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Post by vickyg on Feb 16, 2023 8:28:19 GMT
Very excited to see Gina Beck. Public booking for Sound of Music opens on 4th March.
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Post by danb on Feb 16, 2023 11:18:32 GMT
I absolutely love Gina Beck but she’s taken a while to take holy orders hasn’t she?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 16, 2023 15:18:43 GMT
 10th July - 3rd September Public Booking opens 4th March Starring Gina Beck |
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 16, 2023 15:54:43 GMT
Such a wonderful choice
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 16, 2023 16:05:41 GMT
I'm very tempted by Gina Beck's casting but I'd want to know the casting of at least Captain Von Trapp too before booking. I'm also a bit dubious about booking something in July-August months in advance in case we get another boiling hot summer. I wouldn't want to travel all the way to Chichester & back in 30+ degree heat.
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Post by barrowside on Feb 16, 2023 16:32:39 GMT
I know he's played the Captain already but Gina Beck and Julian Ovenden are such a dream team.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 16, 2023 16:57:52 GMT
I love Gina Beck. I really must find my way to Chichester!
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 16, 2023 18:13:40 GMT
I know he's played the Captain already but Gina Beck and Julian Ovenden are such a dream team. You'd figure if it was him they'd have announced them together though right? |
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Post by woobl on Feb 16, 2023 19:53:01 GMT
I know he's played the Captain already but Gina Beck and Julian Ovenden are such a dream team. Gina's played Maria before as well, albeit in a production that went to Malaysia in 2011... |
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 16, 2023 21:10:03 GMT
I know he's played the Captain already but Gina Beck and Julian Ovenden are such a dream team. Gina's played Maria before as well, albeit in a production that went to Malaysia in 2011... I have a vague memory she only did it for a week but yes, she has done it before |
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Post by jr on Feb 16, 2023 22:02:00 GMT
I liked her in South Pacific but isn't she at 41 a bit old to play an innocent novice?
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 16, 2023 22:12:05 GMT
While she is slightly older than has been cast recently, she plays a nun so age vs innocence isn't such an issue as a nun would be more innocent and less world wise anyway.
She also has a youthful look.
Plus I think Mary martin was in her early 40s when she played Maria on broadway
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Post by Oleanna on Feb 16, 2023 22:35:48 GMT
I came here to say how wonderful it is to see an older actress playing Maria in this production!
Indeed, Mary Martin was 45 when she originated the role…
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Post by karloscar on Feb 16, 2023 22:52:33 GMT
Mary Martin's Maria was over a decade older than Captain Von Trapp as Theodore Bikel was only 35 at the time. Maybe Charlie Stemp could pass for a father of seven?
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 16, 2023 23:38:05 GMT
Petula Clark was 50
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Post by jr on Feb 17, 2023 7:30:17 GMT
I didn't mean to sound as an ageist, I guess I have Julie Andrews fixed in my mind as Maria. Just checked and she was 20 when she did the film.
Mary Martin was miscast in my opinion. Checking the original cast album she doesn't look or sound the part. And yes, CS as von Trapp or professor Higgins would also be a mistake.
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Post by danb on Feb 17, 2023 9:02:43 GMT
I didn't mean to sound as an ageist, I guess I have Julie Andrews fixed in my mind as Maria. Just checked and she was 20 when she did the film. Mary Martin was miscast in my opinion. Checking the original cast album she doesn't look or sound the part. And yes, CS as von Trapp or professor Higgins would also be a mistake. It isn’t being ageist, its a statement of fact. |
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Post by alece10 on Feb 17, 2023 9:17:30 GMT
At first I thought that can't be right but as she is now 90 then she would have done Sound of Music 40 years ago and that sounds about right as I remember seeing her in the show at the Apollo Victoria when I had only been in London a couple of years. God that makes me feel old. |
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Post by karloscar on Feb 17, 2023 10:06:57 GMT
I didn't mean to sound as an ageist, I guess I have Julie Andrews fixed in my mind as Maria. Just checked and she was 20 when she did the film. Mary Martin was miscast in my opinion. Checking the original cast album she doesn't look or sound the part. And yes, CS as von Trapp or professor Higgins would also be a mistake. Julie Andrews wasn't 20 when she made The Sound of Music, she was 29 at time of production. |
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 17, 2023 11:20:23 GMT
Mary Martin's Maria was over a decade older than Captain Von Trapp as Theodore Bikel was only 35 at the time. Maybe Charlie Stemp could pass for a father of seven? Only in the sense that he’s perfectly welcome to get me pregnant seven times over! |
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Post by jr on Feb 17, 2023 11:26:47 GMT
I didn't mean to sound as an ageist, I guess I have Julie Andrews fixed in my mind as Maria. Just checked and she was 20 when she did the film. Mary Martin was miscast in my opinion. Checking the original cast album she doesn't look or sound the part. And yes, CS as von Trapp or professor Higgins would also be a mistake. Julie Andrews wasn't 20 when she made The Sound of Music, she was 29 at time of production. Thanks for correction, it seems I checked the wrong website. |
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Feb 17, 2023 22:47:01 GMT
does the script give Maria a specific age beyond her being a hot-headed new member of the convent? Feel like some of this chat is bringing on some ick - Beck will knock it out the park.
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Post by showgirl on Feb 18, 2023 4:20:14 GMT
I feel obliged to book this if only through FOMO. Shall aim for a £10 ticket during a period when I have fewer bookings, eg August, and if it turns out to be dire - which seems unlikely - I simply won't bother going. However, I expect it will sell well.
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Post by jr on Feb 18, 2023 11:34:23 GMT
Maria was born on 26 January 1905 to Augusta (née Rainer) and Karl Kutschera.
In 1924, she entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, as a postulant intending to become a nun.
She was 19 when entered the convent.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 23, 2023 21:11:30 GMT
Captain V T is…… J……
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Post by marob on Feb 23, 2023 21:24:12 GMT
……ulian Ovenden? Would be nice but I guess they’d have announced from the start if they were the leads again. |
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Post by Jon on Feb 23, 2023 21:32:10 GMT
It could easily be Jason Donovan... *shudders*
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 23, 2023 21:33:22 GMT
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 23, 2023 21:42:36 GMT
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Post by Mark on Feb 23, 2023 22:20:54 GMT
Jamie is booked and busy this summer! |
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