Earlier this week regular Carry On Blogging reader Jon contributed a terrific guest blog on all the connections between the Carry Ons and the brilliant television comedy, Dad's Army. You can read his blog here . Today Jon has sent in a great piece about his recent trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...
After 36 hours at the Edinburgh Fringe and seven shows I thought it would be useful to report back on the Carry On related shows.....
On Hello! First stop was the Charles
Hawtrey biopic with Jamie Rees. The show was fantastic and powerful. Jamie's
portrayal of Hawtrey was great. The chronology was set by the Carry Ons
starting with Regardless. There were plenty of references to Charlies' co-stars
Joan Sims, Sid James and Kenneth Williams.
The only niggling inconsistency was
there seemed to mix up a scene in Jack and Spying.
The show was sold out (and getting great
reviews) for the rest of the festival but the venue release a few tickets two
hours before the performance and I managed to get one!
Hancock. Next up was the rerecording of
two Hancock episodes.... One around a holiday and one around new years
resolutions. There are actually four episodes that are being rerecorded the
other two episodes are performed on alternate days. The performances were good
particularly the actor playing Kenneth williams. Kevin McNally pulls off Tony
Hancock well after the first set of rerecordings last year. The Sid James actor
did not have too much to do.
Other Carry On related shows at the
Fringe that I did not get the chance to see...
The Man Called Monkhouse - a Bob
Monkhouse biopic
Don't tell him pike 2- a talk by Ian
Lavender on his career
Nicholas Parsons Happy Hour
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