Waterstones Toast on Toast
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Toast on Toast is the must-have book for all budding actors - and non-actors too. In this part memoir, part 'how to act' manual, Steven Toast draws on his vast and varied experiences, providing the reader with an invaluable insight into his journey from school plays to RADA, and from 'It's a Right Royal Knockout' to the Colony Club. Along the way, he reveals the secrets of his success. He discloses how to brush up on and expand your technical and vocal skills, how to nail a professional voiceover, and how to deal with difficult work experience staff in a recording studio. He also reveals the dangers of typecasting, describes the often ruthless struggle for 'top billing', and shares many awesome nuggets of advice. The end result is a book that will inspire and educate anyone who wants to tread the floorboards. It will also inform (and entertain) anybody who simply wants to discover what a jobbing actor's life is actually like.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781782117513
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781782117513
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Author: Apollo
Rating: 5
Review: I was just saying to Aga Foundling the other day that I hadn't heard from Toast since his ill fated trip to Hollywood to, as he told me, "play a major part in a Star Wars movie" (I thought, "Hmmm.... sure" ).When I came across this utterance of cautionary tales and candid advice from the man himself. It was just like I was back at the Colonial Club listening to him and watching Ray bloody Purchase wince at every offering. I phoned Jane to ask how things went in the US but she was lunching with Patrick Stewart (or so her voice mail told me). In summary, I don't know when Toast will be back, if at all, so in the meantime recommend this book to keep him fresh in your memory. Now, I must look for Ed's phone number, I'm sure he wrote it on the back of receipt for "adult services", whatever they might be.
Author: Peter Lee
Rating: 2
Review: This was such a disappointment for me. I'm a huge fan of the TV show, and this was the first item I put on my wishlist for Christmas this year, so when I read it and found it didn't so much as raise a smile it was a real let-down. The book is the autobiography of Steven Toast, star of "Toast of London", focusing on his acting career, and at the end of each there is a page of "Toast's Tips", where he dispenses advice to the would-be actor. At the end of the book, after the index (more on that later) there is a short section of reviews, with Toast's thoughts on each, and then a gallery of sixteen posters for shows Toast has appeared in, some of which are mentioned in the book. None of the posters are particularly funny, but the names of the cast members are worth a look. The main text of the book is very short (167 pages) but felt as though it took me a while to read. Maybe the audio book would be better, but the text here lacked the sparkle of the TV show, and as I said at the start I didn't even smile, let alone laugh, while I read it, whereas when I watch the TV show on catch-up I often have to pause it for a while as I'm laughing so much. Yes, the characters from the TV show are there (Jane Plough, Ray Purchase, Blair Toast etc. but if you're looking for Clem Fandango and Danny Bear they're only mentioned in passing without being named), and yes there are quirky touches such as the numerous mentions of flogging throughout the book, but for me it just didn't work. Earlier on I mentioned the index. This will sound strange, but make sure you read it. The index bears little relation to the book, for example things are mentioned as appearing on pages that don't actually exist, but there are more jokes in the index than in the book itself, and whereas the main narrative left me cold the index made me laugh a lot. So two stars for the index, strange as it may sound, but the book itself was a huge disappointment for me.
