Алиса спасибо! По-моему, это фото из журнальной статьи, если не ошибаюсь

Midinvaerne я тоже думаю, что это фотошоп. На основании этой фотографии

Статья о спектакле September Tide с Майклом. Прочитала - и еще больше захотелось посмотреть. Красивая история и красивый Майкл
Love hurts: Paul Taylor on September Tide at the Comedy
PAUL TAYLOR
Thursday, 20 January 1994
A storm in September, remarks a character in September Tide, can do more damage than all the winter months combined. A weather forecast or a warning to people in their fifties? Both, it appears, for in Daphne du Maurier's 1948 play, Cornish weather proves strenuously responsive to people's emotions.
A middle-aged woman and her artist son-in-law fall in love without admitting it to each other and, after two months, his feelings are coming to the boil. Cue a nice tempest, a power-cut, and a breakdown in services that leaves his wife stranded elsewhere. Then, to prove to the older woman how much she loves him, have the son-in- law run out into the storm to do something recklessly life- endangering. Then have him come back all sexy and sodden so that she can solicitously remove his shirt.
Corny? Yes, thanks. Also oddly disarming, not entirely without insight and revived now in a persuasive production by Celia Bannerman which stars Susannah York as the widowed mother-in- law, Stella, and Michael Praed as Evan, the young artist. An affecting mix of radiant, slightly girlish romanticism and sad-eyed responsibility, York's Stella is a woman who has failed to keep pace with change. She's as dated as her tea-gown and so, when the couple come to live with her, she's bemused by the studiedly casual, off-hand relationship that exists between her daughter (Hermione Norris) and her new spouse, invested by Praed with a dark, witty disdain and a goading Welsh lilt. Almost from the start, Stella and Evan are drawn to each other. By sheer intuition, he sits down at the piano and plays her favourite old tune, 'I've Got Those Little Boy Blues', at which point any wife who had studied the ways of English drama would have had him on the next train back to London.
Margaret Forster's recent life of Daphne du Maurier suggests that the taboo relationship in the play is a transposition into heterosexual terms of Du Maurier's own illicit passion for Ellen Doubleday, the wife of a New York publisher. What is striking, then, is the degree to which Stella's pre-war values of 'respect, morality and standards' are allowed to win out. True, while tracing the awkward aftermath of the stormy night, the play produces some fine, uncomfortable moments and the return home on navy sick leave of her over-grown juvenile of a son ups the embarrassment levels considerably.
But the end is bathed in a phoney golden haze of self- sacrifice. Conveniently, we are nudged to remember that Evan's mother died when he was 14. Seeing Stella with her son has, he hints, painfully reminded him of what he has missed: a mother to make proud. So he decides to become a real husband to the (under-written) daughter and take her off to live with him in New York. He does this principally, we are led to believe, to gain Stella's maternal approval. That's not so much the basis for a marriage, though, as a new kind of mother-in-law joke.
Continues at the Comedy Theatre, Panton St, London SW1 (071-930 2578)
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter … 08125.html

Отредактировано Lada (2011-09-19 16:48:53)

Майкл в "Идеальном муже".

This revival of Peter Hall’s acclaimed production boasts a line-up of stage stalwarts: Kate O’Mara’s manipulative blackmailing Mrs Cheveley, Fenella Fielding’s scene-stealing Lady Markby, Michael Praed’s powerfully successful MP hiding a dark secret, Carol Royle’s idealistic Lady Chiltern and Tony Britton’s Earl of Caversham who seemed to have trouble remembering his lines but appeared to handle it all so skilfully that one started to question whether it was indeed amnesia or acting.
http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/37 … h_emotion/

Об игре и прекрасном вокале Майкла в "Прекрасных и проклятых":
Michael Praed proved that he is a fine singer. He portrays Scott’s battle with alcoholism and his final, and inevitable, fall from grace with great sympathy.
http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/musical/ … llivan.htm

А вот интересно: есть у них там в Англиях, как у нас, - кинопостановки спектаклей? Вот бы посмотреть его...

Народ, всю тему (вроде) просмотрел. А о чём, правда, шум? Где эта самая фотка?

Nasir фото здесь, с подписью "Майкл и Роберт Эдди "Кошачьи нежности".

Ольга я тоже очень люблю Майкла в этом спектакле. У него потрясающий голос, и неординарность характера Фицджеральда он передал очень хорошо, показал его великим талантом, большим пьяницей и эксцентрической личностью. Как бы хотелось вживую увидеть этот раскошный мюзикл

Ольга
Lada
Спасибо, а то голову ломаю. 

Ну вот и поговорили. Не зря сегодня праздник смайлика.