5 Burst results for "Rupert Gould"
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"rupert gould" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Now it's time for a theater roundup with Matt Wolfe, who's theater critic at the international New York Times. Good morning. Thank you for coming all the way in. That's not sure. Always so much nicer to do this face to face. And of course we are here just around the corner from where we are going to see the opening of a stage musical version of a 101 dalmatians. I couldn't be more excited. Yes, this is a show that's been talked about for a very long time. There was a previous version unrelated to this version in the states, but this is something that's been very intriguing because Douglas Hodge, who people will know better as an actor in plays and television and musicals. He's not in this, but he's written the music and lyrics. And I think in the musical theater world, where was interested in somebody new comes along as a composer. So interesting to see what he's like off stage. And then of course, who can follow in the footsteps of Glenn Close and Emma Stone and whoever else is Cruella de Vil. The first thing to say about this is leave aside any thoughts for the Disney film. It has very little to do with that. It's much more connected to the dodie Smith source book. Which is set in regions park. Yes. So it's in the perfect perfect location. And it's spotty, I think, to use an image appropriate to the canines of the title. But when it works, it really works. And when it doesn't, it sort of just gets by on charm and goodwill. The unalloyed triumph of it for me were the puppet designs of Toby olier, who's a puppeteer who first shot to attention with warhorse, a decade or more ago, and since then he's become top of the tree. And what he has to do here is to live for her a 101 dalmatians. And I didn't count them in Georgia to see if they're all there. But there is an incredible feeling through sleight of hand. Especially by the end that wherever you look on stage, tiny little dalmatians are coming up everywhere. And it's really, really thrilling at taps into the inner child in all of us. And Hajj, his score is very nice so that the sound mixing at the theater doesn't always give it full to you. There are lots of bits where I couldn't quite hear what the lyrics were a bit muddied. But there's a wonderful song in the first night called bury that bone, which I think could become a standard. It's a song that you can imagine kind of performers doing in nightclubs and things like that. The core of de ville is Kate Fleetwood, Tony nominated actress married to Rupert Gould who runs the almeida. And she's very, very good. I must say. The character has been conceived very modern as a really evil doing social influencer. So she talks in terms of hashtags and boosting her popularity online. Some of that gets a little much, you think does everything have to be pointed now can it not just be? But she really does carry the day in a production that is a bit bus over busy and bustling. My guess is they will continue work on this and take it further. It feels like it feels like it wants an onward life. And this is the first step. Yeah. Absolutely brilliant. Sounds excellent. Now let's talk about Stephen Sondheim, of course. He died last autumn age 91. And there's a concert for him. Yes, his death was devastating to me. I'm working on a book about performing his material. And so, I mean, inevitably he was going to go, but I still couldn't believe it when it happened. The day after American Thanksgiving. Anyway, this was a one off concert on Saturday night, which actually is the title of the very first show song I've ever wrote, which was called Saturday night. So it seemed the perfect night on which to have this concert. It was at the kodagu hall, but it was a one off except that the talent in it are people we are going to see again and again and again. And what was lovely was the mixture of familiar Sondheim names, rosalie Craig, Janie Dee gene Russell, all in top form, with people you might not associate with Sondheim, Jamie Parker, who was Harry Potter on the West End. Daniel Denise, the opera singer, Courtney Bowman, who was just on the West End and legally blond. And it was a real tribute to his work, courtesy Alex Parker, who's a phenomenal young conductor and his luminar orchestra, which is devoted to the musical theater repertoire. And it raised the roof, and I think we're going to be seeing a lot of tributes to sonho coming up. Because truly, his work is ageless. Absolutely. As is Chekhov's. Oh yes, I absolutely love this production. So very controversial. It's a very Marmite production. People have either given it one star or 5 stars. We're talking about the seagulls. Yes, I'm in the 5 star camp. It's an extraordinary reworking of Chekhov's 1896 play the first of his four great plays at the end of his life. And what's weird about it, although to me fascinating about it is has no props. It's presented in a kind of chipboard environment very claustrophobic and the actors just sit in 7 plastic chairs or more actually 11 or 12 that get rearranged as the production continues. It's not just sitting at random. It's all been very carefully rehearsed. But the results are in it is that you feel like you're watching an x-ray of the play. You're getting right into the sinew and the muscle of how these tortured people who were writers and artists self diluted lovesick, heartsick, the usual chuck of terrain, but everything is a raw nerve. And the result is that it feels very, very immediate, and the cast into your varma, Tommy's Harry is the wonderful Daniel monks in Australian performer based here now. They're just magnificent. And Nina is played by Nina, I was 7 for the last Amelia Clark in her West End debut, she, of course, is best known from Game of Thrones. But grew up apparently her father worked in the theater so she grew up around theater, and she's, she really is radiant. That's the word that gets thrown around a lot, but in this production, she genuinely is. You feel like there's a light emanating from within her. And that works within the show because her character is so hopeful and optimistic, even when everyone else around her is kind of shutting down themselves. She's still questing for something. And finally, on to something very topical right now, this is the almeida play patriots. Yes, I like this play very much. It's a bit talky, and you have to really want an evening of words. But the words are interesting and the topic is, as you say, incredibly pertinent, it's about a bar spare. The billionaire who, of course, died in exile. They now think that his death. There was an open verdict at the time, but the play very much suggests his death was a suicide. And Tom hollander plays that part very well. And you get a look at the Russia power elite, starting in the 1990s. And the takeaway performance though of the night for me was will keen as Vladimir Putin. And it's obviously been written by Peter Morgan, who created The Crown to suggest that the Putin then and how we got to the Putin now. So if you want some inkling of where we've got to in the current day, here it is. And keen gives remarkable performance that makes you understand this guy who was with the KGB work
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
"rupert gould" Discussed on Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
"Basically the p. t. barnum of christianity. The river where this took place is called. The river ness which feeds directly into loch ness home to none other than the lock ness monster. The modern day fascination with old nasty started in nineteen thirty three when aldy mckay and her husband were driving along loch ness and we all know that lock is scottish for lake right so they were driving along the loc when less than a mile out in the water. Algae mckay reported seeing a tremendous upheaval on the lock which previously had been a calm as a proverbial mill pond. That was my scottish accent. Mckay said she saw what she thought looked like the body of some huge creature resembling awale rolling and diving churning the water into a bubbling foam. The creature was large enough that when it took its final dive under the water sent out huge waves. Mckay and her husband stayed on the road for half an hour waiting to see if they would spot whatever it was again. But in that time it never resurfaced the only paper that ran a story about the mckay. Strange encounter was the inverness. Corier other than that. No one seemed very interested less than three months later married. Couple mr and mrs spicer. We're driving south along loch mess. When they claim to see a huge prehistoric creature. Cross the road in front of them headed toward the lake according to an interview. The spicer's gave to rupert gould. Who wrote the first book about the loch ness monster. The creature had a long neck and a low thick body about four or five feet high. Mr spicer said he couldn't see legs or tail but he did see something flopping up and down which he later thought was a tail curled around toward the front of the animal. The couple said they couldn't tell if they're creature entered the water because their view was obstructed. And they couldn't hear anything over the sound of their engine. The author gould however claimed to have been watching the lake the same day. The spicer's say they witnessed this thing cross the road and he confirmed that the water was particularly choppy and noisy at roughly location. The spicer's claim they saw the animal. Gould went into the interview skeptical but based on their description and a drawing. Mr spicer made he came out. Short that the spicer's were telling the truth and had in fact seen the loch ness monster. Apparently i'm less than gould because wild pretty much. Everything in that story sounds plausible. Ish the one giant hole. I think is that the animal didn't react at all to the spicer's car. Have you ever experienced an animal crossing the road in front of you. If they haven't frozen in the middle of the road seemingly staring down their impending doom with some kind of hypnotized fascination a la. The proverbial deer in the headlights. They for some insane reason. Wait until the last possible moment and make a mad dash for jesus right in front of your tires. It's like they thought it's now or never and you see them. Take off in front of you and you yell. Couldn't you wait five seconds but it's too late. You keep driving trying not to check your rear view mirror for the carnage. You've left behind thinking about the single squirrel parent in their tree. Somewhere with five mouths to feed waiting for their partner who will never come back. Maybe a twenty foot two ton animal. I'm guessing camped exactly sprint across the road. But you would think it would maybe stop and look at the loud things speeding toward the road. If it is slow moving in general i would imagine it would at least glanced at the car to assess. Its own safety. You know if the spicer's couldn't hear a splash over there engine. That is allowed fucking engine unless the loch ness monster is deaf and has some kind of weird tunnel vision. It seems fishy to me. That the spicer's.
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
"rupert gould" Discussed on Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
"The modern day fascination with old nasty started in nineteen thirty three when aldy mckay and her husband were driving along loch ness and we all know that lock is scottish for lake right so they were driving along the loc when less than a mile out in the water. Algae mckay reported seeing a tremendous upheaval on the lock which previously had been a calm as a proverbial mill pond. That was my scottish accent. Mckay said she saw what she thought looked like the body of some huge creature resembling awale rolling and diving churning the water into a bubbling foam. The creature was large enough that when it took its final dive under the water sent out huge waves. Mckay and her husband stayed on the road for half an hour waiting to see if they would spot whatever it was again. But in that time it never resurfaced the only paper that ran a story about the mckay. Strange encounter was the inverness. Corier other than that. No one seemed very interested less than three months later married. Couple mr and mrs spicer. We're driving south along loch mess. When they claim to see a huge prehistoric creature. Cross the road in front of them headed toward the lake according to an interview. The spicer's gave to rupert gould. Who wrote the first book about the loch ness monster. The creature had a long neck and a low thick body about four or five feet high. Mr spicer said he couldn't see legs or tail but he did see something flopping up and down which he later thought was a tail curled around toward the front of the animal. The couple said they couldn't tell if they're creature entered the water because their view was obstructed. And they couldn't hear anything over the sound of their engine. The author gould however claimed to have been watching the lake the same day. The spicer's say they witnessed this thing cross the road and he confirmed that the water was particularly choppy and noisy at roughly location. The spicer's claim they saw the animal. Gould went into the interview skeptical but based on their description and a drawing. Mr spicer made he came out. Short that the spicer's were telling the truth and had in fact seen the loch ness monster.
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
What Lurks Beneath: The Legend of the Loch Ness Monster
"The modern day fascination with old nasty started in nineteen thirty three when aldy mckay and her husband were driving along loch ness and we all know that lock is scottish for lake right so they were driving along the loc when less than a mile out in the water. Algae mckay reported seeing a tremendous upheaval on the lock which previously had been a calm as a proverbial mill pond. That was my scottish accent. Mckay said she saw what she thought looked like the body of some huge creature resembling awale rolling and diving churning the water into a bubbling foam. The creature was large enough that when it took its final dive under the water sent out huge waves. Mckay and her husband stayed on the road for half an hour waiting to see if they would spot whatever it was again. But in that time it never resurfaced the only paper that ran a story about the mckay. Strange encounter was the inverness. Corier other than that. No one seemed very interested less than three months later married. Couple mr and mrs spicer. We're driving south along loch mess. When they claim to see a huge prehistoric creature. Cross the road in front of them headed toward the lake according to an interview. The spicer's gave to rupert gould. Who wrote the first book about the loch ness monster. The creature had a long neck and a low thick body about four or five feet high. Mr spicer said he couldn't see legs or tail but he did see something flopping up and down which he later thought was a tail curled around toward the front of the animal. The couple said they couldn't tell if they're creature entered the water because their view was obstructed. And they couldn't hear anything over the sound of their engine. The author gould however claimed to have been watching the lake the same day. The spicer's say they witnessed this thing cross the road and he confirmed that the water was particularly choppy and noisy at roughly location. The spicer's claim they saw the animal. Gould went into the interview skeptical but based on their description and a drawing. Mr spicer made he came out. Short that the spicer's were telling the truth and had in fact seen the loch ness monster.
Popcorn with Peter Travers
Tony Awards Preview
"Hi, everybody. It's Peter Travers than welcome to our special popcorn Tony award show. Now, I've gotta say, before we get into the nominees about who will win and who should win. This is been the most amazing year in Broadway history. It has made over two billion dollars at the box office that never happened. And why is it? I think it's Hollywood heat everybody from TV from movies from us. It wants to be on Broadway. They wanna be on that stage. You got this year. Kylo Ren and driver on Broadway. You have Walter, white Bryan, Cranston, there, Jeff Daniels who played Harry done in too, dumb and dumber movies. They're all fighting to be best, dramatic actor, what kind of stuff is happening on Broadway. Well, let's start with the major categories, and I'm gonna start with best musical the nominees are ain't too, proud the life and times of the temptations Beetlejuice remember that movie Haiti's town, the prom, and Tootsie. You remember that movie too? Well. I think the winner is Haiti's town. It's a rigid. It's basically the myth of Orpheus ritzy, but it's got a score by a woman named Naess Mitchell who doesn't come from Broadway, at all and kind of revolutionizes it. So what would happen what could spoil the fun? There's a little musical called the prom. It's really it's totally original. It's about these bunch of Broadway veterans, and they're really hard bitten, and they're not getting any press, and they decide to go to Indiana and help, a lesbian high school student take her girlfriend to the prom. That's it. How good is it? It's really good. And in terms of the Hollywood connection, Ryan Murphy, went to see it fell in love with it, and he's making a movie of it. So how about that? Then we have best play the Ferryman choirboy, Gary a sequel to Titus andronicus. What the constitution means to me an ink. I'm telling you people, the Ferryman is got to be a movie soon. It's an Irish play. It's about the troubles, and in on a stage. We get to see an entire family deal with violence deal with their own feuds. We've got babies onstage. We've got live alive goose. We have everything there's nothing like I don't think there's any competition for it at all except there was a snub, the most successful play in Broadway history. That's not a musical is to kill among bird, and for some reason, the Tony nominee said, let's not nominated what I want. Answer on that one best revival of a play. Arthur, Miller's all my sons the boys in the band, burn this torch song and the Waverley gallery. I think Arthur Miller's all my sons which brought a net. Bending back to Broadway is a show that he wrote in one thousand nine hundred forty seven a bout a guy who was manufacturing airplane, parts and was to rush to do it. And so the planes crashed and killed pilots during the war. We live in the world of Boeing. Now, how timely could this be? So I think that's really up there. And I in terms of seeing a show that by playwright Arthur Miller who says, let's deal with the world we live in this one really, really did it then we have bible of musical. This is easy, because there's only two there's Oklahoma Rogers and Hammerstein Oklahoma and kiss me. Kate. Of course, they were both movies. We saw Oklahoma with Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones in the fifties. But kiss me, Kate is done in a traditional way. Kelli o'hara's in it, Oklahoma is directed by guide named Daniel fish who find darkness. We're Rogers and Hammerstein only found light. It's a revelation to watch this. It's not the Oklahoma you've ever remembered, and it sung in the kind of country western way, look, if you ever get to see this on Broadway or win a tours get there get there quick. Okay. Okay. Best actor in a musical. And so, we'll do alphabetically Brooks as Mantas in the prom, Derrick Baskin and ain't too, proud the life and times of the temptations Alex Brightman and Beetlejuice. Remember when Michael Keaton had their part, Damon down, oh in Rogers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma. And send Tino fun Tanna into okay? The favorite is Tino, Tanna who is playing the part that destined Hoffman immortalized in the movie in the nineteen eighties. But what Centeno Tanna doesn't remember him on TV in crazy ex girlfriend like I'm saying everybody's from TV, or he does so much more. He sings as a man sees a woman, he does physical comedy does everything but stand on his hat. And I say, you know, who's out there that can spoil the win for Santino Tanna. And my answer is no one because this is one of the great performances you'll ever see on a musical, comedy stage. He's the winner. Best actress in a play Benning in Arthur, Miller's all my sons, Laura, Donnelly, in the Ferryman. Elaine may in the Waverley gallery, Janet mcteer in Bernhardt hamlet, Laurie Metcalf in Hillary Clinton, and Heidi Shreck in what the constitution means to me. Okay. Elaine may doesn't win this Tony. You're going to hear from me. She's eighty seven years old. She's returned to Broadway. After decades to play the part of a woman fighting Alzheimer's, and everything is no perfect about what she's done. She started with Mike Nichols doing comedy. She was starring in movies of like the new leaf directed things like the heartbreak kid. She's just one of the best actors I've ever seen anywhere. And if she loses and, you know, I feel bad for an bending because if Elaine may wasn't here this year, I think she would be the winner, but come on. Attention must be paid people. And I also wanna talk about a snub how. How does Glenda Jackson who won the Tony last year for three women returned to Broadway as King Lear? We talk about the age of hashtag metoo and time's up Glenda. Jackson is playing king. Lear gets rave reviews and the Tony committee says we're not gonna nominate her now. No, we're paying attention. And we're gonna come back and get you our best actress in a musical. Stephanie, j block in the share show Caitlyn Kanoun in the prom Beth level, in the prom, Eva nobles, ADA in Haiti's town, and Kelley O'Hara and kiss me cake. Stephanie j block who is that theater veteran is playing share in a way that sometimes she's more share than share. You might think this is just an escapist show thing to know she finds the character of who she is share shows up at this show often does numbers with her, and pus share. There's who's a bigger Hollywood. Name who is coming to Broadway with the show about herself. It takes three actresses to play here. But Stephanie j block plays the central one. And she plays the hell out of it. So she has just got to win. I'm sorry, people. All right. Best featured actress in a play for new of Flanagan in the Ferryman seal, you keep. And Bolger into kill a Mockingbird. Christine Nelson, Gary a sequel to Titus andronicus Julie white and Gary sequel to Titus andronicus and Ruth Wilson and King Lear people if you see if you see to kill among bird, and you should seal, you Keenan Bolger is very controversial because she's playing scout scout in the book and in the movie remember is in eight or nine year old girl. A C Keenan Bolger is in her forties. And yet, what she finds in this character who grew up to be Harper who wrote this novel is the heart and soul of the peace. So I'm telling you people this, this has got to happen. See Keenan Bolger remember that name best featured actor in a play birdie Carville and ink, Robin to hasten boys in the band getting Glick into kill a monkey bird, Brandon your Ranna wits in burn this Benjamin Walker in Arthur Miller's. All my sons birdie, Carville in ink. Those of us, those of you who actually went to Broadway couple of years ago and saw of any kind of a musical where you were shocked at a man playing a woman, you saw birdie, Carville in Matilda, and he played this woman, this horrible headmistress, and now he's playing Rupert Murdoch. So every who in Hollywood, who in politics would anyone hasn't been in an Rupert Murdoch publication or paper and who hasn't been rolled over the coals in it that performance and in London when he played it in one and Olivia ward, he had to play it in front of Rupert Murdoch. It's just an incredible job. I wanna talk a little about the snubs in this category. The non nominees there isn't actor named Bengal Arghanab into Killa mugging bird who plays Tom Robinson. He is the black man who is on trial for raping a white woman, a crime never committed. And he's defended. By Jeff Daniels. Atticus Finch when Aaron Sorkin adapted Harper Lee's novel to the stage. He did it so that he could expand the role of the black characters as he did here. And again, the Tony committee, decided only to nominate the white actors from tequila, Mockingbird ignoring the two black actors who are just brilliant in their roles. You people you're going to get called on the carpet. You need to all right? Best featured actress in a musical, Lilli Cooper in Tootsie, amber, gray and Haiti's town Sarah, styles Tootsie, alley stroke, or in Rogers and Hammerstein Oklahoma and Mary, Testa in Rogers, and Hammerstein Oklahoma there, something totally remarkable that happened this year in stroke, and Oklahoma. This is a woman who when she was two years old was in an automobile crash, and was never able to walk again. And now on Broadway playing eight oh Anne who is like the sexual. Time bomb in Oklahoma, the one who sings, I can't say, no, the part went to Allie. Stroke, she plays it in a wheelchair and you would think that's inspiring enough. But when you watch her play at you, forget the wheelchair exists, and you're watching her take over the stage like Dolly Parton. She, it's just an amazing thing to watch and it works on so many levels. So I wanna be there when she wins that Tony, and I want to be standing up and applauding and going Bravo. She deserves all right. Best featured actor in a musical Andre shields in Haiti town and a groups Luccin. That's a good name into Patrick page in Haiti's town germy, pope in into proud the life and times of the temptations and Ephraim Sykes ain't too, proud the life and times of the temptations, the favorite, the one, I think will win is under the shields and Haiti's town. He's seventy three years old. He stands on that stage is the narrator in like a silver suit. In total control of body and every movement and pulls you in till you're memorized. Your mesmerizing you not take your eyes off of hundred shields. This is a veteran actor who needs to get this Tony. But what if he didn't who would go to there's a young actor named Jeremy pope who plays Eddie kendricks in the into proud the life and times of the temptations? And who does he's playing a difficult man. One of the most difficult of the temptations. But one of the most talented as well. He's also nominated this year as best actor in a in a play in choir, boy, this is to me, the brightest newcomer that you will see on the stage and you're going to see him everywhere, stage movies television. It's just the beginning. So if you get to see this, you're going to be able to tell your friends, I was there win. Okay. Best director of a play Rupert Gould for Inc. Sam Mendes for the Ferryman Bartlett. Fair for to kill a mocking bird Ivo von Hosver for network, and George C Wolfer Gary a sequel to Titus andronicus Sam Mendis in the Ferryman this play. Does a job on stage that equal to his first movie which was American Beauty, which you may remember won the best picture? Oscar and once Mendis the Oscar as best director.