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Post by MM on Nov 30, 2006 2:30:12 GMT 1
Whatsonstage.com are hosting their "Theatregoers' Choice Awards" this Friday. Most of the categories refer to new shows that opened in London from Dec 1 2005 and Nov 30 2006 .... BUT .... there are a couple of exceptions, and one is "Best Takeover in a Role (New performer assuming a named part in an existing production)"!! Now surely the most obvious choice is [glow=red,2,300]TASHA[/glow] taking over the role of SOPHIE this March!! So get voting on the website .... awards.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=115 and tell everyone you know to do the same!! The system is (quite rightly!) set so that you can only vote once. It doesn't matter if you only vote in that one category and not any of the others. The most important thing is that you DO vote (before Friday!!) and vote for [glow=red,2,300] TASHA[/glow]!!!! |
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Post by Jazz on Nov 30, 2006 9:12:55 GMT 1
I'm soooooooooo there!!!
GET VOTING FOR TASHA SHERIDAN!!!
I VOTED!!!
and now i'm gonna go on myspace and tell all my random friends to vote for her...i have 77 friends...those Cher fans will do what i tell them to do......hahaahahaha
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Post by michaela on Nov 30, 2006 9:56:04 GMT 1
It is actually not voting yet, just nominating! The voting will commence on December 4th.
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Post by Jazz on Nov 30, 2006 14:19:55 GMT 1
hahaah that was too early..brain not working..oh well ...i nominated Tasha and i got myspace friends to nominate her too!! haahahah
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Post by MM on Nov 30, 2006 16:27:58 GMT 1
Your quite right Michaela - I did know, but just didn't word it correctly!!
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Post by Kris on Nov 30, 2006 22:10:47 GMT 1
OK. I went on and nominated her too.  Hope I did it in time...but since it let me I am guessing it was OK. |
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Post by MM on Dec 1, 2006 16:11:45 GMT 1
Oohh .... Tasha didn't make the list - we were all a bit too late me thinks. Would like to know the actual nominees and numbers etc. I think they usually give that, so let me know if you see it first. Here's the final list - shan't give any comments!!
BEST TAKEOVER IN A ROLE:
Darius Danesh – Chicago at the Adelphi
Nigel Harman – Guys & Dolls at the Piccadilly
Patrick Swayze – Guys & Dolls at the Piccadilly
Reece Shearsmith – The Producers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Sally Dexter – Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace
Scarlet Strallen – Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward
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Post by michaela on Dec 1, 2006 16:42:48 GMT 1
Darius Danesh  ? Who nominated him? That must be a joke, but then that is the problem with a competition where fans vote, not that they shouldn't have a chance to vote for their favourite performers but then that person should deserve it as having been an outstanding performer in that show - and Darius was not imo. You may wanna call it favouritism. |
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Post by Jazz on Dec 1, 2006 18:19:11 GMT 1
Darius Danesh ? Who nominated him? That must be a joke, but then that is the problem with a competition where fans vote, not that they shouldn't have a chance to vote for their favourite performers but then that person should deserve it as having been an outstanding performer in that show - and Darius was not imo. Yes, who in their right mind nominated Darius??? Best Takeover - Darius IMHO ...hardly! MM, I'm like you, i'd like to see numbers. Oh well...Tasha Sheridan is brilliant as Sophie...award or no award ;D |
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Post by Jazz on Dec 13, 2006 9:31:59 GMT 1
teennnnnnnnnnnnnnny tiny pic...thanks Kris for finding it....look at who it is in the Wedding Dress!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  |
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Post by Jazz on Dec 15, 2006 21:19:38 GMT 1
For those of you that haven't seen Tasha in the movie,
Mrs Henderson Presents will air
Friday Dec 29. BBC1 @ 9pm
ahem...that would be meeeeeeeeeee.. ;D
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Post by Jazz on Jan 13, 2007 9:26:04 GMT 1
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Post by Skinny Minnie! on Jan 28, 2007 0:39:58 GMT 1
Right so randomness! Going through my script for stageschool well going through the song 'Thursdays children' (which i am loving!) and was on Howard Goodalls site because it has the script n score on it and i was reading about 'The Dreaming' (the show we're doing) and Tasha was in it. Lol i was looking for our choerographers name but stumbled across Tasha's lol
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Post by Kris on Feb 6, 2007 22:05:29 GMT 1
I just got very sad when I realised that in less than a month you will have to move this thread into the "previous" cast members section...booooooo hoooooo...  |
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Post by Jazz on Feb 6, 2007 22:54:21 GMT 1
Tasha was amazing...as always.  I don't see how she can do the show 8 times a week and still perform each one as if it were the only one. What a gem she is and I am so gonna miss her. I am trying to think of a good reason to go see the show one more time between now and 2 March cuz I know it's the last time I will get to see her in MM. (Maybe my neighbour's teenager wants to go again.) will i do? is Feb 19 too soon? well there ya go, i get my lucy as head bobber wish, you get the whole see the show one more time heheehehehe sorted ;D |
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Post by Jazz on May 8, 2007 13:29:03 GMT 1
Here’s an interview with Tasha…
GILES WOODFORDE meets Mamma Mia! star. It was a most unusual scene on the London Underground, where strangers usually studiously ignore each other. A girl aged, I guess, ten or 12, jumped up, and with a ravishing smile offered me her seat.
It's a dream
She then proceeded to stand on one leg, ballet-dancer style, while holding on to the overhead handrail with just a finger. She remained rock-steady, as the train swayed through the tunnel.
"She's at stage school back home in Oxfordshire," her mother explained to the amused audience all around. All of which was most appropriate, for I was on my way to meet Tasha Sheridan, from Harwell, who has also been to stage school, as well as appearing in several productions with Oxfordshire Youth Music Theatre. Now Tasha is a professional - her biography proclaims her to be "Ensemble" in the perennial West End hit Mamma Mia!, which is based on the songs of Abba.
Arriving at the Prince of Wales Theatre for the Mamma Mia! Saturday matinee, however, a shock awaits: Tasha is no longer listed in the ensemble (alias the chorus).
"I was in the ensemble last year," Tasha tells me after the performance. "I graduated from the School of Musical Theatre, Chiswick, in July 2004, and got the job in November that year. I started rehearsals in January, and opened in the show the following March. I was in the ensemble for a year, and I was also second cover understudy to Lisa, one of the two bridesmaids who has to jump over a wall. Towards the end of the year, I put in a request to be seen as a first cover to the part of Sophie. I auditioned, and was actually given the role itself."
Big deal? You bet, for Sophie starts the whole show by singing I Have a Dream stone-cold solo, with no big orchestral build-up or backing ensemble to help her.
"It's a very difficult opening," Tasha agrees with fervour. "It gives me kittens, it really does, every time I do it. I Have a Dream is a very difficult song to sing, it's so still. And then you've got all those interval jumps. When you listen to the original Abba recordings, they've got such pure voices. When everybody sings along to Abba on the radio they think: Oh, that's an easy song to sing'. Then you get into rehearsals, and you look at the music. Abba are so precise with what riffs you can do, and any licence you can take. It's all written there in the music, and if it's not there you can't do it. So it's a lot of pressure for the opening of a show."
Besides I Have a Dream, Sophie also has to drop the show's first dramatic bombshell. She is about to be married, and has invited her long-absent father to the wedding. The trouble is that any one of three men could be her father, so she has invited all three. When her mother finds out, she is horrified.
"You have to get the story going, and blast the audience with all this information," Tasha laughs. "It's quite a challenging first ten minutes."
We are talking in Tasha's dressing room in the gap between the two Saturday shows. Friday is also a matinee day, so that's four performances back to back. Furthermore, Tasha's dressing room is in the attic, four flights of steep stairs above the stage. What on earth does she feel like by Sunday morning? "Dead! I really relish having Sundays to myself."
Like opera singer Mary Plazas, Tasha Sheridan went to Didcot Girls School. While there, she appeared in shows put on by Oxfordshire Youth Music Theatre, run by Lin Marsh and Judy Tompsett.
"I owe everything to Lin and Judy, I really do. I learnt about the music, how to take direction, and they taught me the skills you need to keep your head on in this business. They invested a lot of time with me. I've done shows with Abingdon Operatic Society too, and with the Bartholomew Community Theatre in Eynsham."
But, of course, not every youngster who appears with a local operatic society ends up in a West End musical. What made Tasha decide she wanted to go on the professional stage?
"It just clicked with me. I went along to OYMT one day, and thought I'd give it a go. I didn't know what to expect. And that was it, I came out running, and thought I want to go back again. Yes, it's a business you have to work very hard in, but I found it all just came naturally to me. Then Lin and Judy said: We think you could take this further'."
And what about Tasha's parents, what did they feel about their daughter going on the stage? "My mum loves music. It was an alien world to my dad, but he loves it now I'm doing it. They supported me from the word go, but I had to stay and do my A-Levels, that's what they asked of me. I think that was right, going to drama school at 19 rather than 16 was a good thing - much as I begrudged staying on for the sixth form at the time."
Watching the TV series Musicality, and now How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?, Andrew Lloyd Webber's nationwide search for an unknown to star as Maria in his new production of The Sound of Music, you could easily get the impression that the world of the West End musical is an overheated version of hell. I wondered if these series reflected Tasha's own experience.
"They're not entirely accurate. The business is ruthless, and if you're not right for a part, you're not right for it. That reality, and the feeling of rejection, is very, very real. But I know someone who went quite far with the Maria auditions, but she didn't have a traumatic upbringing, so she never had a camera in her face. They wanted to film people who were going to be cheeky to the judges, or burst into tears.
"When you walk into auditions, yes, they are very scary. But the people there aren't waiting for you to go wrong, and that's what these reality programmes want to see. If you're at an audition and you crack on the note, you simply start again. If you crack on stage, you hope it goes better the next night. It happens to all of us, and you just have to get on with it."
Tasha is contracted to appear in Mamma Mia! until next March. What would be her dream role after that?
"I would love to play one of the two witches in Wicked, the new show about to open in London. Or perhaps Kate in Avenue Q. But most of all I'd like to play Mary Poppins in the great big Prince Edward Theatre."
Mamma Mia! continues at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. Box office: 0870 850 0393.
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Post by Jazz on May 14, 2007 14:26:57 GMT 1
hahah the cabaret twins are gonna be seen out and about at Tasha and Sarah's cabaret!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
YAY
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Post by Kris on May 28, 2007 12:30:04 GMT 1
Ha ha...that's funny... (I know you posted this two weeks ago...but hey, I'm slow...) How much trouble can we get into this time? We have to be careful though as I'm sure there's lots more CCTV than there was at Lauderdale House. Just in case, I'll bring the scissors again. I CAN NOT wait to see the cabaret. I have lots of work to distract me between now and then. ;D |
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Post by Jazz on May 28, 2007 12:50:17 GMT 1
Ha ha...that's funny... (I know you posted this two weeks ago...but hey, I'm slow...) How much trouble can we get into this time? We have to be careful though as I'm sure there's lots more CCTV than there was at Lauderdale House. Just in case, I'll bring the scissors again. I CAN NOT wait to see the cabaret. I have lots of work to distract me between now and then. ;D We can't get into that much trouble...we have adult sueprvision. although last time we did too and look what happened.  No need to bring scissors is this what you're after?  I've got one for you and i didn't have to cut anything  I CAN'T wait i really really miss Tasha and I miss Sarah...ooh it's gonna be fun..i wonder what they'll sing..i wonder if Tasha will do a number from Avenue Q or Wicked ;D ;D (images of Tasha doing a Great.."and you will be Pop-u-lar, you're gonna be pop-u-lar.." OMG |
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Post by Kris on May 28, 2007 13:00:21 GMT 1
AWESOME...OK, well, we'll just have to find something else to get into trouble over then...AFTER the cabaret though...don't want to miss it...
Can't wait! ;D
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Hope I did it in time...but since it let me I am guessing it was OK.
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I don't see how she can do the show 8 times a week and still perform each one as if it were the only one. What a gem she is and I am so gonna miss her. I am trying to think of a good reason to go see the show one more time between now and 2 March cuz I know it's the last time I will get to see her in MM. (Maybe my neighbour's teenager wants to go again.)
I've got one for you and i didn't have to cut anything