Thanks,megham

 

It's really just a couple of other articles sewn together but still welcome because it's addressed to a different readership.

 

It is - I like that it's a ddifferent source though.

That's what I meant, I think.

I don't like the way that the new reviews seem to be just quoting the negative parts of the older reviews.

I don't like the way journos are bypassing approaching 20 good reviews for Darius to sample the couple of early bad ones which may have been of the preview before the official opening anyway.

 

It seems to be just to give some credence their obviously biased position they had expected his reviews to support.

it actually sickens me to be honest. but then I reckon more pople havent read these reviews than have - I idd hear someone saying it was far better than she had expected - although she could have been fomr our site.LOL

I wonder why so muich effort is being put into making it out to be a bad play.

it is very odd - Martin has had a lot of venom directed her way - as has Trevor -

I really cannot get my head around it, I wonder if they praise Eurobeat..LOL..what a sham these reviewers are.

I am sure word of mouth will get people in, I felt like telling everyone on the tube about the show

 

hubby reckoned they didnt ought to have press nights till a few weeks after opening night anyway to be fair to a show - after Les Mis bad opening reviews was it ever re-reviewed by critics?

 

Or perhaps its a cuning ploy by Trevor, trying to emulate Les Mis...

Just as well you didn't. The papers would be full of how a desperate Trevor Nunn is sending out his people disguised as ordinary men and women to travel all day long on tube trains to extol the virtues of GWTW. there might even have been a mobile phone video of you up on youtube by the time you got home.

The Sunday Mail

 

Darius doesn't give a damn about Gone With The Wind critics

Apr 27 2008 By Billy Sloan Showbiz Editor

 

Darius Soldiers On

 

SCOTS pop star Darius Danesh has vowed to soldier on in the crisis-hit new stage musical Gone With The Wind.

 

The show - based on the 1939 movie starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh - was slaughtered by the critics.

 

One said the "bum numbing" three-and-a-half-hour epic lasted longer than the American Civil War portrayed in the story.

 

The 27-year-old Pop Idol reject plays leading man Rhett Butler opposite unknown US actress Jill Paice as Scarlett O'Hara.

 

Reviewers savaged the s4.5million show which opened in London's West End last week.

 

But Darius has been a hit with audiences, getting standing ovations.

 

The star-studded first night at the New London Theatre was attended by Joan Collins, Sir David Frost, Twiggy, Barbara Windsor and Ben Elton.

 

Reported audience walkouts led to substantial cuts in the musical.

 

The music by Margaret Martin - an expert on child care - was panned.

 

Critic Charles Spencer said: "It felt as if I'd spent years watching Gone With The Wind and I'd not just missed the Beijing Olympics...but also the London games for 2012."

 

Last night a spokesman for Darius said: "He's determined to carry on.

 

"I've seen the musical six times and he gets a standing ovation at the end.

 

"They're saying this guy is a talent and is changing into something people didn't expect.

 

"We'd like better reviews but, from a personal point of view, it's a leap forward for him."

 

WHAT THEY SAID..

 

REVIEWS of the Gone With The Wind musical have been decidedly mixed.

 

Most theatre critics have said the production goes on too long and many have slated Darius's portrayal of Rhett Butler.

 

Legendary London Evening Standard critic Nicholas de Jongh said: "Connoisseurs of big, bad musicals must rush to catch Gone With the Wind in case it's quickly blown away on gales of ridicule.

 

"Is a small, well-placed tornado too much to ask for?"

 

In The Times, Benedict Nightingale said he was "hankering for Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh who breezed and dazzled their way through the film."

 

The Guardian's Michael Billington found the whole exercise "extravagantly pointless".

 

But the Daily Mail's critic, Quentin Letts, gave Darius praise...of sorts.

 

He wrote: "Mr Danesh has a husky bass voice and is dashing, even if, with his mutton chop whiskers and long legs, he resembles a Victorian villain from a Monty Python sketch."

 

Just edited to put in the link

 

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/tv-showbiz-new...78057-20395713/

Edited April 27, 200817 yr by megham

But Darius has been a hit with audiences, getting standing ovations

 

 

 

 

Now that didn't hurt too much, did it Billy? Maybe next time you'll be able to say something similar without trying to confuse with a load of negative stuff which doesn't detract a bit from the enormity of But Darius has been a hit with audiences, getting standing ovations

 

Scottish Sun 22/4

 

Hope you can read it.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/Maria194/sun224.jpg

 

 

 

Edited April 27, 200817 yr by Baytree

Your

 

Missing large pic of Leigh and Gable and Gone With The Wind A Hard Act To Follow

 

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/Maria194/yourapr.jpg

Mail On Sunday

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/Maria194/mos274.jpg

 

Picture was one of Darius carrying Jill

Financial Times Weekend

 

(I'm almost certain this was the guy who posted that Darius was front of house.)

 

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/Maria194/FTwk.jpg

Also a snippet in the Scotland On Sunday which makes my blood boil.

 

THE PROMPT

by CHITRA RAMASWAMY

 

What's more surprising than critics describing Darius Danesh's take on Rhett Butler in the new stage version of Gone With the Wind as "graceful", "virile" and "diabolically dashing"? Personally I still find it hard to move on from Danesh crooning 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' with a smarmy twitch of his eyebrow and a flick of his greasy ponytail. It seems impossible to contain both this image and oneof Clark Gable's Rhett Butler in my mind at once. Could there be anything more confusing?

 

Indeed, there can. Last week, as the, ahem, mixed reviews of Trevor Nunn's Gone With the Wind came out in London, it was announced that Pete Doherty and his former Libertine bandmate, Carl Barat, are writing a rock musical for the Donmar Warehouse.

Edited April 27, 200817 yr by Baytree

hey I like that bit..but our hearts belong to Darius Danesh as the dashing Rhett Butler whose voice could charm the birds fomr the trees..

the rest is rubbish,

I think that of all the Sunday reviews,only the Sunday Telegraph rubbished Darius.

I pressed the wrong quote button.

Edited April 27, 200817 yr by megham

Scottish Sun 22/4

 

Hope you can read it.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/Maria194/sun224.jpg

 

 

Booth is Aria. It's incredible the likeness.