'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

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'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/9/09 at 9:46am

A new musical by 21 year old composer, Carl Calow is this springs new musical offering at the Watermill in Newbury. Its subject is family bereavement and family values!
...all that and the news that the venue has secured its future with its £3M fund raising now complete.

re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/11/09 at 4:55pm

Reading thro' the Watermill's brochure this sounds very interesting and ambitious (despite the title). It's apparently doing a small tour as well.

re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/11/09 at 5:22pm

Ya, the title is a bit iffy isn't it. Supposedly the touring venture is something they want to make a thing of to keep raising money.

re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/20/09 at 10:40am

The title is the name of a character in the musical - Barbara 'Bubbles' Beswick.

It's on tour to over 25 venues around England this spring so it's set to be a large rural tour this time around - not to be missed!

re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/20/09 at 11:33am

It comes across in this thread, that the Watermill only do one show a year, is this true?

re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/20/09 at 12:10pm

No
http://www.watermill.org.uk/

re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/20/09 at 6:21pm

"The title is the name of a character in the musical - Barbara 'Bubbles' Beswick."

Wanting to be constructive, I'm not sure naming a musical after one of the characters really works nowadays (Maddie for example).

"It's on tour to over 25 venues around England this spring so it's set to be a large rural tour this time around - not to be missed!"

Are you coming up North?

re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/21/09 at 1:44pm

Thanks for the link, I had a look with great interest.

I enjoyed there production of Sunset Boulevard, but couldn't car for Sweeny Todd, are these the only ones that have transfered from The watermill to London?

re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/21/09 at 1:47pm

'Mack And Mabel' tried and I found it very trying too.

Updated On: 1/21/09 at 01:47 PM

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re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/21/09 at 1:52pm

Was Mack and Mabel a/m too?

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re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/21/09 at 2:50pm

Yea it was.
Played The Criterion for just a few weeks.

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re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/21/09 at 4:20pm

I thought the a/m concept worked really well with Mack and Mabel because it suited the tragic nature of the material better than a broadway-pizazz type staging.

Janie Dee was good as well.

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re: 'Bubbles' A New Watermill Musical

Posted: 1/21/09 at 7:06pm

I think it would be good if The Watermill developed shows that flopped, in a a/m format, such as;

The Pirate Queen
Carrie
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
A Catered Affair
Lestat
Dance of the Vampires
Anyone can Whistle etc etc

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