I couldn't find Incredible but I'm sure it's on there. I watched a couple of hand drawn animations called Simon's Cat. They are so well observed and really funny because everyone can see their own or a friend's cat in them.

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Observer.co.uk, Friday March 14 2008 Article historyAbout this articleClose This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Friday March 14 2008. It was last updated at 12:59 on March 14 2008.Review this Sunday takes a look at the Oxbridge mafia. Why do these two universities still dominate our public, political and cultural life, and does it matter? Carole Cadwalladr (Hertford by way of the Welsh valleys and Radyr comprehensive ... ) reports.

 

We bring you the best of the spring arts: Sex and the City graduates to the big screen; the Ting Tings reinvent pop; Darius Danesh and Trevor Nunn team up for Gone with the Wind: the Musical

 

Thank you , megham. I guess I'll be buying a Sunday paper then. Let's hope the article is also in the Scottish edition.

 

 

 

 

It's so hard to find out what he's in as this is not one I'd buy.

Just been reading a thread on WOS about closing of lord of the rings which is a bit worrying as the concensus seems to be that new creative musicals are not doing as well as reality casting shows and that oliver is to replace lord of the rings and is guaranteed to do well. wondered what you thought.

From dress circle.

 

Subject: Re: Lord of the Rings to close 19th July

 

 

Sad, but inevitable I think. This type of show is very hard to generate interest in. Fans of the book or films will be turned off by the Musical status of the show. And people who are not interested in the book probably won't bother. So that only really leaves the likes of us, who will give most things a go.

I didn't want to see it particularly, but I loved it.

 

 

All I can say is that Darius will need to be brilliant in GWTW, to overcome his Pop Idol baggage which that show is now saddled with. If not, I can see that going the same way as LOTR

 

It's so hard to find out what he's in as this is not one I'd buy.

 

 

We just have to rely on someone seeing something in their copy or online and passing on the info soon enough for those who're interested to get one.

 

 

When it's seen that Darius makes a very fine Rhett - Rhett, not Clark Gable, - the great leap he's made, the contrast with PI will be all the greater.

 

:o I am surprised about LOTR closing! Maybe I shouldn't be so sure GWTW will be an overwhelming success :unsure:

LOTR is a hugely expensive production of something which was the subject of a recent multi million film trilogy and which is now available cheaper and cheaper on DVD. Who other than those who prefer the theatre, would especially want to travel to the West End to see it? It has a cast of 50 to support weekly.

 

The arrangements for Oliver were put in train. They can hardly hold these televised public audtions and then say - um by the way, we haven't got a theatre yet. I think Lord ALW counted on some productions finishing and touring which in fact are still doing well in the West End. IMHO it came down to which production could be turfed out and LOTR lost.

 

there is no garauntee with any musical I suppose. I notce GWTW has three partners - is this common these days? I hadnt realsied musicals were sponsered

Yes, it's very common.

 

You see it all the time in theatre programmes.

I believe GWTW is privately backed but I read that LOTR would lose twelve million. Unfortunately wha\t they say on WOS is true in that it is the reality musicals that are getting the bums on seats in tht they are attracting people who dont usually go to the theatre and of course Andres lloyd webber realises this.

But going for the buck first option has not done much for the Lord's reputation. His own last productions before the reality TV linked 'Maria' and 'Joseph' hardly set the WE alight. Eyebrows have been raised about his "trickery" in inserting his chosen replacement for Connie into a soap so she could be "discovered" by him on the show and fiction become reality when she took over as Maria, as planned months before - he has been likened to Simon Cowell.

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The fact that 'Lord of the Rings' failed in Canada put a lot of people off. I was hoping to see it in October but now I'll have to bring it forward as I wouldn't want to miss it.

 

We wont know how GWTW will go until the publicity starts - it hasn't really got going yet. It's hard to start before the theatre is even ready. We'll have more idea at the end of April after press night and, more importantly, aftyer we've seen it.

 

It has been waited for for so long that I can't see it failing.

I hope and hope that you are right. How long did woman in white also directed by Nunn last in the westend does anyone know. It didnt on broadway.

They're taking LOTR to new Zealand and somewhere else.

They are touring with it now. I don't think it would have closed if 'Oliver' hadn't needed a big theatre,

Hang fire on buying an Observer, if you don't normally buy one. I don't think there's a decent feature - just a paragraph in the what's on this Spring bit or at least that's all there is online.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2265765,00.html

 

The best in the arts this spring

 

 

The long hard winter is all but over, so spring into action with our essential guide to the delights of the season ahead - from the shimmering bling of Gustav Klimt to Gone With the Wind the musical, the Tings Tings smart electro pop and Sex and the City the big screen.......................

Gone with the Wind

Gone With the Wind, as a musical, has everything going for it. And unless the wind is coming in from the wrong direction, Trevor Nunn's new adaptation (opening 22 April, New London Theatre) could blow audiences off their feet. Darius Danesh (of Pop Idol) plays Rhett Butler and Jill Paice (who starred in The Woman in White) is Scarlett O'Hara. A Glaswegian Rhett might give you pause for thought but Danesh looks the part (suave 'n' dark) and his voice should hit the spot. The ingredients of this tempestuous epic, set in 1860s Atlanta Georgia, never fail: it's a romantic rollercoaster, America's sentimental answer to War and Peace. The 1936 novel won its author, Margaret Mitchell, the Pulitzer prize, the movie broke box-office records and this show, with Gareth Valentine at the musical helm, looks like a ticket worth securing before the show goes into preview on 4 April.

I might buy The Guardian ibstead - although I don't think there's much in that either. 2 mentions are welcome though.