How Do You Solve a Problem Like the end of the show?
Blogger fiiiiiiiinally is allowing me to upload photos. Chuh. So below on my previous post are just a few of the lovely Rouge de Garance papers for your eye candy pleasure today.
So. Who saw 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?' last night? For people reading this from 'abroad', it's a reality talent show in which Andrew Lloyd Webber (sorry...Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber) and a panel of 3 judges/coaches are trying to find a new talent to play the lead role of Maria in a West End production of The Sound of Music. They've narrowed the auditions down to 10 'Marias' and now it's like X-Factor...they all perform on a live TV show once a week and the telly audience gets to phone and vote for their favourite and, by process of elimination, vote one off the show. Very popular...great viewing.
Now...I have to say...I do love musical dance theatre. LOOOOOOOVE it. I believe it is the highest art form. The people in this profession have to be able to sing fabulously, dance (in various forms) fabulously AND act fabulously. There's nothing like the thrill of watching someone who is one of the best performing on stage. So I am loving this show. And I also love The Sound of Music. But. The final part of the show last night had me, Husband, and Sister-in-Law completely Creased (with a capital 'cuh') laughing.
They had the last two Marias in the voting have a sing-off in front of Lord Webber himself (who is looking a bit Yodaesque, perched on a throne in front of them). He then picked one to stay and one to go. The host, Graham Norton (very funny man) had the losing girl join the other 9, and then explained that they would all have one final song together. Well...at this juncture I suddenly thought, "Oh no. No no no. They can't! Surely not" (this was all running through my head). And then the music started.
"So long. Farewell. Auf wiedersehen. Adieu..." They ACTUALLY sang this to the poor girl who'd just been booted off the show...along with plaintive waving "Goodbyyyyyyyyyyye" on the last notes of the song.
It. Was. HI-LAAAAAAAAAA-RIOUS.
I am completely stunned that the director/producers ever thought this would be a good idea. Or perhaps they were going for the humour factor. If so, they got it...because it was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in many a week. You all SO have to watch it next Saturday!!!
2 comments:
The info is on www.bbc.co.uk/maria :D :D
I wished I'd known about the show cos I would have auditioned for it!! Mwoooohahaha - not that I can sing of course - but I love putting on my am-dram cabaret singer voice!!! What I don't understand is - the style of songs they're singing to get through each week are nothing like The Sound Of Music - so it's a bit pointless and silly if you ask me. So someone can sing a pop song brilliantly - but they could be poop when they come to sing something out of the musical. One girl sung something brilliant last week, can't remember what now, but she had a really lovely husky voice and everyone said how fab she was, which was true - as a pop singer - but no way was it the kind of voice you'd expect to hear from Maria the nun. So it's all a bit daft in my opinion........ Still will be glued to it though!!
Crikey - look at that rant. How do you stop a problem like posting long comments on someone elses blog - that's what I wanna know :)
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