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Topic: Sing-a-Long-A-Sound of Music, anybody?
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 03-03-2003 05:27 PM
David wrote:
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Who is the target audience for this? I can't imagine this being a big draw for younger people who've barely heard of SOM, let alone learned the songs.
I am given to understand that this started out as a largely gay thing, later spreading to a more mainstream audience. It has certainly run during the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in London, I remember seeing it listed in the NFT programme booklet.
I know a small group of gay people, of both sexes, who love this version of the film, and have seen it dozens of times, they travel all over the country to see it, taking nuns' costumes with them. I understand that there is often a competition for the best costume.
Quite a wide range of people seem to go to the film now, it doesn't seem to be limited to any particular age, race, sex etc. Last year, a group of staff from work went to see it, some in their 60s, and some, about thirty years younger, took their children with them. Many of them would be too young to have seen the theatrical re-release of the original, non-singalong, version some years ago, and so they have probably never seen it, except possibly on television.
Any theatre that can get a reasonable audience for 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' would probably do quite well with this. It wouldn't appeal to me, but there are plenty of people out there who like it.
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