retrospective looks at interviews
Made resolution yesterday to go through all the radio interviews I'd dl'd while I was working. For the most part, amusing but one listen and delete material. However, came across one really interesting one. Barrowman, talking to Out radio in New York in 2004. Two weeks after Anything Goes finished in the west end. Lots of theatre discussion, Company, Cole Porter (De-Lovely had just hit the film theatres + his Cole Porter album), JB's experience of being out (he hasn't changed what he's said about any of this stuff - I've heard the exact same phrases and sentiments used in recent interviews, which is a bit of a relief - always annoying when someone changes their tune after going mainstream), etc, etc.
What was interesting was that apparently they were trying to transfer Anything Goes to America - LA, then if that went well, Broadway. Which as we know, didn't happen. Be interesting to see what happened there, especially since JB was talking like he was still attached to the production. But the real gem? About ten seconds from the end, when asked what he's got lined up next, he mentions that he's got a part in Dr Who that'll be taking up the next year. that's it. no hype, no squee, no 'omg this could be big'. I know that he's talking to an american audience who wouldn't have got precisely how big Dr Who could potentially be, but I find it somewhat hysterical that it's a casual mention of something that ended up blowing his recognition factor out of the water. (Ruthie Henshall also mentioned the fact that she's done years in the theatre, been a name headliner, but more people saw and recognised her from one saturday's work as a Dancing on Ice judge than that whole previous time)
psst. anyone got a spotify invite going?
What was interesting was that apparently they were trying to transfer Anything Goes to America - LA, then if that went well, Broadway. Which as we know, didn't happen. Be interesting to see what happened there, especially since JB was talking like he was still attached to the production. But the real gem? About ten seconds from the end, when asked what he's got lined up next, he mentions that he's got a part in Dr Who that'll be taking up the next year. that's it. no hype, no squee, no 'omg this could be big'. I know that he's talking to an american audience who wouldn't have got precisely how big Dr Who could potentially be, but I find it somewhat hysterical that it's a casual mention of something that ended up blowing his recognition factor out of the water. (Ruthie Henshall also mentioned the fact that she's done years in the theatre, been a name headliner, but more people saw and recognised her from one saturday's work as a Dancing on Ice judge than that whole previous time)
psst. anyone got a spotify invite going?