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Post by shady23 on Jan 3, 2017 17:03:31 GMT
So what is he claiming is so different about this jukebox musical? I guess we will have to tune in on Saturday night to find out...
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Post by johartuk on Jan 3, 2017 17:44:03 GMT
He also says that teenagers live lonely lives on their phone and this programme will teach them about the challenges of working in a team. Wow, just like ur music Gary u sure know how to make exciting tv To be fair, again he has a point. His problem is that he seems to be coming across in interviews as a bit 'Head Teacher addressing the first assembly of the New Term'. Luckily, he's not making the TV show - he's just the ALW figure (and even he was a bit school teacher-ish at times). I think that as long as he doesn't attempt to be 'down with the kids' he should be fine! I think Graham will step in if Gary does start to take himself too seriously...or waffle on for too long!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2017 19:16:28 GMT
Lonely lives on their phone? What does he think they're doing on their phones if not socialising? Goodness.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 0:08:16 GMT
Sigh. He's such the musical theatre genius that he is working on another! It's set on a tax dodging cruise ship. This is his 4th (?) musical in two years?
Shall we all put Ina tenner each and buy him an island?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 15:01:28 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me if he ended up writing the music for Bridget Jones Musical !!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 22:35:16 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me if he ended up writing the music for Bridget Jones Musical !! Is this an informed guess?!?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 7:29:41 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me if he ended up writing the music for Bridget Jones Musical !! Is this an informed guess?!? Noooo got no idea! Just seems like he usually writes musical comedy - which BJD would be
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Post by bellboard27 on Mar 27, 2017 15:26:44 GMT
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Post by duncan on Mar 27, 2017 17:28:47 GMT
I've heard he's playing Darth tax-e Vader
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Post by LaLuPone on Apr 10, 2017 13:15:48 GMT
Just seen an advert for ITV Lorraine calling Barlow "the new face of musical theatre". Please no...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 13:55:36 GMT
Just seen an advert for ITV Lorraine calling Barlow "the new face of musical theatre". Please no... Ah yes, the new face of musical theatre that's yet to have any of his shows win a Tony or an Olivier.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 14:06:43 GMT
or be an actual financial success, or actually get an wider recognition. Considering his background youd have thought at least one song from one of his shows would have crossed over into the wider public conscious
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Post by duncan on Apr 10, 2017 15:16:36 GMT
Just seen an advert for ITV Lorraine calling Barlow "the new face of musical theatre". Please no... Ah yes, the new face of musical theatre that's yet to have any of his shows win a Tony or an Olivier. Which are totally irrelevant to calling him "the new face of musical theatre", the amount of people who care about Tony or Olivier wins is miniscule in the grand scheme of things.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 15:21:00 GMT
Ah yes, the new face of musical theatre that's yet to have any of his shows win a Tony or an Olivier. Which are totally irrelevant to calling him "the new face of musical theatre", the amount of people who care about Tony or Olivier wins is miniscule in the grand scheme of things. No they're actually not totally irrelevant. Someone like Sondheim or Andrew Lloyd Webber would never be as well-known in musical theatre if it wasn't for their slew of award winning musicals. You can't be the face of an industry until you've actually received at least some recognition from that industry, otherwise it's just whoever writes the most musicals.
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Post by duncan on Apr 10, 2017 15:28:43 GMT
Nonsense.
ALW is well known as he wrote a series of populist musicals that people wanted to see, he didn't become well known because he won some awards. Barlow is exactly the same in that he sells tickets off his name rather than any awards he may or may not have won.
Conflating someone being called "the new face of musical theatre" with awards is failing to recognise that they are two totally different things. I've no idea how many awards Sondheim has won but they don't cover up that outside of musical theatre circles he isn't actually that well known in this country - he's certainly not the "face of musical theatre" in the UK.
If you asked Joe Public on the street to name the "face of musical theatre" they would say ALW, Tim Rice, Michael Ball, Elaine Page and probably Gary Barlow. Awards recognition has nothing to do with it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 15:34:58 GMT
Nonsense. ALW is well known as he wrote a series of populist musicals that people wanted to see, he didn't become well known because he won some awards. Barlow is exactly the same in that he sells tickets off his name rather than any awards he may or may not have won. Conflating someone being called "the new face of musical theatre" with awards is failing to recognise that they are two totally different things. I've no idea how many awards Sondheim has won but they don't cover up that outside of musical theatre circles he isn't actually that well known in this country - he's certainly not the "face of musical theatre" in the UK. If you asked Joe Public on the street to name the "face of musical theatre" they would say ALW, Tim Rice, Michael Ball, Elaine Page and probably Gary Barlow. Awards recognition has nothing to do with it. A series of populist musicals that were good enough to win awards. Barlow isn't selling tickets, or at least not enough to sustain his shows for very long. No one on the street would call Gary Barlow the face of musical theatre, except hardcore Take That fans. Five years ago he didn't even have one musical to his name. And why are the general public the ones to decide who the face of musical theatre is? Ask anyone in the UK that actually does know about theatre and they'd say Sondheim over Barlow any day.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Apr 10, 2017 15:39:15 GMT
Who's the wrist of musical theatre?
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Post by theatremadness on Apr 10, 2017 16:12:23 GMT
Who's the wrist of musical theatre? Neil Patrick Harrist? (I'm sorry. I'm so sorry)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2017 13:42:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2017 16:22:03 GMT
I think it's great that he's trying to create new theatre. And he doesn't seem to be doing it just for the money, like many other celebrity songwriters clearly do.
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Post by shady23 on Oct 8, 2017 16:47:54 GMT
Jane Mcdonald the musical?!
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Post by theatreian on Oct 8, 2017 16:56:59 GMT
Well they have done Titanic the musical so it can't be that!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2017 17:13:29 GMT
An Officer and a Gentle..wait.
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