See, he seems the, kind of the least, the least likely candidate to, to last so long, because he was already dated by the time the sixties came around that that type of, that type of hero, that type of personality and, and the ideas that he represented were already very dated. I, I wish, I wish I had a good answer for it. What do you think it is about bond, the films and the character that have captured everybody's imagination for decades? It seemed to, uh, the idea of bonds seemed to jive, this kind of world traveler, who is also incredibly for better and worse, uh, representative Britain and its place in the world. And, and, you know, because I, I am a British person living in a foreign country thematically as well. So when it came time to sort of devise a solo show for myself, like a, like a showcase, this was for me, at least the obvious choice, because I was so invested in it as, as an idea. And, you know, over the years it sort of becomes like a lexicon that you carry with you through life.
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Uh, to both I'm watching bond films, since I was a child, it's kind of ingrained in growing up as a, as a kind of British person, at least in my generation that, you know, these movies would be on, on TV all the time. It's my brother, he's my brother, butĪnd what inspired you to tackle bond is bond a character that you've always been obsessed with or life? Specifically, a William Shatner spoken word version of the movie, uh, inspired by the Hollys. So because it's a musical, I wanted to have a, a kind of musical version of the film specter, and that's what we've done here. Not specifically my feelings about specter, uh, but yeah, it's in, in, in every version of this show, I do something different with specter every time based kind of show I'm doing. So it's not hard to see why the producers might have gone with, with, uh, with another artist.Īnd you also do a little bit of a musical number to kind of sum up your feelings about specter well, It's an incredible piece of music making a very eighties sounding song to a very distinctly nineties movie. Is the same war is replaced by different dancers using different Īnd one of these is a rejected golden eye So yeah, it's a fascinating little niche culture that we've appeared to, uh, have tread into. It started with rejected bond thing and going online and through, through YouTube and, and websites where you can find videos and demos of all these amazing and not so amazing songs that were submitted to the producer of the bond films, but for one reason or another, uh, never taken up, taken up. So talk about the kind of research you did for this, because not just in terms of the music, but also you find like memos from producers and like really interesting little tidbits to throw into So I wanted, uh, a musical soundtrack that it also addressed that. So I wanted to bring all that to light because the show has always been a kind of alternative skew perspective on the bond film. I, on the other hand am very interested in this kind of shadow a world of bond music, which is the bond themes that were submitted to the producers, but rejected or, um, the, the songs that were specifically recorded as background To never really be heard. And yet whenever you see, you know, a celebration of bond music, you know, it's, it's, it's the same songs, it's the theme songs because, you know, naturally they're as iconic as the films themselves. Music is so central to the, to the James Bond films. To people what inspired this and what you wanted this show to kind of encompass So yeah, so you're getting the, the same experience with live music and, and musically themed sketches and skits as well. We're gonna put that on a sticker on the poster of it now includes no time to die. We do all 25 at this point, including no time to die. So can people expect this from this show? Now the original one, man bond condensed all of the bond movies into one show. We have musical interludes, rejected bond themes and soundtrack, deep cuts and some original bond pasti songs. Now? The current iteration, uh, James Bond, the musical is a musical cabaret comedy adaptation of one man bond or the bond show as it later became known and we've kind of musical, um, show. You have a show now that you have been working on for a number of years, I was privileged and delighted to see the one man bond show at fringe, but what has it turned into Beth Amando has been following the evolution of the show, which now returns as James Bond, the musical at the car Playhouse this weekend, He channeled all six actors who have played bond and condensed all the films into an hour. Actor, Tom Stewart put his obsession with James Bond into a 2018 San Diego international fringe show called one man bond for the show.