A Welsh Born Icon (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... the model, 29, replaces Jerry Hall as Celia in the show at the Noel Coward Theatre. Producer David Pugh said: “[TfL] are worried about titillating customers.” A TfL spokesman said they asked for “a few tweaks” to ensure the advert complied with their policy. Rules are rules, but even I am surprised to see an organisation implementing cake tin to areola mammae...
Hollywood Crap (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Advertisements posted around London Underground for Kelly Brook’s new play, Calendar Girls, have been said to be indecent. These posters had to be redone, but only in part. The 29-year-old English actress was using cherry-topped pastries to cover herself up, but apparently she had too much cleavage showing. The producer, David Pugh, was told that in [...]
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... and should be enlarged before allowing the poster to be used in Tube stations. The play’s producer David Pugh reacts: “We’ve found ourselves in the world of censorship, we’re in 1960s Russia… Someone is sitting in a dark room somewhere peering at any sort of nudity.” As opposed to sitting in an auditorium eating crisps. “The whole truth of the story that I’m doing is about this group...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... a fit of the vapours they demanded the ad be re-touched - with bigger cakes. The play's producer, David Pugh, said "we've found ourselves in the world of censorship, we're in 1960s Russia", perhaps showing he, too, has been infected by the hysteria. It's all too much for delicate sensibilities. (Image by secretlondon123 )
Going Underground's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The prudes at TfL are at it again, as an ad for the play Calendar Girls featuring Kelly Brook had to be amended three times before it was allowed on the London Underground. It's like one of those spot the difference games, but finally the picture of Kelly on the right was deemed to have large enough buns to keep TfL happy. The play's producer, David Pugh, said " Someone is sitting...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... concerns were also voiced last night about the commercial clout that the expanded group will have.David Pugh, the Tony award winner, producer of God of Carnage and a prolific organiser of regional tours, recalled how a generation ago Apollo Leisure Group owned a large portfolio of regional theatres and would dictate terms to touring companies. “They would insist that we visited loss-making...
