Theskeat Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I was working in Strand street yesterday and noticed a couple window shoping who I think are well know TV stars, but cant put a name to them. Is there a film being made here at the mo or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deejay Denzel Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 was it Richard & Julie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste1205 Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Prunella Scales and Timothy West. They were overhere for some book launch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Book about the Gaiety, badly written and factually inaccurate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theskeat Posted November 24, 2006 Author Share Posted November 24, 2006 Thanks for that, what program are they on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 No program, just signing the book. They wrote the foreword Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumble Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 She used to be Sybil on Fawlty Towers and he used to be Henry VIII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxchatterbox Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Book about the Gaiety, badly written and factually inaccurate! wasn't it written by MRS ? shouldn't he be 100% accurate?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Mr Stokes bends history and even recorded events to suit his purpose of promoting the gaiety as a dead museum. Good examples The current interior clour scheme. green material. allegedley based on some old cloth fragments found. Well all the written reports, in the local papers and in the national stage and architecture papers are unanimous, it was blue. He airbrushes out of existence a partial restotration in 1978 supervised by a Mr Glasstone, an true expert which actually saved the theatre, made dry, and started restoration. I could provide many other illustrations. There is the truth and the myth. The book is the MRS myth. In 30 years time the horrors which he has inflicted on that thetre in the name of retoration will be looked back on with total horror. The limitations as to use by putting in inferior victorian recovered stage machinery at great cost when waht was needed in absence of a low paid army of victorian stage hands and in presence of 20th century H&Sw means it is difficult to stage shows properly. What was needed was a modern stage with hydraulic or electric lifts and revolves. Yes we have a corsican trap, its used in one play in the entire theatrical cannon, and that play is unviewable and effectively unperformable nowadays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThieBane Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 Mr Stokes bends history and even recorded events to suit his purpose of promoting the gaiety as a dead museum. Good examples The current interior clour scheme. green material. allegedley based on some old cloth fragments found. Well all the written reports, in the local papers and in the national stage and architecture papers are unanimous, it was blue. He airbrushes out of existence a partial restotration in 1978 supervised by a Mr Glasstone, an true expert which actually saved the theatre, made dry, and started restoration. I could provide many other illustrations. There is the truth and the myth. The book is the MRS myth. In 30 years time the horrors which he has inflicted on that thetre in the name of retoration will be looked back on with total horror. The limitations as to use by putting in inferior victorian recovered stage machinery at great cost when waht was needed in absence of a low paid army of victorian stage hands and in presence of 20th century H&Sw means it is difficult to stage shows properly. What was needed was a modern stage with hydraulic or electric lifts and revolves. Yes we have a corsican trap, its used in one play in the entire theatrical cannon, and that play is unviewable and effectively unperformable nowadays Hmmmm - and you're obviously not letting your personal feelings towards Mr Stokes influence your opinion on the restoration at all?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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