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Ian

Member Since 12 Feb 2007
Offline Last Active May 10 2013 02:57 PM
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In Topic: Vicious

10 May 2013 - 12:21 PM

View PostHonoured Guest, on 08 May 2013 - 02:49 PM, said:

Assuming, as we must, that the credits are correct, then maybe the Vicious presspack is wrong - I haven't seen it, so I don't know. It could be wrong if Mark Ravenhill was indeed announced as co-writer at an earlier project stage, as Xanderl half-recalls. Or maybe the Times weekend reviewer is just sloppy. Out of interest, who is it? I don't subscribe, so Times is a mystery to me.

Epi, is your persistence on this topic intended to imply that Mark Ravenhill did indeed co-write it but then insisted on being uncredited? Do you have evidence? Or is it just a hypothesis? Or are you just being mischievous (as usual)?

Out of interest this week's Stage has a vicious "Vicious" review from Harry Venning which states at one point (having refered to the cast presumably having taken part due having close relatives held to hostage) "The same applies to highly respected playwright Mark Ravenhill and former Will & Grace writer Gary Janetti who provided the scripts .... ".

http://www.thestage....us-the-job-lot/

Inexpicably he liked The Job Lot.

In Topic: Vicious

07 May 2013 - 07:33 PM

I gave this [Vicious] the benefit of the doubt and watched the 2nd episode last night. If the 1st was bad the 2nd was truly dire! What on earth possessed such experienced luminaries to take part in this deadly sit-com - it can't just be the money can it? The Job Lot which follows is another unfunny waste of talent.

In Topic: Booing

07 May 2013 - 07:26 PM

View Postjaqs, on 07 May 2013 - 03:52 PM, said:

Ive left prior to the megamix a couple of times at bad shows. Thus negating my need to boo or not clap or pitifully shake my head.

At the insistance of a minor cast member, (one of several trying to engineer a standing ovation during a Megamix after an interminable show), I did indeed rise to my feet which then rather publically marched across the front of the side stalls (I was in the centre blocks of seats) to the nearest exit. Not the reaction he was intending I think.

It felt damn good - and the production was being filmed which may have given them some additional editing to do!!

In Topic: The Color Purple - The Musical

07 May 2013 - 07:17 PM

View Postmallardo, on 07 May 2013 - 06:47 PM, said:

It's a famous American book, a famous American movie, a well known and relatively successful American musical. Why would they change the spelling now?  That's parochialism in the extreme.

Personaly I think we should state that the story is "too american" for the British public, relocate the story to Liverpool, and call it "The Colour Purple" - just to get our own back for "The Full Monty".  :rolleyes:

In Topic: Booing

06 May 2013 - 08:33 AM

Odd this is considered bad behaviour when booing (and MUCH worse) was commonplace at Victorian  music halls, and is still de rigueur for bad form on Opera stages - from the most "elite" of audiences. Really it is one of the most traditional responses - though I confess I have not indulged myself, however much some productions have meritted a full throated disapproval.