| Time for Carrots | | 10:04am Saturday 10th May 2008 | | The hunt is on for an 11-year-old to star in a revival of Carrots, the musical dedicated to Dr Barnardo
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| Pacific heights | | 9:16am Saturday 3rd May 2008 | | She missed out on Maria by a whisker, but Helena
Blackman is enjoying a star role in South Pacific
HELENA Blackman dubbed
herself Miracle Maria'
thanks to her long pursuit
of BBC1's chance to star in
The Sound Of Music in the
West End, which ended with a runnerup
spot. The Guildford School of Acting
trained performer picked herself up and
landed the starring role of Nellie
Forbush in a regional tour of South
Pacific. |
| Full steam ahead | | 9:19am Saturday 26th April 2008 | | Chris Ford explains how he and Chris Cade put
drama on the rails at the National Railway Museum |
| Quiz does the biz | | 9:48am Saturday 19th April 2008 | | Playwright Carina Rodney has turned a nightmare pub quiz into a sell-out night of entertainment
ITS taken four years, six or seven
re-writes and several workshops
to put North-East-based Carina
Rodneys full-length debut stage
play, Pub Quiz, in front of an
audience, but the result is a sell-out
success. |
| All aboard for Thomas | | 11:11am Saturday 12th April 2008 | | ONE of the most famous trains in the land rolled into the Forum Theatre, Billingham, yesterday, when Thomas the Tank Engine came to life on stage. |
| Good times, bad times | | 10:57am Saturday 12th April 2008 | | Former Doctor Who, Colin Baker, is going back in
time to bring a comedy classic to the stage
THE passage of time isn't
always an agreeable subject,
even for a former Doctor
Who. Colin Baker, the sixth
timelord in the Tardis, opens
our conversation with a complete
refusal to discuss his approaching
birthday landmark of 65 and follows it
up by calling time on discussion about
working with his ex-wife Liza Goddard
for the first time since they divorced 30
years ago. |
| Reviving romance | | 9:23am Saturday 29th March 2008 | | Poppy Tierney considers if love really does
A change everything at the musicals ASPECTS Of Love arrives in
Darlington next week
minus the romantic appeal
of David Essex. The role of
sugar-daddy George is now
played by James Graeme in a show
best known for hit Love Changes
Everything. But this, and other
changes, have improved the first major
revival in 15 years of Andrew Lloyd
Webber's 1989 erotically romantic
musical, based on David Garnett's
novel, says performer Poppy Tierney. |
| ‘My fame won’t last’ | | 9:17am Saturday 22nd March 2008 | | Busy actor and biographer Simon Callow feels he
won't be included in a history of the theatre
HAS Simon Callow always
been larger than life or is
this a skill he's managed to
acquire? "I don't
particularly experience
myself as larger than life," he says
cautiously about his effusive role as
Martin Dysart in Peter Shaffer's Equus,
which tours to Newcastle's Theatre
Royal next week. |
| Theatre's pied piper | | 12:24pm Monday 17th March 2008 | | After 15 years in the
North-East, theatre boss
Paul Harman is talking
about retirement. Viv
Hardwick meets him |
| From Grease to God slot | | 10:46am Saturday 15th March 2008 | | TOM Bradley was rushed from
chorus member to lead in
Godspell so quickly, when
Stephen Gately opted to leave,
that he didn't have a proper
costume as Jesus. The Grease Is the
World TV finalist says: "I had to keep
my understudy outfit up to Christmas," |
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