Another update from Rexgirl - looking good :cheer:

Ok well thought I would keep you updated on what I know..

 

First of all doesn't look like you will be able to buy the production photos unless there is a change of heart. I think it's to do with Will's rights to visual image. We cannot reproduce without permission.

There will be a new poster produced that has his photo on. It's the from the same photo shoot that appeared in 'The Stage' last week.

I think price will be £2.50-£3.00. There should also be some new postcards advertising the production.

 

The last thing is that there will be an article in 'The Telegraph' next week probably the 3rd Jan.

 

Just catching up on the latest info, thanks chrysalis and munchkin, I'll be getting the Telegraph.

I don't usually buy the telegraph but i might make an exception on Wednesday :P

I don't usually buy the telegraph but i might make an exception on Wednesday :P

 

 

Do we actually know it is the the 3rd. Think I may have to wait until the day to make sure, as I don't want to make an unnecessary journey. Whilst I can now drive I can only get down to the village, and would have to go further afield (like 3 miles) for a newspaper. It's my left foot, and I'm still having problems when I change gear. :(

Do we actually know it is the the 3rd. Think I may have to wait until the day to make sure, as I don't want to make an unnecessary journey. Whilst I can now drive I can only get down to the village, and would have to go further afield (like 3 miles) for a newspaper. It's my left foot, and I'm still having problems when I change gear. :(

 

I'm sure someone will let us know first thing Wednesday morning. :)

 

Sorry to hear your foot is stil giving you problems chrysalis. :(

Think it was all the partying over Christmas TT, :dance: then knocking my toes on the bottom of my hostess's fridge door!!! :( Trust me to do that. I don't think I've done any lasting damage just pulled it slightly and it's affected the ball of my foot - hence the problem of changing gear. Still I see the surgeon again on Tuesday, but he did tell me originally that I wouldn't be able to do much until February so maybe I was expecting too much. It's still only 6/7 weeks ago.

Rexgirl update.. :dance:

As far as The Vortex is concerned,there is a choreographer,so there will be some dance or movement. I know the first day of rehearsal were spent on dance,how much there is I don't know.

Will has been having extra piano tution,so I guess he will probably be playing at some point

Woohoooo :cheer:

It's great to have Rexgirl on the inside so to speak.

 

Can't wait to see Will doing the Charleston & tinkling the ivories. :dance:

Edited January 1, 200718 yr by truly talented

Thanks SWF I don't know how he does it, has well as having to remember his lines he will have to remember the dance steps and the piano ... and there are no retakes... :D

The Independent

 

 

 

Will Young aiming to emulate Noël Coward in 'The Vortex'

By Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent

Published: 02 January 2007

 

 

It was the play that catapulted Noël Coward to fame as both writer and performer. The Vortex was a scandalous sensation when premiered in 1924 with its bold depiction of the drug-fuelled hedonism of the Bright Young Things.

 

And now Will Young, the former Pop Idol winner, is to take on the role originally performed by Coward in what will be the singer's theatre debut. Young plays the troubled musician Nicky Lancaster in the production in rehearsal at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

 

The play is the story of an enchanting if vain social beauty, Florence, whose fragile relationship with the vacuous Tom unravels when her son, Nicky, returns from Paris with a trial fiancée. There is a strong subtext of homosexuality - which was, of course, illegal at the time the play was written.

 

The appearance of Young who is gay, follows his film debut last year in Mrs Henderson Presents by Stephen Frears in which he played a gay entertainer to generally good reviews.

 

One critic dubbed his performance "impressive" while another conceded he was ideally cast even if the jury was out on whether he could act. He will be more stretched in The Vortex, described by the Exchange as "the stylish story of the jazz generation dancing its way into a whirlwind of desire and deceit".

 

"But Jo Combes, the director, said it felt like exactly the right role for Young's stage debut.

 

It is a big risk because he hasn't done any theatre before. But he did come out of drama school to do Pop Idol. And he's absolutely holding his own.

 

"He speaks like an actor and has an actor's instincts. It feels like he was born to play the troubled musician. He has a complete connection to that era in terms of his tastes and passions. It feels like he belongs to it. :yahoo:

"Historically The Vortex has been a play for debuts - it launched Noël Coward. But it is a really difficult role because the play ends with [Nicky] and his mother fighting it out in her bedroom in a real Gertrude and Hamlet scene."

 

Young, 27, started rehearsals last week and took a break at the weekend to attend the civil partnership ceremony of the Little Britain star Matt Lucas.

 

He describes the play, which opens on 17 January and runs until 10 March, as "rather punk rock for its day" with mass consumption of cocaine. The drama of promiscuity, homosexuality and drug addiction produced shocked reviews when it opened on Coward's 25th birthday, 16 December, 1924, at the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, north London.

 

The People called it "the most decadent play of our time" and The Express condemned it as "a dustbin of a play". But other critics admired the young playwright's stagecraft.

 

It took London by storm, making Coward's name and setting him on the path to fortune. The work has been regularly revived, notably at the Donmar in 2002 with Chiwetel Ejiofor as Nicky.

 

In the history of British theatre, the Literary Encyclopaedia described it as being for the 1920s what John Osborne's Look Back in Anger was to the 1950s.

 

Before The Vortex, Coward, who had worked as an actor from an early age, had written just two light comedies, I'll Leave It To You and The Young Idea, the latter inspired by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw read Coward's effort and told him that he "might become a good playwright, provided he never read another of his plays".

 

 

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Edited January 2, 200718 yr by BanYellowm+m's

Thanks for this. Getting just a tad excited now. I'm going to see him on the 27th, can't flipping wait :cheer:

 

I just love the fact we get all these different things with Will - an ordinary pop star he definitely ain't B)

Thanks for this. Getting just a tad excited now. I'm going to see him on the 27th, can't flipping wait :cheer:

 

I just love the fact we get all these different things with Will - an ordinary pop star he definitely ain't B)

 

 

I doubt we would have all been so drawn to him if he had been Lainey. We knew there was something special about him right from the off - well at least I did -_- :D

 

But Jo Combes, the director, said it felt like exactly the right role for Young's stage debut.

 

It is a big risk because he hasn't done any theatre before. But he did come out of drama school to do Pop Idol. And he's absolutely holding his own.

 

"He speaks like an actor and has an actor's instincts. It feels like he was born to play the troubled musician. He has a complete connection to that era in terms of his tastes and passions. It feels like he belongs to it.

 

He has done theatre - when he was at university - so he is isn't a complete virgin.

 

Thanks BYM&Ms.

Edited January 2, 200718 yr by munchkin

I think I'm getting worryingly obsessed with this pic

 

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i142/nodgersboots/Willstage2.jpg

 

Just so gorgeous http://bestsmileys.com/drooling/3.gif

Thanks for this. Getting just a tad excited now. I'm going to see him on the 27th, can't flipping wait :cheer:

 

I just love the fact we get all these different things with Will - an ordinary pop star he definitely ain't B)

 

 

Never was there a truer comment than he is too top for pop.

 

We are the lucky ones being fans of such a versatile talent. :yahoo:

Edited January 2, 200718 yr by truly talented

Another little snippet from This is london :D

 

Will to play Coward's gay stage role

By Sam Lyon, London Lite 02.01.07

 

 

Will Young is to make his theatrical debut in a controversial play which catapulted Noel Coward to fame.

 

The Pop Idol winner will play the lead in The Vortex - a scandalous sensation when it premiered in 1924.

 

Young, like Coward, will play troubled musician Nicky Lancaster in a play that depicts the drug-fuelled hedonism of the Bright Young Things.

 

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2006/09/willyoungL290906_243x234.jpg

 

 

There is a strong subtext of homosexuality throughout the play, which when Coward wrote and performed the play in the 1920s, was illegal. Young, 27, started rehearsing last week at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

 

It follows his film debut in Mrs Henderson Presents.

 

The play is expected to open on 17 January and run until 10 March.

 

This is london

 

 

Thanks sunday.

 

You're on a roll with all the news.

Thanks sunday.

 

You're on a roll with all the news.

 

 

from me too - getting exciting now - only a couple of weeks away :yahoo:

God..i'm seeing him on the 17th :wub: :huh: ...so excited...can't wait! :cheer: :cheer:

Went into town this afternoon and bought The Independent in M&S, there's's a lovely pic as well. :wub:

Went into town this afternoon and bought The Independent in M&S, there's's a lovely pic as well. :wub:

 

It's this one if anyone can't or doesn't want to get the paper - no watermark of course. :P

 

http://img38.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Crazy_Sexy_Will/pp9.jpg

Edited January 2, 200718 yr by munchkin

It's this one if anyone can't or doesn't want to get the paper - no watermark of course. :P

 

http://img38.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Crazy_Sexy_Will/pp9.jpg

 

Thanks munchkin.

 

For some reason I'm strangely attracted to his hairy arms. :blush: