Rock stars Pink and Robbie Williams are more than ready for their close-ups.
Pink (real name Alecia Moore), has already been captured in a raw, revealing documentary called P!nk: All I Know So Far, by The Greatest Showman filmmaker Michael Gracey, who joined the arena leg of her world tour leading up to her sold-out stadium dates at Wembley in June 2019. The result streams on Amazon Prime from next Friday.
And Williams, this column can reveal, will be playing himself in a biopic of his life, by the same director. Gracey has been doing pre-production work on Better Man, a feature film, based on hours of conversation he had with the former Take That star.
Bring It On
A West End run or national tour of the best loved musical can cost millions to stage and market – usually a three to six month campaign ahead of opening night. Consequently, with social distancing and other restrictions in place due to the pandemic, from a business point of view it s easy to understand why their approach to reopening the big shows has been cautious, to say the least.
With no insurance and no firm guarantees from the government, who can blame them. Just look at what happened when they tried to rescue last year s panto season with a limited number of Covid aware productions. Disaster.
This July, Olivier Award-winning actor Clive Rowe will join the West End cast of The Prince of Egypt, according to Baz Bamigboye of The Daily Mail.
Rowe will step into the role of Jethro beginning July 1, when the show resumes performances in a socially distanced production at the Dominion Theatre.
The show s principal cast including Luke Brady (Moses), Liam Tamne (Ramses), Christine Allado (Tzipporah), Alexia Khadime (Miriam), Debbie Kurup (Queen Tuya) are set to return when the musical resumes performances.
Journey through the wonders of Ancient Egypt as two young men, raised together as brothers in a kingdom of privilege, find themselves suddenly divided by a secret past. One must rule as Pharaoh, the other must rise up and free his true people; both face a destiny that will change history forever.
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Verdict: More commendable than enjoyable
Shakespeare s The Winter’s Tale is sometimes categorised as a ‘problem’ play. The problem is that some scholars think it’s an unhappy mix of tragedy and comedy.
All’s not well that doesn’t end as they like it, in the story of jealous King Leontes, who turns on his innocent wife, puts her on trial for adultery and abandons their newborn babe on a mountain.
The real problem, though, is how to help an audience enjoy a story that’s a freewheeling yarn playing fast and loose with time, space and a prophetic Oracle to achieve its magical conclusion.