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Post by jackinthegreen on Oct 4, 2016 21:57:01 GMT
I'm sure you are right and I am being selfish to wish he could come back and walk around the stage and throw in a phrase or verse here and there that Ian can't reach anymore. The waltz measures at the end of TAAB...with Ian and Ryan dancing with each other....remain sharp and happy memories. Can't argue with that, loved it when he stood beside Ian and they did the one legged thing in perfect time..
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 18, 2016 7:44:58 GMT
www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/whats-on/kinks-musical-heads-for-city-1-8164633Kinks musical heads for city06:00Tuesday 18 October 2016 Multi award-winning West End musical Sunny Afternoon, which charts The Kinks’ rise to stardom, will tour to Sheffield. The show won four Olivier Awards last year including Best New Musical and Outstanding Achievement in Music for Ray Davies. This production, which runs at Sheffield’s Lyceum Theatre from October 25 to 29, features hits such as You Really Got Me, Waterloo Sunset, Dedicated Follower of Fashion and, of course, Sunny Afternoon. Ryan O’Donnell stars as Ray Davies. Ryan has also appeared in Quadrophenia and is a former member of Jethro Tull. He is joined by Mark Newnham (All or Nothing) as Dave Davies, Garmon Rhys (Doctor Faustus) as bassist Pete Quaife and Andrew Gallo (Saturday Night Fever) as drummer Mick Avory. Against the backdrop of a Britain caught mid-swing between the conservative 50s and riotous 60s, The Kinks exploded onto the music scene with a raw energetic new sound.
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Post by rredmond on Oct 18, 2016 15:40:16 GMT
Very cool!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 14:09:09 GMT
Capturing that Ray of sunshineO’Donnell can claim membership of a very different group originating in the Sixties, Jethro Tull. “I was with them for five years. Ian’s voice (leader Ian Anderson) had slightly lost its range. I think they hired me principally to bring some young energy to the stage and to help with the top notes.” He is joining them for a gig in Frankfurt in November – “but my touring days are over.”
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 19, 2016 9:23:02 GMT
www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Full-Cast-Announced-for-the-National-Tour-of-SUNNY-AFTERNOON-20161118Full Cast Announced for the National Tour of SUNNY AFTERNOONNovember 18 7:15 AM 2016 Ryan O'Donnell (Ray Davies) most recently appeared in "Sunny Afternoon" at the Harold Pinter Theatre. His other theatre credits include: "Quadrophenia" at Theatre Royal Plymouth; "Frankenstein" at Royal and Derngate; "Romeo & Juliet" for the Royal Shakespeare Company; "ShadowMouth" at Sheffield Crucible and "Tracy Beaker the Musical" at the Nottingham Playhouse. Ryan was a member of the band Jethro Tull for four years. In 2009 he recorded 'Matthew and Son' with Cat 'Yusuf' Stevens and the BBC.
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Post by JTull 007 on Nov 21, 2016 17:16:02 GMT
The incredible Ryan O'Donnell "Sunny Afternoon"
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Post by bananas on Dec 18, 2016 18:29:50 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 18, 2016 22:56:49 GMT
Thanks for posting bananas. I enjoyed that.
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Post by bananas on Jan 3, 2017 20:37:45 GMT
Thanks for posting bananas. I enjoyed that. Here's another snippet in honour of Sir Ray Davies
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 3, 2017 22:24:47 GMT
Thanks for posting bananas. I enjoyed that. Here's another snippet in honour of Sir Ray Davies Excellent Ryan certainly looks and sounds the part there It was up in Glasgow here at the Kings Theatre and I just missed it!
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 16, 2017 16:34:26 GMT
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Post by jackinthegreen on Jan 16, 2017 21:26:24 GMT
They've surely got their headline wrong MD.. ...I saw this in Edinburgh last year so it has been on tour for a while...
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 17, 2017 8:40:33 GMT
They've surely got their headline wrong MD.. ...I saw this in Edinburgh last year so it has been on tour for a while... They sure did - I would suspect that "2017" should have been in the headline instead of "first". Shoddy editing/proof reading I would suspect
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 17, 2017 10:37:12 GMT
They've surely got their headline wrong MD.. ...I saw this in Edinburgh last year so it has been on tour for a while... Yes I was about to say that too. I was sitting on the bus going by the King's theatre and I saw that i had missed the dates. Even in his interview, Ryan mentions that they had already toured with it! Very shoddy journalism - imagine such a thing
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Post by bananas on Jan 18, 2017 16:25:18 GMT
Why isn't Ryan mentioned in 'Past Band Members and Guests' on the new Tull website?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 18, 2017 21:35:16 GMT
Which reminds me...any reports, vidoes etc from Ryan's live opera guesting in franfurt recently? Did that actually happen ?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 19, 2017 8:47:53 GMT
Why isn't Ryan mentioned in 'Past Band Members and Guests' on the new Tull website? I would guess that along with Unnur Birna Bjornsdottir and Greig Robinson, Ryan is still actively performing with Tull as part of the video wall in tn the Opera concerts. Just a thought
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Post by bananas on Jan 26, 2017 16:54:05 GMT
Why isn't Ryan mentioned in 'Past Band Members and Guests' on the new Tull website? I would guess that along with Unnur Birna Bjornsdottir and Greig Robinson, Ryan is still actively performing with Tull as part of the video wall in tn the Opera concerts. Just a thought He's not on the Musicians page either though :/
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Post by bananas on Jan 26, 2017 17:02:42 GMT
Which reminds me...any reports, vidoes etc from Ryan's live opera guesting in franfurt recently? Did that actually happen ? sorry for the bad quality, it's a screenshot from a video that's not mine + i had to shrink the image to upload it here :')
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 27, 2017 8:45:14 GMT
I would guess that along with Unnur Birna Bjornsdottir and Greig Robinson, Ryan is still actively performing with Tull as part of the video wall in tn the Opera concerts. Just a thought He's not on the Musicians page either though :/ Over to you James A. if or when you're reading this
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 29, 2017 8:34:16 GMT
www.impactnottingham.com/2017/01/sunny-afternoon-theatre-royal/Sunny Afternoon @ Theatre RoyalJanuary 25, 2017 Sunny Afternoon, a musical based upon the music and life of The Kinks, is quintessentially British and endlessly enjoyable. Charting the rise to fame of four boys who grew up in working class families in Muswell Heath, the musical comically explores the various jaunts of a group of friends as they face managers, promoters, lovers, and breaking America. Written by Ray Davies himself, the production is held together by the infamous conflicts between himself and his brother as they navigate this new world of touring and fame. Ryan O’Donnell does a great job playing The Kinks frontman Ray Davies, depicting a passion and instinctive talent for song-writing alongside his love for his wife Rasa (Lisa Wright). A series of emotional duets between Ray Davies and Rasa punctuate the fast-paced action, propelling the plot forward with a new momentum and ferocity as we find ourselves rooting anew for the happiness and success of the band. “Mark Newnham perfectly depicts the wild eccentricity of a young rockstar in the 1960s” Dave Davies (Mark Newnham), otherwise known as Dave the Rave, truly steals the show. With a youthful carelessness that appears to spiral out of control during the course of the production, Mark Newnham perfectly depicts the wild eccentricity of a young rockstar in the 1960s, who left school at 16 to make it big with his brother. Appearing in an array of flamboyant outfits, swinging from chandeliers, and possessing a general anti-establishment disposition that provides various (humorous) tensions throughout, Dave Davies is a highlight. “Sunny Afternoon stages the most memorable moments of The Kinks’ career” Coupled with band-members Pete Quaife (Garmon Rhys) and Mick Avory (Andrew Gallo), Sunny Afternoon stages the most memorable moments of The Kinks’ career – from Mick Avory knocking Dave Davies out live on stage in Cardiff, to their ban in America that Dave Davies himself stated ‘took away the best years in The Kinks’ career’. A not-so-subtle parodying of America is present throughout, and is suitably comical, as well as assisting The Kinks’ identity as a Socialist English band writing songs for the common man. This sense of a 1960’s nostalgia runs throughout the musical, with accurate and quirky period costumes and dances, the celebration of England winning the world cup, and Ray Davies’ homesickness for his country. But it all concludes on a high. “The audience were up on their feet dancing as the theatre transformed into a Kinks concert” The final twenty minutes of the show see a number of outstanding musical performances from the cast, with many of the actors doubling as their own musicians. Playing classics such as ‘Sunny Afternoon’, ‘You Really Got Me’ and ‘Lola’, the audience were up on their feet dancing as the theatre transformed into a Kinks concert. Cast members, decked in vibrant 1960s fashions, danced and clapped from the audience before a triumphant ‘Waterloo Sunset’ finale that possessed a real feel-good factor. “I can delight in saying that Sunny Afternoon does not disappoint” As a celebration and memoir to one of the most influential British rock bands of all time (a tall order), I can delight in saying that Sunny Afternoon does not disappoint. As Ray Davies ironically asks during the course of the production, ‘Yeah, but will they be playing it in 30 year’s time?’, I can’t help but think that Sunny Afternoon has the potential to inspire a whole new generation of The Kinks fans. A must-see. 9/10 – Unmissable, almost perfect. Kayleigh Fletcher
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Post by ash on Feb 3, 2017 15:22:29 GMT
Great show last night in Oxford. If you can go and see it, do! I had to break out my old Kinks CD today Spoke to Ryan today via Facebook. He said I should have told him I was there and he would have popped out to say hello.I'm just not that presumptuous ... Maybe next time.
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 3, 2017 19:29:27 GMT
Great show last night in Oxford. If you can go and see it, do! I had to break out my old Kinks CD today Spoke to Ryan today via Facebook. He said I should have told him I was there and he would have popped out to say hello.I'm just not that presumptuous ... Maybe next time. Ryan sounds like a smashing bloke and I hope you get the chance to meet him in the future.
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Post by ash on Feb 5, 2017 11:35:12 GMT
I have to say I'm both shocked and disappointed that Ryan is not anywhere on the updated IA/Tull site
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 5, 2017 15:51:49 GMT
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Post by ash on Feb 5, 2017 22:23:49 GMT
I have to say I'm both shocked and disappointed that Ryan is not anywhere on the updated IA/Tull site There may be a reason based on Ryan's current situation with Sunny Afternoon. Although he is currently with the Touring Musical, he may have requested less confusion about TULL. Ryan O'Donnell will always be a member of TULL in my interpretation of what TULL is... I regret not meeting up with Ryan the other day even more now because I could have asked him about it. I would say great past work just adds to who you are
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 6, 2017 18:56:41 GMT
Yes. Tull version 2012-2014 was tremendous and Ryan was a huge reason. Pity that 'the final solution' to Ian's voice deterioration was but a temporary fix.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 17, 2017 8:27:07 GMT
www.yorkpress.co.uk/When Ryan met Ray on a Sunny Afternoon to star in The Kinks' musicalwww.yorkpress.co.uk/author/profile/70502.Charles_Hutchinson/RYAN O'Donnell has a simple philosophy to playing Ray Davies in The Kinks' musical Sunny Afternoon.
"I'm never going to be Ray Davies but I'll make it my role and the big thing is to have fun with the show," says Ryan, who will be leading the cast in a week's run at the Grand Opera House, York, from Tuesday.
He had been touring with Jethro Tull, singing the high notes when performing with Ian Anderson, when Sunny Afternoon's musical supervisor in the London show told him the "chap playing Ray might be leaving; might you be interested in doing the show?".
"It turned out the guy didn't leave, but initially I was taken on to 'alternate', just doing two of the nine shows each week, and then I took over," he recalls. "I did my first couple of performances just before the show won four Olivier Awards in 2015, which was a real boost for everyone."
Ryan had experienced a diverse performing career, whether singing "40 per cent of the vocals" in Jethro Tull's live shows from 2011 to 2015, such as the Thick As A Brick tour that visited York in 2012; starring as Jimmy in Quadrophenia at the Leeds Grand Theatre in 2009; or playing Gregory in Romeo And Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in one of his first jobs after leaving drama school. "But I'd never done a West End residency until Sunny Afternoon," says the Yorkshireman from Halifax.www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/theatre/15098302.When_Ryan_met_Ray_on_a_Sunny_Afternoon_to_star_in_The_Kinks__musical/
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 17, 2017 10:05:22 GMT
www.yorkpress.co.uk/When Ryan met Ray on a Sunny Afternoon to star in The Kinks' musicalwww.yorkpress.co.uk/author/profile/70502.Charles_Hutchinson/RYAN O'Donnell has a simple philosophy to playing Ray Davies in The Kinks' musical Sunny Afternoon.
"I'm never going to be Ray Davies but I'll make it my role and the big thing is to have fun with the show," says Ryan, who will be leading the cast in a week's run at the Grand Opera House, York, from Tuesday.
He had been touring with Jethro Tull, singing the high notes when performing with Ian Anderson, when Sunny Afternoon's musical supervisor in the London show told him the "chap playing Ray might be leaving; might you be interested in doing the show?".
"It turned out the guy didn't leave, but initially I was taken on to 'alternate', just doing two of the nine shows each week, and then I took over," he recalls. "I did my first couple of performances just before the show won four Olivier Awards in 2015, which was a real boost for everyone."
Ryan had experienced a diverse performing career, whether singing "40 per cent of the vocals" in Jethro Tull's live shows from 2011 to 2015, such as the Thick As A Brick tour that visited York in 2012; starring as Jimmy in Quadrophenia at the Leeds Grand Theatre in 2009; or playing Gregory in Romeo And Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in one of his first jobs after leaving drama school. "But I'd never done a West End residency until Sunny Afternoon," says the Yorkshireman from Halifax.www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/theatre/15098302.When_Ryan_met_Ray_on_a_Sunny_Afternoon_to_star_in_The_Kinks__musical/ Another preview of the show in York from The Northern Echo and Ryan never gets a mention. Grand Opera House, York: Keeping it true, with KinksViv Hardwick reports on Ray Davies’ determination to put an authentic Sunny Afternoon on stage PUTTING The Kinks' story into a warts and all musical, the West End and touring success Sunny Afternoon, would not have worked for legendary Sixties founder member Ray Davies if it wasn’t authentic. “The Kinks were arguably one of the most dysfunctional and hard-edged bands around before punk. Someone said to me the Kinks were one of the bands the punk bands looked up to. It is a coming of age story, it is about sibling rivalry, a changing society, the pitfalls of the music industry, about loss of self, and it is about being on tour with my brother (Dave). It is compelling on several levels and, of course, it has got the songs as well,” says Ray. With the touring version about to play York’s Grand Opera House from Tuesday (February 21) Ray admits that Sunny Afternoon was inspired by the show he created from the later Kinks’ hit called Come Dancing. “In 2005, I found myself thinking about significant times in my life around the time of Sunny Afternoon. So many things were happening to me around that time: overworked, infighting among band members, lawsuits with managers and publishers that nearly gave me a breakdown and the rest,” he says. Ray decided the 1966-set plot needed a British producer and opted for Sonia Friedman. “Then Joe Penhall came on board to do the book, we did a few workshops and after that Ed Hall offered to direct. After another workshop the production started its life with a trial run at Hampstead Theatre, before it transferred to the West End and now it is on tour,” he says. Although he was retelling the band’s heyday period, Ray was keener to reflect the historic times in Sunny Afternoon. “We were leading the world with music, arts and fashion.The classes were merging and it seemed as if we were all as one. As one of the characters says it was ‘a very special time’. I think it is quite a compelling story about how I began this journey and the story is important. It needs to be a great story for The Kinks fans, but also for those who maybe don’t know much about the band, their origins or music for that matter.” Of course the musical had to include Ray’s conflict with his brother and the band being banned from the US because performances often descended into violence. “It sounds strange now but at the time, we were seen to be invading America. People in the US thought the British invasion was taking their music away from them and possibly corrupting a young American generation. It is also about how different classes band together. There is a very touching moment in the show where our manager who is from the upper class and us bonded. I think that was a very key thing in the Sixties because we all had a common quest and it was more about social bonding,” he says. In spite of The Kinks enjoying success by creating their own sound, Ray feels that some areas of the industry haven’t changed in spite of online enterprise. “Music is more accessible now than it used to be and the internet is really useful for bands these days. However the big corporations hover around. In many ways the internet giants have replaced the old record company model,” says Ray. After Sunny Afternoon, what about the band opting for a final reunion? “I often hear rumours of Kinks reunions but we can’t do that of course because we lost Pete Quaife, one of the originals a few years ago. I miss Pete and I miss that team effort a lot; I’m not sure it’s something we could do without him. But never say never and one never knows,” says Ray. Grand Opera House, York, February 21 to 25. Box Office: 01904-678700 or www.atgtickets.com/venues/grand-opera-house-york
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 7, 2017 3:06:12 GMT
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