Cinders at Old Vic
Listening to latest Sugababes album. It's pretty good pop, but sadly, not a patch on their last two albums. Excuse me while I pout mightily.
Cinders at Old Vic. Hee. Sandi Toksvig as the narrator = awesome. so very awesome. Especially when wearing a moustache and smoking a pipe. Double bonus points to the Fairy Godmother for pointing out that Cinders is wet, a complete doormat and has no ambition whatsoever. Or education. And somewhat slow on the uptake. Every production should have mice handpuppets singing along, doing facepalms at the sheer cluelessness of Cinders and occasionally upstaging the cast. Also one of the Ugly Sisters had hair and makeup courtesy of Amy Winehouse. We were pondering how many of the Ugly Sisters across the country were dolled up as Ms. Winehouse this year. Shower scene with Prince and Dandini! An extremely gay Buttons and Dandini! Cinders and Prince singing about the kind of person they want to meet and fall in love with, Buttons and Dandini joining in, then Cinders and Prince looking at them oddly and going '...Didn't you mean 'she'?' Audience hissing at mentions of Iceland! Cinders and Prince doing eyes meeting across a crowded ballroom cliche, and later Dandini and Buttons having one of the cutest *meet cute*s *EVAH, with stuttering and sentence completion and AWWWWWWW. Queen being a complete lush, but a lush who insists on good grammar and points out that the joke was done in act 1! Premium Herald Rates!
'Who -' 'whom, son' 'whomsoever fits this slipper' 'any ten year old could, we're getting into dodgy territory here' 'over the age of eighteen' 'also we need heirs...' 'with two x chromosomes and single' 'that could include widows and the divorced' 'who's *never* been married....'
Also, Pantomime cows that do the moonwalk. And singing with songsheets. Slapstick scene not v. good, but that's the only problem.
Cinders at Old Vic. Hee. Sandi Toksvig as the narrator = awesome. so very awesome. Especially when wearing a moustache and smoking a pipe. Double bonus points to the Fairy Godmother for pointing out that Cinders is wet, a complete doormat and has no ambition whatsoever. Or education. And somewhat slow on the uptake. Every production should have mice handpuppets singing along, doing facepalms at the sheer cluelessness of Cinders and occasionally upstaging the cast. Also one of the Ugly Sisters had hair and makeup courtesy of Amy Winehouse. We were pondering how many of the Ugly Sisters across the country were dolled up as Ms. Winehouse this year. Shower scene with Prince and Dandini! An extremely gay Buttons and Dandini! Cinders and Prince singing about the kind of person they want to meet and fall in love with, Buttons and Dandini joining in, then Cinders and Prince looking at them oddly and going '...Didn't you mean 'she'?' Audience hissing at mentions of Iceland! Cinders and Prince doing eyes meeting across a crowded ballroom cliche, and later Dandini and Buttons having one of the cutest *meet cute*s *EVAH, with stuttering and sentence completion and AWWWWWWW. Queen being a complete lush, but a lush who insists on good grammar and points out that the joke was done in act 1! Premium Herald Rates!
'Who -' 'whom, son' 'whomsoever fits this slipper' 'any ten year old could, we're getting into dodgy territory here' 'over the age of eighteen' 'also we need heirs...' 'with two x chromosomes and single' 'that could include widows and the divorced' 'who's *never* been married....'
Also, Pantomime cows that do the moonwalk. And singing with songsheets. Slapstick scene not v. good, but that's the only problem.