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John Barrowman Disney Broadway Musical Gala Royal Albert Hall

Oct 24, 2016 01:41

Tonight was a gala with Disney songs in the Royal Albert Hall, moderated by John Barrowman. Apparently tickets sold out in June within minutes, and it was only a few weeks ago when John or anyone else actually was announced for this (Alan Menken also was there and a lot of others). Somehow, some fans found some spare tickets. I didn't even bother ( Read more... )

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niviene October 26 2016, 04:21:59 UTC

He has such a great voice. Why isn't he doing Broadway or London musical theatre?!?!?! (Not expecting an answer here lol.)

dieastra October 26 2016, 10:26:32 UTC

I'm giving you an answer anyway ;) As he has talked about it. He did it for 17 years in the beginning of his career, when he was young. Mostly in London but also a few on Broadway. He had main roles in "Beauty and the Beast", "Hair", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Anything goes", "Miss Saigon", "Chicago" and many I don't remember from the top of my head. Some are also available as cast CDs ( ... )

niviene October 29 2016, 20:58:51 UTC

Thanks for all the info. Wow...I didn't know all that..it is a lot of time invested when doing a play.

dieastra October 29 2016, 21:31:07 UTC

Yes, very time consuming. When doing panto, two shows a day, seven days a week, he does not do anything else. No parties in the evening I mean. Just performing and sleeping. And autographs and photographs at the stage door. But the way he runs and dances around the stage, it must be exhausting.

niviene October 29 2016, 22:06:06 UTC

I used to do plays in highschool and college. I understand what he would go through...it requires a lot of energy and sleep afterward lol.

dieastra October 30 2016, 09:27:38 UTC

Yes, then you know first hand!

How often is such a high school play played? Only once or regularly? We don't have them here in our schools, or only very seldomly. I've never seen one.

I would have liked to be involved with one when I was in school. Not on stage, but in making props or costumes or backgrounds. That's the part that always fascinated me. I chickened out learning it properly and doing it in a theatre, as I knew it would be stressful. I preferred a 9-5 (or rather 9-6) job ;)

niviene October 31 2016, 20:40:38 UTC

Oh you'd be fantastic at making sets & props...any theatre company would love you! You are very creative and would find ways to make things out of nothing practically....the McGyver of 'set design' lol!

Many high schools have a drama classes when I went to school (not sure what they do now as there's so much budget cuts to schools which affects the arts programs primarily). We did one or two plays a year in the spring and late fall. Our high school productions ran about a week long with one evening show per night (7pm) except on the Saturday then we had one matinee at 2pm and a evening show at 8pm. At college/Uni ours ran about two weeks long and we had sometimes 2-4 productions but you would only be in max two as it's exhausting depending on musical or drama (every Uni is different now).

dieastra November 5 2016, 16:54:25 UTC

the McGyver of 'set design' lol!Aw thank you! I shall wear this name with pride ( ... )

niviene November 11 2016, 16:56:11 UTC

I think in terms of being mega crafty (as you definitely are) we could maybe say that someone is "Astra crafty"?!?! :)

fleety

I understood what you meant...the correct word is fleeting. Close enough :)

Part of me would love to take an acting workshop with Barrowman for fun (tho' those days are behind me) but I probably could only take him in small doses lol! I bet though he'd be good with teaching acting to children...keeping it PG of course.

dieastra November 12 2016, 08:39:38 UTC

I think in terms of being mega crafty (as you definitely are) we could maybe say that someone is "Astra crafty"?!?! :)

Oh, now THAT would be an honor!

I understood what you meant...the correct word is fleeting. Close enough :)

Thank you! Sometimes the online dictionary is able to recognize a word if you spell it slightly wrong, but I did not get any results for that.

Simpsons fan? ;) I heard Jack O'Neill in Stargare use "Close enough" for a while before I understood that it may be a Simpsons reference - he did a lot of these. I once tried to look up "D'oh" in a dictionary - d'oh! LOL

niviene November 14 2016, 19:23:55 UTC

Sorry but I've never seen an episode of the Simpsons. Not my cup of tea really...I do remember them from when I watched the Tracy Ullman show way back in the early 90s though.

Lots of people say 'close enough'...been saying/hearing it since I was a kid...it's been around a long time...my grandfather used to say it but I'm sure it was just made more popular/well known by the Simpsons TV show as these things tend to happen in pop culture now.

dieastra November 16 2016, 10:13:03 UTC

I do remember them from when I watched the Tracy Ullman show way back in the early 90s though.Well, that's been a long time and they have changed a lot since ;) I saw some pictures of that, the drawing looks quite awful. And I'm sure the stories weren't much better ( ... )

niviene November 18 2016, 22:38:35 UTC

I barely remember the TUS sketches from then...

once you get a bit deeper into it you realize that there is a lot of truth in there - made in a funny way, but yet makes you think also. Truths about politics as well as general human behavior/relationships, life in small towns with church neighbours etc. and any other important themes.

Hmmm maybe the show warrants a second look...I'll keep it in mind when I have time & looking for something new to watch. Although I'm not sure it would be my kind of humour.

As for Family Guy I remember seeing the ad for it and went no thanks. I wouldn't watch it if you paid me! Absolutely not my style of humour. Besides one of the characters physically looks like my old boss *shudders *

Like with all series that run for so long, real fans complain that the old seasons were betterMost long running series face this problem...they tend to repeat the same stories but in a different way thinking no one will notice but one inevitably does ( ... )

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