John Barrowman Disney Broadway Musical Gala Royal Albert Hall
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
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He even managed to fit a Saturday morning children TV show into his schedule at the same time, which I have no idea how he did or when he slept at all ;)
He says that he would still sleep in the morning when Scott would go to work, and when Scott came home in the evening John would go to the stage and not return until late at night. They didn't see each other at all. He simply doesn't want to live like that anymore which is understandable I guess. When you get older you value family life more. So living in Palm Springs and hopping to Vancouver for a day for some filming is easier.
Also he wants to concentrate on his TV work for the moment. He cannot commit to doing a show for 6 months or a year, but that's what they need to get enough money in. The last he did, La Cage Aux Folles in 2009, someone else did it before him and then he jumped in for only three months, which was manageable. Sadly that was just at the time when I started to become a fan, I did not know anyone, never had been to London, and didn't want to go on my own. I would do now, I feel at home there. I regret missing that, it must have been amazing.
So all we have is panto at the moment, which is only three or five weeks. And the concert tours of course. I really hope you can come over one day to see him live on stage. He does sing some songs at conventions but it is not the same like a whole evening where he is also telling funny stories in between the songs. Some people even tour with him and go to several concerts. One is not enough ;)
He does still get offers for musicals though. He's asked all the time but declines. Apparently he hinted recently at conventions that he might do something soon. I am not sure if he was talking about a real musical or only meant this gala night. We'll see. I only hope they announce it when tickets still are available. I hear it is a madhouse getting tickets on Broadway.
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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 ;)
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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).
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Aw thank you! I shall wear this name with pride ;)
Yes, I guess it is an really interesting profession. Both creativity and also craftmanship are needed. The director comes and tells his vision and then you need to figure out how to do things that may look shiny but are only made from cardboard, and they need to be light and not heavy so people easily can move them around, etc. Also the actors don't like to wear heavy costumes either as they want to be able to run around stage.
But I guess in the end it is too fleety for my liking. I mean, you create something, it gets seen for a few evenings, and then it vanishes. With some luck it might get used again in a few years, or changed for a new use. But I prefer doing the job I do now, which is building buildings where you see a result at the end.
Huh. I thought "fleety" was a word. Apparently it isn't? do you know which word I mean?
Thank you for explaining! Yes, it's a shame they always cut the arts section. When he was younger, John Barrowman would do his part of "give it back" and hold workshops at his old high school which lasted for several days.
It's where a lot of well known actors have started out. Maybe one day you'll become famous as well, then I can say I knew you before ;)
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
I refused to watch them for a long time also, thinking how weird they look with their yellow skin and tennis ball eyes etc. and I am not into cartoons at all in general. But Richard Dean Anderson is an avid fan, and so I figured, if he likes it, there must be something and gave it a try.
I don't watch it regularly but 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. Sometimes I wonder about the things they get away with, as they are very critical, you could even say lefty if that is a curse word.
Like with all series that run for so long, real fans complain that the old seasons were better and that the new ones seem to run out of stories to tell, I can't comment on that as I watch it out of order in endless re-runs. But when I happen to stumble about it, I really do enjoy it. It's my kind of humor. As opposite to "Family Guy" which comes after and is just awful. I never understand how people find puking funny?
But thanks for explaining the "Close enough"! In the Simpsons case, if I remember right, Homer had been stepping on something when just the first amphibians started to crawl to the land, therefore changing the evolution. Then he tried to correct it but made it worse with every try. In the end he finally had his family and home and everything back as it used to be, only his family was eating flies with lizard like tongues. And then he commented "Close enough".
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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 better
Most 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.
Thanks for explaining the Simpson's "close enough" now I have a context for it.
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