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"Beat me on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly": All things Victoria Wood
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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 254616" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">Victoria At The Albert Live</span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">(2001)</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p04yxpr8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Five years on from her last sellout dates at the Royal Albert Hall, and eight years on from her first record-breaking series of concerts there, Vic is back at her favourite venue for her <em>At It Again</em> tour (or, as she confesses it was almost called due to a typography error,<em> Victoria Wood: A Tit Again</em>).</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Certainly as far as home media goes, this is Vic’s final tour. She signed the visitors’ book to say she was there for the third and final time and mentions her impending retirement as part of the set in her own inimitable way:</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">It looks like Vic did return to the Albert a couple of times after this, though just for one-off appearances. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Fittingly, this particular show feels like Vic’s most personal and autobiographical yet. There’s no ground left uncovered, there are no sacred cows, no life events too painful that they’re not included. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">The entire forty five minute first act is Victoria talking about her menopause and her then-recent hysterectomy. The tour had been postponed when Vic needed an emergency operation and - incredibly - she changed the entire show to include it:</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">While telling the story, Vic seamlessly sidetracks into all these different sub-topics. Which include…</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"><u><em>Her mother</em></u>:</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"><u><em>Her eating disorder</em></u>:</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">Along the way, Vic covers subjects as diverse as obese people enjoying food at Disney World; Paul Daniels’s toupee; automated phone answering services. All with a real-world perspective. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">The entire act is a raconteur masterclass.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">(continued...) </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 254616, member: 23"] [CENTER][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][B][SIZE=7]Victoria At The Albert Live[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4](2001) [IMG]https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p04yxpr8.jpg[/IMG][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][SIZE=4]Five years on from her last sellout dates at the Royal Albert Hall, and eight years on from her first record-breaking series of concerts there, Vic is back at her favourite venue for her [I]At It Again[/I] tour (or, as she confesses it was almost called due to a typography error,[I] Victoria Wood: A Tit Again[/I]). Certainly as far as home media goes, this is Vic’s final tour. She signed the visitors’ book to say she was there for the third and final time and mentions her impending retirement as part of the set in her own inimitable way:[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][SIZE=4]It looks like Vic did return to the Albert a couple of times after this, though just for one-off appearances. Fittingly, this particular show feels like Vic’s most personal and autobiographical yet. There’s no ground left uncovered, there are no sacred cows, no life events too painful that they’re not included. The entire forty five minute first act is Victoria talking about her menopause and her then-recent hysterectomy. The tour had been postponed when Vic needed an emergency operation and - incredibly - she changed the entire show to include it:[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][SIZE=4]While telling the story, Vic seamlessly sidetracks into all these different sub-topics. Which include… [U][I]Her mother[/I][/U]:[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][SIZE=4][U][I]Her eating disorder[/I][/U]:[/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][SIZE=4]Along the way, Vic covers subjects as diverse as obese people enjoying food at Disney World; Paul Daniels’s toupee; automated phone answering services. All with a real-world perspective. The entire act is a raconteur masterclass.[/SIZE][/COLOR] [CENTER][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)](continued...) [/COLOR][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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