Best wishes to the actor, of course, but what completely unacceptable behaviour from Nimax. Apparently this was cancelled first thing in the morning (per the door person) but I wasn't sent the email until 1.13pm and so wasted my time travelling and found out when I got there. Would suggest you call up on the day if you have a ticket for the remaining run.
Best wishes to the actor, of course, but what completely unacceptable behaviour from Nimax. Apparently this was cancelled first thing in the morning (per the door person) but I wasn't sent the email until 1.13pm and so wasted my time travelling and found out when I got there. Would suggest you call up on the day if you have a ticket for the remaining run.
I’m at the interval of Pretty Woman, which is not where I expected to be. Heaps of love and wishes of good health to Rob but agree about notice. The production tweeted at 11:01 but I didn’t see it until I was just going into Shreks Adventure so had to stew for an hour.
It's such a shame for Rob having to cancel 4 shows when the run is so short.
Garrick is pretty busy next few months but hopefully another short run somewhere can be found at some point next year as there's obviously demand for the show. Must be a gap available somewhere for a short limited run.
Fingers crossed the last week of shows go off without a hitch.
'What a terrible waste of a moon' - Mrs Henderson Presents
Yes I only saw the email when I was on the bus on the way into town, very late notice if the theatre indeed did know first thing this morning. It’s not like there could have been scrabbling around for emergency understudies, if Rob isn’t able to do it, that’s that.
I can’t make another date now sadly.
What happens in terms of the financial loss when this kind of thing happens? Would there be insurance that pays out? I mean for the theatre/production not us punters.
Thinking of seeing this sometime this week as long as it goes ahead, wish I’d booked sooner now when there were offers about! I could sit in Row U of the stalls on Wednesday for £20, not a pillar-restricted seat so seems like good value but I know the top of the stage is restricted a lot in the Garrick. I don’t really mind a “letterbox” view but wondering will I miss the screen with all of the home-video footage? That seems like it’s quite a key part to the play.
Thinking of seeing this sometime this week as long as it goes ahead, wish I’d booked sooner now when there were offers about! I could sit in Row U of the stalls on Wednesday for £20, not a pillar-restricted seat so seems like good value but I know the top of the stage is restricted a lot in the Garrick. I don’t really mind a “letterbox” view but wondering will I miss the screen with all of the home-video footage? That seems like it’s quite a key part to the play.
Yeah the home movies are very important for this show
Realised I could squeeze this in on Sunday, but £49.50 for a reasonable view at a 65-minute, one-man show seems ridiculously excessive. Are there likely to be any more deals?
Realised I could squeeze this in on Sunday, but £49.50 for a reasonable view at a 65-minute, one-man show seems ridiculously excessive. Are there likely to be any more deals?
Hold off booking if you can, prices dropped over the course of today when I was checking. I paid £35 in the end, same seat tomorrow is £50.
I sat in the back row of the dress circle, great for legroom and nothing missed in the videos as the overhang lined up perfectly with the top of the screen.
Realised I could squeeze this in on Sunday, but £49.50 for a reasonable view at a 65-minute, one-man show seems ridiculously excessive. Are there likely to be any more deals?
Hold off booking if you can, prices dropped over the course of today when I was checking. I paid £35 in the end, same seat tomorrow is £50.
I sat in the back row of the dress circle, great for legroom and nothing missed in the videos as the overhang lined up perfectly with the top of the screen.
Sorry but no, it just doesn't cost that much to print a programme, ads or no. I would say the print cost of one of those is £1 max, it's a very greedy mark up!
I'm only repeating what I was told by staff at the Garrick, but as I work in advertising I can confirm print costs have gone up an extraordinary amount, so whilst it's still expensive, I get it in some respects.
I rarely pick up programmes these days, but the few I've purchased this year are around a fiver. I almost choked at the £7/7.50 programme at Frozen - and the brochure being a separate purchase! At this rate, they should have combined the two like they do at Wicked.
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I believe Rob is doing the Palladium Panto this year. Would've loved to see this show continue, but hope it goes on tour. More people need to see this uplifting show.
If print costs have gone up as much as they claim, then they should embrace green concerns and make the program available only as a pdf. Could probably do that for a quid and cover costs.
I am actually rather hoping that all theatres will start to go down this route in the future and phase out the paper option, as the storage space taken up by all the physical programmes I have bought over the years is becoming unmanageable.
I was talking about this to someone earlier today. When I was younger a programme was always a MUST buy when I went to the theatre, nowadays it rarely is! First because they've become so expensive, and second because all of the information and photos are generally available online or via social media. If it's a show I absolutely LOVE I'll make an exception, but for me there's no point - and I don't have the storage space!
I never spend on a programme, due to the cost and not wanting to have to manage them piling up anyway! Would just be more stuff to organise and store and one day agonise about decluttering.
Caught the show tonight, and sometimes word of mouth and online gushing is absolutely correct.
I was a little skeptical that it was going to be a little too sentimental for my liking, but I was cackling through the first half of the show, there are some fantastically funny lines written, and while it does touch on the more emotional side as it continues, it wasn't too much for me and was very enjoyable.
What I find most interesting, and hopefully they will get the chance, is that Rob possesses something rarely seen recently on the stage, and that is just raw, natural, charisma and likeability. If the camera loved them as a kid, the stage loves them now and with the right vehicles, they could (and should) be one of London's newest "name" actors. While we don't churn them out like Broadway does, and even then I don't quite know who will is in their new crop recently, but Rob had the audience eating out of the palm of their hand. True, that could be a very loyal and supportive audience already familiar with one of the many viral videos, but there was a spark in their eye and just a natural presence that drew you to them the whole time.
If you can catch one of the final four shows this weekend, I really suggest you try to do so. Whether this show has another revival I don't know, I could see his working relationship with Paul Taylor Mills mean that this could be a filler during the turbine or TOP if they want a 1-2 week gap filled and Rob is available, but it's roaringly funny and sweet, and above all is a chance to watch a one-person show with someone who can fully command your attention in a way that I think is becoming rarer these days.
I had been following Rob Madge on Instagram for a long time now especially for his very funny musical videos and (although I have only just realised) I saw him play Gavoche in the 25th Anniversary concert of Les Mis at the o2.
This is a great 1 man show (1 hour 5mins) of him talking and singing about his childhood with the help of lots of lovely childhood videos his parents made of him including Disney parades in the garden.
It is very funny but also quite sad in places when he talks about not fitting in and bullying at school but it is very uplifting and a really lovely evening.
Audience loved it with a full standing ovation at the end.
Also my first visit to the Ambassadors since its refurbishment - very well done and looks lovely inside. They have also added a lift which takes you down to the stalls and a disabled toilet by the stalls bar. Turns out I christened the lift yesterday as I was the very first person to use it.