 20:31:55 GMT
I’ve had to look up who Cliff is.
I didn't think this thread could be any more desperate than the Wicked or Hamilton thread but I reckon we’ve made it...
🏆
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 12, 2018 20:50:28 GMT
Anyway. My only experience of Chess is the concept album and that last Revel Horwood actot/musician tour at The Lowry (where I bumped into Alan Carr at the tram stop, not that it means owt). But whoever is in the ENO production I’m bloody excited for it.
I’m annoyed at the lack of casting info but im hanging on for something good.
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 12, 2018 20:50:30 GMT
Now he's definitely too old for the part. |
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Feb 12, 2018 20:58:23 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 12, 2018 20:58:23 GMT
I’ve had to look up who Cliff is. I didn't think this thread could be any more desperate than the Wicked or Hamilton thread but I reckon we’ve made it... 🏆 The best thread ever |
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Feb 12, 2018 21:20:24 GMT
Post by rjschess on Feb 12, 2018 21:20:24 GMT
They should have had a cast announcement before Valentines day - I'm sure many people would try to get tickets for their loved one's favourite performer as a nice surprise gift! It is after all a love story!
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Feb 12, 2018 21:23:15 GMT
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Post by ilovewemusicals on Feb 12, 2018 21:23:15 GMT
Rumour mill on Facebook is saying:
Tim Howar as Freddie
Michael Ball as Anatoly
Alexandra Burke as Svetlana
Cassidy Janson as Florence
Murray Head as The Arbiter
Quite how true though, lol.
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