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Jul. 29th, 2007 05:21 pmHave now gone to the gym two days running! Go me. Fully expect not to be able to move tomorrow.
Saw Transformers yesterday which was completely awesome- I can't believe I was sat in the cinema getting distressed at the fate of giant robots!
I really wanted to love Barrowman on The Friday Night Project but sadly I didn't. I just find the show awful and can't stand the two hosts. Barrowman was as puppy like as ever and I loved the teeny spoilery clip of Torchwood filming but otherwise it wasn't anywhere near as funny as I hoped it would be. Guess all the good stuff ended up on the cutting room floor.
Watched Orlando Bloom in In Celebration on Thursday night. Things didn't start well when my friend texted me at 7:00 to say that she was just going to get something to eat and she'd be there soon. What part of "the show starts at 7:30" was she struggling with? After having waited for an eternity for her, having ignored the fact that they were sounding the bells for everyone to take their seats and the usher giving me death glares I eventually had to leave her ticket at the box office and go to my seat - which although I could see fine was practically at the back of the theatre. Useless friend finally shows up at 7:29. As for the play - dear lord that was hard going.
It's a fairly grim (and incredibly misogynistic tale) of three brothers in the 1960's returning to the mining town in which they were raised. Its one of those godawful plays where the mother is made out to be the arch villain who is responsible for everything that has gone wrong with her sons' lives - because heaven forbid they should take responsibility for themselves. The first act wasn't too bad but the second act was awful - very pretentious and incredibly dull. In fact it was so dull I fell asleep and so did my friend. Orland bloom doesn't exactly set the stage alight. He's on stage for the vast majority of the time but his character is the strong silent type so he doesn't say a great deal (and when he does his northern accent wavered quite comically) and his emotional breakdown in the second act was a little embarrassing. I wasn't impressed with the play but I was impressed with the way Bloom handled himself at the Q&A afterwards. He was very un-diva like, happily just sitting on the stage when the backstage team failed to bring out enough chairs for everyone to sit on. From a physical point of view he's also tiny - inevitably he was a lot shorter than he looks on screen and he's incredibly skinny. Amusingly they did everything they could to limit questions from the audience (as I guess they knew that people would just ask Bloom questions) but Orlando was still the one who spoke the most but he was very articulate giving indepth answers to anything he was asked and he was very generous about the rest of the cast taking every opportunity to compliment them. I wasn't really all that fussed about getting his autograph but the stage door was total mayhem - when we got out there were about 100 people across the road with cameras and easily that amount either side of the stage door. They had 5 professional bouncers looking after him! Naturally he didn't sign anything - just got straight into his car with a million flashbulbs going off in his face.
Still - off to see Lee in Joseph next week! I'm entertained that they are going to hire Lewis for one show a week to meet the demand for tickets. Not too sure of the logic of that decision. Yes the demand for tickets is huge but the demand is for tickets to see Lee Mead - are people going to book for the Lewis only shows? I bet that's the performance where you'll always be able to get cheap tickets from TKTS.
Loved the report that someone (Hellschilde I think) put up about Torchwood filming. I was very amused that JB would only allow Gareth to use his trailer to change if he didn't smoke in it!
Am working my way through all the pre-air shows that have leaked onto the net (I'm half convinced that the networks purposefully leak them to build advance buzz).
( Cut for spoilers about Sarah Connor Chronicles and Reaper )
Saw Transformers yesterday which was completely awesome- I can't believe I was sat in the cinema getting distressed at the fate of giant robots!
I really wanted to love Barrowman on The Friday Night Project but sadly I didn't. I just find the show awful and can't stand the two hosts. Barrowman was as puppy like as ever and I loved the teeny spoilery clip of Torchwood filming but otherwise it wasn't anywhere near as funny as I hoped it would be. Guess all the good stuff ended up on the cutting room floor.
Watched Orlando Bloom in In Celebration on Thursday night. Things didn't start well when my friend texted me at 7:00 to say that she was just going to get something to eat and she'd be there soon. What part of "the show starts at 7:30" was she struggling with? After having waited for an eternity for her, having ignored the fact that they were sounding the bells for everyone to take their seats and the usher giving me death glares I eventually had to leave her ticket at the box office and go to my seat - which although I could see fine was practically at the back of the theatre. Useless friend finally shows up at 7:29. As for the play - dear lord that was hard going.
It's a fairly grim (and incredibly misogynistic tale) of three brothers in the 1960's returning to the mining town in which they were raised. Its one of those godawful plays where the mother is made out to be the arch villain who is responsible for everything that has gone wrong with her sons' lives - because heaven forbid they should take responsibility for themselves. The first act wasn't too bad but the second act was awful - very pretentious and incredibly dull. In fact it was so dull I fell asleep and so did my friend. Orland bloom doesn't exactly set the stage alight. He's on stage for the vast majority of the time but his character is the strong silent type so he doesn't say a great deal (and when he does his northern accent wavered quite comically) and his emotional breakdown in the second act was a little embarrassing. I wasn't impressed with the play but I was impressed with the way Bloom handled himself at the Q&A afterwards. He was very un-diva like, happily just sitting on the stage when the backstage team failed to bring out enough chairs for everyone to sit on. From a physical point of view he's also tiny - inevitably he was a lot shorter than he looks on screen and he's incredibly skinny. Amusingly they did everything they could to limit questions from the audience (as I guess they knew that people would just ask Bloom questions) but Orlando was still the one who spoke the most but he was very articulate giving indepth answers to anything he was asked and he was very generous about the rest of the cast taking every opportunity to compliment them. I wasn't really all that fussed about getting his autograph but the stage door was total mayhem - when we got out there were about 100 people across the road with cameras and easily that amount either side of the stage door. They had 5 professional bouncers looking after him! Naturally he didn't sign anything - just got straight into his car with a million flashbulbs going off in his face.
Still - off to see Lee in Joseph next week! I'm entertained that they are going to hire Lewis for one show a week to meet the demand for tickets. Not too sure of the logic of that decision. Yes the demand for tickets is huge but the demand is for tickets to see Lee Mead - are people going to book for the Lewis only shows? I bet that's the performance where you'll always be able to get cheap tickets from TKTS.
Loved the report that someone (Hellschilde I think) put up about Torchwood filming. I was very amused that JB would only allow Gareth to use his trailer to change if he didn't smoke in it!
Am working my way through all the pre-air shows that have leaked onto the net (I'm half convinced that the networks purposefully leak them to build advance buzz).
( Cut for spoilers about Sarah Connor Chronicles and Reaper )