#nicholas pound

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Day 96 of posting old cats pics! Lucie Fentum as Etcetera, Alexandra Jay as Jemima, Emma Harris as Victoria and Nicholas Pound as Old Deuteronomy, London 1999!

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You kick Old Doot?? You spurn him aside like the football, just so you can show off your spinny thing again???

Time to send in the big guns. Upstaging for Mistoffelees!!

Harry Francis as Mistoffelees, George Hinson as Tugger, Li-Tong Hsu as Grizabella, and Nicholas Pound as Deuteronomy; International tour, 20 July 2019 (X).

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“The Bargain”/“Waltz of Treachery,” Powderham Castle Concert, 2004. Tony Timberlake as Thénardier, Rosemary Ashe as Mme. Thénardier, Nicholas Pound as Jean Valjean.

Tony and Rosemary’s Thénardiers definitely make a memorable impression. They might be a bit hammy, but their spot-on brash voices and exuberant wheedling still deserve the laughs they get.

Nicholas’s warm, rich-voiced Valjean provides the perfect contrast with them.

Well done by all.

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Scheduled father/son time with Deut and Macavity!

Nicholas Pound (Deuteronomy) and Cameron Ball (Macavity), 2013 UK tour.

This is actually what they were doing while waiting for Misto to 'rescue' Deut, sorry I don't make the rules.

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Joanna Ampil as Grizabella, in 'Memory'; plus, Ellie Young as Victoria, Nicholas Pound as Deuteronomy, Luke Fraser Yates as Munkustrap, Elizabeth Futter as Jellylorum, and Andrew Keelan as Gus.

International tour 2019, at the Manila press event in November (X).

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Deuteronomy and Grizabella getting kittenish.

International tour, 15 June 2019. Li-Tong Hsu as Grizabella and Nicholas Pound as Deuteronomy.

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“Fantine’s Death,” Powderham Castle Concert, 2004. Rebecca Thornhill as Fantine, Nicholas Pound as Jean Valjean.

A beautiful, touching performance. Rebecca’s voice is so pure and sweet, Nicholas’s is so warm and rich, and they both sing with such gentleness and tenderness.

It’s interesting that the uncut version of the song is used, even though the cuts were already in place on stages worldwide. I assume this performance used the same “concert version” of the score that was used for the TAC and didn’t bother to make further cuts than had been made in 1995.

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“Lovely Ladies” and “Fantine’s Arrest,” Powderham Castle Concert, 2004. Rebecca Thornhill as Fantine, Fred Johanson as Javert, Nicholas Pound as Jean Valjean, unknown Bamatabois.

An excellent rendition overall, if slightly lacking the sheer passion and energy of an actual production. Rebecca’s Fantine is both lovely-voiced and passionate, the Bamatabois sounds appropriately slimy, Fred’s Javert is appropriately fearsome (his angry “BUT MONSIEUR MAYOR!!”s at the end might be too much so – Hugo’s Javert wouldn’t take that tone with an authority figure), and Nicholas’s Valjean rounds out the scene nicely.