Il Adore

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Il Adore#0

Posted: 1/17/05 at 4:52pm

my internet is being a poo face so i cant get to any of the taboo the musical web pages, does anyone have any photos from either productions (london or nyc) that shows Big Sue singing: Il Adore? or just big Sue at all? thanks

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[luvtheEmcee]

re: Il Adore#1

Posted: 1/17/05 at 4:53pm

Didn't Niccola sing it in New York? I guess that would just leave you with London for Il Adore, but check your PM's.

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[Razz77]

re: Il Adore#2

Posted: 1/17/05 at 4:55pm

Yeah - Nicola sang it in New York...Pictures of Liz McCartney as Big Sue shouldn't be hard to come by however -- I remember seeing TONS of pictures of her singing "Talk Amongst Yourselves" in front of the television while the show was running.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: Il Adore#3

Posted: 1/17/05 at 5:05pm

whoops. big sue sings the song in london, nicola on bway. my mistakey!

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[jczelyph]

re: Il Adore#4

Posted: 1/17/05 at 7:17pm

I love 'Il Adore' but I've never seen the show. Can anyone provide me with a little context for the song?

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[bdwaygirl]

re: Il Adore#5

Posted: 1/17/05 at 7:46pm

Caroline-Q-or-TBoo, if you were trying to access the Taboo On Broadway site, I understand it was taken down last week. Both the site and the forum were scheduled to go bye-bye January 1. I heard the site was taken down one day last week, but the forum is still up and running. It's on borrowed time, I guess. Don't know when it will be gone too.

jczelyph, Il Adore was sung in both London and Broadway versions while Leigh Bowery lay dying/died in his hospital bed. In the London version, Big Sue just sang it standing and/or sitting next to the bed. On Broadway, Nicola starting singing it right after Leigh died sitting next to the bed. Moving pictures of the real Leigh Bowery flashed on a curtain and the bed faded into oblivion and Nicola stepped out to the side of the curtain to finish the song while the pictures flashed across. It brought tears to my eyes everytime I saw the show.

I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

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[jczelyph]

re: Il Adore#6

Posted: 1/18/05 at 3:20am

Who are Big Sue and Nicola? Are they his friends or relatives?

"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."

[bdwaygirl]

re: Il Adore#7

Posted: 1/18/05 at 7:42am

Big Sue was Leigh Bowery's best friend and Nicola was his wife.

I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

"unleash the girly"

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.

Puppies are babies in fur coats.

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[jczelyph]

re: Il Adore#8

Posted: 1/18/05 at 11:28am

Thanks! Love the BWW knowledgeables!

"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."

[NightLaughs]

re: Il Adore#9

Posted: 1/18/05 at 1:48pm

I thought Leigh was gay.... no?

I have no idea what goes on in that show.

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[bdwaygirl]

re: Il Adore#10

Posted: 1/18/05 at 1:57pm

"I thought Leigh was gay.... no?"


He was.

I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

"unleash the girly"

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.

Puppies are babies in fur coats.

Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator

[Unknown User]

re: Il Adore#11

Posted: 1/18/05 at 3:04pm

Taboo was amazing. Lets have them do a revival!

[timote316]

re: Il Adore#12

Posted: 1/18/05 at 4:02pm

Leigh married Nicola because he was different. Would a normal gay man marry a woman? No, so that's why Leigh did it. (or, at least that's how it was explained to me...)