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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 9:33:20 GMT
It's all about context; I take various family members to the theatre from time to time, and they all mean different things when they ask "who's in it?". "No one" could mean "all working actors, no pap-worthy celebs", or it could mean "some decent TV names but I know you only really watch American reality shows so there's no point telling you that", or it could mean "I know you've particularly enjoyed certain actors we've seen in plays in the past but none of them are in this one". I do try to give a proper answer and contextualise where I can ("it's got [so-and-so] in it, she was really great in [play] last year, it should be exciting/interesting/weird to see her in this one") but depending on who you're talking to, you know if they're genuinely interested or if they just want to know if any of their faves are involved, and you adapt your answer accordingly.
Fascinating that there's "no one" in Translations though; even if one isn't a theatre nerd who is following Aoife Duffin's career with interest, what kind of rock do you have to live under to be unaware of both Merlin *and* Game of Thrones? (And is there room for a little one under there?)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 9:40:12 GMT
At Stewart Lee's recent show at the Southbank Centre, somebody had the audacity to heckle him to 'hurry up', Now being that Stewart Lee is know for his laconic, self referential style, deconstructing his own routines, this did not go well. In fact, Stew went into the audience and sought out the punter, ironically extending the bit by a good ten minutes or so. Lee's act (and TV show) is pure performance art much of the time (and brilliantly done). He was pushing as far as he could on the last series, with the one episode where he got to one point (about Rod Liddle and a poppadom, I think) and then just kept repeating it, in slightly different ways to sometimes increasing and sometimes decreasing laughter. The last programme where he harangued the audience for being responsible for Robin Williams' death was equally out there and well done. |
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Post by MrsCondomine on Jun 13, 2018 15:28:14 GMT
Other night at Translations at The Nash: (Person 1 is scanning the cast list in the programme) Person 2: So who's in it? Person 1. Umm... no one. Obviously if they ain't been in Eastenders they ain't no one. My mum would always ask, when I’d told her that we’d been to the theatre, “Who was in it?” and I’d always be desperately trying to link someone, anyone that had been in it to something, anything that I thought she might have watched on the telly. On occasions this would lead to conversations like: “Do you remember Fiz’s nut-case boyfriend in Coronation Street?” “No.” ”He used to be a teacher.” ”I don’t remember him...” ”Yes, you do, he kidnapped Rosie.” ”When was that then?” ”Ages ago now, I can’t remember exactly...” “Who did he play then? One of the main parts?” ”No.” Sometimes I had to resort to “No-one.”  This sounds like my household! Reece Shearsmith: "There was that programme with the guy who was killing his wives on ITV?" "Don't think I saw it." "You did, we watched it together. He kept murdering his wives for money - with Sheridan Smith?" "Oh yeah." "Well the guy from that." Adrian Scarborough: "You know Gavin and Stacey?" "Yeah." "You know Dawn and Pete?" "..." "The neighbours who hate each other? The married couple? "Oh yeah." "That guy." "Oh HIM!" "The cheating husband from Doctor Foster!" (got that one down to a one-liner now...Bertie Carvel.) Everyone in my family knows David Tennant because he was my teenage-girl crush about 11 years ago - but my granddad always confirms it with, "That lanky Scottish git?" "Draco's mum in Harry Potter" is how Helen McCrory is actually known in my house, often followed by, "She's the woman who voices the M and S ads." - Overheard at War Horse: *Albert shoots at the German in the trench* *Row of old ladies jump as they have done at every gunshot* Old lady: I WISH THEY'D STOP DOING THAT. and at the end: Little girl on end of row: Mum... that was different to the film. |
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Post by indis on Jun 13, 2018 19:05:26 GMT
i heard 2 girls talking while i was in one of the toilet stalls in Hamburg when i visited Love never dies in Phantom in Hamburg the principal Raoul had brown hair, and in Love never dies he had blonde hair , so this must have gotten them confused one of the girls said she thought Christine was married to Raoul , the other one answered this is Raoul the other one then "but Raoul has brown hair, so this is just someone who also liked Christine and married her" laughed so hard but could hardly correct them from one toilet to the other  |
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Post by indis on Jun 14, 2018 18:47:59 GMT
a FB-friend once posted they overheard a couple at Tarzan the musical that they thought the show included real gorillas and they were so proud to have smuggled some bananas through security 🤣
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Post by itsemily on Jun 14, 2018 19:53:52 GMT
a FB-friend once posted they overheard a couple at Tarzan the musical that they thought the show included real gorillas and they were so proud to have smuggled some bananas through security 🤣 The other day my friend asked me if 'Cats' had real cats in it, I said 'no their actors and dancers' and she said 'but there's real cats in it too right?' , 'no there is really not, how would that work?' to which she said 'they could just let them out of their cat boxes to stroll round the stage as they like'. Sounds safe I mean who wouldn't want to trip over some fat tabby cat who decided to nap in the middle of the stage during the Jellicle ball!  I had a spare copy of the 'Cats' DVD which I gave her a few years ago, clearly she never watched it! |
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 15, 2018 12:08:08 GMT
they were so proud to have smuggled some bananas through security 🤣 Welcome to my world... "Is that a banana in your pocket, Sir?" |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 15, 2018 12:55:54 GMT
No, I was just pleased to see her. Boom Tish. Thank you. We're here all week. Fortunately it's almost the end of the week! |
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Post by tysilio2 on Jun 15, 2018 15:36:03 GMT
they were so proud to have smuggled some bananas through security 🤣 Welcome to my world... Jim Reeves impressions as well. Is there no end to your talents...... |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 15, 2018 16:40:41 GMT
Jim Reeves impressions as well. Is there no end to your talents...... And an Ian Brown look-a-like |
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Post by learfan on Jun 15, 2018 17:07:53 GMT
a FB-friend once posted they overheard a couple at Tarzan the musical that they thought the show included real gorillas and they were so proud to have smuggled some bananas through security 🤣 The other day my friend asked me if 'Cats' had real cats in it, I said 'no their actors and dancers' and she said 'but there's real cats in it too right?' , 'no there is really not, how would that work?' to which she said 'they could just let them out of their cat boxes to stroll round the stage as they like'. Sounds safe I mean who wouldn't want to trip over some fat tabby cat who decided to nap in the middle of the stage during the Jellicle ball! I had a spare copy of the 'Cats' DVD which I gave her a few years ago, clearly she never watched it! Clearly a mentalist! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 7:54:29 GMT
The other day my friend asked me if 'Cats' had real cats in it, I said 'no their actors and dancers' and she said 'but there's real cats in it too right?' , 'no there is really not, how would that work?' to which she said 'they could just let them out of their cat boxes to stroll round the stage as they like'. Sounds safe I mean who wouldn't want to trip over some fat tabby cat who decided to nap in the middle of the stage during the Jellicle ball! I had a spare copy of the 'Cats' DVD which I gave her a few years ago, clearly she never watched it! Clearly a mentalist! Genuinely wouldn't be surprised if that idea had been proposed in some form during workshops/development. |
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Post by Jon on Jun 16, 2018 12:56:20 GMT
I do worry for some people if they think Tarzan or Cats would have real animals
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2018 14:03:59 GMT
I do worry for some people if they think [...] Cats would have real animals In pre-Internet days it would be weird, but given how much pleasure people get from watching cat videos and sharing cat stories it's not all that much of a stretch for someone unfamiliar with theatre to imagine that there might be an entertainment featuring real cats. I'm actually a little disappointed that there isn't. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 16, 2018 15:56:51 GMT
It might make it bearable!
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 16, 2018 16:29:18 GMT
It might make it bearable! Surely you mean BurlyBeaRable? |
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Post by tonyloco on Jun 19, 2018 11:07:11 GMT
I know we are talking about real animals in live stage shows and especially live cats in "cats" but I am tempted to trot out one of my anecdotes that I may or may not have told previously here on TheatreBoard, so if you have already heard it – or if my anecdotes send you off to sleep – then please move on!
When I was working for EMI Classics I was responsible for granting synchronisation licences for EMI classical recordings for use in movies. One day a small film company came along with the great idea of making a film of "Romeo and Juliet" using real cats and they wanted to license the EMI recording of Prokofiev's ballet score for "Romeo and Juliet" conducted by André Previn. I struck a deal and they handed over quite a large sum of money which EMI generously shared with Maestro Previn.
About a year later the film company contacted me again and said they had done some preliminary filming and would like to show it to EMI in the hope that the company might be interested in helping promote the finished film. I then rounded up a number of senior EMI executives and we all assembled in a darkened room to view the screening, curious to see how the film-maker had dealt with this unusual project.
So the film started, and it seemed to be nothing but groups of cats wandering aimlessly about. There was no commentary, no subtitles and no apparent sense to anything that the cats were doing except wandering about. There were no shots of individual cats who might have been Romeo or Juliet or any of the other characters in the play. I don't know whether it was the intention to add Shakespeare's words to the soundtrack, or show them as subtitles – nobody from the film company said anything whatsoever as to how it was supposed to be completed. Anyway, the showing went on.... and on.... and on. The cats continued to wander around in groups endlessly. Gradually the EMI executives quietly left the room until there was nobody left but me and the representatives from the film company with the film projector.
When it finally came to an end, I had no option but to say "Very interesting!" to the film company men and that EMI would be interested in seeing the final version of the film. I should have asked whether it was going to have speech dubbed or what but it all seemed so weird and pointless that I said nothing and they said nothing!
Needless to say nothing further was ever heard of the film as far as I know, and EMI and André Previn happily pocketed the fee.
End of story!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 17:57:31 GMT
^ I don’t recall this one told before, tony, and a good tale (tail?!) it is too. Not even an obvious Tybalt? It’s not the first time Sir Andrew Preview will have been paid money for old rope: Andrew Lloyd Webber is very sniffy about him in his autobiography after he was fired from doing the orchestrations for his own creation in favour of Mr Preview (who he dubs “the annointed musical director” of Norman Jewison... He’s just a bit bitter that AP got an Oscars nomination for it. With regard to real pussies in Cats... I’d have shuddered in horror if one had brushed by me on the moving platform given my allergies, but after just one snatch of Elaine’s grisabella and I was an instant convert! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 18:09:51 GMT
but after just one snatch of Elaine’s grisabella and I was an instant convert! Well I've never heard it called that before. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 6:08:26 GMT
With regard to real pussies in Cats... I’d have shuddered in horror if one had brushed by me on the moving platform given my allergies, but after just one snatch of Elaine’s grisabella and I was an instant convert! ... You clearly haven’t lived, @remark! Bonnie Langford’s rumpleteazer wasn’t bad either... (And Elaine’s Grizabella’s never been beaten. IMO. ) |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 6:33:20 GMT
Old couple sitting behind me at an Edinburgh Fringe show one time who kept chatting about how Brexit is the best thing to happen since Thatcher took power, and how they wanted to see the NHS gone. 🙄
I just wanted to turn around and give them a piece of my mind, but I was enjoying the show.
This probably belongs in the bad behaviour thread but I still overheard their conversations.
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Post by lynette on Jun 20, 2018 9:25:57 GMT
Old people, Brexit and NHS..looks like you are trying for a reaction there, aingidh 😂
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 20, 2018 9:58:29 GMT
Old couple sitting behind me at an Edinburgh Fringe show one time who kept chatting about how Brexit is the best thing to happen since Thatcher took power, and how they wanted to see the NHS gone. 🙄 I just wanted to turn around and give them a piece of my mind, but I was enjoying the show. This probably belongs in the bad behaviour thread but I still overheard their conversations. And you can’t help wondering how much the NHS has benefited them ... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 15:28:30 GMT
Old people, Brexit and NHS..looks like you are trying for a reaction there, aingidh 😂 Na this genuinely did happen. This is what happens when you go to a matinee on a weekday! 😂 |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2018 17:45:59 GMT
Not in the theatre but about it....overheard in recpetion at work by a middle aged couple...
"Oh so she booked for a show...that...Kinky Boots" (please imagine this in a strong Welsh accent, which particularly works for the BOOOOOOTS)
"When they got there they thought there was a lot of [Inaudible] and then it was about [Inaudible] I'm surprised he stayed! it's a good job you didn't go"
Pause
"Who wrote it anyway?"
"Some woman"
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the following went on for some time, until the man put us all out of our misery and googled it. And before I lost my job for shouting "Cyndi Lauper you muppets, and a bit of Drag never hurt anyone"
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I had a spare copy of the 'Cats' DVD which I gave her a few years ago, clearly she never watched it! 
