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Post by Jan on Dec 20, 2021 10:24:11 GMT
A theatrical quiz. What uniquely links each of the following pairs ? Each of the six links is different but there's an additional overall link between all six questions - if you find that the individual answers will be much easier to find.
Work together as a team and feel free to use Google or any other method - howe'er you come to know it, answer me.
1) Simon Russell Beale and Siegfried and Roy (the Las Vegas magicians)
2) Ian McKellen and Nicol Williamson
3) Hugh Hefner and Keith Chegwin
4) Michelle Terry and Vivien Leigh (and Violet Vanbrugh actually)
5) Alan Cummings and Stephen Dillane
6) James Bolam and David Tennant
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Post by couldileaveyou on Dec 20, 2021 10:39:07 GMT
Is number 4 having played Lady Macbeth opposite their husband?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Dec 20, 2021 10:45:43 GMT
1) All claim to have been decendent of alien life form
2) Were the first to try the new craze of the beehive haircut
3) Following Eric and Ernie, the second male couple to be seen on the British screen in bed together
4) Auditioned for the role of Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones
5) Both were 'muscle' in the legendary East London gang The Dalston Casuals
6) Had trials to play centre forward for Manchester United
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Post by duncan on Dec 20, 2021 14:13:14 GMT
1) Simon Russell Beale and Siegfried and Roy (the Las Vegas magicians) 2) Ian McKellen and Nicol Williamson 3) Hugh Hefner and Keith Chegwin 4) Michelle Terry and Vivien Leigh (and Violet Vanbrugh actually) 5) Alan Cummings and Stephen Dillane 6) James Bolam and David Tennant 1 - Been mauled by a tiger. 2 - Williamson was the stand out in Exorcist III and McKellan was the voice of the devil in the touring production of The Exorcist 3 - Shown their cock to many people who did NOT want to see it. 4 - Ego cashing cheques their talent couldn't pay 5 - Born in the same hospital as me. 6 - started their careers at Dundee Rep |
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Post by Jan on Dec 20, 2021 18:29:39 GMT
Is number 4 having played Lady Macbeth opposite their husband? Yes. Correct. All three played opposite their husbands in Macbeth. |
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Post by altamont on Dec 20, 2021 18:56:01 GMT
3 - Chegwin played Fleance in the 1971 Polanski version of Macbeth which Hefner executive-produced
I imagine the link could well be the Scottish play
I can see the link in 6 but will let others chip in...
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Post by couldileaveyou on Dec 20, 2021 19:09:15 GMT
Is number 4 having played Lady Macbeth opposite their husband? Yes. Correct. All three played opposite their husbands in Macbeth. And both Alan Cumming and Stephen Dillain played a one man Macbeth |
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Post by Jan on Dec 21, 2021 18:34:56 GMT
altamont and couldileaveyou, both correct.
And correct the overall link is Macbeth - source of the quote "Howe'er you come to know it, answer me"
(1), (2), (6) are left.
Hugh Hefner funded the 1971 Macbeth film directed by Roman Polanski and improbably featuring Keith Chegwin. Possibly as a consequence of the source of funding it features a nude scene with Francesca Annis as Lady M. It is notable for its focus on the scenes of violence - uneasily for the viewer we know that only two years before Polanski's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson.
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Post by altamont on Dec 21, 2021 19:09:32 GMT
6 - both James Bolam and David Tennant have played the porter in Macbeth - Bolam in the BBC Nicol Williamson version and Tennant in an audio version
(I see that the First Messenger in the BBC version was played by Gorden Kaye - aka René in 'Allo 'Allo)
1 - John Napier designed both the McKellen Macbeth for the RSC and also the Siegfried and Roy show at the Mirage in Las Vegas
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Post by lynette on Dec 21, 2021 19:39:06 GMT
1) Simon Russell Beale and Siegfried and Roy (the Las Vegas magicians) 2) Ian McKellen and Nicol Williamson 3) Hugh Hefner and Keith Chegwin 4) Michelle Terry and Vivien Leigh (and Violet Vanbrugh actually) 5) Alan Cummings and Stephen Dillane 6) James Bolam and David Tennant 1 - Been mauled by a tiger. 2 - Williamson was the stand out in Exorcist III and McKellan was the voice of the devil in the touring production of The Exorcist 3 - Shown their cock to many people who did NOT want to see it. 4 - Ego cashing cheques their talent couldn't pay 5 - Born in the same hospital as me. 6 - started their careers at Dundee Rep No 1 of No 2 did no 3 in King Lear |
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Post by Jan on Dec 21, 2021 20:33:07 GMT
6 - both James Bolam and David Tennant have played the porter in Macbeth - Bolam in the BBC Nicol Williamson version and Tennant in an audio version (I see that the First Messenger in the BBC version was played by Gorden Kaye - aka René in 'Allo 'Allo) 1 - John Napier designed both the McKellen Macbeth for the RSC and also the Siegfried and Roy show at the Mirage in Las Vegas Yes that is the answer to (6). You are hovering vaguely around an answer with your comment on (1) but of course it asks about Simon Russell-Beale's connection to Siegfried and Roy, not McKellen's. |
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Post by altamont on Dec 21, 2021 21:43:15 GMT
You are hovering vaguely around an answer with your comment on (1) but of course it asks about Simon Russell-Beale's connection to Siegfried and Roy, not McKellen's. Ah - indeed it does. I will think (and Google) a bit more.... |
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Post by altamont on Dec 22, 2021 14:19:30 GMT
Did Napier design the SRB Macbeth at the Almeida in 2005? If not, I'm stumped
Regarding 2- they have both played Macbeth for the RSC, directed by Trevor Nunn
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Post by couldileaveyou on Dec 22, 2021 14:31:41 GMT
John Caird directed Simon Russell Beale in Macbeth (Almeida, 2005) and a Siegfried & Roy show in Las Vegas
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Post by Jan on Dec 22, 2021 15:05:25 GMT
John Caird directed Simon Russell Beale in Macbeth (Almeida, 2005) and a Siegfried & Roy show in Las Vegas Correct. |
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Post by Jan on Dec 22, 2021 15:14:33 GMT
Did Napier design the SRB Macbeth at the Almeida in 2005? If not, I'm stumped Regarding 2- they have both played Macbeth for the RSC, directed by Trevor Nunn Correct on (2). That's all the answers dealt with. Trevor Nunn directed Nicol Williamson in a main stage RSC production with Helen Mirren as Lady M. It was quite well received and transferred to London. But Nunn was unhappy with it and almost immediately went straight into rehearsals with an entirely different company for an entirely separate small-scale production of it - that turned out to be the famous McKellen/Dench one. Nicol Williamson also played it in a separate BBC production unrelated to the RSC one. I don't think anyone else has ever directed two separate consecutive productions of the same play. Plenty of directors have directed the same Shakespeare multiple times over their whole career. Bill Alexander has directed Merchant of Venice five times and Jonathan Miller directed King Lear seven times. |
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Post by altamont on Dec 22, 2021 16:50:22 GMT
Thanks for setting the quiz, it was fun
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jan 6, 2022 14:27:17 GMT
A theatrical quiz. What uniquely links each of the following pairs ? Each of the six links is different but there's an additional overall link between all six questions - if you find that the individual answers will be much easier to find. Work together as a team and feel free to use Google or any other method - howe'er you come to know it, answer me. 1) Simon Russell Beale and Siegfried and Roy (the Las Vegas magicians) 2) Ian McKellen and Nicol Williamson 3) Hugh Hefner and Keith Chegwin 4) Michelle Terry and Vivien Leigh (and Violet Vanbrugh actually) 5) Alan Cummings and Stephen Dillane 6) James Bolam and David Tennant Looking for new Washington/McDormand Tragedy of Macbeth and came across the cast of the 1971 film with Cheggers. Thought I had got one at first. My first Jan question answered.... but I'm only two weeks late |
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