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The Sun
05-05-2025
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- The Sun
Fresh woke madness as Full Monty musical slapped with trigger warning
THE Full Monty musical featuring male strippers has been hit with woke warnings — about nudity. Based on the hit 1997 comedy film, it is advertised as a show 'that bares all'. But its website warns audiences: 'This production contains adult themes, depiction of suicide and partial nudity.' It will be performed for a week in September at the Kings Theatre in Portsmouth. And Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, blasted: 'It's hard to imagine anyone who's bought a ticket to The Full Monty being triggered by partial nudity. "What could they possibly think the title refers to other than male nudity?' Theatre-goer Joe Gratton, 34, said: 'These trigger warnings are patronising to audience members.' The award-winning film depicted six unemployed steelworkers in Sheffield who turn to stripping to make some cash. Starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinson, they end up doing a 'full monty' to Tom Jones 's 'You Can Leave Your Hat On'. It was one of the highest-grossing films of the 1990s, raking in £52million at the Box Office, and won four Oscar nominations. The alert comes after British comedy classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail was slapped with warnings alerting fans to 'bad language' ahead of the film's 50th anniversary re-release. Fans of Doctor Who and even the Three Little Pigs nursery rhyme have also been cautioned about 'discriminatory content'. Tom Wilkinson dead- Fully Monty star dies aged 75 after starring in Shakespeare in Love and Batman Begins The Kings Theatre has been approached for comment.
Scottish Sun
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Fresh woke madness as Full Monty musical slapped with trigger warning
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) THE Full Monty musical featuring male strippers has been hit with woke warnings — about nudity. Based on the hit 1997 comedy film, it is advertised as a show 'that bares all'. 2 The Full Monty musical featuring male strippers has been hit with woke warnings — about nudity Credit: Alamy But its website warns audiences: 'This production contains adult themes, depiction of suicide and partial nudity.' It will be performed for a week in September at the Kings Theatre in Portsmouth. And Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, blasted: 'It's hard to imagine anyone who's bought a ticket to The Full Monty being triggered by partial nudity. "What could they possibly think the title refers to other than male nudity?' Theatre-goer Joe Gratton, 34, said: 'These trigger warnings are patronising to audience members.' The award-winning film depicted six unemployed steelworkers in Sheffield who turn to stripping to make some cash. Starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinson, they end up doing a 'full monty' to Tom Jones's 'You Can Leave Your Hat On'. It was one of the highest-grossing films of the 1990s, raking in £52million at the Box Office, and won four Oscar nominations. The alert comes after British comedy classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail was slapped with warnings alerting fans to 'bad language' ahead of the film's 50th anniversary re-release. Fans of Doctor Who and even the Three Little Pigs nursery rhyme have also been cautioned about 'discriminatory content'. Tom Wilkinson dead- Fully Monty star dies aged 75 after starring in Shakespeare in Love and Batman Begins The Kings Theatre has been approached for comment.
The Irish Sun
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Fresh woke madness as Full Monty musical slapped with trigger warning
THE Full Monty musical featuring male strippers has been hit with woke warnings — about nudity. Based on 2 The Full Monty musical featuring male strippers has been hit with woke warnings — about nudity Credit: Alamy But its website warns audiences: 'This production contains adult themes, depiction of suicide and partial nudity.' It will be performed for a week in September at the Kings Theatre in Portsmouth. And Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, blasted: 'It's hard to imagine anyone who's bought a ticket to "What could they possibly think the title refers to other than male nudity?' read more on uk news Theatre-goer Joe Gratton, 34, said: 'These trigger warnings are patronising to audience members.' The award-winning film depicted Starring It was one of the highest-grossing films of the 1990s, raking in £52million at the Box Office, and won four Oscar nominations. Most read in The Sun The alert comes after British comedy classic Fans of Doctor Who and even the Three Little Pigs nursery rhyme have also been cautioned about 'discriminatory content'. Tom Wilkinson dead- Fully Monty star dies aged 75 after starring in Shakespeare in Love and Batman Begins The Kings Theatre has been approached for comment. 2 The 1997 comedy movie starred Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinson Credit: Fox - Check Copyright Holder
Daily Mirror
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Hollyoaks share major announcement with fans ahead of 30th anniversary
Hollyoaks marks its 30th anniversary this year and to celebrate the special occasion some of the Channel 4 soap's favourite stars from over the years are going on tour Hollyoaks: The 30th Anniversary Tour has been confirmed as the Channel 4 soap marks its milestone birthday this Autumn. The live in-conversation event will take place in October with several iconic cast members taking fans back through the past three decades. Gary Lucy, best known for playing Luke Morgan, is the first guest announced for the tour which will play four special dates in Manchester, Glasgow, Nottingham and London. Gary, who has also starred and produced the award-winning The Full Monty stage show, first appeared in Hollyoaks in 1999 to 2002, before reprising his role from 2017 until 2022. Hollyoaks first launched on October 23 1995 and is the most youth-skewed UK continuing drama with a loyal audience that follow the lives of the residents of the Chester village where it all happens. Streaming on Channel 4 with a live TX on E4, Hollyoaks has for three decades consistently delivered "firsts" in important issue-based storylines, unmissable drama and larger than life characters that are now part of the fabric of soap. This live event will allow audiences to go behind the scenes for the first time, delivering an exclusive access-all-areas live tour, as cast members relive the show's most iconic moments and share unseen footage from the set of the multi-award-winning soap. VP Global Licensing at All3 Jason Easy. said: "We're delighted to partner with Maple Tree Entertainment and Lime Pictures to bring to life the iconic, vibrant world of Hollyoaks off-screen. "As the series celebrates three decades on air, Lime Pictures continually delivers a soap opera that remains a firm fan favourite, packed with charismatic characters, whilst also retaining a modern edge and ability to tackle timely contemporary issues head on. "With an incredible fan base all over the UK we're delighted that audiences will be able to go behind the scenes of the Chester-based soap like never before." The tour kicks off at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on October 13 before moving onto Glasgow's SEC Armadillo on October 16, Nottingham's Concert Hall on October 18 before concluding at London's Adelphi Theatre on October 21.
Chicago Tribune
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Review: ‘Real Women Have Curves: The Musical' gets a feel-good Broadway bow
NEW YORK — 'My husband likes a big woman,' says one of the characters in 'Real Women Have Curves: The Musical,' enough to spark a roar from a matinee audience. 'More territory to explore.' 'My husband likes a short woman,' comes the fast response from a fellow worker. 'You get to the destination faster.' Sexy quips like that are sprinkled throughout this affirmative musical about Latina garment workers in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1987, a new Broadway attraction based on both Josefina López's original play and the 2002 film adaptation that starred America Ferrera. Directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo, it's a modestly scaled melodrama about the experience of mostly undocumented and hard-working immigrants and, although theoretically set nearly 40 years ago in the late 1980s, it has arrived at the James Earl Jones Theatre with striking timeliness. The show, which has a score by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez and a book by Lisa Loomer and Nell Benjamin, wisely leans into that circumstance. The cultural touchstones of the 1980s aren't exactly dominant here and until someone mentions Ronald Reagan, I swear most audience members thought they were watching a show set, sad to say, in the present. The title of the piece, a value statement, signals the show's point of view, and that there will be support and community and determination and body positivity aplenty. That's exactly how it goes. The plot is straight melodrama and derivative of several recent musicals, from 'In the Heights' to 'The Full Monty,' but especially 'Kinky Boots.' Carmen (Justina Machado), a Mexican immigrant who has opened her own garment factory, gets an order from a mean, pencil-skirted buyer named Rosalí (Jennifer Sánchez) to sew hundreds of dresses on a ridiculously tight deadline. If she doesn't make it, she won't get paid (you suspect she just might find a way before the end of Act 2). That's one source of dramatic tension, especially since the factory also has to worry about immigration raids and workers disappearing. The other big conflict flows between Carmen and her daughter, Ana (Tatianna Córdoba), an 18-year-old with Big Dreams, including an acceptance with a scholarship letter from Columbia University, allowing her to pursue her goal of becoming a journalist (still a viable career ambition in 1987). Ana's gentle dad (Mauricio Mendoza) is cool, her sister (Florencia Cluenca) is ready to step up at the shop and Ana's boyfriend (Mason Reeves) is geeky-cute and supportive (the show is no font of machismo), but mom Carmen wants her kid to stay and help with the garment biz. Ana is torn between her familial responsibilities and her own desires. You think she may figure out how to manage both before the final bows? The book for 'Real Women' really does tie itself into a pretzel trying to achieve its goal of keeping Carmen a likable character with whom the audience can empathize (the enemies here are the evil capitalists who forget where they came from, along with the immigration authorities) while also creating conflict with her daughter who just wants to go to any Ivy League college on a full scholarship. Certainly, children of immigrants feel much pressure due to their parents' prior struggles and those first-generation Americans often count family loyalty above all, but they also typically prize education and Carmen's lack of support for college for a whip-smart daughter the show insists she adores is just very hard to believe. Machado does her best to make it work and the personalized passion with which the talented Córdoba approaches her standard-issue, let-me-at-'em 18-year-old is enough to lift the character, especially in front of an audience willing to let her stand on their collective shoulders. This show, which has a genial, populist score of entertaining and empowering numbers, is not really about that plot anyway. Everyone who has ever seen a musical knows where it is going. It's more about the collective journey, the chance to celebrate oft-overlooked garment workers who know of skill and artistry and to enjoy actors with panache (Aline Mayagoitia, a very notable talent, is notably moving as a Guatemalan refugee). Most of the company is celebrating a Broadway debut and the audience is primed to enjoy their triumph, fictionally and formatively. Trujillo, an old pro, understands his material and his lively choreography is both created for the bonafide dancers in the cast and designed to make everyone else look and feel good. So they do. There's a song about menopause that went over like gangbusters at the show I saw, determined ballads of hopes, fears and resilience and even a bit of PG semi-nudity when the factory gets too sweaty and confidence rises. The curves promised on the marquee are vivaciously delivered.
