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Post by stanne on Jun 19, 2016 17:55:22 GMT
My god, some of the misogyny on this board is quite staggering. It's amazing that no males ever exhibit bad behaviour, at least around you guys. Couldn't agree more Mallardo!!
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Post by emilyrose on Jun 19, 2016 18:05:15 GMT
My god, some of the misogyny on this board is quite staggering. It's amazing that no males ever exhibit bad behaviour, at least around you guys. I agree and there is some actual nastiness in reference to women and even how they look, which really has no impact on a show or how you experience it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2016 20:04:16 GMT
Time for me to have a break from here, I reckon...
(Seriously? Some people really should have something a bit more to worry about.)
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Post by infofreako on Jun 19, 2016 20:11:05 GMT
2 today, must be something in the air. Weve a lovely little community here, lets not see cracks appear
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 22:58:57 GMT
While I certainly wouldn't wish caiaphas to think I was aiming at him/her personally (I'm really not, and I think it's important to consider some remarks may be made in humour - I'm sure I've made my fair share!), I would agree that there has been quite a bit of unpleasantness round here recently, to the extent that I've stopped engaging much with the forum.
Seeing one female creative in particular come in for all sorts of dismissive comments and even remarks about her appearance, apparently off the back of comments she made simply stating her opinion, was especially unpleasant. Women's voices have been silenced for years - centuries! - through tricks like that. As infofreako suggests... surely we're better than that, aren't we?
Anyhoo...don't want to derail the thread. Consider it my own stab at an 'unpopular opinion' if you will!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 8:16:20 GMT
Some Bard-themed unpopular opinions:
Kenneth Branagh is overrated as an actor and incompetent as a director.
Mark Rylance just does the same thing in every play he's in.
It is fine to mess Shakespeare about - rearrange scenes, change references, alter characters, set it in a really weird period, cut lines, add lines, rejig lines - because it's not like you'll never get to see the particular play again, and if you take a really huge gamble and it ends up really *working* then surely that is FAR more valuable than doing the safe old same old.
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Post by mallardo on Jun 21, 2016 9:57:27 GMT
But it took you, TM, to provide a context - I sure didn't get it from the original posts. And it was the attitude underlying the posts - those silly women, kind of thing - which I couldn't and can't stand.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2016 13:50:46 GMT
Jamie Lloyd is talentlessly overatted. Some of the worst Shakespere to grace the west end has been 'directed' by him. Once his looks fade everyone will realise he got where he got on sex appeal alone. And he's not even gay. I always thought he was so gave him a bit of slack. Positive discrimination. Oxymoron. Moron. Mormon.
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Post by horton on Jun 21, 2016 22:23:20 GMT
I totally totally agree- his popularity utterly baffles me
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Post by hal9000 on Jun 29, 2016 7:26:02 GMT
Mark Rylance - I feel cruel saying this as I read that he does or did deal with stammering in real life, but... I am not into his stammering schtick onstage.
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Post by musicalfloozie on Jun 30, 2016 22:46:27 GMT
Posting in another thread I realised I had an unpopular opinion. As it's mine I'm entitled to it so don't rip my head off haha. My theatre bug bear is someone paying for a crumby seat for next to nothing then moving up to say a stall seat when they realise it's spare. If you wanted a good seat pay for it. I don't go to the theatre as much as I'd like to as it's an expensive hobby to have but pay for a seat I'm willing to sit in. If I pay for the rubbish view that you'd have to swing one armed from the ceiling to see properly then do that, don't expect to upgrade yourself when you decide a seat is spare!! Obviously if thy decide not worth opening certain areas and the theatre upgrade you then bonus Jonas. #rantover haha.
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Post by Jon on Jul 1, 2016 0:35:43 GMT
Posting in another thread I realised I had an unpopular opinion. As it's mine I'm entitled to it so don't rip my head off haha. My theatre bug bear is someone paying for a crumby seat for next to nothing then moving up to say a stall seat when they realise it's spare. If you wanted a good seat pay for it. I don't go to the theatre as much as I'd like to as it's an expensive hobby to have but pay for a seat I'm willing to sit in. If I pay for the rubbish view that you'd have to swing one armed from the ceiling to see properly then do that, don't expect to upgrade yourself when you decide a seat is spare!! Obviously if thy decide not worth opening certain areas and the theatre upgrade you then bonus Jonas. #rantover haha. I agree with this, I know theatre is expensive but the cheap seats are cheap for a reason and moving yourself down without asking or being upgraded by the box office or staff is a bit cheeky.
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Post by Flim Flam on Jul 1, 2016 9:49:43 GMT
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Post by foxa on Jul 1, 2016 15:32:03 GMT
Whoa - they chased him through the theatre and arrested him in the Mahler Room.
I know this opinion will be unpopular (I feel I should write in a tiny font because I know it's going to annoy everyone) but....
I don't get the Imelda Staunton thing. When I saw that she was going to do 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I thought 'I would run a mile from that.' We left at the interval of another Albee play, A Delicate Balance, she starred in at the Almeida and I felt embarrassed watching her on television in Gypsy- so hammy and mannered. There is something a bit self-congratulatory about her that gets me.
But since so many people I admire love her work (I also hear she's a very nice person), I can only think, it's me. She must remind me of someone in my past who annoyed me.
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Post by horton on Jul 1, 2016 16:51:55 GMT
I don't rate Imelda in musicals either. Her Baker's Wife was hammy, her Mrs Lovett un-nuanced, and Gypsy- meh.
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Post by horton on Jul 3, 2016 10:10:14 GMT
And while're on the subject, I just watched the movie of An American in Paris again. I love Paris. I can't stand Gene Kelly. At all.
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Post by broadwaylover99 on Jul 3, 2016 10:12:21 GMT
And while're on the subject, I just watched the movie of An American in Paris again. I love Paris. I can't stand Gene Kelly. At all. No comment on Gene himself, but I cannot stand Singin' In The Rain and really don't see what the hype is around it
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Post by foxa on Jul 3, 2016 17:51:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2016 18:32:44 GMT
Long curtain calls irritate me. If the running time of a show is 2 hours and 40 minutes you expect most of it to be plot, the endless "let's all bow" followed by "let's sing a few lines", followed by "let's bow AGAIN but in different groups" etc is remarkably annoying and time consuming. Each of the leads can have their own bow, ensemble can be split up into several groups if you want, but one individual bow and one collective bow is more than enough. I don't have 6 minutes worth of applause in me so don't even try.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jul 3, 2016 18:36:02 GMT
Long curtain calls irritate me. If the running time of a show is 2 hours and 40 minutes you expect most of it to be plot, the endless "let's all bow" followed by "let's sing a few lines", followed by "let's bow AGAIN but in different groups" etc is remarkably annoying and time consuming. Each of the leads can have their own bow, ensemble can be split up into several groups if you want, but one individual bow and one collective bow is more than enough. I don't have 6 minutes worth of applause in me so don't even try. In Italy it's a nightmare, because the actors keep bowing until the audience stops clapping, but since the actors stay on stage the audience thinks it's rude to stop so the whole thing goes on and on and on forever.
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Post by Sue on Jul 3, 2016 19:25:44 GMT
I don't like Barbra.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 3, 2016 20:47:12 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 3, 2016 20:47:59 GMT
I feel like I've just been STABBED.
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Post by Michael on Jul 4, 2016 4:18:22 GMT
...and I don't even know why I should like or not like Ms Streisand.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jul 4, 2016 6:45:44 GMT
Same, and I will like her even less if she makes the Gypsy movie
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2016 6:48:51 GMT
Long curtain calls irritate me. If the running time of a show is 2 hours and 40 minutes you expect most of it to be plot, the endless "let's all bow" followed by "let's sing a few lines", followed by "let's bow AGAIN but in different groups" etc is remarkably annoying and time consuming. Each of the leads can have their own bow, ensemble can be split up into several groups if you want, but one individual bow and one collective bow is more than enough. I don't have 6 minutes worth of applause in me so don't even try. I don't like them to be too long, but I do like to see the cast come on to bow and see them address the audience directly at that point, and see them look grateful (if the show is well received) for what they have just done.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2016 12:05:14 GMT
Never been that keen on Bernadette Peters.....also find it creepy that her face doesn't move much nowadays (sorry if that is a little mean, but I am not a fan of botox - really reduces expression)
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Post by kathryn on Jul 4, 2016 16:31:28 GMT
Not sure how popular or unpopular this opinion is: the TodayTix app lotteries are a horrible way to attempt to get tickets for something.
It doesn't give you enough notice that you've 'won' or enough time to book a ticket if you have.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2016 7:22:22 GMT
I dislike Evita, I love Cats.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2016 10:09:39 GMT
*gasp* I. Can't. Even. Begin. To. Process. That. Comment. If you were in my house I'd throw you out. If you were in my garden walking up the path to my front door I'd turn the sprinklers on.
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