The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
From: Thursday, 8th October 2009
To: Saturday, 30 January 2010
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Synopsis
Quiet, private Little Voice sings as sweetly as the divas in her father's record collection - Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey, Billie Holiday...Little Voice can do them all. When her mother's flash new man Ray Say hears her sing he can't believe his luck thinking that he has finally found the meal ticket he has been looking for..but will Little Voice give in to his schemes? A poignant and funny love story The Rise and Fall of Little Voice was a huge hit in the West End and on Broadway and as a movie achieved worldwide acclaim and a number of Oscar nominations.
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Michael Coveney - 21 October 2009
Jim Cartwright wrote his 1992 play specifically for Jane Horrocks, who burst out of her bedroom-bound chrysalis to shake the rafters as a nightclub singer who could make you feel you were in the same room as Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey or Dusty Springfield.
The transformation seems less astonishing in the sweet and studied performance of 18 year-old X Factor finalist Diana Vickers; she makes LV’s emergence one that is more to do with confidence than brash vocalising talent. But hers is an extremely assured West End debut.
Otherwise, the play stands up well in Terry Johnson’s no-holds-barred production, with its savage portrayal of a skew-whiff working class milieu in a small Northern town on the Lancashire side of the Pennines. LV’s widowed, alcoholic Mum, Mari Hoff, has set her sights on Marc Warren’s Ray Say.
But Ray, an out-of-time Teddy boy chancer, is moving into artiste management, and when he hears LV singing along with her Dad’s vinyl c...
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Moheen - 16 April 2010:
Diana's performance was perfect. I can't even describe how well she fit the part. The rest of the cast also seemed to fit together perfectly. The last song in the play, sunlight, was one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard....
Cast
Diana Vickers (Little Voice)
Lesley Sharp (Mari)
Marc Warren (Ray Say)
Rachel Lumbert (Sadie)
James Cartwright (Billy)
Creative
Jim Cartwright (Author)
Nica Burns (Producer)
Max Weitzenhoffer (Producer)
TFP (Producer)
Josephine Genetay (Producer)
Terry Johnson (Director)
Lez Brotherston (Design)
Nigel Lilley (musical supervision) (Music)
Martk Henderson (Lighting)
Ian Dickinson (Sound)
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