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Great. Happy to hear that. Was that before or after the BritMilFit session though?

Just noticed on archive and news that the big poster at the Shaftesbury now shows Warden with the correct stripes for his rank, obviously edited onto the original picture. Presumably the costume department will follow and get/make him a new set. I think rehearsals start today although I did see a tweet from one of the female members of the ensemble which suggested that she doesn't start until next week. Checked again. Yep, first day definitely today. Darius is back on a stage in the UK. What more can we want? Don't tell me - THE album!

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Warden's side to match Prewitt's - very pleasing and symmetrical https://mobile.twitter.com/TheatreOfficial/...5843072/photo/1

http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre...re-t_31167.html

VH1 Music channel - today 3rd August at 11.00am there should be a programme called Sound of Summer: 02 Some listings say that there are contributions from Will Young, Gareth Gates and Darius Campbell.

You mean the Italian one he wrote and sang on Alan Titchmarsh's show? It was like a songwriting demo but I should think a lot of people would have missed it back then and might enjoy hearing something completely different from pop and swing. The only youtube of it I can find is one posted by someone in the Far East. It tends to freeze and buffer. If you've got a better copy, I don't see why not. You can always take it down again, if anyone e.g. Darius minds. Could you maybe also add a link to the video of The Prayer for Haiti which he took part in on the Sunday after winning the show. I think it's one of the most beautiful charity singles ever put together and it should have been released on CD and/or put on i-tunes instead of the deal with the Sunday Mail.

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1st sighting of Darius? Someone from the Scottish Borders has just tweeted that she could swear she's just served Darius Danesh. If he's driving down, that makes complete sense. He'd pass through Jedburgh on his way from Edinburgh to Newcastle.

Robert Lonsdale and the guys seem to be up for anything and good humoured with it and we know Darius will always go that extra mile too.

Compared to the others on the photoshoot, I thought Darius looked overtanned in the "mirror" poster one. Maybe the make up girl/boy wanted to linger a while so kept adding layers. BTW Robert Lonsdale (Prewitt) is having trumpet lessons this week.

When I read the title, I thought you meant "THAT LOOK" - the one I swear sees right into your soul. I have to look away every time. Do you remember on PSTOS Rolando spoke about the special connection when Darius looks straight into camera? He had him do it just fleetingly in the quieter part of the Impossible Dream duet. I'm not that keen on the covered operatic baritone with or without vibrato. It's great that he can do it but I think there's more warmth when he sings naturally in his lower range. I think Darius reminds me of the golden age of Hollywood because he is both a gentleman and a gentle man. That said, he knows what he believes and he absolutely doesn't care if it's not fashionable or cool. I don't think the studio system would have suited him at all. When things go wrong, he doesn't bear a grudge or blame others. He just picks himself up and gets on again. When I first saw Darius up close he did literally take my breath away. There was a real serenity about him and he was beyond handsome..........the only word I could come up with was beautiful. The school of life has knocked him about a good bit since then, but he still had that calmness, unlimited patience and kindness, the last time I met him and for a 32 year old he's wearing very well. I'd like to see Darius wearing a more casual, contemporary style with his hair longer and full of those hard to control natural waves. FHTE has put paid to that for the moment.

I can't believe this has been on youtube for 18 months and I've not come across it until tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMqBLd1jLrY

Delia Whiff from SM:TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wqQnywFKXA

I'm so glad that Darius will soon be in the FHTE rehearsal bubble, while he tries to get his head around the changes in his private life. The producers of any show decide what access the media gets to the stars of the show. Unfortunately, I don't think they can stop silly articles like that hitch or ditch one or stop him being papped as he goes about his business, although they can probably prevent interviewers from harrassing Darius about his divorce instead of discussing FHTE when/if he's promoting the musical.

That's less than 3 weeks after the big photoshoot at the Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh where they were both so happy and brimming over about their future plans. I think in California you have to be separated before you file for divorce - for how long I don't know. I just wonder if they plucked that date out for the court papers because technically they had been apart from mid-April. She did at least two films on the trot. You can't just arrange to do a film all in a flash and bang you're on set. It has to be planned well in advance. It seems very civilised. They haven't provided much meat for the gossip mags - neither party claiming spousal support, both parties paying their own legal bills and of course no custody claims.

My heart sank when I saw Perez Hilton being quoted and re tweeted all over the place BUT although he has a reputation for tearing into celebrities, it seems he likes Natasha and Darius. http://perezhilton.com/2013-07-29-natasha-..._medium=twitter Also from TMZ http://www.tmz.com/2013/07/29/natasha-hens...arius-campbell/

Thank you. It was just me being thicko again.

Feeling more positive than for quite some time. With Darius UK based, it seems likely that we may actually get news of things which people might want to catch from now on and be able to post the info. So I was wondering whether it might be a good idea to unpin the top few threads and start them again with just the relevant links, info. For example so many of the videos have gone on, come off, gone on again that it's quite off putting to plow through the thread. Megham, I was on the News and Archive page and trying to play a few of the videos using the arrows but it didn't work for me. I could get neither the next one nor the preceding one to come up. Perhaps it's just my browser at fault agin.

Just watched it, thanks. Great interview with both of them. Those few weeks were what he did instead of South Pacific in London and the UK tour, which would have let his loyal fans around the UK see what a great all round entertainer he is. MT lets him weave together seamlessly his charisma, personality, singing, acting, dancing and something he'll need for Warden, the more difficult skill of revealing aspects of the character when he has no dialogue, song or action. This is the Emile the UK got instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XcxdZImsWQ Singing - he has the edge on Darius - has to, because he's a trained opera singer with the New York Met. Accent - all over the place. Darius would have had that nailed early and sustained it for as long as necessary. Acting - movements too big, clunky almost. Darius is a much more subtle and natural actor. Dancing - passable - compare that waltz with Darius and Katherine in the middle of Brindisi - so elegant, much more fitting for the sophisticated and exotic Emile. I would have loved/would love to hear Darius sing This Nearly Was Mine - such a wonderfully emotional song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drv-NgfLtNw Some day.............

It's galling for Metro to be perpetuating the myth that Darius can't sing, given their review of GWTW, Copied from the pinned thread of theatre reviews:- Link for MetroLife Gone With The Wind is too blustery Keith Watson - Thursday, April 24, 2008 Tomorrow, as Scarlett O'Hara likes to remind us, is another day. But there are times during Trevor Nunn's exhaustively epic musical account of Margaret Mitchell's novel when you fear that day will never come. Hidden amid all the historical bluster, Gone With The Wind is actually quite a simple story: girl wants the one she can't have, which blinds her to the merits of her true soulmate. So soulmate eventually legs it, thus proving that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. The fact that it takes nearly four hours for the dime to drop is down to Gone With The Wind's sweeping backdrop; spoilt Scarlett's love traumas are caught up in the turbulence of the American Civil War. Key events rattle past in a time-warping blur; the plot is thrust forward by narrators scuttling across stage like Pony Express messengers. As an exercise in efficient stagecraft – the famed burning of Atlanta is neatly handled with a giant blazing flag – it ticks all the boxes. The polished ensemble cast shift slickly from character to character and adapter Margaret Martin does an even-handed job of condensing Gone With The Wind's major themes, thrusting the emancipation of slavery centre-stage and catching the spirit of tumultuous times. But it's all too much for one musical to hope to contend with. None of which would matter two shakes of a Confederate's tail if Gone With The Wind came stacked with big tunes. But Martin's Les Mis-lite score is more workmanlike than inspired, clunky lyrics and second-hand tunes serviceably pushing the story forward but failing to stop the show. Tellingly, it's the gospel-influenced slave songs that pack the most emotional punch. That's because, while it's easy to feel concern for the slaves' plight, Scarlett is a hard heroine to warm to. Her journey is essentially from spoilt brat to hard b**ch, so an actress needs to harness real charisma to stir audiences' hearts. While Jill Paice is sharp and sassy (and, at times, painfully shrill), crucially she can't make Scarlett sympathetic. So it's hard to give a damn about her baffling infatuation with the drippy Ashley, particularly when her Rhett is such a catch. Against the odds, the true star of the show is Darius Danesh, who banishes all memories of his ludicrous Pop Idol buffoonery with a performance of subtlety and roguish charm as Rhett Butler. His deep, velvety voice is ideally suited to Nobody Knows You, one of the rare moments when Gone With The Wind transcends musical cliché. You just wish he had more to do, for while Gone With The Wind huffs and puffs, Darius aside, it never comes close to blowing the house down.

Darius is in the background of this interview with Natasha about 6 minutes into the video. I'm not sure if he's being interviewed by someone else or just chatting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLfmZo8IaQ

Oh lord, it's started already! Disparaging, as always! http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/28/denise-van-o...tridge-3901374/

Ah, now we know. It's a pre-rehearsal workshop. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3...1586&type=3 From my calculations from the '3 week' tweet, rehearsals begin on Monday 5th August. I think we should expect Darius back shortly before they start.

James Woods on FHTE film - lots of clips from it