About that gay Kidnapped stage adaptation...

[regshoe]

...here's the director talking about the book and the adaptation:

Watch on YouTube

It has hidden within it, not so hard to find I suppose, a love story as well.

Quite right too ♥

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[sanguinity]

WAAAAAAAAAANT

[regshoe]

If I get any opportunity to tell them about all my very cool international friends who would love to have a recording to watch, I will do so!

[sanguinity]

I would also be ecstatic about a recording to listen to! GIVE ME ALL THE ALAN/DAVIE DUETS

[regshoe]

I had not even thought about romantic duets! Such opportunities :D

[sanguinity]

The quarrel in the heather: that had damn better be a duet. A fully impassioned, full-throated, I-hate-you-I-love-you-I'm-dying-I-forgive-you duet.

[regshoe]

Perfect ♥ And something soulful and heartbroken, perhaps, after their parting on Corstorphine Hill, all the emotions in song that they couldn't speak to each other... (I wonder what they'll do with the ending, actually, hmm).

[sanguinity]

It's traditional for the final number to use the full chorus, so it's possible they'll do some "we're finished now, that was the play" choral number -- that's a fairly common solution to that problem.

But yeah, as much as I want to see the production itself, I'd consider myself wealthy just to have the soundtrack. After all, a properly-composed musical puts all its major emotional beats into song, so you do end up with the greater part of the satisfying parts of the show on the album.

[ysilme]

*smiles*

[regshoe]

:D

[black_bentley]

I will admit to being sorely tempted to get tickets...

[regshoe]

You totally should! :D

[black_bentley]

Edinburgh is a bit of a pain to get to, but I've made the trip for less! :D

[luzula]

Yay! Hmm, 11-22 of April is a very short-running show, isn't it? Or will it tour the country?

I wish that Gothenburg-Newcastle ferry were still running, sigh.

[regshoe]

It's touring, yes—the full list of dates and locations is here. I suppose Brighton would be slightly easier for you by train than the ones further north, but still a long way—it is such a shame about that ferry, especially since the play will be on in Newcastle :(