Comments on: In which Dan courts controversy, part II

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:38:17 +0000

My mother loved being taken to Chicago. So I guess it did fulfill some sort of basic function. Other wise, I’ve never really got musicals (apart from the amazing dance scene at the beginning of Kung Fu Hustle).

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:09:10 +0000

I’ve got one Sandip, but it was in the other car unfortunately. Along with my iPod.

By: Sandip

Sandip — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:59:15 +0000

Dan, you need an mp3 transmitter, which will allow you to receive your ipod thru’ your car radio.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/products/products/205690/mp3_transmitters.html

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:37:59 +0000

Rules of Theatre…

Rule #1 Anything with “Andrew Lloyd Weber” prefixing with “Written by” is to be avoided.

Rule #2 Anything with “Tim Rice” anywhere in the programme is to be avoided.

Rule #3 Anything with the word “amateur” on the front page of the programme is to be avoided.

Rule #4 Anywhere that tries to sell you a tombola ticket at the same time as selling you an entrance ticket is to be avoided.

Rule #5 A venue where the chairs are not affixed to the floor and the audience is expected to “tidy up” afterwards is to be avoided.

Rule #6 The words “audience participation” are illegal.

By: whit

whit — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:48:42 +0000

I like a good musical, like a Disney cartoon or Hope and Crosby films. That’s about it.

By: Hygiene Dad

Hygiene Dad — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:58:55 +0000

WHAT? I love musicals. I also love Elaine Paige. I can’t help it; my people are programmed to love that stuff.

My parter however would totally agree with you. I was in a production of Joseph of the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. According to him, it wasn’t so amazing.

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:28:41 +0000

Thanks Dan. For a future blog post, tonight I was making a mental list of things I find deeply disturbing but can’t explain why.

So far it included ornamental glass animals and those sticky house numbers printed on slanted oblong brushed brass plates (remember those? they were big in the seventies).

I can now add amateur musicals to the list! :-)

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:45:59 +0000

I’ve seen amateurs try to do Cats. I couldn’t agree more.

By: Holmes

Holmes — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:11:56 +0000

Excellent tirade, sir, but I’m left wondering which hurts more: an English actor doing a bad American accent or an American actor doing a bad English accent. Because I’ve heard plenty of the latter and it’s quite painful. May well be a draw.

By: bradley egel

bradley egel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:11:34 +0000

South Pacific is hardly an amateur musical production…

George Bush in the South Pacific…now that would make for a bad amateur musical! :)

Bradley
The Egel Nest