Received an email last night saying that Sister Act, The Musical is coming to London’s West End!
It will be produced by Whoopi Goldberg herself and will feature music by Alan Menken with lyrics by Glenn Slater and directed by Peter Schneider. London Palladium will host it from May 2009.
I am not a fan of reality shows like Big Brother or I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here but I do love the talent shows like The X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing and those that were produced by Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber where the likes of Lee Mead (Joseph) and Jodie Prenger (Oliver) were chosen by the public with the guidance of expert opinions. The concept behind these talents were genious because not only do they raised oodles of cash for the producers but also somewhat guarantees a level of popularity with public especially since the winners are to take on careers that depends a lot on public approval. After all, it is the public who buys the album and tickets for the show. Shining examples of these is Lee Mead (again) as the successful lead in the musical Joseph and Leona Lewis, 2006 winner of The X Factor, who had a single top both the UK and US charts — something that other artists still aspire to achieve.
What annoys me about these talent competitions is when, at times, the contestants present a sad life story and expect the public to vote for them because of it. There are several instances of these on the Britain’s Got Talent show. During the last series, there was this little boy who (apparently) got bullied a lot. Okay, sad sniff-sniff but what impressed me was not about his sad tale but his talent! This boy could sing opera, big time! Not sure what had happened to him, whether he ended up in the finals or winning it but to me, I will remember him as that boy with an amazing voice for opera.
I reckon everyone will agree that telemarketers are annoying. Not only do they call you about products that you may already have or don’t need but also ring you at the most inappropriate time. It is bad enough that they don’t research their respective target markets when they don’t even have a proper system that logs and records whether you have already been contacted and had (strongly) declined.
To stop these super annoying calls, you can enlist your numbers on the Telephone Preference Service. However, there are times that these buggers still manage to ring you so I suggest that you report their number on the Phone Spam Filter website. This site has the largest list of reported telemarketers in the UK. They do have sites for other countries, too — Australia, France, New Zealand and the United States.
When you receive a telemarketer call that has been bothering you for quite some time, you can search through the 10,000 numbers that have been registered. When you find that the number has been previously reported by others, you can ask your phone provider for this number to be blocked from your incoming calls. Phone Spam Filter also offers a script that you can use with PBX systems to automatically block telemarketers for good! However, you will need to contact your provider about this. If you don’t find the number, you can proceed to register a new number on the form provided on the site.
Let’s end telemarketing forever!
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