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Post by WireHangers on Oct 9, 2024 8:18:36 GMT
Oh god, if the Shona rumour is true we’re really entering the UK tour-standard casting era then.
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Post by cornish on Oct 9, 2024 9:45:50 GMT
Oh god, if the Shona rumour is true we’re really entering the UK tour-standard casting era then. But harsh! Don’t forget they’ve had Netflix actress from one show and Cara Delivigne!!!!! Shona at least has the credentials |
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Post by max on Oct 9, 2024 11:10:21 GMT
I don't know what's based on a tip off, actual knowledge, or having fun speculating, but....
Shona McGarty could be great. Strong actress, and there are plenty of videos of her on YouTube from various TV shows showing she can sing. Strongest in her higher register; more than capable to deliver Sally Bowles.
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Post by WireHangers on Oct 9, 2024 13:59:53 GMT
Oh god, if the Shona rumour is true we’re really entering the UK tour-standard casting era then. But harsh! Don’t forget they’ve had Netflix actress from one show and Cara Delivigne!!!!! Shona at least has the credentials An actress who trained in one of the finest drama schools in the world and a, while not ideal, world famous model who brought A-List audience members with her. I’m not sure what your affinity towards Shona is, professional or personal, but how she stands up against the rest of the casting choices for Sally truly isn’t a discussion worth either of our time. |
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Post by lolaluffneggle on Oct 9, 2024 14:17:41 GMT
At this point I’m wondering if Cornish is actually Shona
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Post by cornish on Oct 9, 2024 21:16:30 GMT
At this point I’m wondering if Cornish is actually Shona What a strange and very stupid thing to say. So is every performer discussed actually that performer under a pseudonym? |
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Post by WireHangers on Oct 9, 2024 22:57:18 GMT
At this point I’m wondering if Cornish is actually Shona What a strange and very stupid thing to say. So is every performer discussed actually that performer under a pseudonym? This confirms it. Hi, Shona. |
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Post by showtoones on Oct 10, 2024 6:16:52 GMT
Ok…ok…Cheryl
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Post by greatauntedna on Oct 10, 2024 9:47:44 GMT
But harsh! Don’t forget they’ve had Netflix actress from one show and Cara Delivigne!!!!! Shona at least has the credentials An actress who trained in one of the finest drama schools in the world and a, while not ideal, world famous model who brought A-List audience members with her. I’m not sure what your affinity towards Shona is, professional or personal, but how she stands up against the rest of the casting choices for Sally truly isn’t a discussion worth either of our time. Um what is this ganging up on Cornish? Weird! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 10, 2024 9:53:54 GMT
At this point I’m wondering if Cornish is actually Shona What a strange and very stupid thing to say. So is every performer discussed actually that performer under a pseudonym? Exactly, the old “joke” where someone says something supportive of a person then gets accused of being that person is probably the oldest, most basic level of humour on the internet. I’d like to think we’re better than that here. Lets move on from discussing fellow members please everyone. |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Oct 10, 2024 10:00:55 GMT
No idea who is next, but I don't see why Shona is such a bad idea, or certainly any worse than some of the others we've had so far.
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Post by fclou on Oct 11, 2024 7:59:27 GMT
Shona will be fine - she isnt Whitney so she wont do Whitney does Sally, she can act and sing and will be a perfectly goof Sally - she may be excellent, but we wont know until we see her
Saw it again earlier this week - first time since the big cast swap - Adam and Catherine were both good. Adam was very good - an evil little devil sneaking round meddling. New Cliff was fun, more sexually ambiguous than the previous ones and far less gay, more bi/pan. New Ernst was fine - but Wilf Scolding was better.
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Post by Deal J on Oct 11, 2024 10:45:35 GMT
Yes I think Shona will make an excellent Sally, it's about time she got her big musicals break. Here she is singing two Leona Lewis songs on an episode of EastEnders: On another episode she sang Sia's Titanium and Roxette's It Must Have Been Love: Finally, a clip of her dancing to I've Had the Time of My Life with her EE colleague Danny Hatchard: I promise am not Shona McGarty!  ...I'm a big EastEnders fan and I do love Shona. |
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Post by FrontrowverPaul on Oct 11, 2024 10:56:08 GMT
Shona starred in the Dartford pantomime last Christmas. She was excellent, lovely voice, and her tough storylines in Eastenders amply showed off her acting prowess. Hope it's not just a rumour !
I think she'll be great and she's certainly more of a known name than several of the recent cast. First time since 2023 I'm booking a revisit.
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Post by ceebee on Oct 11, 2024 11:38:18 GMT
Whitney makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round....
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Post by nicenin on Oct 11, 2024 12:35:07 GMT
Dare I say the words - Lily Allen?
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Post by Being Alive on Oct 11, 2024 14:57:02 GMT
Dare I say the words - Lily Allen? Ah Matthew Dunster, the one man who believes Lily Allen is an actor - nice of you to join us on Theatreboard! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 11, 2024 16:05:35 GMT
That first clip of her singing in the pub reminded me of this
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Post by theatrenerd on Oct 17, 2024 16:58:11 GMT
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Post by darreno on Oct 20, 2024 19:28:03 GMT
This was my Wednesday matinee show this week, having not been for a couple of cast changes.
It's STILL THE show I would bring a one night visitor to if they only had one slot free in London. Overall, it's everything I love about musical theatre, but I'm pretty sure I've already mentioned that after each viewing in this thread, so I'll mention the current cast instead.
The casting for Cliff Bradshaw is totally off. Daniel Bowerbank is a lovely actor, clearly versatile, believable and talented, but this is just the wrong part. It doesn't work at all for me.
I had Anne-Marie Wojna on for Sally, I wasn't in love with her portrayal BUT I think I have been forever ruined to anyone other than Amy Lennox as I found her performance to be 10/10 every single time. Wojna did act the part very well though, particularly second half.
Strongest member of this new (to me) cast is undoubtedly Fred Haig as Herr Ludwig. He NAILS this part. Every moment he is on stage is filled with tension, wonder or fear. Plays the part so smoothly, exactly as I personally like to see it played. He's absolutely brilliant.
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Post by Steve on Nov 1, 2024 0:15:58 GMT
Saw this tonight. Adam Gillen is up there with the best Emcees. He is apparently irrepressible: so unrestrained and impish and unpredictable, and there is a glee to his Emcee that is utterly infectious. He is a 5 star Emcee, with all that Mozart energy channelled and vivacious, and then slowly caged by the plot until it's anguishing to watch. Perfection. Katherine Langford is the closest to being a normal human being, as Sally, of the Sally's I've seen. And that is the tragedy of her Sally, because as much as she is controlled and contained and powerful and well-spoken, with an air of sophistication, there's an intangible wispy tragic flaw, like a thin invisible veil, like an addict trapped by an addiction, that just prevents her Sally from ever being able to see herself or to redeem herself. So close and yet so far. She is the complete opposite of Rhea Norwood's bratty scatty youthful unfunny Sally, who was a Sally for the Instagram age, who could have thrived taking selfies of her myriad moods, and was like a human machine gun, dropped on the floor, going off in all directions. Wonderful but not in the class of Aimee Lou-Wood's effervescently funny Sally. Together with Sally Ann Triplet's fizzing girlishness, and Layton Williams's boyishness, the last cast was SO youthful feeling. This cast, with its almost redeemed, almost normal Sally, and with its savvy uber-charismatic impish Emcee, feels more grown up, and tonight we had Jessica Kirton's easy affectless astonishing Mata Hari of a Fraulein Schneider looking like she could effortlessly eat Fenton Gray's Herr Schultz for breakfast. The current cast is great, but it's Adam Gillen playing a role he was born to play that makes it.  |
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Post by sarahm on Nov 1, 2024 14:46:43 GMT
What is so close but so far? Wonderful but not in the class of Aimee Lou-Wood's effervescently funny Sally. What is wonderful? Katherine or Rheas performance? |
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Post by Steve on Nov 2, 2024 0:13:48 GMT
What is so close but so far? Wonderful but not in the class of Aimee Lou-Wood's effervescently funny Sally. What is wonderful? Katherine or Rheas performance? (1) I was suggesting that Katherine Langford feels like such a reasonable normal Sally for much of the time, such that she creates the impression that she just MIGHT cotton on to the fact that she's on a path to destruction, and might realise Cliff is talking sense, but her addiction to her Kit Kat life is like an addiction, and just as it feels like she might be cured, she relapses like so many addicts do. She is close to being cured, but it doesn't happen, so it feels ever so sad;
(2) By contrast, there was never a doubt that Rhea Norwood's super-egotistical, super-exhibitionist, super-narcissistic, super-insular, loud, wild Sally was doomed to make all the wrong choices, and yes, I thought SHE was wonderful! But as wonderful as she was, she didn't have that extra edge that really makes Sallys 5 star Sallys. Aimee Lou-Wood had an effervescent sense of humour such that I couldn't stop laughing at her antics, and she was even winning and funny in early moments of her "Cabaret" number, a real born entertainer, and her storming relentless downfall at the end of that number felt peak emotional for the contrasts. As an added note, I felt Madeleine Brewer is the most tragic Sally I've seen because her internal anguish at every point suggested that every action she took came from a history of horrendous inescapable abuse of some sort, and her solipsism was merely some kind of safe place to escape from that abuse: such a tragic affecting brilliant take, I felt. That's the sort of something extra I didn't get from Rhea Norwood, who felt like the most NOW (ie Instagram) Sally imaginable. |
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Post by Dr Tom on Nov 4, 2024 0:49:33 GMT
TKTS has £33 Dress Circle tickets (second and third row) for Monday night. This is as cheap as I've ever seen the decent seats go for.
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Post by unseaworthy on Nov 4, 2024 0:54:44 GMT
TKTS has £33 Dress Circle tickets (second and third row) for Monday night. This is as cheap as I've ever seen the decent seats go for. Its remarkable for a show that has been open this long to not be discounting more... It seems Cabaret is going nowhere soon. |
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...I'm a big EastEnders fan and I do love Shona.
