Melbourne, Friday, 14 June 2013
Early this afternoon, I witnessed a brave and
bloodied hero carefully climb a precarious spider’s web on the mysterious Skull
Island.
For good measure, I then travelled to 1930’s
New York where I was in equal parts entranced and enchanted by a gorgeous,
shapely ensemble of high stepping dancers led by a bright new stage star, Miss Ann
Darrow.
How was I able to do this, I hear you ask?
Well, I was fortunate enough to attend the
second media call at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre for the highly anticipated, high
tech, high concept, huge budget production of King Kong.
The spider’s web was skillfully navigated by performer,
Chris Ryan, who portrays our indomitable hero, Jack Driscoll. I must say that, Ryan has
done a fine job in chanelling Die Hard’s John McClane, right down to the sweat
soaked and bloodied singlet.
McClane though, can’t sing to save himself.
Driscoll’s powerful ballad “Face of Forever” (music and lyrics by 3D
from Massive Attack, Guy Garvey from Elbow and Marius de Vries), tells of a man
who must meet and then conquer his fears as he navigates the many natural
perils that exist on Skull Island.
Forget dirt, sweat and grime and cue the
bright lights, glitz, and glamour, as a shapely, saucy, all-female ensemble led
by Esther Hannaford’s Ann Darrow belt out Marius de Vries’ “Special FX”. And what an eye-popping number
this proves to be! It’s all sexy costumes, and dozens of flawlessly executed high
kicks, as Ann Darrow discovers that she is, in fact, a sexy starlet, with a
dynamite figure and belter of a voice.
I hope the following photos that I took during the media call, do some justice to this wonderfully unique, carefully crafted production.
I, like many Melbournians are fidgety, dry
mouthed, and sweaty palmed in our anticipation of the opening night and world
premiere of King Kong, tomorrow night, Saturday June 15, 2013, at the Regent
Theatre. I will be there. Giant apes could not keep me away!
Until next time …
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| Esther Hannaford as Ann Darrow (L) and Chris Ryan as Jack Driscoll (R) |
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| King Kong is ferocious! |
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| Chris Ryan sings while climbing a spider's web on Skull Island |
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| Hannaford's Ann Darrow discovers she really is a sex bomb! |
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| The spectacular "Special FX" |
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| Queenie van de Zandt as Cassandra and the High Priestess looks up at King Kong |
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| van de Zandt (L), Hannaford (Middle), Ryan (R) |
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| Channel 7's Emily Angwin interviews Hannaford and Ryan |
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| Channel 7's Emily Angwin interviews Hannaford and Ryan - Kong looks on bemused! |
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