Secrets of the scripts on Coronation Street

The problem with Coronation Street news that comes from Mr Curry Sauce in the tabloid press is that you often have no idea if they are true or not.

But I do hope this one is.

As we already know, actors on Coronation Street have little, if no, time for rehearsal. And so they devise ways of reading their scripts and remembering their lines that they hope no-one will notice. But Mr Curry Sauce has spilled the beans!

He (or she?) tells The Mirror that the cast "...stash the scripts in microwaves, bread bins, carrier bags and cookers. Tina O’Brien (Sarah Platt) hides her lines in a bread bin while co-star Jack P Shepherd (brother David Platt) prefers a microwave. The crew find the scripts all over the place. The stars don’t have long to learn lines and there aren’t endless retakes if people dry up. The crew like to get things shot in one or two takes and them move on because the filming schedule is now so intense, with six episodes a week.

Jack P Shepherd has shared an Instagram snap of his scripts hidden in the microwave in the Platt household (above).

Not only that, but in their regular weekly sharing of upcoming filming pictures, the official ITV Coronation Street twitter account posted this picture, below, showing Lisa George (Beth Sutherland) reading her lines during a take.

I guess with the pressure of producing six episodes a week, production must move so quickly that there simply isn't time for rehearsals and the cast have to take as many opportunities as they can to learn as they go.

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Corrie scripts found lying in a street

There's a news story in today's Sun to say that Coronation Street scripts have been found lying in a street. 

The story's at The Sun so I can't read it all as I don't have paid access to the site but if you can see the rest of the story do please leave details in the comments below and I'll add them to the blog post.

The scripts are found lying in the street just days after Coronation Street's Michelle Keegan (Tina McIntyre) tweeted a picture, and then deleted it immediately, of the script showing the result of David's DNA test on baby Lily Platt.

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Manchester pub to stage live Coronation Street

From The Natter

Corrie fans can get a chance to be part of Coronation Street when three classic scripts by Jack Rosenthal are performed in the Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester in January 2012.
For the first time ITV has given permission for the scripts from 1968 to be performed live, with the traditional Manchester pub becoming the Rovers Return for two weeks.

Landlord Gareth Kavanagh said: “We are hugely grateful to ITV and Jack’s family for allowing us to stage these episodes and can’t wait for you to see them. These brand new, full cast dramatisations will take place in the ground floor of the Lass, making them a totally immersive and dramatic presentation.”

The first two episodes cover the wedding of Dennis Tanner and Jenny Sutton with a host of well-loved characters such as Ena Sharples, Minnie Caldwell, Elsie Tanner, Annie and Jack Walker and Albert Tatlock. They will be performed in the main pub with the audience becoming the onset extras. Complementing these two classic slices of Sixties writing is a new adaptation of Coronation Street’s episode 788, which centres on Stan Ogden treating Hilda to a slap-up Chinese meal, which will be performed on the stage upstairs.

They will be performed by a new cast brought together by June West, the Street’s casting director for over 15 years, and directed by theatre stalwart Helen Parry. Rumour has it a few familiar faces have expressed an interest in playing the classic characters!

Episode one will be on Monday (Jan 9th at 6pm, 7.30pm and 9pm), episode two on Tuesday (Jan 10th at 6pm, 7.30pm and 9pm). The standalone Ogdens’ episodes are on Wednesday (Jan 11th at 7.30pm and 9pm) and Thursday (Jan 12th 7.30pm and 9pm). Then on the Sunday the Ogdens is repeated at 4pm, followed by an omnibus edition of the first two episodes of 6pm.

To complete the tribute, the Lass will also be staging Hot Fat, a Jack Rosenthal Play For Today from 1974 that was lost when the tapes were wiped by the BBC. That will be on Friday Jan 13th at 6pm and Sunday 15th at 1pm and explores how friendships and deals are made and broken in a sauna.

Rosenthal is one of the north’s greatest literary sons and author of classics like the BAFTA award-winning Bar Mitzvah Boy, The Evacuees and Spend, Spend, Spend – about the pools winner Viv Nicholson.

There will only be 30 tickets for each intimate performance and tickets will go on sale on December 9, Coronation Street’s 51st anniversary.

It’s all part of Midwinter Lassfest from January 2-29 with the Lass O’Gowrie in Charles Street becoming a one-venue fringe festival, hosting an amazing 70-plus events.

Tickets are available on the door or via www.wegottickets.co.uk by searching for the Lass O’Gowrie or following the links over at www.lassfest.co.uk. Please note, priority will be given to online advance orders.

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