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| Woman's Hour and amazing web site hits |
Thursday 08th of May 2008 22:24 |
Quite frankly we are gobsmacked. The show was featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour today and at the time of writing the site has had 120,000 hits since then, in one day!
We'll update you later.
Seats for the opening night are going amazingly well. We think we have answered the critics.
By the way, do buy The Weekly News this week, we have a great feature about the show and Kathy's story on page nine. |
| BBC Radio Leeds |
Wednesday 07th of May 2008 09:57 |
| Suzi Jari and Graham Smith |
| The show's star Suzi Jari and producer Graham Smith talk about the production on BBC Radio Leeds. The interview can be heard via the link above. |
| Show to feature on BBC Woman's Hour |
Tuesday 06th of May 2008 20:15 |
| Woman's Hour |
Listen to BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour this Thursday morning, May 8th 2008, and you will hear Graham Smith, the producer and director of "Secret Love-The Amazing Kathy Kirby Story", in conversation with Sheila McLennon.
The show's web site, where you can listen live and again after the show is linked above. |
| Break a leg says star who knew the real Monroe! |
Saturday 03rd of May 2008 10:08 |
| Read about the legendary Ronnie Ronalde |
We've received the following from Ronnie and Rosemarie Ronalde in Australia. Ronnie, soon to celebrate 70 years in the business, knew the real Marilyn Monroe who said his whistling sent a shiver down her spine!
In olden days, the REAL theatre days, one received TELEGRAMS for “First Nights”.
This wonderful custom seems to have vanished, all in the name of “progress” and has been substituted with “emails”.
So there it goes:
Dear Graham,
Here is wishing you and all the people involved in bringing the story of Kathy Kirby to the stage all the very best.
Break a leg
Ronnie and Rosemarie Ronalde
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| Leeds media reports truth on show story |
Saturday 26th of April 2008 12:41 |
It's gratifying to see that the Leeds media has now reported the truth of the show story prominently as we approach opening night.
Yeadon show producer hits back in 'boycott' row
By Annette McIntyre
The producer of a show about a sixties singing star has hit back at claims that she wants fans to boycott the production.
A letter signed by Kathy Kirby has appeared in the national press urging her followers not to go to the show, Secret Love, which is being launched in Leeds at the City Varieties on Friday May 9th at 7-30pm.
But the show's producer, Graham Smith, is adamant that the star, would not have signed the letter if she had realised what its content was.
He says Kathy Kirby was not well enough to write a letter of complaint about the show. And he believes she has been influenced by somebody else.
Mr Smith, from Yeadon, said the letter claims that Kathy Kirby would not want her name to be associated with the show.
But he stressed he believed she had not written the letter but had simply signed a blank piece of paper.
He stressed that no-one knew the content of the show until it opened in May and he did not believe she would have asked her fans to boycott it.
"The truth is that the person or persons behind the boycott think they are the only ones allowed to tell the story. I wish they would put their money where their mouths are as I have and stop trying to destroy genuine hard work and effort.
"It is one of the great sadnesses of Kathy Kirby's career that she has been used and abused by many.
"It appears that the same is still happening a quarter of a century after she gave it all up to live a reclusive lifestyle," he said.
"I do hope at the end of the day that Kathy sees this for what it is - which is a tribute to her life and her music." |
| WORLD ENTERTAINMENT NEWS REPORTS ON BID TO DAMAGE SHOW! |
Thursday 17th of April 2008 19:31 |
 KIRBY SHOW PRODUCER SLAMS BITTER BIOGRAPHER
By Tim Nixon
Senior Wire Editor
World Entertainment News Network
The producer of a stage show about KATHY KIRBY has accused the sixties pop singer's biographer/manager of instigating a bitter campaign to have the play pulled - in his client's name.
Graham Smith - who's bringing the reclusive star's life story to the
U.K. stage - has hit back at a letter signed by Kirby in which she urges
fans to boycott the production, insisting she doesn't want her name
associated with the story it tells.
He is adamant the letter was the work of author James Harman, who has taken "umbrage" over Smith's refusal to use his "unsuitable" script for the production. Furthermore, Smith - who published Harman's biography of Kirby, titled Secrets, Loves And Lip Gloss, through his Mediaworld company in 2005 - claims the Secret Love star is not well enough to write such a complaint.
Smith believes Harman wrote the letter before asking 69-year-old
Kirby - who withdrew from performing and public life in 1982 - to sign
it, unaware of what she was putting her name to.
He tells WENN, "Mr Harman wrote a script which was decided to be
unsuitable and took umbrage when he was told so. Then, as dates for the show Secret Love started to come in, he began his campaign. When did anyone last hear of Kathy Kirby personally? She signs many a blank sheet of paper but it is no one else but James Harman who has added the content.
"It claims that 'the concept which he (Smith) is staging is not one I
would wish my name to be associated with'. Nonsense. Harman was
terrified when his book was published that she would object, she didn't,
and that was very much a warts and all story. It goes on to say that her
name would be tarnished if the show did not receive critical approval.
Nonsense. No one knows the content of the show until it launches in
Leeds on 9 May (08), so why say she wants her fans to boycott it?
"This is sour grapes from Mr Harman and his small camp of followers,
but when they begin to try and damage my business affairs with lies and deception I must reply.
"It is one of the great sadnesses of Kathy Kirby's career that she
has been used and abused by many. It appears that the same is still
happening a quarter of a century after she gave it all up to live a
reclusive lifestyle. Mr Harman will claim to be her manager still, what
a pity he does not have the acumen to realise that the show I am
launching could have had benefit for his client too."
Further comments from Mediaworld on 07092 103738
This story will be released by WENN world-wide today.
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| More great publicity for the show! |
Saturday 12th of April 2008 12:46 |
| Huddersfield Examiner |
Another great feature about the show has appeared in the Huddersfield Examiner, linked above, which introduced our musical arranger Stuart Atkins, a Huddersfield born musician with immense experience.
The feature was also the subject of a Google news alert which gave it a world-wide audience. |
| Great feature on the show from the Yorkshire Post |
Tuesday 08th of April 2008 16:47 |
| Yorkshire Post feature on the show Secret Love |
The show has received fabulous publicity in the Yorkshire Post, the county's morning newspaper.
The article is linked above. |
| Mark Thatcher marries Kathy's niece |
Sunday 30th of March 2008 10:21 |
| Mark Thatcher marries Kathy's niece |
The son of the former Prime Minister, Mark Thatcher, has married Kathy's niece Sarah Jane. The BBC story is linked above.
Sarah is the daughter of Kathy's sister Pat Clemence and her husband Terry. Another daughter is Claudia, Viscountess Rothermere, wife of the chief of the Mail Newspaper group.
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| Major Kirby biography to be released |
Friday 14th of March 2008 19:44 |
In response to enormous demand Mediaworld is to release a definitive biography of what really happened to Kathy Kirby after she mysteriously quit show business 25 years ago.
Uncovering previously untold material, the book will be available later in 2008, and will be a shocking eye opener to the legion of fans who have followed the legend and enigma of the girl who was formerly the golden girl of pop.
"Secret Love" the stage show will celebrate the music and popularity of Kathy, "Secret Love-What Really Happened to Kathy Kirby", will tell the real story behind the Garboesque recluse who is seen and heard no more, except from through unreliable third parties who influence her life, as others did her career. |
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