February 21, 200718 yr Author But its not!! I once gave him a Top Shop Belt for just a tenner and he wore it at the Manchester album launch and TOTP!! Im sure he appreciates everything.. Aww thats nice, bet you were dead chuffed to see him wear it........ The different tops in these pics were both bought by Will fans, the stripey one was given to him in the afternoon and he wore it that same night. :wub: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/Lisaveal/gorgeresized.jpg http://img14.photobucket.com/albums/v43/willslizzie/b9d67927.jpg
February 21, 200718 yr The different tops in these pics were both bought by Will fans, the stripey one was given to him in the afternoon and he wore it that same night. :wub: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/Lisaveal/gorgeresized.jpg http://img14.photobucket.com/albums/v43/willslizzie/b9d67927.jpg Just shows you how well Will's fans know his size. :lol: They both fit like gloves. :dance:
February 22, 200718 yr Thanks to Temh on devoted :D The Vortex is an infuriating, interesting and ultimately a rewarding play. It is the play of a young man – Noel Coward was in his twenties when he wrote it - but it set the template for much of the mature work: his characters are camp and carnivorous by turns, and it is impossible to extricate these strands from each other. http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/Diana_Hardcastle_as_Florence_Lancaster.JPG Reviewed by Paul Kane The Vortex by Noel Coward is showing at the Royal Exchange Theatre (http://www.royalexchange.co.uk ) from 17 January 2007 to 10 March 2007. ***** The Vortex by Noel Coward Directed by: Jo Combes Starring: Will Young, Diana Hardcastle, David Fielder and others One must concede that Noel Coward is an acquired taste, and not always an especially wholesome or healthy one. After viewing The Vortex in 1925, James Agate wrote of the people that populate it: “These characters are [as] nauseating as animalculae in a pond, but they interest.†And this ambivalence is something that many of those who saw the Royal Exchange’s production of the play will share too. This attitude toward Coward is rather like the attitude toward poetry (or a certain kind of poetry) that we find in Marianne Moore’s most famous poem, the shortest version of which has only a few lines: I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine. Coward’s characters in The Vortex are upper class (frightfully, terribly so), and this in itself might have one reaching for the sick bag. His main male character, Nicky Lancaster, seems - at first sight anyway - to conform to the cherished American view of the Englishman as a bumbling upper-class twit (a la Hugh Grant). Everywhere, one encounters banal hyperbole: the men are “utter cads†or “dear boysâ€, and the women divine, heavenly creatures. Why should we care about these people? What is it that makes them real? These are questions that need to be answered, and the answer must satisfy; it takes a leap of imagination to see an upper-class twit as a person worth caring for. http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/Diana_Hardcastle_as_Florence_Lancaster_with_Will_Young_as_Nicky_Lancaster.JPG Nicky Lancaster’s relationship with his mother is at the heart of the play, and is what gives the play its power. This relationship is, in a sense, a dysfunctional, disturbing and destructive romance. Nicky is a son whose mother takes younger lovers, young men of his own age, although they seem to be rather more masculine than he is. These rivals must win his mother’s love, for they can offer her something that he cannot. This (i.e. the oedipal anxiety of a son whose mother is adulterous) was a significant and perhaps even a personal predicament for Coward: it recurs in other of his plays, and in his fiction too. It is his mother’s voracious sexual desire, her “vortex of beastlinessâ€, that engulfs and overpowers Nicky, driving his addiction to drugs. There is genuine emotion present here, especially in the intense final scenes between mother and son (even if much of this emotion feels like little more than a self-pitying squeal). And it still retains its power to move and shock. http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/Will_Young_as_Nicky_Lancaster.JPG Nicky Lancaster is played by former Pop Idol winner Will Young, and he performs ably in his debut stage role; he is, of course, no stranger to live performance. He follows on from Noel Coward, who took the role in the original production, and Dirk Bogarde, who had also played Nicky in the past. It is, though, Diana Hardcastle, as Nicky’s mother Florence, who gives the outstanding performance. Of the other actors (and the entire cast gave solid performances), David Fielder as Pauncefort Quentin is an overripe, camp turn. Early on in the play, he remarks of Europe (Nicky is returning from spending some time in Paris) that “the continent is often fatal to the young†- apparently a light, throwaway line - and this illustrates something else about Coward’s writing. As in Ronald Firbank’s fictions, there are often no clear markers of emphasis: the light or witty remark is used to make a serious point (here, about ruinous hedonism and the cost of pleasure). Because of this, it is not so easy to orientate oneself in his world. The Vortex is an infuriating, interesting and ultimately a rewarding play. It is the play of a young man – Noel Coward was in his twenties when he wrote it - but it set the template for much of the mature work: his characters are camp and carnivorous by turns, and it is impossible to extricate these strands from each other. The Royal Exchange’s production splendidly evokes the twenties in its settings and costumes, and use of music, and is a welcome revival of an extraordinary twentieth-century play.
February 22, 200718 yr I have just been looking at a thread on devoted and the O/S....I cant believe how many are going on the last night :o ...it will almost be like they are getting a special exclusive performance just for them :lol:
February 22, 200718 yr I have just been looking at a thread on devoted and the O/S....I cant believe how many are going on the last night :o ...it will almost be like they are getting a special exclusive performance just for them :lol: Wish I were going to that one....can you imagine the atmosphere...when he takes his bows.....they will raise the roof :yahoo:
February 23, 200718 yr Author I have just been looking at a thread on devoted and the O/S....I cant believe how many are going on the last night :o ...it will almost be like they are getting a special exclusive performance just for them :lol: Wish I were going to that one....can you imagine the atmosphere...when he takes his bows.....they will raise the roof :yahoo: I wish I was going on the last night as well, but I'm going on the 9th and maybe I'll have more chance of meeting him again, he might be too scared to come out on the 10th in case he gets mobbed! :o
February 23, 200718 yr I've never sent a pressie - what do you get for someone who can afford it all.....anything I can think of just seems so inadequate somehow :mellow: But its not!! I once gave him a Top Shop Belt for just a tenner and he wore it at the Manchester album launch and TOTP!! Im sure he appreciates everything.. I sent him a couple of bracelets for his birthday that I'd bought in Top Man last year but didn't send to him in case he didn't get them. He was wearing them in Pompeyloz's picture. It's not the price but the thought - they only cost me £7.99. He loved the stripey top so much he was seen in it at the Big Chill festival in Essex. Thanks for the review BYM&Ms - another good one. Edited February 23, 200718 yr by munchkin
February 23, 200718 yr Author I think Will loves getting pressies off us, especially tops, belts and bracelets and wasn't that pic in one of Will's book showing one of the Devoted music cd's that was sent to him? :heart: Oh and he loves candles and booze! Edited February 23, 200718 yr by suggy
February 23, 200718 yr My son gave him a book on birdwatching :lol: Goodness knows what Will thought of that!! :lol: Thanks for the review xx
February 23, 200718 yr My son gave him a book on birdwatching :lol: Goodness knows what Will thought of that!! :lol: Thanks for the review xx Good choice. Didn't Will once say he loved exotic African birds (the feathered type of course). :lol:
February 24, 200718 yr Hello folks, lovely thread. I gave him a CD once, nearly three years ago, and he wrote me a little note to thank me! That was such a lovely thing to do, I could hardly believe it! It wasn't even a new CD because my order didn't come in time and I had to give him my own one! I think it is definitely the thought that counts. The fans that see him wearing their presents are so lucky. :D I think fans have often been inspired with their choices and I definitely find it difficult now to think of what to give him and feel worried that my choice would be inadequate. I would love to think of something special to give him and if I see something I will get it, but I haven't really, so I haven't given him anything. Edited February 24, 200718 yr by MaryB
February 24, 200718 yr Hi Mary. :hi: How lovely that Will took the time to write you a personal note in thanks for the cd you sent him. :wub: He'll need a truck to take all his gifts home from Manchester. :lol:
February 25, 200718 yr Laura is still injured... I guess she may not come back for the rest of the play :( Quite hoping that Lippo was there for business and not pleasure ^_^ Edited February 25, 200718 yr by *Jue*
February 25, 200718 yr Laura is still injured... I guess she may not come back for the rest of the play :( Quite hoping that Lippo was there for business and not pleasure ^_^ I couldn't quite get used to the actress who was reading from the script :blink: Steve Lipson was there Jue? :o
February 25, 200718 yr I couldn't quite get used to the actress who was reading from the script :blink: Steve Lipson was there Jue? :o He was with his wife - very pretty lady. I think I saw someone from 19 as well with two youngish guys- Will came in with them in the afternoon and they were in my block in the evening.
February 25, 200718 yr He was with his wife - very pretty lady. I think I saw someone from 19 as well with two youngish guys- Will came in with them in the afternoon and they were in my block in the evening. Do you know if he went back to London after the evening performance Jue?
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