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Post by TallPaul on Mar 30, 2021 9:21:08 GMT
@mm, you are actually Andrew Lloyd Webber and I claim my £5.🙂 Your Moulin Rouge suggestion was just to throw us off the scent.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Mar 30, 2021 9:48:22 GMT
I just remembered I actually sent a screenshot of the tweet to my sister. It said:
Perhaps they took it down because it sounded a bit "Cinderella meets the Chippendales"?
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Post by stagebyte on Mar 30, 2021 16:58:46 GMT
Or derivative of Who Will Buy? or the opening of Beauty and The Beast? The costume was very panto fairytale? Wonder if the whole thing is traditionally costumed along with story? Or will it be modern clumpy Docs goth Ella gets hit on the bonce by a flying stale bun and she wakes up in medieval Belleville. Everyone sings regretful ballads (with Year 6 rhyming lyrics but gorgeous orchestrations) and she raps a bit about how ‘bad’ she is before regaining consciousness along with the audience 😉 The marketing for this show is a strange one that’s for sure. I know they’re trying to keep the plot ‘twist’ secret but the various videos they’ve released are just so random. The hot buns video was all a bit fnar fnar ooo-er missus. Hence me thinking of panto. Maybe they just took it down because it was a bit rubbish.
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Post by johnie21 on Mar 30, 2021 17:29:36 GMT
Or derivative of Who Will Buy? or the opening of Beauty and The Beast? The costume was very panto fairytale? Wonder if the whole thing is traditionally costumed along with story? Or will it be modern clumpy Docs goth Ella gets hit on the bonce by a flying stale bun and she wakes up in medieval Belleville. Everyone sings regretful ballads (with Year 6 rhyming lyrics but gorgeous orchestrations) and she raps a bit about how ‘bad’ she is before regaining consciousness along with the audience 😉 The marketing for this show is a strange one that’s for sure. I know they’re trying to keep the plot ‘twist’ secret but the various videos they’ve released are just so random. The hot buns video was all a bit fnar fnar ooo-er missus. Hence me thinking of panto. Maybe they just took it down because it was a bit rubbish. Totally agree: I think it is like the Opening from Beauty and The Beast. And kind of like Oliver too. I know from the video what was posted on the first day of rehearsals there is a wooden market stall.
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Post by stagebyte on Mar 30, 2021 17:34:55 GMT
Even the name of the village Belleville makes me think of Beauty and the Beast. This could be deliberate of course and Emerald and Andrew’s attempt at Disney pastiche before launching into their ‘updated and new, like nothing we’ve ever seen before’ version of Cinderella.
Please God no. Don’t let this be Emerald and Andrew’s attempt at Disney pastiche...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2021 19:23:58 GMT
@mm , you are actually Andrew Lloyd Webber and I claim my £5.🙂 Your Moulin Rouge suggestion was just to throw us off the scent. If only you knew... Ivano Turco is opening the show as P.Charming.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Mar 30, 2021 20:32:39 GMT
Even the name of the village Belleville makes me think of Beauty and the Beast. This could be deliberate of course and Emerald and Andrew’s attempt at Disney pastiche before launching into their ‘updated and new, like nothing we’ve ever seen before’ version of Cinderella. Please God no. Don’t let this be Emerald and Andrew’s attempt at Disney pastiche... I throw up in my mouth every single time I hear Belleville mentioned. And this is a relatively new marketing gimmick.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Mar 30, 2021 21:58:17 GMT
Bit more about Belleville here:
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Post by hitmewithurbethshot on Mar 30, 2021 22:32:32 GMT
Bit more about Belleville here:
So it's the town in Hot Fuzz?
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 30, 2021 22:46:58 GMT
Bit more about Belleville here:
So it's the town in Hot Fuzz?
She makes Phoebe Waller Bridge sound like someone off the market in Eastenders. It all sounds ghastly. I hope at least there are some ‘pneumatic’ chorus boys to look at.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2021 23:25:43 GMT
Bit more about Belleville here:
So it's the town in Hot Fuzz?
It's for the greater good...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 31, 2021 6:24:32 GMT
So it’s some sort of nightmarish Duloc style fairytale town where anything imperfect has to be dealt with including “bad” Cinderella who wears black tops and stomps around in her bovver boots fancying other girls or giggling in corners with her gay mate. Got it.
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2021 8:33:59 GMT
...or the Theatre Cafe on a Saturday lunchtime as it’s more commonly known.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2021 9:02:10 GMT
I know it's lockdown and we're bored, but nobody could deny this show has got us talking!
Though am now having nightmares about it being set in the Theatre Cafe on Saturday lunchtime.
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Post by nick on Mar 31, 2021 15:48:43 GMT
I'm not sure down with the kids is necessary for Cinderella. She's did some good writing for Killing Eve and is up for an Oscar so I'm happy to give her the benefit of the doubt.
I also enjoyed her in Call the Midwife.
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 31, 2021 16:01:22 GMT
Oh that upper class privileged anger is ALIVE!
I can’t wait to see it.... even with those pneumatic chorus boys!
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2021 17:30:40 GMT
‘Promising Young Woman’ is really good. If ‘Ciinderella’ is half as well scripted it will be fine.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Mar 31, 2021 19:26:07 GMT
It annoys me because I actually like the concept of what Emerald has talked about. I just wish it wasn't Cinderella. I've always been intrigued by her involvement and ^ I really want to watch Promising Young Woman - especially for Carey Mulligan whose one of my fave actresses.
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Post by stagebyte on Mar 31, 2021 19:30:13 GMT
Hot buns man has made a return on the official Cinderella account. He’s not singing now though. The accompanying strapline is still cringe though http://instagram.com/p/CNGBV9DFTFt
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 31, 2021 19:37:44 GMT
I am guessing if the Belleville Barmaid had been praised for her jugs then that might get a very different reaction
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Post by FairyGodmother on Mar 31, 2021 19:44:41 GMT
We're not supposed to recognise him or anything are we? It just seems a bizarre post...
Ok, it's nearly Easter, there are some hot cross buns and he's a baker. Yay?!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2021 19:47:48 GMT
Ha! He’s back!
It’s like the coming and going Dress Circle.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2021 20:23:47 GMT
Hot buns man has made a return on the official Cinderella account. He’s not singing now though. The accompanying strapline is still cringe though http://instagr.am/p/CNGBV9DFTFt Don't know if the cast has been announced, but that's Andy Rees.
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Post by elibal on Mar 31, 2021 20:58:21 GMT
I managed to hear the song when it was posted and the concept more than anything reminded me of The Baker's Wife's Bread, which is actually by far my least favourite song from a score I really like.
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Post by richey on Mar 31, 2021 22:03:08 GMT
Hot buns man has made a return on the official Cinderella account. He’s not singing now though. The accompanying strapline is still cringe though http://instagr.am/p/CNGBV9DFTFt Don't know if the cast has been announced, but that's Andy Rees. All that puts me in mind of is one of the tasks on The Apprentice where they run around random London locations trying to sell tat
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Post by carmella1 on Mar 31, 2021 22:05:42 GMT
Am I supposed to be impressed?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 1, 2021 4:33:08 GMT
Hot buns man has made a return on the official Cinderella account. He’s not singing now though. The accompanying strapline is still cringe though http://instagr.am/p/CNGBV9DFTFt Unbelievable. It's inappropriate to just please one group of people so I'm expecting some topless barmaids in return...
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Post by stagebyte on Apr 1, 2021 6:15:25 GMT
Now Hot Buns Guy Has been identified as Andy Rees I have vague recollections of his rippling muscles in the opening band scene of School of Rock (adult band obv!) Taking into account Emerald’s description of Belleville (a name so literal🙄 obviously has to be hammered home for us Muggles) as being a place of ‘perfection’, I’m now fully expecting the opening scene to start off like ‘Belle’ in BATB and end in full Magic Mike mode. Perhaps this is the ‘twist’ Maybe this is the reason they’ve held the casting announcement... Incoming Channing Tatum
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Post by FairyGodmother on Apr 1, 2021 7:47:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2021 7:56:00 GMT
Weirder and weirder.
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