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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2019 19:15:26 GMT
To be fair, at Crewe station I've seen weirder than a hedgehog in a bra I'm sure.
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Post by david on Jan 9, 2019 19:19:30 GMT
To be fair, at Crewe station I've seen weirder than a hedgehog in a bra I'm sure. As someone who was raised in Crewe, I can categorically confirm that this would be seen as quite normal! |
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 9, 2019 21:11:25 GMT
This sounds like a brilliant episode of a sitcom. To me it's beginning to sound like Alan Bennett dialogue. "I'd just boarded the 14.42 at Crewe when there was this ungodly squealing. It was a woman with a hedgehog in her bra." "Oh, HER. I expect she was just keeping it warm". |
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Post by duncan on Jan 10, 2019 9:47:17 GMT
I've never understood the Mary Poppins fuss - I think its something to do with my general apathy towards Julie Andrews.
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Post by crowblack on Jan 10, 2019 11:41:57 GMT
general apathy towards Julie Andrews. I don't dislike her, but I disliked the film as a kid and still do (apart from the brief hunt sabbing, that was cool). Bossy stranger coming into the house making you tidy up, political wife a figure of fun, kitsch schmalzy sugariness and whimsey, the scarily overenergetic, seemingly endless "aren't we having fun, boys and girls" type dance routines. Nope. Ditto Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And Poppins' offspring Nanny McPhee is even worse - the 'better' the kids are the less 'ugly' she gets, while the much younger housemaid is given elocution lessons to make her an acceptable bride for the widower. Progressive messages you've got there, Emma T. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 3, 2019 21:57:45 GMT
While I liked Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindlewald, I do think JK Rowling needs a co-writer to help her out for the next film, she's a great storyteller but she's not a screenwriter. The first one was on tv earlier today. I got about an hour in and had to give up because it was so dull and unengaging. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 11:05:41 GMT
I think its something to do with my general apathy towards Julie Andrews.  |
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 4, 2019 15:43:04 GMT
Ditto Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Oh god yes, CCBB is terrible. |
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 4, 2019 15:48:46 GMT
~appears~
The Jackson 5 were pretty bad. Idk why but their songs just grate on me, maybe due to Michael's jarring child voice. Thankfully his solo work is a different story, but his early stuff was... eww. So I can't wait to sit in Motown the Musical and have to suffer through five of their songs.
~disappears back into the void, avoiding the oncoming barrage of tomatoes~
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 15:55:10 GMT
Following on from the Jackson 5, I personally think Michael Jackson is one of the most overrated singers in the world. As a live performer, for his time, he was unbeatable in the shows he would put on, but vocally he wasn't as great as some make out.
To add, I find Michael one of the most fascinating people in the world to this day, and still watch documentaries and interviews about him just because I find his life so interesting!
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Post by lynette on Feb 4, 2019 16:37:07 GMT
Paul MCartney can’t sing, never could. Of course I would have married him when I was 16. Not so much now.
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 4, 2019 16:50:39 GMT
Following on from the Jackson 5, I personally think Michael Jackson is one of the most overrated singers in the world. As a live performer, for his time, he was unbeatable in the shows he would put on, but vocally he wasn't as great as some make out. I agree, he frequently sounded like he had combined hiccups and constipation. His songs were mainly not up to much either. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 17:05:46 GMT
Paul MCartney can’t sing, never could. Of course I would have married him when I was 16. Not so much now. I can think of 820 million reasons why I'd marry him even now. |
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Post by michalnowicki on Feb 8, 2019 16:43:30 GMT
I'm not bothered about Dear Evan Hansen making its/his/their way to West End.
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Post by indis on Feb 10, 2019 12:43:00 GMT
seriously thinking on leaving the MTAS FB group: every time someone discusses unpopular opinions the whole thread gets deleted and nobody is allowed anything negative. Its one thing to write negative things and another thing to post rude things. What a bullsh.. to think the world is just peachy and ☀️. Lets build a circle, hold hands and dance around it. 🙈
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 10, 2019 15:16:38 GMT
Paul MCartney can’t sing, never could. Of course I would have married him when I was 16. Not so much now. Sacrilege |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2019 16:06:29 GMT
Actually, The Beatles weren't anything special vocally. They had great songs, for sure, and great presence, and knew how to put on a show. But their voices weren't that great.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Feb 12, 2019 17:05:19 GMT
- No one in either Rent or Dogfight deserves any sympathy - they're all awful people. Possibly excluding Collins. - I actually think the whole Eponine-Marius guff could be excised, and the structure of Les Mis would lose nothing except a standard talent show song. In fact I sort of hate this whole subplot? I know this makes me a wretch. - I find Idina Menzel's singing voice very hard to listen to. - Katie Hall's singing voice is weak. - Last year's Exit the King at the Nash was one of the best things I've ever seen - certainly one of the most moving. - The Sound of Music, Chitty, and Chicago are ALL better in their film incarnations. The stage shows are (or were, when they were around) shambolic. - Corpse! by Gerald Moon is the finest farce in existence. - Impossible to qualify or prove, but the idea that Kit Marlowe would have been a better playwright than Shakespeare had he lived is total rubbish. His plays are uniformly terrible and there is nothing moving or spectacular in the language. Even Titus Andronicus has some fabulous lines. - Speaking of which... Titus Andronicus is the best Shakespeare play  |
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Post by bobbybaby on Feb 12, 2019 17:13:31 GMT
I'm not bothered about Dear Evan Hansen making its/his/their way to West End. Here here ! I also apply this to Come From Away and Waitress !! |
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 12, 2019 18:05:23 GMT
Actually, The Beatles weren't anything special vocally. They had great songs, for sure, and great presence, and knew how to put on a show. But their voices weren't that great. I'm a Fabs worshipper and agree with you. None of them were brilliant vocalists or musicians, it's more about how they innovated in terms of ideas, songwriting and arrangements. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 12, 2019 18:06:59 GMT
seriously thinking on leaving the MTAS FB group: every time someone discusses unpopular opinions the whole thread gets deleted and nobody is allowed anything negative. Its one thing to write negative things and another thing to post rude things. What a bullsh.. to think the world is just peachy and ☀️. Lets build a circle, hold hands and dance around it. 🙈 It's probably blatantly obvious but what's MTAS? |
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 12, 2019 20:07:15 GMT
Actually, The Beatles weren't anything special vocally. They had great songs, for sure, and great presence, and knew how to put on a show. But their voices weren't that great. I'm a Fabs worshipper and agree with you. None of them were brilliant vocalists or musicians, it's more about how they innovated in terms of ideas, songwriting and arrangements. ... though on reflection I should add that McCartney's bass playing is often excellent in the Beatles work. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2019 20:38:34 GMT
seriously thinking on leaving the MTAS FB group: every time someone discusses unpopular opinions the whole thread gets deleted and nobody is allowed anything negative. Its one thing to write negative things and another thing to post rude things. What a bullsh.. to think the world is just peachy and ☀️. Lets build a circle, hold hands and dance around it. 🙈 It's probably blatantly obvious but what's MTAS? I'm not on The Facebook but if I was playing Balderdash, I would guess Musical Theatre Appreciation Society. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 12, 2019 23:19:36 GMT
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Very good.
"So... are you on The Book Face then, young fellow?"
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Post by kathryn on Feb 13, 2019 8:38:40 GMT
I'm a Fabs worshipper and agree with you. None of them were brilliant vocalists or musicians, it's more about how they innovated in terms of ideas, songwriting and arrangements. ... though on reflection I should add that McCartney's bass playing is often excellent in the Beatles work. Did you watch the BBC 4 series about rock music that had an episode each about drums, bass, and guitar. They made a pretty compelling argument for McCartney’s bass skills - though of course it is hard to separate his musicianship from the innovations in his composition. |
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