Thanks B.P your pics are great as always (lots of eyelashes). The girls are lookin good :hi:

 

I'm getting used to the tache and slicked back hair now and Darius has got the old sparkle back in his eyes. obviously busting his gut rehearsing wasn't as tough on him as the months preceding "the call".

Thanks B.P. Great photos

They're lovely to see, BP

 

Bye the way, are you related to BT?

I'd love to be related to B.P. but no such luck!

Oh well - do a family tgree - you never know until you try.

There's a new 'review' on wos of Monday's preview , obviously from a non-Darius fan .

 

Excerpt.....

 

I saw Monday's preview and thought the first half was a good deal stronger than the second, both dramatically and musically. The acting is generally first class, particularly Jill Paice who was hardly off the stage for the entire four hours. Not keen on Darius' voice myself but he certainly has the stage presence for Rhett Butler and his line delivery was excellent.......

 

I think D's fans like his singing and speaking voice.

 

 

Edited April 8, 200817 yr by Baytree

Certainly not a fan, but not a detractor either. If I hadn't heard him sing before I saw him in GWTW I would be saying other people were better singers too(I think) although the lullaby must have won him a lot of hearts :) I think it's quite a positive view of D :)

I just highlighted that bit because it told me it was an impartial review and not a fan of D.

 

I'm not sure if he/she is talking about D's singing or speaking voice because that bit I thought was about the acting. I think it's a good compliment to him that his acting is as good as most others in the cast.

Sir Ian McCellan(not sure if I have the spelling correct) was in the audience just a few rows from us. I really wanted to ask him what he thought of D but I didn't want to put him on the spot or indeed interupt his evening out, so in the end i didn't ask. It would have been very interesting to hear his thoughts though, maybe next time I see him :D

Interesting. It's McKellen. Maybe Sir Trevor wants an honest opinion too from someone he knows will not BS him.

 

 

interesting, it must be hard when they are changing bits - I hope important people go more than once - its a shame if people go to an early preview and judge everything on that one performance.

Unless you're an idiot, you wouldn't do that. I go to see it before it's completed - not to make a decide on the show.

I just meant that Sir Ian has a practised eye and he would be seeing it from another perspective which Sir Trevor can't - an actor's.

perhaps he rather liked the look of Darius, just thinking of Dariu's career here - I was just hoping he wasnt watching the one and only time that Darius may have not been the strongest vocally and would judge on that performance alone. But as Meg replied, he would have more sense that that, being a true theatre person

Edited April 9, 200817 yr by prettyinpink

If my thoughts are accurate I'd think he would be more interested in the general flow of the action onstage and around him in the auditorium and be a great judge of how to speed it up or which sections of dialogues or songs should be cut/reduced.

yes - I dont envy Sir Treovr keep trimming it when its such a long story involving so much

For me, they could cut out the ridiculous parts where they are acting as if they are being pulled by or a horse or riding a horse. For the life of me, I can't think why we need to see them pretend to do this when there is narrative throughout the show that could mention this, saving time and saving the actors the embarrassment of having to look a little stupid IMO.

 

I hope it's ok to include this specific bit of action from the show. Anyone not wanting to know this little bit, please stop reading here! The Bonnie fall is an excellent example of the above. The child actor is carried by one of the male cast, then twisted and turned upside down and finally left lying on the floor. The whole thing could be done without seeing this action, simply by mentioning she was riding and taking a jump, and then getting the young actress to make a loud scream, before moving onto to the slow motion scene. It would be much better IMO

oh dear I dislike things like that, seems totaly unnecessary - we know what falling from a horse is like..and its nothing to do with being tumbled in an actors arms! I do hope there's not a lot of that stuff

Is the reason for it having to be shown in some way on the stage not that Scarlett has to synchronise her line about "Just like Pa" etc. with the exact moment she realises Bonnie is going to fall and that the audience have to see the child's movements and Scarlett's(and Rhett's?) reactions together to get the full impact?

I really wish I could see the previews now! do you think we will get to see any of the cut scenes in the documentary?

 

wonder if we will get any news of what its like tonight - if the fire is going to happen for the first time!