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On May 12th & 13th 2008 some of the West-End’s greatest leads took to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall in Sir Tim Rice’s musical concert production of ‘Chess’. Rice has declared that this will be the definitive version of the musical, taking from both branches of the production and taking the show back to it’s original intended storylines.

* photos from icethesite http://www.icethesite.com/

Aoife Mulholland in Chess, Royal Albert Hall 12th May 2008

Aoife On Stage With Adam Pascal as Freddie

The Chess Company (soloists). Grant Anthony, Christopher Colley, Tiffany Graves, Leila Benn Harris, David Michael Johnson, Debbie Kurup, Aoife Mulholland, Andrew Playfoot, Jon Robyns and Tabitha Webb

Part of the Chess Company Singers

CAST

Introduced: by Sir Tim Rice

Principle Cast:
Josh Groban as Anatoly Sergievsky
Idina Menzel as Florence
Adam Pascal as Frederick Trumper
David Bedella as Molokov
Kerry Ellis as Svetlana
Clarke Peters as Walter
Marti Pellow as The Arbiter

Chess in Concert Company:
Grant Anthony
Christopher Colley
Tiffany Graves
Leila Benn Harris
David Michael Johnson
Debbie Kurup
Aoife Mulholland
Andrew Playfoot
Jon Robyns
Tabitha Webb

Cantabile – [London Quartet]
Choir – 100 Strong – ‘The West End Chorus’
Orchestra – 50 Piece – ‘City Of London Philharmonic’
RAH Organ – played by Stephen Disley

Artistic Direction: Lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Conductor, David Firman. Musical Director, Mark Warman. Choral Director, Stuart Morley. Choreographers, Kevan Allen and Andrew Wright. Animation, Rehana Khan. Director & Adaptation, Hugh Wooldridge.

VIDEOS OF THE NIGHT - From YouTube (LQ Audience Cams)

Endgame

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I Know Him So Well


Nobody Is On Nobody’s Side


Somebody Else’s Story

Where I Belong

PHOTOS OF THE NIGHT - From icethesite http://www.icethesite.com/

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***** Josh Groban as Anatoloy ************ Kerry Ellis as Svetlana

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**** Idina Menzel as Florence **************** Josh and Idina Kiss

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** Josh and Kerry – End Game ************ Sir Tim Rice – Introduction

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** Davide Badella as Molokov ************* Adam Pascal as Freddie

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Official London Theatre Guide

Stars line up to play Chess

03 Mar 2008

Marti Pellow, David Bedella and Clarke Peters have been added to the star-studded line up of Chess In Concert, a two-night concert performance of Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson’s musical at the Royal Albert Hall on 12-13 May. The trio joins a cast that already contains Wicked leading ladies Idina Menzel and Kerry Ellis, recording artist Josh Groban and Broadway star Adam Pascal. Also now confirmed in the cast are Tiffany Graves, Debbie Kurup, Leila Benn Harris and Aoife Mulholland.

Pellow (who plays The Arbiter) is the lead singer of pop band Wet Wet Wet, whose string of hits came predominantly in the 1980s and 90s. Among those chart-toppers, the band’s 1994 hit Love Is All Around spent 15 weeks at number one in the UK singles charts, after which Pellow allegedly asked for it to be removed from sale. Bedella (Molokov) is best known in the West End for playing Satan in the National Theatre production of Jerry Springer – The Opera in 2003, for which he won the 2004 Best Actor in a Musical Laurence Olivier Award, and Frank N Furter in the 2006 revival of The Rocky Horror Show. Bedella is also known to Holby City viewers for playing short and sexy surgeon Carlos Fashola in the hospital soap.

Peters (Walter) was last in the West End playing Porgy in Trevor Nunn’s production of Porgy And Bess at the Savoy in 2006. His extensive list of previous West End credits includes The Witches Of Eastwick, Chicago, Simply Heavenly, The Iceman Cometh and Five Guys Named Moe, which he also wrote, winning the 1991 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment.

Among their many London stage credits Graves and Kurup have both played the role of Velma in Chicago in the West End. Mulholland is also a Chicago veteran, having played Roxie in December 2006. The actress first became known for taking part in the reality television programme How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? and is currently playing Maria in The Sound Of Music for two performances a week. Benn Harris is the current Christine in The Phantom Of The Opera and has previous London stage credits including Fame and Evita.

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See This Link For A Stunning 360 Degree Virtual Tour Of The Royal Albert Hall
Link - http://www.sphericalimages.com/royalalbert/virtual_tour.htm

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In a more enlightened age, Majel Barrett Roddenberry might have rated a Federation command. As it was, she helped rule the Star Trek universe.

Roddenberry, the widow of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, died today at her Bel-Air, Calif., home, Roddenberry.com said. The reported cause of death was leukemia.

Billed through much of her acting career as Majel Barrett, Roddenberry played Dr. McCoy’s loyal, Spock-admiring assistant, Nurse Chapel, on the original 1966-69 Trek series. She also provided the voice of the USS Enterprise’s computer—a role she continued with through the franchise’s various offshoots, including J.J. Abrams‘ upcoming big-screen reboot, Star Trek.

"My mother truly acknowledged and appreciated the fact that Star Trek fans played a vital role in keeping the Roddenberry dream alive for the past 42 years," her son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr., said on the website. "It was her love for the fans, and their love in return, that kept her going for so long after my father passed away."

Gene Roddenberry died in 1991 at the age of 70.

Possible Cause:-
         When you install IIS AFTER .NET 2.0 framework, the rights of the ASPNET user had not been set correctly.
Resolution
         Repair (Uninstall if repair does not work for you)  .NET Framework 2.0

Simply run the following from command line to reset the IIS registry settings for aspnet user. Usually framework directory for .Net Framework 2.0 resides under C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

References:-

• http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=267904 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=116989&SiteID=1
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555583

So I’m taking a PTO day today – not having felt too well after a late-night maintenance window for work (I know, 2am isn’t that late for me, but I think it was just catching up with me). And I’m checking emails, and doing the morning check over on facebook to see what’s going on in the world and my cousin Traci is online with a semi-cryptic status line about prayers needed for Kelli.

Now I’ll grant you that after my folks divorce I wasn’t too close to that side (paternal) of the family. But over the last year or so it’s been nice chatting with many of them again by way of MySpace, FB, etc. I’m famously not hot w/ names, but something was ringing a bell. On checking her page I find a link and after some hunting, here’s the answer:

Worst fears of mother, girlfriend prove true

Police: Dad Who Killed Daughter Threatened Suicide Before

The unnamed mother is my cousin, and the Kelli mentioned was her only child. Now I never had the opportunity to meet Kelli, but I’m just shaken to the core. I’ve made travel arrangements already, now just waiting to find out what hotel everyone is staying at.

Traci was my closest and fondest cousin of that side of the family – also being the only one that I was closest to in age (only a few years my junior). I can’t even begin to imagine what she’s feeling. An accident, whatever, would be one thing, but something like this is quite another.

I hadn’t exactly expected to do the paternal reunion this way, but like I told my Aunt, I think my dad and I can hold off on the grudge for the time being. This rather trumps our beef. Just wish it wasn’t under these circumstances.

They’re heading back to Gobles, MI which is where they’d lived previously. Viewing is Friday, and Funeral is Saturday. Gobles, near Kalamazoo. I didn’t even really think Kalamazoo was a real place, more like Shangra-la. 6″ of snow they tell me, 8 degrees above zero today when adjusted for the wind chill.

Yes, I’m just rambling now. Don’t mind me. Just trying to process it…

‘Meh’: new word for indifference enters English dictionary

LONDON (AFP) – "Meh", a word which indicates a lack of interest or enthusiasm, became the latest addition to the Collins English Dictionary on Monday.

The word, which beat hundreds of other suggestions from members of the public, will feature in the 30th anniversary edition of the dictionary, which is to be published next year.

Though the word apparently originates from North America, Collins said it was now widely used on the Internet, and was increasingly seen in British spoken English.

The dictionary entry for "meh" will say it can be used as an interjection to indicate indifference or boredom, as an adjective to describe something as boring or mediocre, or to show an individual is apathetic or unimpressed.

The word was popularised by the US comedy animation series "The Simpsons", where characters Bart and Lisa use it to express indifference when their father Homer suggests a day trip.

It was submitted by Erin Whyte from Nottingham, central England, and a panel of Collins language experts singled it out from the hundreds of other submissions because of its frequency of use in modern English.

"This is a new interjection from the US that seems to have inveigled its way into common speech over here," said Cormac McKeown, head of content at Collins Dictionaries.

"It shows people are increasingly writing in a register somewhere in between spoken and written English."

Other words submitted to Collins’s campaign — which was launched in June and called on members of the public to suggest words they used in everyday English — were jargonaut (a fan of jargon); frenemy (an enemy disguised as a friend) and huggles (a hybrid of hugs and snuggles).