3/30/2023 0 Comments Madcap hotel![]() ![]() My hair was shellacked into a gleaming, impenetrable dome. You wouldn’t believe how much Vaseline I had on my teeth. ![]() “The idea,” he explained, “is to move as one lean, glittering leg.”Īfter six months I took a bus to the auditions. I felt crushed with relief and embarrassment when he informed me that my dream was not an unreasonable one because my face was not quite homely, but very plain, and well-suited to the uniformity a dance team like the Rockettes demanded. I had a dance teacher, the only confirmed homosexual in town, and he had actually seen the Rockettes in person and had actually gone to New York City. ![]() I was drinking fifteen glasses of ice water a day and gluing sequins onto everything I owned, even the handle of my toothbrush. I was eating nothing but boiled cauliflower and canned tuna fish. They gave us all pairs of nylon stockings and then we paraded behind the mayor down Main Street tossing candy and pantyhose at everybody on the sidewalk. So I was a little more than six feet tall, I placed second in a fourth of July leg contest that was sponsored by some small time hosiery company. It showed them all cutting paper snowflakes together on the floor wearing these white fur headbands it showed them doing a kick line in their pajamas. They were all kept in a women’s hotel with pink Lucite furniture and their names spelled out in tiny light bulbs above their headboards, which were all in one very long row like in a nursery. What did I know about anything? I could not imagine an occupation more glamorous. ![]() The Major, the two old dears and, especially funny and clever is the legendary deaf old lady guest, who claims her missing £85 has been stolen from her room - as Sybil insists on handing over Basil's winnings from a horse he denies betting on.įor diehard Fawlty fans, this show is a night of memorable entertainment which is bound to win over a whole new generation of younger fans, who may only have seen repeats of the original 12 TV shows, which are still regularly repeated in Australia and around the world.First, everything I did I did because I wanted to be a Radio City Rockette. Comedy actor Syd Brisbane plays Manuel and Aimee Home, better known in Australia for voice-over work, is a dead ringer for the original Polly, who was played by Booth. And, with clever make-up, wigs and identical costumes they could not look more alike to the original characters.įormer Home and Away star Blazey Best plays Sybil, the role which originally belonged to Prunella Scales. In other words, all the best bits of the original Fawlty Towers with new comic twists adapted for the stage by former Monty Python front man Cleese.ĭismissing a legion of Basil impersonators, Cleese picked the cast - surprisingly all Australian actors – himself. It includes memorable moments when well-meaning Basil agonisingly orders his Polly, “Don’t mention the war”, having already Goose stepped and upset a group of German hotel diners, asking them if they want "Eva Braun cocktail for starters", telling them: “Well, you started it - you invaded Poland!" The stage show, which will officially enjoy its world premier in Sydney to a sell-out audience on Saturday, previewed this evening, is a re-crafted amalgam of three of the favourite BBC TV episodes written along with his then wife Connie Booth back in the 1970s. The iconic BBC TV show is still enormously popular Down Under and has regularly been voted among the best TV comedies of all time. The reason is that Cleese believes audiences and critics alike will be kinder to his production than if he launched it in London (where he claims the Press hate him for his views). 5 The show is set to make audiences "laugh all over again" Credit: Getty Images ![]()
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