when musicals attack - Flaunt it and Joseph
Daniel singing 'As Long As He Needs Me' at last night's Flaunt It by Theatre Mad.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WKFW9DFF
Not brilliant, as this was the point my recorder decided to screw up, so had to tweak and amplify just to be able to hear it. You have been warned. Fingers crossed someone else was recording it so we'll get a better version some day.
Well, yesterday was when people were referring to me as 'zombie' and 'falling over' and 'wrecked' in the afternoon due to lack of sleep. Due to lack of anywhere to crash for four hours - Flaunt It wasn't starting til 11:30pm - decided to find a noisy musical to keep me awake. Pondered Elena Roger in PiafJoseph since the prices had finally come down. Slightly trepidatious since they said it was the same choreography/direction etc as the last time, and that had been... okay. Fun, but not great and nothing special. If nothing else I'd get to see Lee perform it.
They lied. It's not the same. At all - choreography, dances, etc. are utterly different. Slight similarity in the basic stage where the kids' choir are sitting on steps up the side, but that's it. They changed the way they sang the songs, which is now fucking hysterical - much more emphasis on the cowboy / french / _insert pastiche here_ style than previous, including the way they costume each one, there's more dancing, (we fully support random tango or ballet or hoe-down), the brothers' songs have been re-arranged so there's more on individuals, it's far sexier, they got rid of the american football and cheerleader thing in Pharaoh's court, Pharoah is even *more* Elvis (yay Dean Collinson!), and they didn't bother with the David Bowie thing for when Joseph gets elevated. Generally more Egyptian style in general. Narrator now more ditzy schoolteacher with more interaction with rest of cast - getting picked on by the brothers, flirted with by Pharoah etc. Considerably boosted the physical comedy/sight gags, which are fucking hysterical. (special mention to the goat, *both* asps, the camel, and random London Eye.) The megamix is far shorter and a lot more involving and fun. Lee Mead fabulous. Entire cast fabulous. need to see it again while he's still in it.
One. Single. Bloody. Problem. There's no cast recording. the cd is Jason Donovan with Lee's 'Any Dream Will Do' and Dean Collinson's new Pharoah track that they wrote for this production as bonuses. and of course I only discover this during the interval. Even though I had my recorder with me. :cracks knuckles: Youtube, fail me and *die*.
concessions stand boy adorable. Very very gay. Quizzed him about sizing of t-shirts, he said he was wearing the small and he takes a size 8 in dresses. Got him to turn round so I could gauge the back size, then got out of him that he's a 27" waist (my response, of course, being 'bitch!') and then got him to lift his t-shirt so I could check. I think this probably worked because I said it so clinically. 'I can't believe you got me to do that!' 'You have no body fat. No. Fair.' Wearing the grey camel in a small, and it's *still* big.
Next time I'm not bothering with stage door unless I'm getting the other actors, since Lee appears, hands out signed photos, tries to get some signed stuff and speak with people. He is adorable, though.
Fell into pub for a drink or so once I found the Fortune, did more details on opening scenes of nano, and got asked just before I left by the blokes next to me what I'd been writing so frantically. (they'd been discussing finacnial mortgage credit crunch stuff and thought i'd been taking notes. 'er, no, novel challenge starts tomorrow, fleshing out the first chapter details...')
Flaunt It was mostly spent giggling. More boys need to sing 'When you Got it, Flaunt it' (Simon Green this time). Everyone having fun, the list of musicals that didn't turn up, etc, etc. Was sat next to the current christmas Eve, it turns out. Lots of jokes about 'Never Forget'. Got asked what I was in when i went outside and ended up talking to the actors. Me : 'er, no, just fangirling, do you mind if I say how fabulous you were?'. Note to self. you probably gushed over the Les Mis boys way too much. Though Desmond Barrit is hysterical and didn't know you weren't supposed to cross-dress.
Special mentions : Jon Robyns doing 'maybe this Time', him and two others from Les Mis just for being adorable, Daniel Boys doing 'As Long as He needs me', the lad doing 'Old fashioned Lesbian Love Affair', the special middle-aged cross-dressed rendition of 'Barcelona', the two girls from Never Forget doing 'We Can Do it' (yes, they made enough jokes about the irony), and Josefina Gabrielle. can't remember what she was doing, but was brilliant.
of course, my mp3 recorder went on incredibly quiet just before Old Fashioned Lesbian Love Affair which also meant Daniel as he was on a couple of songs after... gah.
BTW, fairyd123, didn't see you there - thought you were going?
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WKFW9DFF
Not brilliant, as this was the point my recorder decided to screw up, so had to tweak and amplify just to be able to hear it. You have been warned. Fingers crossed someone else was recording it so we'll get a better version some day.
Well, yesterday was when people were referring to me as 'zombie' and 'falling over' and 'wrecked' in the afternoon due to lack of sleep. Due to lack of anywhere to crash for four hours - Flaunt It wasn't starting til 11:30pm - decided to find a noisy musical to keep me awake. Pondered Elena Roger in PiafJoseph since the prices had finally come down. Slightly trepidatious since they said it was the same choreography/direction etc as the last time, and that had been... okay. Fun, but not great and nothing special. If nothing else I'd get to see Lee perform it.
They lied. It's not the same. At all - choreography, dances, etc. are utterly different. Slight similarity in the basic stage where the kids' choir are sitting on steps up the side, but that's it. They changed the way they sang the songs, which is now fucking hysterical - much more emphasis on the cowboy / french / _insert pastiche here_ style than previous, including the way they costume each one, there's more dancing, (we fully support random tango or ballet or hoe-down), the brothers' songs have been re-arranged so there's more on individuals, it's far sexier, they got rid of the american football and cheerleader thing in Pharaoh's court, Pharoah is even *more* Elvis (yay Dean Collinson!), and they didn't bother with the David Bowie thing for when Joseph gets elevated. Generally more Egyptian style in general. Narrator now more ditzy schoolteacher with more interaction with rest of cast - getting picked on by the brothers, flirted with by Pharoah etc. Considerably boosted the physical comedy/sight gags, which are fucking hysterical. (special mention to the goat, *both* asps, the camel, and random London Eye.) The megamix is far shorter and a lot more involving and fun. Lee Mead fabulous. Entire cast fabulous. need to see it again while he's still in it.
One. Single. Bloody. Problem. There's no cast recording. the cd is Jason Donovan with Lee's 'Any Dream Will Do' and Dean Collinson's new Pharoah track that they wrote for this production as bonuses. and of course I only discover this during the interval. Even though I had my recorder with me. :cracks knuckles: Youtube, fail me and *die*.
concessions stand boy adorable. Very very gay. Quizzed him about sizing of t-shirts, he said he was wearing the small and he takes a size 8 in dresses. Got him to turn round so I could gauge the back size, then got out of him that he's a 27" waist (my response, of course, being 'bitch!') and then got him to lift his t-shirt so I could check. I think this probably worked because I said it so clinically. 'I can't believe you got me to do that!' 'You have no body fat. No. Fair.' Wearing the grey camel in a small, and it's *still* big.
Next time I'm not bothering with stage door unless I'm getting the other actors, since Lee appears, hands out signed photos, tries to get some signed stuff and speak with people. He is adorable, though.
Fell into pub for a drink or so once I found the Fortune, did more details on opening scenes of nano, and got asked just before I left by the blokes next to me what I'd been writing so frantically. (they'd been discussing finacnial mortgage credit crunch stuff and thought i'd been taking notes. 'er, no, novel challenge starts tomorrow, fleshing out the first chapter details...')
Flaunt It was mostly spent giggling. More boys need to sing 'When you Got it, Flaunt it' (Simon Green this time). Everyone having fun, the list of musicals that didn't turn up, etc, etc. Was sat next to the current christmas Eve, it turns out. Lots of jokes about 'Never Forget'. Got asked what I was in when i went outside and ended up talking to the actors. Me : 'er, no, just fangirling, do you mind if I say how fabulous you were?'. Note to self. you probably gushed over the Les Mis boys way too much. Though Desmond Barrit is hysterical and didn't know you weren't supposed to cross-dress.
Special mentions : Jon Robyns doing 'maybe this Time', him and two others from Les Mis just for being adorable, Daniel Boys doing 'As Long as He needs me', the lad doing 'Old fashioned Lesbian Love Affair', the special middle-aged cross-dressed rendition of 'Barcelona', the two girls from Never Forget doing 'We Can Do it' (yes, they made enough jokes about the irony), and Josefina Gabrielle. can't remember what she was doing, but was brilliant.
of course, my mp3 recorder went on incredibly quiet just before Old Fashioned Lesbian Love Affair which also meant Daniel as he was on a couple of songs after... gah.
BTW, fairyd123, didn't see you there - thought you were going?