New images from Tom Hooper’s “Les Miserables”
Hello fellow Stayers! It’s time for a contest!
PLEASE READ EVERYTHING AND READ IT CAREFULLY.
Since some of you were asking, I picked up a few extra Playbills when I could! I’m so sorry I couldn’t pick up more. So I have 4 extras. And as the result of supply and demand, a contest is happening!
I will ship one of these to you if you win! I’m fairly certain I’m willing to ship anywhere, since the purpose of this is to give them to those who couldn’t make it to the show. Price may be what backs me down, but I won’t know more until I get the winners.
I will be using a random number generator to determine the winners, so it will be COMPLETELY random (go figure).
I’m so sorry it has to be this way. I’d give one to all of you if I could. But it still is a LOVELY Playbill, and hey, it has Nick’s face on it! They were in the same room as him. It counts as something, right?
Here’s the rules:
- Must be following this blog, Nick Jonas Things. Simply because I want to do this for my followers, not because I want more. I’m doing this for you. And I will check to see if you are following.
- Must be willing to give me your address. I’m sorry, but how else can I give it to you? I won’t use it for anything else, and it will be deleted from history once it’s mailed. But keep in mind, THIS ONLY APPLIES IF YOU WIN.
- Reblog up to 5 times, and like it if you wish. Each will count as one entry.
- PLEASE don’t enter if you already have one, or if you don’t care whether or not you have one. Give others who want it a shot please.
I think that’s pretty much it. Keep checking back here for updates. This is the first contest I’ve ever done, so this is kind of trial and error for me. So I’m sure you’ll see some posts about changes.
*KEEP IN MIND these are UNSIGNED. They’re just the Playbill from the show. They talk a bit about his bio, and the other cast mates, and has the musical numbers and show information in it.
The contest will end SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd 2012 at 11:59 pm central time zone. So that gives you a tad over a week to enter.
I think that pretty much covers it all…
So GOOD LUCK to those who enter!
That’s FINCH. F-I-N-C-H, FINCH.
Music Review
Songs from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (EP)
Artist: Nick Jonas
Broadway Records
RRP: £6.99
BR-CD00212E
8 845017 07930
Available 08 May 2012
I don’t like the current crop of Boy Bands. One Direction, The Wanted, JLS - they all leave me cold. I wasn’t much of a fan of the bands of my era (from The Osmonds to Take That), although I have come to like them in my ‘old age’, So, the last thing I expected to enjoy was an EP of songs from How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, featuring the current lead on Broadway, Nick Jonas from another ‘bubble gum pop’ band, The Jonas Brothers.
But enjoy it I did.
It’s not a show I have much knowledge of. I saw a bad (VERY) amateur production in the early ’90s, and I think it scarred me for life. I’ve never actually listened to the original Broadway cast for that reason, or the Matthew Broderick recording of a few years ago. The current Broadway production also spurned a cast recording, starring Daniel “Potter” Radcliffe in the lead role of J Pierrepoint Finch, a young window cleaner who begins a meteoric rise from the mailroom, to the Vice President of Advertising at the World Wide Wicket Company.
Jonas, as I’ve said, is part of the boy band The Jonas Brothers, but has also had a foot on Broadway several times before, in Les Miserables, Beauty and The Beast and Annie Get Your Gun, all coming before he became famous with the JBs. Judging by this EP by Broadway Records, he should pop by more often. The EP is too short (5 tracks) - oh how I would have loved to have heard more. What is there is pure heaven. This guy can sing - REALLY sing - and his performances better those by Radcliffe on the full cast recording of this production. I’m assuming that the same orchestra tracks were used, but these also are top notch, and show off Besterman’s orchestrations to the max. Jonas isn’t alone on here vocally, we also get the chance to hear Rob Bartlett in the role of Mr Twimble and Rose Hemingway as Rosemary Pilkington, although both of these also appear on the aforementioned full cast recording, but never the less. shine here just as brightly.
Jonas is totally at home with the style, melodies and lyrics of the piece, and is certainly one to watch in future Broadway productions. It would be great to hear him do a Broadway album, or songs from the Great American Songbook, as he clearly has the voice, and the intelligence, to give them the treatments they deserve.
The CD design and production is top notch, and puts many full recordings to shame. It’s clear a lot of thought has gone into this release and it’s design, and Broadway Records should be pleased with the final product. I know I was.
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Ian Gude
me & @SamanthaBarks at snow white and the huntsman, waiting for it to start… Excited! X
Sam is stunning :)
