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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 12:08:11 GMT
It was aimed at danb, who seems to disagree with you. In which case I’m happy to apologise, though I don’t actually think danb and I really do disagree on this very much. It’s musicalmarge who seems to think that if you go to a “jukebox” musical (which this isn’t really anyway) by a songwriter whose songs you aren’t familiar with, that it’s the shows fault when you don’t know the songs. How anyone can not know: Bat Out Of Hell Dead Ringer For Love It’s All Coming Back To Me Now I’d Do Anything For Love is beyond me anyway, so only knowing 2 songs implies someone has been sticking their head in the sand for a long time.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 2, 2017 12:16:59 GMT
I don’t own a single Meatloaf record but I knew LOADS of the songs!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2017 12:46:20 GMT
I fail to see how the number of songs you know from a show before you see it could impact on your enjoyment? I only recognised three songs from Sunset Boulevard but I still came out loving it. If you go into a musical without knowing much about it, it’s your own choice. You can’t then blame your dislike for the show on the decision that you’ve made, that’s pretty absurd. Not liking the show because you don’t like the songs is one thing. Not liking the show because you don’t know them is lunacy.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 13:11:54 GMT
I fail to see how the number of songs you know from a show before you see it could impact on your enjoyment? I only recognised three songs from Sunset Boulevard but I still came out loving it. If you go into a musical without knowing much about it, it’s your own choice. You can’t then blame your dislike for the show on the decision that you’ve made, that’s pretty absurd. Not liking the show because you don’t like the songs is one thing. Not liking the show because you don’t know them is lunacy. Precisely!
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 2, 2017 13:20:26 GMT
How anyone can not know: Bat Out Of Hell Dead Ringer For Love It’s All Coming Back To Me Now I’d Do Anything For Love I only recognise 2 out of those 4 song titles & I do actually own a Meatloaf CD. (My Dad's contribution to my sex education was to give me a Meatloaf CD & tell me to listen to Paradise By The Dashboard Light.)
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 13:23:47 GMT
How anyone can not know: Bat Out Of Hell Dead Ringer For Love It’s All Coming Back To Me Now I’d Do Anything For Love I only recognise 2 out of those 4 song titles & I do actually own a Meatloaf CD. (My Dad's contribution to my sex education was to give me a Meatloaf CD & tell me to listen to Paradise By The Dashboard Light.) Are you young? If so, they could be before your time, which is fair enough. But I doubt you’d have gone to the show *expecting* to know the songs in that case, which is fine.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 2, 2017 13:28:26 GMT
Are you young? If so, they could be before your time, which is fair enough. But I doubt you’d have gone to the show *expecting* to know the songs in that case, which is fine. 32 so sadly not that young any more. I haven't seen the show but if I do (haven't decided yet, afraid it might be too loud for me) I think I'd expect to recognise any songs used that were on the CD but not any that weren't.
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Post by danb on Dec 2, 2017 14:15:29 GMT
I fail to see how the number of songs you know from a show before you see it could impact on your enjoyment? I only recognised three songs from Sunset Boulevard but I still came out loving it. If you go into a musical without knowing much about it, it’s your own choice. You can’t then blame your dislike for the show on the decision that you’ve made, that’s pretty absurd. Not liking the show because you don’t like the songs is one thing. Not liking the show because you don’t know them is lunacy. Precisely! I knew nothing about Sunset the first time I saw it but fell in love with it the second those strings started up. In this instance it was to the shows advantage that Andy only used about five different melodies throughout the whole show, because they just sucked you back in every time they were re-used.... ...but I don’t really understand why you would go to a musical based on the music of someone you don’t know then complain that you didn’t know any of the songs. It just sounds wasteful when you could go and see Thriller for 20p and know most of the songs! 😃
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 16:02:07 GMT
I knew nothing about Sunset the first time I saw it but fell in love with it the second those strings started up. In this instance it was to the shows advantage that Andy only used about five different melodies throughout the whole show, because they just sucked you back in every time they were re-used.... ...but I don’t really understand why you would go to a musical based on the music of someone you don’t know then complain that you didn’t know any of the songs. It just sounds wasteful when you could go and see Thriller for 20p and know most of the songs! 😃 If a show is new to me, but has an existing cast recording, I will usually listen to it beforehand as I do tend to enjoy them more when I know them. But funnily enough, Sunset is also one of my “instant likes” - loved it from that very first viewing.
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Post by ceebee on Dec 2, 2017 20:27:53 GMT
How anyone can not know: Bat Out Of Hell Dead Ringer For Love It’s All Coming Back To Me Now I’d Do Anything For Love I only recognise 2 out of those 4 song titles & I do actually own a Meatloaf CD. (My Dad's contribution to my sex education was to give me a Meatloaf CD & tell me to listen to Paradise By The Dashboard Light.) My dad gave me "house of fun" by Madness.
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Post by danb on Dec 2, 2017 20:39:32 GMT
My Dad took the opportunity whilst explaining ‘what that machine was in the toilet’. No tenuous musical links here 😂
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 4, 2017 12:30:29 GMT
Tickets now on sale for the Dominion run!
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Post by ali973 on Dec 4, 2017 12:41:57 GMT
I got a ticket for the first preview and sometime mid-May. Wasn't intending to be in London until Monday but I thought..why not.
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Post by viserys on Dec 4, 2017 13:03:06 GMT
All booked again.
I had hoped that the two front rows would be as cheap as they were for An American in Paris but no dice. Still, the front row for £55 is not a terrible deal considering the ludicrous prices in the rows beyond.
Gah, I can't believe I'm so excited about a jukebox musical.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 4, 2017 13:11:36 GMT
I wanted Row A but chickened out when I saw they were cheaper. Not knowing what the view will be like, I didn’t want a repeat of my experience in the front row at Manchester, where the front of the set blocked half of the show!
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Post by viserys on Dec 4, 2017 13:16:19 GMT
I sat in Row J or thereabouts in Manchester, so I didn't have that problem. I think there wasn't much of an orchestra pit in Manchester either, while the pit at the Dominion is huge.
For what's it worth and might be of help to those who haven't seen the show yet: I think the artificial "rocks" and all that stuff that blocks the view from the front row(s) is to the left side of the stage (left when sitting in the stalls) so it may be better to sit on the right side. I think those "rocks" were also hiding that bizarre little swimming pool Falco dropped into? I might of course be remembering all wrong, but I've gone for sitting slightly to the right now. And either way, I've seen it from further back, this time I want to be up close.
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Post by danb on Dec 4, 2017 19:14:53 GMT
As much as I adore this show I shall only be going ‘at the last minute’. The queuing to get on the site is a bit of a joke as once you get on hardly anything has been sold. Will it be another AAIP and indeed Bat the first time, and be discounted on TKTS within weeks? Yes there are people that can afford these prices, yes some will pay them and the corporate sector will continue to pay £250 a ticket to schmooze clients on premium seats (tax deductible see!), even if they only stay for act one before leaving with their ‘dates’ for an evening in their ‘hotel’! 😂
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Post by ceebee on Dec 4, 2017 19:54:45 GMT
I'm not sure you are even allowed to recover the VAT on theatre tickets, let alone the whole cost of a premium seat. Happy to be corrected but I think HMRC interpret it as a derived benefit. That is not to say that corporates don't have client entertainment funds, though the old "free lunch" is not what it was, even compared with ten years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2017 21:56:41 GMT
Top price (non premium) is 25 quid cheaper than Coliseum - £75 - and the premium seats don't take up most of stalls as they do sometimes these days - so whilst still expensive is a BIT better than the previous run!
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Post by danb on Dec 4, 2017 22:05:03 GMT
I think it’s to offset the smell of popcorn & spilt diet coke from the Grease years...a pre-emptive apology if you like...and it is kind of ‘f@cking huge’. The Coliseum, whilst huge, felt organic and like a theatre. The Dominion feels more like an arena at times, especially from the ginormous stalls. I swear row A is in a different time zone from ZZ!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2017 22:25:39 GMT
I think it’s to offset the smell of popcorn & spilt diet coke from the Grease years...a pre-emptive apology if you like...and it is kind of ‘f@cking huge’. The Coliseum, whilst huge, felt organic and like a theatre. The Dominion feels more like an arena at times, especially from the ginormous stalls. I swear row A is in a different time zone from ZZ! I do think it needs a big show to fill it. Quite liked it when I saw We Will Rock You there but really didn't like the theatre when saw Evita there. Or Elf from the back row of the Circle. Think Bat will be a good fit though. Btw - does anyone know if Sharon Sexton is staying with the show? Her Sloane was epic. Fantastic voice and so alluring I almost fancied her, despite being gay. (I fancied Ben Purkiss more lol)
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Post by ali973 on Dec 5, 2017 3:33:38 GMT
The Dominion is one fugly place. These depressing brown walls. Yuck. Bathrooms are pretty good though.
Re: Cast list, it's on the website already.
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Post by viserys on Dec 5, 2017 5:49:39 GMT
Unless I'm missing something on the website that's the Toronto Cast though. They still haven't announced if everyone is coming back to London with the show.
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Post by ceebee on Dec 5, 2017 22:15:08 GMT
That's really tight. Like a VAT out of hell.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Dec 6, 2017 12:37:40 GMT
They only come out after dark.
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Post by Ade on Dec 26, 2017 11:43:13 GMT
Have looked to see if anyone has commented on this but can't find anything - do we know why the back section of the circle is not on sale at all? Was looking to bag a cheap seat just to see what it's like.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2017 11:53:47 GMT
So I wondered this. It is on sale after the preview period though. I have no idea why! Could they be refurbing it?
Have to say is a very long way from the stage there. Sat in the very back row for Elf (owing to the insane prices); have to say even that wasn't worth it for that show!
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Post by Ade on Dec 26, 2017 12:14:06 GMT
So I wondered this. It is on sale after the preview period though. I have no idea why! Could they be refurbing it? Have to say is a very long way from the stage there. Sat in the very back row for Elf (owing to the insane prices); have to say even that wasn't worth it for that show! Which dates are you seeing it on? I looked at the last week of July and it’s not on sale then either. I’ve not found any dates with availability at the back.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2017 13:05:32 GMT
Ah interesting. Certainly when I last looked the second month was available. That was a few weeks ago though - maybe they've taken it all off now. No idea why though.
Maybe they think they can't fill it? Rear section of Apollo Victoria was not used for years before Wicked.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2017 18:33:47 GMT
So I wondered this. It is on sale after the preview period though. I have no idea why! Could they be refurbing it? Have to say is a very long way from the stage there. Sat in the very back row for Elf (owing to the insane prices); have to say even that wasn't worth it for that show! Which dates are you seeing it on? I looked at the last week of July and it’s not on sale then either. I’ve not found any dates with availability at the back. Just had a look at website and yes, seems to have disappeared again. Interestingly the first three rows of the stalls have also been taken off sale in their entirety for all dates - bit odd! Also lots of them have already been sold so not sure what sense it takes removing the rest of them. Strange!
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