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Post by jek on May 23, 2018 16:19:42 GMT
I really like the Barbican Cinema. If you are a Barbican member it isn't too expensive (and there are cheap tickets for Young Barbican members which includes anybody under 26). A member of staff sits in on every film so that if anything were to kick off there is someone to deal with it.
I also like the Curzon at Aldgate which has very comfortable seats and a nice atmosphere but isn't cheap.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 17:09:40 GMT
Cinema behaviour drove me up the wall, stopped going for years. Fortunately I discovered Picturehouse Central, which is the Waitrose of cinemas. Costs more but you can actually enjoy the film. They also have some benefits like a members bar so I have somewhere to hang when I've got an hour to kill in Piccidily. The Prince Charles also omly attracts people who actually want yo be there, and you can get tickets for a fiver at weekday matinee screenings if you are a member (tenner a year). Membership paid for itself when I got buy one get one free ramen at Shoryu the other day. Bargain. I think it's always attracted that type... I remember it when it was a porn cinema!
No, I've not been in...
There's a Prince of Wales in Cardiff that was first a theatre, then a porn cinema, now a Wetherspoons....you could say it's all much of a muchness come Friday night... (I love me a Spoons even if their owner is a Brexitier)
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 19:34:22 GMT
Maybe they're knackered by the run, or being ironic about the joyous freedom of unemployment? Maybe both? Or maybe they genuinely haaaaated the play and although the wage was nice, this unemployment is more welcome than it is when finishing a job they enjoyed? There's probably levels of meaning we're missing by deciding to take their comments solely at face value. The ones sulking about having to miss A WHOLE TWO afternoons of sunshine can definitely get knotted though. As much as I whinge about unemployment, there is also a sense of utter joy at being released from a job you hate. Peak 'actor moans about being inside on Sunny day' was Killian Donnelly taking a picture from his dressing room....of the people outside the pub opposite. There's an Irishman if ever I saw one. If he'd been an even more hardcore Irishman he'd have been over there for a pint during the interval. It reminded me of the story Richard Harris used to tell about him and fellow legendary Hell Raiser Peter O'Toole going to a pub during a show and having to sprint back from pub as they lost track of the time.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 19:37:26 GMT
My husband was, until very recently, in the army and when we saw Harry Potter last year he was on call. Military is one exception to the rule, as we all agree on here, Lemansky . NEVER EVER be ashamed of what your husband has / had to do in the line of being ready always to protect us all. I think we are unanimous in thanking him, and wishing him well in whatever he is now doing afterwards. Emergency Services can also be on call as if there is a major incident they are likely to be called in. Military can will also effectively be on call to "Report to base" like Lemansky's husband was as they can be deployed at short notice.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 19:56:37 GMT
A porn cinema?!
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 20:13:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 20:23:31 GMT
Just think of the carpets!
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Post by 49thand8th on May 23, 2018 20:44:27 GMT
I went on a tour of the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway and apparently they are quite proud of being one of the few former Ziegfeld houses that wasn't a porn cinema in the 70s.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 21:08:07 GMT
Just think of the carpets! Why do you think Shake and Vac was invented? You shook; they vacced...
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 13:15:58 GMT
Just think of the carpets! I mean you say that but are the carpets in a normal cinema any cleaner? really? really? I mean they're full of teenage boys quite often....
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Post by profquatermass on May 24, 2018 15:23:14 GMT
Mancunians might be interested to know that Home, before it was the Cornerhouse, was a porn cinema
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 15:33:02 GMT
oh, and like teenage girls are any cleaner... Well in a porn cinema ahem context, marginally. Is all I'm saying (I've been re-watching The Inbetweeners lately, I know how those minds work )
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 16:11:44 GMT
Ironically there are still one or two in Birmingham ironically located close to the City's main theatres.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 20:00:34 GMT
Some horrors at the Wicked UK tour this afternoon...
People in the balcony running off to the toilet every 5 minutes, banging the doors in the process and disturbing everyone.
Crying and screaming children. Amy Ross was definitely distracted at one point!
At the curtain call, Kim Ismay and Steven Pinder got booed by all the little children.
Gotta love Saturday matinee shows at the Edinburgh Playhouse!
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Post by welcometodreamland on May 26, 2018 22:56:29 GMT
Not so much bad behaviour but a real nitpic that tipped me over the edge when watching Mood Music today...
COUGHING DURING A SHOW
It happens so often nowadays and its really really distracting. This was really bad today. At least four to five people were doing it and insensitive scenes too.
If you're making a theatre trip, and have had a cough pending the performance, maybe consider cancelling or rebooking your ticket for a future showtime until the cough is gone. That or take cough medicine or cough sweets to limit it.
Its distracting and really annoying.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 23:08:04 GMT
Not so much bad behaviour but a real nitpic that tipped me over the edge when watching Mood Music today... COUGHING DURING A SHOW It happens so often nowadays and its really really distracting. This was really bad today. At least four to five people were doing it and insensitive scenes too. If you're making a theatre trip, and have had a cough pending the performance, maybe consider cancelling or rebooking your ticket for a future showtime until the cough is gone. That or take cough medicine or cough sweets to limit it. Its distracting and really annoying. Coughing is generally fairly involuntary. I get that its annoying, I've even been 'annoyed' by it at times but I've also been on the guilty part. There is nothing worse than trying your hardest to surpress that tickle that grows and grows in awkwardness and discomfort until a splutter emerges.
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Post by 49thand8th on May 27, 2018 3:05:42 GMT
Not so much bad behaviour but a real nitpic that tipped me over the edge when watching Mood Music today... COUGHING DURING A SHOW It happens so often nowadays and its really really distracting. This was really bad today. At least four to five people were doing it and insensitive scenes too. If you're making a theatre trip, and have had a cough pending the performance, maybe consider cancelling or rebooking your ticket for a future showtime until the cough is gone. That or take cough medicine or cough sweets to limit it. Its distracting and really annoying. It's not always about being sick, though. Sometimes the air is suddenly dry, you walked past some potent flowers on the way to the show, or the dessert you ate on the way there is coming back up. The solution is to bring something that doesn't make noise (like wax-paper-wrapped cough drop) just in case it happens.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 9:17:51 GMT
I find the 'SICK PEOPLE STAY HOME' narrative really irritating. Now obviously if you're ill/contagious/spewing you should damn well stay home for yourself and for others. But if you've got the kind of cough/cold you could still go into work with, then I'm sorry as much as it's annoying (even to me) those people have a right to use their tickets.
Tickets are expensive and hard to come by sometimes- I don't want to tell someone who waited 18 months for Hamilton they can't go because they've had a cough the week before and might accidentally cough in a quiet bit and annoy someone for 2 seconds.
Also I get it, and feel really self conscious with sneezing- I always sneeze in a batch of at least three maybe more, it's obviously involuntary and can be set off by who knows what- summer, winter, fall, spring. Of COURSE I feel embarrassed but I don't have to have a cold to sneeze, should I always stay home on the off chance?
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Post by ensembleswings on May 27, 2018 10:18:19 GMT
90% of the time I have a cough it's not because I'm physically sick, it's usually to do with the air con/heating systems. If there's too much of a difference in temperature or the air is suddenly noticeably dry it can really affect me, it doesn't help that I also suffer from asthma. I can be absolutely fine all day yet when I arrive at the theatre and sit down a cough can sometimes start, I get that it's annoying for some (I annoy myself with it too) but should I really have to go home after arriving just because I've found a noticeable difference in air which has caused me to cough? And just because I've coughed once at the beginning doesn't mean I'll continue all throughout the show, I can't tell until it's happened. (I do carry cough sweets and such to try and limit any coughing should it start)
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 27, 2018 11:16:55 GMT
There’s definitely something else going on with coughing though. Often it’s all quiet, then one person coughs and it starts a wave of coughing from several other people. It’s like someone did it first and so “gave permission” for others to cough. Or some sort of involuntary mirroring behaviour. Very odd.
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Post by stagebyte on May 27, 2018 14:05:11 GMT
I suggest everyone gets the coughing, sneezing, unwrapping the family picnic out of the way during the overture - the same time as everyone is talking at the tops of their voices. No one will hear you then ...
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Post by poster J on May 27, 2018 15:22:12 GMT
I suggest everyone gets the coughing, sneezing, unwrapping the family picnic out of the way during the overture - the same time as everyone is talking at the tops of their voices. No one will hear you then ... Or everyone could just shut up and let us all hear the overture like we're supposed to be able to!
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on May 27, 2018 16:06:53 GMT
There’s definitely something else going on with coughing though. Often it’s all quiet, then one person coughs and it starts a wave of coughing from several other people. It’s like someone did it first and so “gave permission” for others to cough. Or some sort of involuntary mirroring behaviour. Very odd. Increased self monitoring or herd mentality; hearing a cough makes others respond to a similar irritation, exaggerate a minor irritation or imagine that one exists which so that they react the same way. Laughing works in a similar manner and theatre specifically relies on that one, yawning can cause a herd reaction too but, if an audience catches that, you’re in trouble. I don’t think sneezing works in as obvious a way, though, in that it can only be initiated physically not voluntarily but maybe others could confirm/dismiss that view.
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Post by itsemily on May 27, 2018 18:03:13 GMT
Just got home from watching Karen and Kevin Clifton from Strictly Come Dancing's tour at Woking theatre (brilliant show - would definitely recommend if it comes near you) However during the show I lent back in my seat and got stabbed in the shoulder by a small pointy object, I turned round and the woman behind me had decided she should take off her shoes and place one bare foot on the back of my chair and the other on the back of my mums chair, the stabbing device was her very pointy big toe nail . I glanced up at her and she was sitting there in a short sundress with her legs wide open so we could see her knickers, I gave her a look but still her trotters remained on our chairs. I don't like feet, I know most people have them but please keep them away from me and definitely do not place them on my chair.
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Post by Jon on May 27, 2018 18:06:48 GMT
Theatres are very dry, dusty places which is probably why coughs are more prevalent. I remember having a really bad cough during Act 1 of Angels in America and suppressing a cough is worse than just letting it all out. Thankfully after drinking some water, I was fine.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 27, 2018 19:10:19 GMT
I turned round and the woman behind me had decided she should take off her shoes and place one bare foot on the back of my chair and the other on the back of my mums chair, the stabbing device was her very pointy big toe nail . I glanced up at her and she was sitting there in a short sundress with her legs wide open so we could see her knickers, This must be near the top of the charts for bad behaviour. REPULSIVE.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 19:43:36 GMT
Just got home from watching Karen and Kevin Clifton from Strictly Come Dancing's tour at Woking theatre (brilliant show - would definitely recommend if it comes near you) However during the show I lent back in my seat and got stabbed in the shoulder by a small pointy object, I turned round and the woman behind me had decided she should take off her shoes and place one bare foot on the back of my chair and the other on the back of my mums chair, the stabbing device was her very pointy big toe nail . I glanced up at her and she was sitting there in a short sundress with her legs wide open so we could see her knickers, I gave her a look but still her trotters remained on our chairs. I don't like feet, I know most people have them but please keep them away from me and definitely do not place them on my chair. Oh that’s gross on two counts, but that’s Woking for you... Thank God she remembered to put her drawers on. Didn’t you feel you could say anything? (Along the lines of... “They look like they need a bit of a rinse through...”?
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Post by TallPaul on May 27, 2018 20:03:02 GMT
I know she loves a good dance show, but I'm more than a little disappointed that Tibidabo didn't tell me she was having an outing to Woking. I thought we were friends!
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Post by itsemily on May 27, 2018 20:15:04 GMT
Didn’t you feel you could say anything? (Along the lines of... “They look like they need a bit of a rinse through...”? Sort of thing I say to my friend Laura on a daily basis when she insists on wandering round work barefoot (we work in a nursery with one year olds, our room is a shoe free zone, but I always wear socks or slippers) - the other day I asked what was all over her feet and she said 'just general grime'.
However I am not brave enough to say this to a stranger and have often been told that I apparently cannot glare so I doubt the look I gave her would have achieved anything!
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Post by theatrerookie on May 27, 2018 20:46:25 GMT
At Wicked on Saturday night the woman behind me was quietly singing along to a few of the songs. Once it got to defying gravity I had to shoosh her.
Its the first time I've ever shooshed someone. She was super pissed then she started kicking the back of my chair throughout the rest of the show.
what a horrible woman. Nobody wants to hear you sing especially if you're in the third row.
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