If he was, I don't think I'd like it. Gable sends shudders up my spine.

I wish they'd let Darius relax that slicked back hairstyle a bit. Darius is Rhett now.

It relaxes through the show. It also goes grey.

With the acceptance from the critics behind him now, Darius is a greater asset than before, when people were still asking "can a pop star make the transition and cut it in such an iconic role?"

 

I still feel the key is bringing the music to the public's attention. Use the normal technique. Make it memorable through familiarity.There are good songs from the show which could be promoted.

 

They should record a 3/4 track promotional CD or get that cast album out and Darius should promote it on radio/TV just as he would promote his own single or album, within the limits of the time he has available of course.

 

I'd suggest On The Wings Of A Dove, Gone With The Wind, Alone and one other. Ther's a list which could fill the last spot - Desperate Times, the Women Mourners' song, The Lullaby, Nobody Knows You.I think Darius/Jill or Darius/Savannah should do TV music spots with Alone.

 

I think the strength of the songs is often in how they fit in. Take the very simple lullaby song. It has me in tears but it wouldn't just as a recorded song.

It's a couple of often repeated lyrics which seem to be trotted out to support the accusation that the music is awful - the Humpty Dumpty one and the physical wrecks one,strangely enough ones singled out in a couple of early preview reports from posters, and Darius's I'm Your Man is now being described in other words as "a reject from Fiddler On The Roof", copied obviously from an earlier review.

 

I despair of anyone in the media actually having the courage to have an opinion of his/her own.

I've never seen the play. I liked the movie for that one.

the mind boggles - I am sure these critics go in wondering what witty things they can say about each scene - and totally lose any connection with the show. the humpty dumpty lyric seems ok to me, as the song is sort of a flippant one.although hubby said they could have thought up anther one. - dont know what though I dont even recall any other lyrics none stuck out as crass?? other half really liked the way the I'm your man song was carried through the show with different contexts..

fiddler on the roof?? not a hint of that to me,

Edited April 26, 200817 yr by prettyinpink

It was a repeated theme along with the family prayer and it helps the continuity.

Oh dear how wrong can a journo get?

 

In the Sunday Times, a whole article about Darius the survivor with 4 paragraphs dedicated to reviving everyone's memory of Popstars topped by a headline declaring Popstars optimist Darius is still smiling despite critics panning his portrayal as Rhett Butler

 

This, in the same paper as the GWTW review:

 

Bestriding this shallow world like a colossus, and the only reason this gets two stars rather than one, is Darius Danesh, commanding and charismatic as that “insufferable peacock” Rhett Butler. Left hand in his pocket, right hand sweeping wide in manly gestures, eyebrows tauntingly cocky, voice like molasses, he perfectly suggests a cavalier (and possibly clap-ridden) Southern gent.

 

Makes you wonder which reviews were the reference source - I can only think of wos "wooden Rhett" and that one about the "stilted Clark Gable". I'm sure we haven't missed many reviews.

 

 

 

I did find these opening paragraphs very funny. Maybe I shouldn't as a DD fan.

 

It's posited frequently that after a nuclear strike the only creatures capable of emerging unscathed will be the cockroaches. You wouldn't put money against Darius Danesh somehow lingering on as their insect overlord, though.

 

The 27-year-old has withstood a number of megaton hits upon his very being, yet like something from the pages of a comic he absorbs the radioactivity and soldiers on, weirdly all the stronger for the experience.

Edited April 27, 200817 yr by Baytree

I always loved captain scalett..perhaps a premenition - starts singing "they burn him, yet he returns...to live again -indestructable".....

 

I think if the audience reactions are anything like they were on Saturday - the cast will ignore the critics reviews and this nonsense, and it is utter tripe IMO, probalby written with no research just for reaction, by bitter men who know they can achieve nothing unless putting others down.

Edited April 27, 200817 yr by prettyinpink

Torchwood The Musical

 

Can tenor hero Captain Jack save the earth/planetX from bass baritone Lazarus demon Darius and his army of giant cockroaches?

I smiled at that one. They just can't understand how he can be so direct and nice -0 and not curl up and die when insulted and lied about. Reliance is not a crime.

Torchwood The Musical

 

Can tenor hero Captain Jack save the earth/planetX from bass baritone Lazarus demon Darius and his army of giant cockroaches?

Ohhh now I fancy seeing that.....and I know the outcome.........Capt Jack has no chance :lol:

Edited April 28, 200817 yr by SpamFritter

I would rather JB was stamped on if anything to be honest.

I'd quite like to see how Darius measures up to JB.

 

I haven't seen JB on a stage so I don't know if he really comes alive there, but I've watched Torchwood a few times and I think he's outacted by the other guys.

 

I've listened to some of the tracks on his album and he must surely be better at full blown musical numbers than on those ballads.

Going on the title of this thread - Rhett Butler takes on Torchwood.

I think to some degree that faceoff is perhaps more true than we realise. After all JB and LM are ALW leading men under his banner and D is not.Perhaps they are not happy to see a rival appear.

But was asked to be. And refused - another Simon Cowell?

oh yes, I forgot AWL, wasnt that for Whistle down the Wind - hope AWL doesnt hold a grudge