Referring to the BBC show, on which he appeared as a judge for 17 years, he said: ‘Well I always will miss it, it’s my family, but I mean we’ll always be friends and you never know what’s going to happen’. The judge, 66, said that he had found juggling the British show and its American variant Dancing With The Stars shows too taxing after previously admitting the travel schedule took a toll on his health.
Talking to MailOnline at the event, Bruno Tonioli ruled out a return to his Strictly Come Dancing ‘family’ following his exit from the show earlier this year.
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Those in attendance included singers, musicians and professional dancers well versed in the art of live performance – and all were in thrall as principal cast-members Beverley Knight, Jennifer Saunders, Keala Settle and Lesley Joseph brought the popular 1992 film to the stage. The cast of Sister Act! The Musical were preaching to the choir as the much anticipated press preview of this lively musical adaptation kicked off at London’s Hammersmith Eventim Apollo on Wednesday evening. I can’t see it getting approval from The Holy See just yet but Sister Act remains blissfully silly stuff and my advice is, as Saunders says, ‘get thee to a nunnery… and quickly too!’ Praying for success! Suzanne Shaw joins husband Sam Greenfield for an evening of biblical buffoonery as they lead the stars at Sister Act! The Musical press night performanceīy GERAINT LLEWELLYN and CALLUM WELLS for MailOnline And he adds surreal touches, including the nuns disarming the crims with bell rope, dummy blessings and incense balls. But Bill Buckhurst’s shamelessly chintzy production transcends that, in front of a huge gothic rose window that flashes like a fruit machine. Since it hit these shores in 2009, the musical has become a very slick commercial operation and this vast venue is surely a temple to Mammon with easy-clean floors to cope with rivers of slopped booze in the stalls. When Joseph takes over from Saunders as Mother Superior on tour she’s sure to weave her own magic alongside Lizzie Bea as the ‘Postulant’ nun whose turn in The Life I Never Led is the best thing since Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream from Les Mis.
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Her Sisters in Christ are a crack team of dancefloor demons, with husky Lesley Joseph rough as shoe leather as the choir conductor who’s always wanted to sing funky bass.
When in private comms with The Big Fella Himself, in her divine torch song Haven’t Got A Prayer, she cheekily pops out a lady-shave and hip flask – but is surprisingly tender too. Naturally Saunders’ Mother Superior secures much of the mirth with rueful head shimmies and seasoned timing. But the sweetest thing is the warmth of Knight’s sisterhood with the cloistered nuns, who at first sing like fire engines (look out for Sandra Marvin in the role of Deloris on the Irish and UK tour from September). She put me in mind of Whitney Houston and at one point also ascends to Disco-heaven, like Diana Ross, in a glitterball moon.