Salford: The Musical Yep, I've said Salford is full of chavs. And it is. But I still love the place - could never move away. I am a born and bred Salfordian. Right now I have one of the lead roles in a production called Salford: The Musical. I play the bride. I have a terrible wedding - my future husband may be having an affair, his family are upper class whilst mine is looked down on, and my father turns up last minute after never seeing him all my life. We showed the production at the Salford Playhouse towards the end of last year, and we got such a great response we are now going on tour. Yay! On Saturday we perform at the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays. I had rehersals today, and just wanted to see if my name was associated with the musical anywhere on the internet (cos I'm vain) when I came across this. (Blanked out bad language). 'Meanwhile Fatling writes about silly things such as Salford: The Musical. Her piece on 18 July featured a big picture of two large women, described as northern chavs. One had bottle- blonde hair and a remarkable cleavage generously revealed by a leopard-skin top. The other had bottle- black hair and the photograph was cropped below the neck leaving readers to guess at the cleavage. The dialogue of the show, Fatling informed us, consists of creative lines such as Ill f*** your eyes out, you pasty-faced s***. This is true Times material.' Well. The line is not true, and the two large women are my friends. I am extremly angry about this article. I do not see any reason for someone to be so nasty about hard work and effort other people have put in. It is completly unfair. I have author's email address (and home address and phone number, but I won't go that far lol) and he can expect my opinion in his inbox. I know reviews have to be cutting sometimes - but personal remarks about cast? What does it matter about the size of somebody's cleavage? All that should matter is their ability to perform. Mr Ian Senior - get your facts right.
LOL, Babe, but calm down. I just googled and read that piece in context. Mr Senior was being rude about Ms Fatling's decadent journalistic style for The Times in that she is the one he is accusing of revelling in bad language for the sake of bad language. As such he was bashing the The Times for being a sad shadow of its former self. Meanwhile we live in a society that has great trouble with the arts on stage. A bunch of Sikhs recently stopped a play (written by a Sikh) at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre because it was (in their opinion) disrespectful to the Sihk religion http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4107437.stm and as for Jerry Springer: The Opera ... I guess it just goes to show that (a) people in general have a major sense of humour problem and (b) that it is easier to complain than it is to bother to make an effort to understand. I'm still searching for more on your show. Will you be touring nationally? I'll come see it. It sounds like the kinda thing I love.
True Mirelly, but I think the comments about my friends were made by him. Yes he was criticising the journalist - but the journalist was not criticising us. She wrote about us, but he was the one who called my friends and said our play was 'silly'. I may have gone OTT here, but I am not the only one. My firends and I were talking on MSN and all searching at the same time - a few of us came across this article. We are not happy. Well. I'm not happy about the article, but I'm happy! (Confuddling, I know.)
Yay! show was excellent. My wedding dress burst 3 times, and in the last scene my Mum forgot one of her lines, and the sound cue's got fluffed up a few times, but it went really well. Probably nobody here heard of it, but ReelMcr (I'm with ReelSalford) made a rip off of the tv show Shameless, and called it Fameless. The Organiser works with us and has offered me a part in the next production! rehersals have already started, but I'm going along on Tuesday to have a nosy. Yay again!
