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Post by freddyv on Jul 6, 2019 13:12:09 GMT
Just to let you know that next year John Hurn is touring the country with a couple of reprobates from 'HMS Troutbridge' so look to your local theatre for dates. His 'Hancock and Co' a one man show was fantastic, and The Navy is a three hander with scripts from Series One featuring Dennis Price, to my mind the best Number 1...
Grand Day
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Post by Ed Brown on Jul 14, 2019 15:22:17 GMT
Just to be clear, the YouTube link is a trailer for a theatre tour, next year, by two actors doing a stage version of 'The Navy Lark'.
Seems a popular thing, in that a version of the 'Dads Army' radio show was recently touring theatres in England, this year, with two (different) actors doing a show based upon a mish-mash of material from several episodes of the 1970s 'Dads Army' radio show. One of the two was David Benson, who began as a Kenneth Williams impersonator, on stage, and also does Frankie Howerd. He was on tv as Noel Coward in 'Goodnight Sweetheart'. A guy with that sort of talent - I saw the shows, even talked to him about Williams - made the whole thing a success.
I think it depends on the individual actor, whether he can get away with impersonating a half a dozen famous stars in one show. Benson did! He had a Hollywood party sketch, in his one-man show, where he jumped from Cagney to Bogart to Sinatra to Coward -- and to Judy Garland! And made it look effortless.
But it depends on the actor, and on his material!
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Post by freddyv on Jul 14, 2019 18:35:27 GMT
youtu.be/fJspv2w93YwHere is the full advert for next year's tour of 'The Navy Lark' with dialogue from Fatso and Pertwee. 5 months to go, so a work in progress.... No further details at present.
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