Musicals, Musicals, Musicals!

A nice little selection of show-dedicated pages I've made, all about some of my favourite shows and Musicals! I'm a huge fan of many, but especially the ones below. So, grab a coffee and please enjoy this selection of some of my favourite fan pages :)

Parade the MusicalSEE FULL PAGE

Hairspray (Musical)SEE FULL PAGE

Equus (Dan Radcliffe)SEE FULL PAGE

The Lion KingSEE FULL PAGE

RENT by Jonathan LarsonSEE FULL PAGE

Rent Remixed (London)SEE FULL PAGE

The Edinburgh Festival 2012SEE FULL PAGE

Les Miserables (2012) 27 x 40 Movie Poster

Awwww one of the offical cast posters for the musical film adaptation of Les Miserables. Starring the gorgeous Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.

Les Miserables Movie Poster. Russell Crowe (Javert) 18" x 27"

His vocal acrobatics came under a bit of attack for his performance in Les Miserables - but I liked Russell Crowe. Although he looks super pensive in this picture - like he's going to through himself off a bridge or something!

Les Miserables Movie Poster 18" x 27" - the Thénardiers!

BEST.POSTER.EVER

Les Miserables Movie Poster. Marius and Cosette. 18" x 27"

All together now - aaaaaaaaah! All the loveeeeeeeerrrrrrs...I mean...A heart fullllll of looooooove!




Amanda Seyfried (Cosette) looks so worried in this poster! But beautiful! Or maybe the worried face is incase people think she's called Courgette?

Les Miserables Posters!

Things I love about Les Miserables, the film: Not only is the cast amazing - including Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Segfried - but it SOUNDS amazing too!

So what does every great epic film musical need? Fine posters, that's what! Here is a selection of some of the best Movie Posters for Les Miserables currently available.

From individual head shots of the Les Miserables characters, to groups shots of the Les Miserables cast, in fine poster form!

  For a selection of all the Les Miserables Movie Posters currently on Amazon.com, go here now!







Of course, the iconic Les Miserable image! The little girl, from the stage show image, thought to be a young Cosette...representing the French Revolution with innocent beauty. Such a powerful poster!

LOVE NEVER DIES - More Musical Movies - Broadway Theatre on DVD...to avoid!!

Ok...I have another bummer of a show that was filmed on DVD. If you love Andrew Lloyd Webber, you'd love this...if you don't...then burn it...

Broadway Theatre on DVD: LOVE NEVER DIES





In short, Andrew Lloyd Webber shouldn't have made this show. As a stand alone show on it's own, I guess it's not too bad, but the problem is, it's a sequel! Yes, a sequel! To the classica musical, Phantom.

The thing is, when you watch it, you get caught up in the story telling being so different to the previous incarnation. We all knew Ben Elton shouldn't be let near a musical since he vomitted on the stage, added a guitar, and called it "We Will Rock You".

You know, just to put it in a nutshell for you..it sucks!

NEVER FORGET - More Musical Movies - Broadway Theatre on DVD

Something a bit different this time, that I feel I must express...This Musical on DVD SUCKS...Don't watch. Bad production. Boring story...zzzzzzzzz

Broadway Theatre on DVD: NEVER FORGET

Ok, I confess. This is the DVD I watched last night that bored me so much, I started to think "Hey, I need to blog this, with my Musicals filmed for DVD, to warn people about this one".

Ok, ok, ok, it's a cute show. It's original...but let's not beat about the bush - this show is so boring, and dull. The music is OK, it's the music of Take That. If you're a Take That fan, great. If not, stay away.

I watched the DVD extras about how they made this show. They said that when they were writing it, they didn't want to shoehorn Take That's tunes into the story. What a load of crap! The story is about some guys making a Take That tribute band...so they don't shoehorn the songs, they just SING them, because they are pretending to be Take That, not to help tell the story! Lame! Some of the songs help the story, but mostly, the songs are presented in a "now the boys will sing Take That's song Babe"...puuuuhleeeeeeeeeease...come up with something clever. It's clear the producers wanted to make a Mamma Mia, but ended up making a mamma of a mess!

The cast are fine, there isn't one performer who stands out as an exceptional performance. The story is cheesy. Euuurghhh...don't waste your money on this. Unless you LOVE cheese - then it's riiiiight up your street!

Gimme a break...

Please excuse this somewhat erratic post that I'm about to bestow onto you. My mind is running 20 to the dozen and thought it was high time I posted something, suffice to say I've been slack of late, is quite the understatement!

...As far as Art goes, I don't have too much report on my behalf, but I did visit my friend Jackie's excellent exhibition recently. We share a common interest of painting without a brush (woop woop), but she uses oils...I'm an acrylic boy, myself. Check out her stuff, it's great.

...As far as Theatre goes, I've been pretty busy. When I'm not seeing it (recent outings include: Jonathan Larson's 'Tick Tick Boom' (bravo, Leon) and a surprisingly good Gareth Gates in 'Joseph'), or being concerned about shows closing (poor 'Spring Awakening'), or distracting myself with intriguing announcements (Julie Taymor and U2 bringing us 'Spiderman the Musical' on Broadway(!!??) or the sublime Sheridan Smith opening in 'Legally Blonde - the Musical' in London), I've been hatching some directorial plans (possibly including a large cast, possibly not...cards-firmly-close-to-chest) and umming and ahhing about returning to the stage (y'aaargh, it's been at least 5 years and promised it was all behind me) in a potential Theatre Company 10 year anniversary reunion show...all in the light of 'Billy Elliott - the Musical' sweeping the board at the Tonys this week - winning 10 awards...!

My new website is very nearly ready to go live...as soon as it is, I'll post the link :)

Until such a time...

All Good Things...

...Must come to an End. If you didn't know already, my exhibition: "Love. A Condition of Absolute Value" (hence the picture I've added to this post) ends tomorrow, so if you haven't seen it, you have less than 24 hours to get down to ModMod on High Street, Columbus. It's been a long and at times, hard process, and I've learnt so much from the whole thing. For my first show, I must say, I'm very pleased. I can't wait to get my "Comments book" back and post some of them on here, there are some absolute classic...and of course, Jenny's epic comment, bless her. I'm off to WashingtonDC this weekend, so when I get back I'll enlighten you all.

In theatre news, this week I've heard that AvenueQ is to close in the next few weeks, sad news. I don't know what's up with the West End this year, but everything seems to be closing, or reducing it's runs. It looks like Hairspray is still going strong though, but who knows if the 'economic crisis' will take it as it's next victim. A strange rumour I heard this week also, is that Zac Efron is to take over from Daniel Radcliffe in Equus on Broadway...not sure I can see Disney letting THAT happen!

Rent Remixed: A year ago today...

Wow - a year ago today, we had our first preview for the hotly anticipated 'Rent Remixed', directed by the wonderful William Baker. It feels like so long ago now. I'm in Ohio right now, and the weather has suddenly dropped, so I needed my jacket to go out...I reached into the pocket and what do I find...Mimi's handkerchief (that was never actually used in the show, in the end), very strange, as I wonder what it's doing there, I realise...we opened to the public a year ago today...weird huh?

For those that didn't know, I worked behind the scenes. In rehearsals, I was a production assistant. I also interviewed the cast and made videos for myspace and facebook etc. Then in the run, I operated and programmed a dot matrix system (never thought I would be doing that!). To be honest, the only thing that kept me in the job was the fact that the whole team and cast were bloody lovely people, especially the creatives and the DSM extraordinaire, Jakki. Did I like the show? Yes...Do I miss the show? Not so much...Do I miss the people? Hell yeah!

For more information on the show, go here: Rent Remixed