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Post by beckettologist on Nov 25, 2010 17:58:23 GMT -5
I was just reading this when a trailer for BBC comedies was showing on TV and Tom was doing his Rev Dance  Perfect timing ;D Hahaha. That IS good timing. And when I read "comedy fireball" I thought of that dance. |
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Post by sanssouci on Nov 25, 2010 18:46:05 GMT -5
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Post by beckettologist on Nov 28, 2010 20:55:43 GMT -5
Well now we know they exist. Hopefully I can get one while there so I don't have to haul it across the ocean twice! |
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Post by beckettologist on Dec 2, 2010 0:17:36 GMT -5
Tom, Lisa Dillon, Jonathan Cake and director Richard Eyre discuss the production of A Flea in Her Ear on Front RowIt begins around 6:00 minutes into the show. |
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Post by faeriequeen on Dec 4, 2010 16:46:48 GMT -5
I managed to bag a free place at the public dress rehearsal earlier. It was supposed to start at 2pm but they pushed it back to 2.30pm (more like 2.45pm by the time they actually started), which didn't surprise me really as when I walked into the foyer at about 1.30pm Tom was there talking to the box office staff still in his regular everyday clothes! Lol. I also saw Kevin Spacey wandering around while I was waiting to go in and a number of other actors I recognised (Alec Newman, Vinette Robinson, Nikki Amuka-Bird) hanging around to watch it too, which I thought was pretty cool, supporting their fellow artists and everything! -------SPOILERS BELOW?----------- Anyway, even though it was a dress rehearsal so things were a bit slow and there were a few issues with the set you could tell it will be a great production once they get the pace up and get all the entrances/exits/scene changes running like clockwork. It was still very funny, and in Tom's performance especially I could not find fault - no fluffed lines, some hilarious looks/asides to the audience, and even a comedy trip/roll over a chaise longue! He is certainly kept on his toes with the changes between the Chandebise/Poche characters and I reckon he will be incredibly fit by the end of the run what with all the running about he has to do. The other person who stood out for me was Freddie Fox, who had to deal with a comedy speech impediment most of the time but still had to make himself vaguely intelligible to the audience, which he did very admirably! All-in-all, it was pretty great and even moreso because I didn't pay a thing! |
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Post by beckettologist on Dec 4, 2010 17:00:34 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this! I simply can't wait for March 2! Wow!
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Post by sanssouci on Dec 4, 2010 17:06:09 GMT -5
You're so lucky to get a free place at the dress rehearsal, not to mention seeing Tom (and Kevin Spacey) in the Foyer!! ;D Sounds great - just two weeks for me  |
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Post by greeneyedgirl on Dec 4, 2010 17:30:02 GMT -5
Free Tom...what could be better. Lucky you Faerie. |
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Post by sanssouci on Dec 8, 2010 18:47:04 GMT -5
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Post by beckettologist on Dec 14, 2010 23:58:53 GMT -5
Here are a couple of reviews. Guardian
WhatsonstageI am also posting them on the Flea page over at Thomagination should you want to see them all in one place. |
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Post by beckettologist on Dec 15, 2010 14:22:13 GMT -5
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Post by sanssouci on Dec 15, 2010 19:03:11 GMT -5
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Post by sanssouci on Dec 17, 2010 16:58:09 GMT -5
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Post by sanssouci on Dec 19, 2010 19:28:57 GMT -5
I can say I’ve seen part of ‘A flea in her ear’! We left Norwich at 9.30 a.m., giving ourselves plenty of time to get to London in the snow and ice. We arrived at Epping Station at noon, only to find there were no trains leaving the station due to a signal failure so we had to find another station where trains were running. By this time it was snowing heavily and we got stuck in traffic because of the bad weather and eventually arrived at the Old Vic at 3.25 p.m. (the play started at 2.30 p.m.) We rushed into the theatre and explained the situation to a member of staff and he said they’d take us into the theatre and we could sit in some empty seats at the back and after the interval we could sit in our booked seats at the front. We managed to see about 25 minutes of the first act. The play is excellent, we loved it. The sets are impressive, the Hotel Coq d’Or set is really lavish, with a spectacular golden statue. The whole cast are superb, but Tom is the real star (that goes without saying, I know!). He’s hilarious with some of his comments directed at the audience and his expressions are so comical. His quick changes are amazing and he’s such a cute drunk too! After the play we walked round to the stage door just in case we could get a glimpse of him and we couldn’t believe our luck when he walked out of the door. He looked gorgeous and he was so sweet. He signed my programme and we chatted about how the weather had caused problems getting to the theatre and we said how much we loved the play. So after a disastrous start we had an amazing day. It took us nearly five hours to get home in the snow but it was well worth it!! I’d already booked to see “Flea” again on 5th March so I’ll get to see the beginning of the play then! |
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Post by sobriquet on Dec 29, 2010 21:15:40 GMT -5
Terrible news in The Daily Mail! Tom apparently injured himself quite seriously while on stage the other night...
"Hollander is elbowed out"
"Running on and off stage while changing clothes has taken its toll on actor Tom Hollander who, until this week, had been giving a virtuoso performance in Georges Feydeau’s farce A Flea in Her Ear at the Old Vic. Hollander, 43, bumped into a piece of stage furniture during one of his high-speed exits on Monday — and hasn’t been seen on stage since. ‘He thinks he’s fractured his elbow,’ says a pal. ‘He knew he had hit something that afternoon, but didn’t realise how bad it was until afterwards.’ Tom’s strenuous role — the play involves up to 250 entrances and exits by the various cast members — has been taken over by an understudy, but at least one couple in the audience this week asked for their money back at the intermission."
I'm sure Tom is feeling quite devastated at the moment, but hopefully he knows that soooo many people, (including all of us!), know what an OUTSTANDING job he has been doing and are rooting for him to be given a stellar prognosis and have a speedy recovery... or even better yet, that the Daily Mail is full of baloney and this story is utter nonsense! In the meantime, a little musical inspiration for any of us who have taken a painful tumble and may be in need of an anthem while we're mending, recuperating or building up the steam to get back out there in the fight: it's Freddie to the rescue, as only Freddie can, in The Show Must Go On! GET WELL SOON, TOM! WE LOVE YOU!
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