Mills the Musical

Thanks for enjoying the blog!

Sam The Internet Guy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:57:42 +0000

Well that's it. Scott Mills The Musical happened, and was a roaring success. We hope you've enjoyed meeting all the lovely performers in Edinburgh as well, there were some crackers on. That's the end of this blog for now. I thought it might be a good idea to end by just re-posting some of The One That Doesn't Speak's tweets:

@PleasanceComedy Thank you to all our Pleasance friends. We've had the actual best time ever at the Fringe. Really don't want to leave!

A few shout outs before I disappear for a few days for a rest. THANK YOU Laurie, Jon, Guy, David, and Andrew - best actors EVER!

John, Robin, Nic, Roshni - without whom we wouldn't have a thing, hear a thing, see a thing, or just generally be able to do a thing

Simon, Andy, Dominic, and Sir Desmond O'Connor - musical supremos and damn fine gentlemen.

Ollie - teching overnight in Edinburgh then onstage in London that evening. Top work! Mr Patrick Wilde - you are a genius. Seriously!

Scott, Becklaaaa, Chops, Sam, Rob, Lyndsey, Kel, Will, Mark, Owain, Caren, Tamsin ... these people are the best

Finally, Joe Taylor. @jrtjoe. Don't forget us when you're famous!

Gushing and lovey-hugging over. See you soon for a new adventure. Don't forget to watch this one: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/scottmills

The PR4L obviously needs a tweet of her own. I had in no way overlooked her contribution.

Bless. Don't forget, you can carry on watching The Musical online as long as you like (it ain't going nowhere), and this blog will always remain here as a lovely permanent record of the fantastic time we had making it and the amazing week in Edinburgh.

Cheers!

Posh Radio 4 Lady chats to Scott

Vickey The Internet Girl — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:47:19 +0000

Hear the interview between the Posh Radio 4 Lady and the star of Scott Mills The Musical:

Read the full Radio 4 blog post

Vernon's guest appearance!

Sam The Internet Guy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:09:30 +0000

As you might have heard, Vernon was our special guest tonight, following in the footsteps of Denise Van Outen and Antony Costa before him. In the 'talent search' scene, Vernon had to impress a judging panel made up of Jo Whiley, Zane Lowe, and The Hoff. How do you think his breakdance went down? Three big "nerrrr"s, that's how!

Someone climbing Arthur's Seat!

Sam The Internet Guy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:44:20 +0000

All week we've had this lovely view from our studio of the famous Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh. We're trying to persuade Chappers to climb it during the Wonder Years and Floorfillers on Friday. And today, for the first time we saw people up it! Here's the rubbish blurry photo.

Fletcher the butler

Sam The Internet Guy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:16:15 +0000

Edinburgh is full of musicals and comedians, but also some more abstract performance art. This guy is Fletcher the butler, and he'll do whatever you want as long as it doesn't cost money or break laws. So Scott got him in to fan him. For an hour. He's stood there behind me doing it right now.

I ain't gettin' on no plane!

Sam The Internet Guy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:58:28 +0000

The A-Team are in Edinburgh and they've copied our idea for a show, by calling theirs The A-Team: The Musical. Pity them fools. Etc.

Chappers meets Chappers

Sam The Internet Guy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:57:22 +0000

The actor that plays Chappers in the musical was on the show on Tuesday, and was quite nervous. Asked what he'd say when he met real Chappers, he said "do anything you like, just don't hit my face". Thankfully, real Chappers saw the funny side, and the two met up for a pint after the show last night.

Last night's guest star - Denise Van Outen!!

Sam The Internet Guy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:43:51 +0000

On the opening night (and in the video that you can watch now) the guest star was Antony Costa from boy band Blue. Last night, it was none other than Denise Van Outen, representin' for the county of Essex. We've got a video of her bit coming later, but for now here's a photo.

Chippendales for Beccy

Sam The Internet Guy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:36:58 +0000

It was Beccy's birthday yesterday. So the team got her a cake. And Scott got her four Chippendales. He really knows what women want :)

Scott Mills The Musical video

Sam The Internet Guy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:25:57 +0000

The next chapter of the Scott Mills The Musical is now online. Check it out!

Check out parts 1-4 of the video

Check out the photos too

See the rest of the photos and see the video

They love us, they really love us!!

Sam The Internet Guy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:04:18 +0000

The reviews have started appearing for Scott Mills The Musical, and the team here are gobsmacked, blown-away, flattered, humbled, and so so happy. The most exciting part is that the musical was written with all of the Radio 1 listeners involved from the outset - you're a talented bunch :) Here are a few of the best ones.

What's On Stage - "The audience at the Pleasance went bonkers at the end of one of only three sold-out performances. Well, they were entitled to; they'd written it."

Edinburgh Festival Magazine - "I don't know whether it was the wine, the onset of mass hysteria, or the heat from basking in the glow of Mills's tan for over an hour, but I'm giving it five stars."

Broadway Baby - "Scott Mills The Musical is a surprisingly sophisticated work with brilliant structure and first-class stagecraft ... this could arguably be the best show I'll see this year in Edinburgh".

Still getting over last night

Sam The Internet Guy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:07:38 +0000

The audience were so totally electric last night - whooping and cheering all the way through the show, and every time Scott came on stage they went crazy! No surprise then that loads of them hung around outside the theatre waiting for Scott and Becky and Joe to come out. When they did, they almost got mobbed!

A special mention for Anthony Costa from Blue as well - he was our special guest star last night. I was backstage with him just before his scene, where there are two dressing rooms - the red dressing room and the blue dressing room. Guess which one Anthony wanted his picture taken in front of?

We love these people

Sam The Internet Guy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:03:11 +0000

Look what creative people we just bumped into outside our theatre (nb, it is OUR theatre now). What amazing t-shirts. What amazing people!

Ukelele-off

Sam The Internet Guy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:50:29 +0000

Now Scott's mentioned before that the Posh Radio 4 Lady (PR4L) plays the ukelele, but today she met her match. Not only is Lady Carol a professional uke player, she's also a an actual Lady and therefore is also challenging for PR4L's posh crown. Their music was very lovely too - listen online at about 6.40pm to hear their version of Johnny Cash's 'Ring Of Fire'.

Axis of AWESOME

Sam The Internet Guy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:10:14 +0000

These guys are Aussie and they do funny songs. They performed for us, a song all about how all pop songs actually only have four chords - a fact they demonstrated amazingly. The song is called the Four Chords Song. Listen to the show from around 6.10pm to hear them!