what I has done today
mostly costuming, creating the swiss miss wienerlicious outfit from Chuck.
Done : most of the sewing.
To do:
buttons on the shirt
pintuck the sleeves on the shirt
put the catch onto the skirt
shaping sewing on the top and bottom of the corset
get hook and eye tape and sew that on
put the lacing on the corset.
So basically, detail stuff.
Watched the first live show of I'd Do Anything. the olivers, what little we saw, appear to be much of a muchness. the Nancys - no Lee or Connie this time round who you can point at straight off. There's four or five who could do it with different emphases. So far, I'm going for Samantha, Rachel, and Cleo, and Keisha I just adore unreservedly for her full-on Shirley Bassey-ness. Rachel did a really good raw, Cleo you felt had been broken so many times and was only just holding it together, and Samantha - I think we're going to call her raunchy Nancy. Reminded me very well of the film Nancy.
We need to kick Barry Humphries into being more critique-y. Glad that Denise is being more so this time round, too. Pondering on the point that Andrew raised, which is that accent is pretty key. Mind you, I've always been of the idea that Nancy doesn't have to have an East End accent, London was a melting pot, like it always has been. Maybe we should point out that at least three of Jack the Ripper's victims weren't from London.
Following weeks will tell on who's the judges' favourites and where the blatant manipulation of the audience and who gets given the songs that're just terrible for them. (see Ben last year - when you give him stuff like Elvis, he couldn't put a foot wrong, and the sing-off songs were normally brilliant for him, since he'd wipe the floor with the others in those, but they kept giving him stuff that was terrible or out of his range in his performance songs) Also, anyone else notice that there's a lot more professional actresses in this lot, not just 'in school'?
Done : most of the sewing.
To do:
buttons on the shirt
pintuck the sleeves on the shirt
put the catch onto the skirt
shaping sewing on the top and bottom of the corset
get hook and eye tape and sew that on
put the lacing on the corset.
So basically, detail stuff.
Watched the first live show of I'd Do Anything. the olivers, what little we saw, appear to be much of a muchness. the Nancys - no Lee or Connie this time round who you can point at straight off. There's four or five who could do it with different emphases. So far, I'm going for Samantha, Rachel, and Cleo, and Keisha I just adore unreservedly for her full-on Shirley Bassey-ness. Rachel did a really good raw, Cleo you felt had been broken so many times and was only just holding it together, and Samantha - I think we're going to call her raunchy Nancy. Reminded me very well of the film Nancy.
We need to kick Barry Humphries into being more critique-y. Glad that Denise is being more so this time round, too. Pondering on the point that Andrew raised, which is that accent is pretty key. Mind you, I've always been of the idea that Nancy doesn't have to have an East End accent, London was a melting pot, like it always has been. Maybe we should point out that at least three of Jack the Ripper's victims weren't from London.
Following weeks will tell on who's the judges' favourites and where the blatant manipulation of the audience and who gets given the songs that're just terrible for them. (see Ben last year - when you give him stuff like Elvis, he couldn't put a foot wrong, and the sing-off songs were normally brilliant for him, since he'd wipe the floor with the others in those, but they kept giving him stuff that was terrible or out of his range in his performance songs) Also, anyone else notice that there's a lot more professional actresses in this lot, not just 'in school'?