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Was it similar to the Kenwright production that's been doing the rounds since 1987? To be fair to Kenwright, had he not toured it three times and nagged Willy Russell to return it to London, I imagine it would have been forgotten.

haha the last one when it's Marti Pellow...who isn't as cheap as a Nolan but is just as bad.

For me it was partly a 'I just don't get what all the fuss was about' moment, which is always the danger when you've heard about it for years and then see it. Both times I've seen it (yup I did give it a second whirl!) it felt just so over the top in terms of being melodramatic, which I am mostly putting down to the acting, because I do like Willy Russell's writing. But what I said further up, I think mostly- it just feels like emotionally manipulative writing 'You WILL cry at the end and then think this is the most moving drama EVER' type feeling- and the sense it was wringing every last drop of drama out of every moment...while also being fairly dull (which is quite an achievement)

But I stand by, if I'd see a) a fresh non-Nolan production b) I'd seen it when I was a teen as many do I'd probably love the thing. 

But I might well be 'sick' the night of my mate's amdram production...although him singing it with a Brummie accent instead of Scouse might well be entertaining! 

True!  I could go to my spidery cupboard and check who he was in the programme, but it would be a bit mean to name him so I won't.  It was my family's first (and only) visit and I think they were wondering why I'd gone on about it so much -  that first visit with Kiki certainly left an impression on me.  I saw Con O'Neill as Mickey that time too, who was perfect.

I totally agree. I'd be willing to bet that if I saw a fresh, stripped down and built back up again production I'd would really enjoy it. I think honestly the original is getting lost in the endless mimicing of the original which obviously did have that special spark originally. 

You guys got to STUDY it?  Wow - how lucky were you to escape the horrors of An Inspector Yawns........sorry......Calls!

Was it a Catholic school @emicardiff ?

I studied An Inspector Calls and found it a bit dull to read and one of the reasons I've never seen it on stage. You'd think the exams board would shake things up and introduce new plays into the syllabus and weed out the old ones.



I think the same for Rocky Horror and to an extent Grease, both shows that have been let down with carbon copies of ancient revivals and bad casting although Rocky Horror has sort of redeemed itself with the last tour, I'd love to see someone do a revival that brings it back to its roots.

I can't for the life of me edit that to include Emily's quote about the show feeling emotionally manipulative. Argh. Oh well. Sorry about the mess.

viserys I had the same problem recently and this is the answer I got when asking the admin team how to do it.....haven't tried it yet but hopefully you can work it out.  Hope it helps.

The easiest way is to use the quote button above the edit box. It looks like a speech bubble. Or type (quote)quoted text here(/quote) but with square brackets instead of parentheses and copy and paste whatever text you want to quote into the appropriate part of your post.

If you want to get the proper attribution it's probably easiest to open another browser window, reply to the person you want to quote, copy the quote it gives you, close that window without saving, and then paste the quote into your own post that you're editing.

One of the few bits I can remember from English Literature was when we did Romeo and Juliet, but we had a good teacher who made everything interesting so there was none of the stereotypical "Shakespeare is so boring" going on. We also did To Kill A Mockingbird, because in the syllabus we were on it was "written in English" rather than "written by English".

Don't you hate it when that happens?

You might have enjoyed the Sherman production back in 1985 (or possibly 1986) with Di Botcher as the mother.