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FAME FOR ADAM COLEMAN


Date: 2015-10-07; view: 422.


 

Why are there so many people queueing daily outside the Prince of Wales theatre to see a pantomime? The reason is Adam Coleman, one of the most brilliant former students of Castle School of Performing Arts, who is at the moment the most popular rock star in Britain. His fans usually queue to listen to him sing in pop concerts, but now they are fighting their way to find a seat to see him starring in Dick Whittington and His Cat. Pantomime actors generally provoke a polite enthusiasm from the public, whereas every time Adam comes into the spotlight, all you hear is squeals, screams and whistles from the stalls.

Adam, naturally, is the star attraction as Dick Whittington himself and even his co-star (a pretty girl disguised as a cat) doesn't really get a look in.

There are excited squeals as Adam appears on stage and the audience get positively sentimental later on when he sings the love-song All I ask of you. As soon as the curtain comes down a mysterious voice booming through the loudspeaker reminds the audience that copies of Adam's new album are on sale in the foyer, presumablywith all the cokes and ice-creams.

The second act is more or less the same thing — lots of booing and hissing when the villain appears and enthusiastic loud applause when Dick rescues his true love from the tentacles of a giant octopus. All in all the whole show gets an ecstatic response.

After the show is over, Adam is relaxing lazily in his rather untidy dressing room among piles of fan letters — “They're always writing many more letters than I could possibly reply to, even if I lived two hundred years”.

He's changed out of Dick Whittington's tights and boots and he's wearing something a little more casual — a striped dressing gown.

The panto is the latest step in a career which has taken Adam Coleman from the stage of the small theatre of Castle School of Performing Arts through the chorus of the famous musical Oliver! to the top of the hit parade — in short, one of the most famous rock stars in Britain.

Moreover, the panto isn't the only work he's doing these days. In fact, early in the morning he and his band are working hard to record the soundtrack of a film whose title is still a secret. However, what is not a secret is that the album will certainly be a hit next summer!

?16. Write an unfavourable review for a play you didn't like.

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