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I have lots of knowledge on Musical's so anyone wants to ask..ask away.. Also plays, John osbourne being a fav...

What sort of knowledge Hays?

Love any sort of theatre since age of 6..seen everything..

as in ...?

I've just got home from seeing 'Deep Blue Sea' by Terence Rattigan. It is a very well written play and it was an excellent production in every respect. However, I did come away feeling rather depressed and I would rather come home smiling, singing and dancing. It is basically the story of a married woman who has left her husband and has been living with a rake for a year. He loves her as much as he is capable of loving anyone but her love for him is all consuming. It is a doomed relationship and put me in mind of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Couldn't live with but didn't want to live without. Very sad. Chrissie x

p.s. Off to see a comedy tomorrow night 'Just the Ticket' by Keith Waterhouse. What a contrast that should be:))

Hiya :))) I know what you mean Chrissie, but Blood Brothers left me feeling sad, because the acting was so good you think it real, so to me thats a good play. Blood Brothers was one oof the best plays I have seen, so moving. Going to se any more soon? Lynda x x

Hiya Lynda:)) Yes, your right. I enjoyed Blood Brothers too. I suppose it was just the content tonight that I found so sad. The idea that you can't be IN love and love somebody at the same time, if you know what I mean. In answer to your question, am I seeing anything else soon, see above lol:))

Blood bros is great...but.. if u really want to be blown away.... LES MISRABLES,,,i've seen it 17 times........sad i know,but u see something new every time..

Oh yes - Les Mis - brilliant. I loved it but hubby wasn't so sure until he got home and started to play the music. Now he wants to go again.

Music from that show needs to be played LOUD!!! to enjoy... And it does need a 2nd trip or 2..lol

Seen Les Mis too twice, but I can't compere it to Blood Brothers, completly different type of musical. Phantom I've seen a few times, and also Miss Saigon, would see that again if it were still on .

Your absolutely right Lynda. Blood Brothers is totally different from any of the other musicals that I can think of. Since I saw Miss Saigon I have started to realise that I think I would have enjoyed it far more if hubby had enjoyed it. I'm not usually swayed by others opinions but he so didn't like it that I think I questioned my own judgement on it. Chrissie xx

Miss saigon is a bit more girly I think chrissie, hubby never enjoyed it as much as some others, he only saw it twice, I did a backstage tour, that was great.

Any one got JOSEPH on tour near them at mo??

Sorry No. It always comes this way end Sept beginning Oct.

Went to see Frank Sinatra show at the Palladium, fantastic. The story of Frank Sinatra, told by him, with picture footage, of the great man himself, singing. The Big band, were sooooo good, also the singers and dancers who did a fantastic job. Came out singing, now there a treat:))) Well worth a visit, especially if you love Sinatra. Lynda

MOVIN' OUT music by Billy Joel A musical with a difference, no dialogue, but dance routines to Billy Joel songs portaying a story of 5 high school friends after leaving school. In order to appreciate this show I recommend advance knowledge of the storyline, otherwise I envisage it being a little difficult to understand. Excellent music.

We went to 'A Summer Soire`e' evening last Saturday. Two one act plays with strawberries, cream and wine. We didn't enjoy the first play 'A Respectable Funeral' by Jimmy Chinn. I'm not a big fan of his anyway but hubby is and even he didn't enjoy it. Too morbid. The second one however was very well done and very funny. It was 'Albert' by Richard Harris. I am a fan of his anyway as I love 'Stepping Out' and 'Outside Edge' but this one was new to me. It's a fairly simple concept but very well written. A Finnish au pair is looking after an Italian couples baby while they are away, when the husbands brother arrives on a visit. Throughout the play they are trying to speak to each other, he is Italian, she in Finnish (obviously both spoken in English or the audience wouldn't have understood:). Some really funny misunderstandings occur, which are only complicated further by the arrival at the end of an Englishman. He fell for the last au pair who was French and has come to visit her but he mistakes the new au pair for the lady of the house. It sounds a bit corny the way I've described it but it was so well written and acted that some of the more predictable lines could be forgiven. Chrissie xx

Taking oldest Grandson to see Stuart Little on saturday, anybody been?