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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 14:26:48 GMT
Re the above: that's one you just read and think, why? why? whhhy? I can understand the blowjob more than I can understand the furious masturbation. Not sure why "fury" would drive someone to masturbation. I’m just really angry at my dick??? Idk not having one not sure if it’s an appendage that drives rage
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Post by lynette on Mar 23, 2018 18:03:57 GMT
You've got some song lyrics going there, Em.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 19:00:13 GMT
You've got some song lyrics going there, Em. Dick! the musical! it's my next project. I did actually message a friend the other days and say 'I've made a lot of knob jokes in this play' (To which she replied 'The gay play or the straight play' which is in fairness a valid question/distinction)
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Post by dizzieblonde on Mar 23, 2018 19:31:00 GMT
You've got some song lyrics going there, Em. Dick! the musical! it's my next project. I did actually message a friend the other days and say 'I've made a lot of knob jokes in this play' (To which she replied 'The gay play or the straight play' which is in fairness a valid question/distinction) It already exists (no, really)! It's called 'Me and My Dick', and was written by Darren Criss (Glee, American Crime Story), Carlos Valdez (Cisco on The Flash), and some of their college friends. It genuinely was the first college produced musical to make it on the US Billboard charts! Obviously puerile, college frat-boy humour, but not completely terrible or anything. The songs are actually quite good, the lyrics are clever, and there's a decent through story! So, go ahead with your musical, but you'll need to beat that one (pun intended) !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 19:32:43 GMT
Dick! the musical! it's my next project. I did actually message a friend the other days and say 'I've made a lot of knob jokes in this play' (To which she replied 'The gay play or the straight play' which is in fairness a valid question/distinction) It already exists (no, really)! It's called 'Me and My Dick', and was written by Darren Criss (Glee, American Crime Story), Carlos Valdez (Cisco on The Flash), and some of their college friends. It genuinely was the first college produced musical to make it on the US Billboard charts! Obviously puerile, college frat-boy humour, but not completely terrible or anything. The songs are actually quite good, the lyrics are clever, and there's a decent through story! So, go ahead with your musical, but you'll need to beat that one (pun intended) ! Beating Darren Criss sounds more like a job for @ryan surely? actually speaking of you Ryan, you'll obviously be my creative consultant on Dick!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Mar 23, 2018 21:01:05 GMT
Speaking of Darren Criss, dicks and rage related things(!), I actually saw him in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway. He was brilliant but some of the audience (at least those a few rows behind me) were horrific! I've been to enough Broadway shows to understand that the volume and response from audiences is very different to the UK - and Hedwig is a naturally fairly raucous show anyway, but some girls decided that this show was the opportunity for them to scream, high pitched and continuously for the entire duration of almost all of the songs!
One of my friends, who was the one who arranged the tickets, is a bit of a Darren Criss superfan (but not the screechy kind!), and said that his run in 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying' was even worse for terrible audience behaviour - people leaving in the middle of the finale, just so they could be at the front of the stage door crowd, blatant filming of the show, constant screams etc, basically obnoxious teenagers at every turn! Darren Criss was definitely good enough in that show to make a fan out of me, but god, I also wanted to kill all of his other fans that particular night!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 21:05:17 GMT
It already exists (no, really)! It's called 'Me and My Dick', and was written by Darren Criss (Glee, American Crime Story), Carlos Valdez (Cisco on The Flash), and some of their college friends. It genuinely was the first college produced musical to make it on the US Billboard charts! Obviously puerile, college frat-boy humour, but not completely terrible or anything. The songs are actually quite good, the lyrics are clever, and there's a decent through story! So, go ahead with your musical, but you'll need to beat that one (pun intended) ! Beating Darren Criss sounds more like a job for @ryan surely? actually speaking of you Ryan, you'll obviously be my creative consultant on Dick! Oh marvellous. Here to help. I'll give the casting couch a spring clean. If there's one thing I know about it's . . . .
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Post by crowblack on Mar 24, 2018 12:24:52 GMT
But it's...well, it's traditional. It's probably what those boxes were designed for, back in the day.
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Post by bellboard27 on Mar 24, 2018 13:22:39 GMT
I see the Jersey Boys tour Twitter is promoting a quote from the Sunderland Echo - “I dare you not to ..., sing along to each and every number”. If I bought a ticket on the strength of that, I might be a bit surprised to be told to keep quiet.
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Post by Dr Tom on Mar 24, 2018 18:19:20 GMT
It already exists (no, really)! It's called 'Me and My Dick', and was written by Darren Criss (Glee, American Crime Story), Carlos Valdez (Cisco on The Flash), and some of their college friends. It genuinely was the first college produced musical to make it on the US Billboard charts! Obviously puerile, college frat-boy humour, but not completely terrible or anything. The songs are actually quite good, the lyrics are clever, and there's a decent through story! So, go ahead with your musical, but you'll need to beat that one (pun intended) ! By AJ Holmes as well, who ended up as arguably the best Elder Cunningham in the West End.
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Post by shady23 on Mar 24, 2018 23:14:15 GMT
I see the Jersey Boys tour Twitter is promoting a quote from the Sunderland Echo - “I dare you not to ..., sing along to each and every number”. If I bought a ticket on the strength of that, I might be a bit surprised to be told to keep quiet. We just had one singer behind us today. We had plenty of loud chatters and phone checkers though. I wonder if that was in one of their other tweets?
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Post by lynette on Mar 24, 2018 23:38:14 GMT
Guy in front merrily filming on phone the first few minutes of Julius, the rock band bit and guy behind me shoving his leathers and helmet around all through the first hour. Don’t ask.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Mar 25, 2018 8:13:35 GMT
It already exists (no, really)! It's called 'Me and My Dick', and was written by Darren Criss (Glee, American Crime Story), Carlos Valdez (Cisco on The Flash), and some of their college friends. It genuinely was the first college produced musical to make it on the US Billboard charts! Obviously puerile, college frat-boy humour, but not completely terrible or anything. The songs are actually quite good, the lyrics are clever, and there's a decent through story! So, go ahead with your musical, but you'll need to beat that one (pun intended) ! By AJ Holmes as well, who ended up as arguably the best Elder Cunningham in the West End. And this lot just a couple of years behind Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hanson, La La Land, The Greatest Showman) all at University of Michigan at the same time - that's one hell of a talent pool to come out of a single theatre department, within a couple of years of each other!
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Post by Mark on Mar 25, 2018 9:40:30 GMT
Lots of wannabe Tinas at Tina on Friday night. There’s a scene where they are playing her a demonstration of a song for her - what’s love got to do with it, and it cuts just before the big “whoa, what’s love got to do with it”, needless to say the audience sang it out to a rather benjsed looking cast. Lots of murmurs when a recognisable song came on.
To be honest it didn’t bother me as much as the cough battle happening at Cursed child yesterday. There wasn’t 30 seconds went by without someone giving an almighty cough.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2018 12:22:52 GMT
I had the MOST STAGEY people next to me at Hamilton. TALKING REALLY LOUDLY ABOUT PEOPLE THEY KNEW.
Then TALKING LOUDLY ABOUT VOCAL TECHNIQUE and exactly what Rachelle Ann Go was doing (I'll keep my bitchy comments to myself there)
Darling you're in the cheap seats you ain't special. (also one caught me texting a friend about them...oops)
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 25, 2018 16:43:58 GMT
Darling you're in the cheap seats you ain't special. (also one caught me texting a friend about them...oops) Whenever I hear people getting a bit above their station I always think of this scene in Ab Fab
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 17:59:29 GMT
Motown the Musical sent out one of those 'Culture insights' surveys today. If they'd asked what would have made an accurate poster I would have been temped to write 'more knobs'
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Post by n1david on Mar 27, 2018 8:57:30 GMT
Now, I know some people have trains or buses to catch, and I know that you don't always know the length of productions when you book them, but it you think you're going to have to leave in the last five minutes - the emotional climax of something like, say "Summer and Smoke" in a small theatre like the Almeida, why don't you have a quiet word with an usher at the interval about finding somewhere else to watch the show, rather than going back into your seat at the interval, thus requiring half a dozen people stand to let you out, disrupting most of the stalls and surely being noticeable to the actors, just at the point which arguably defines the whole play.
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Post by tysilio2 on Mar 27, 2018 9:13:14 GMT
3 friends of mine attended Wicked in Liverpool on Saturday night, had the show ruined for them by the people in the row behind eating, using phones, chatting, and singing along. I assume they were also drinking as before the interval one (or more) of them vomited!. The ushers cleaned it up during the interval but, to my friends' dismay, they were allowed back for the second half. Not sure yet how that turned out. My friends complained to theatre management, but again I'm not yet sure how that concluded.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2018 10:11:52 GMT
If I go to work and vomit during the day, I am sent home and forbidden from coming back within 48 hours, and if I vomit again, the clock is reset. Even if it's apparent to all that the vomit was caused by drink rather than a stomach bug, one must assume the FOH have no medical training (or if they have, it's in the capacity of another job and not their FOH work) and thus they aren't able to say that for certain, and therefore the vomiter should be told to leave the premises. There could be some sympathy involved, ticket refunds or taxi fares or whathaveyou, but a vomiter shouldn't be in a public space.
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Post by bellboard27 on Mar 27, 2018 10:32:15 GMT
Now, I know some people have trains or buses to catch, and I know that you don't always know the length of productions when you book them, but it you think you're going to have to leave in the last five minutes - the emotional climax of something like, say "Summer and Smoke" in a small theatre like the Almeida, why don't you have a quiet word with an usher at the interval about finding somewhere else to watch the show, rather than going back into your seat at the interval, thus requiring half a dozen people stand to let you out, disrupting most of the stalls and surely being noticeable to the actors, just at the point which arguably defines the whole play. Exactly. Once at the Orange Tree Theatre the production started late as the lift got stuck with a disabled person in it and it took a little time to free them! I had another appointment afterwards and asked FOH for a different seat after the interval so I could slip out of a door without disturbing anyone if needed before the end (which I had to).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2018 16:05:56 GMT
Now, I know some people have trains or buses to catch, and I know that you don't always know the length of productions when you book them, but it you think you're going to have to leave in the last five minutes - the emotional climax of something like, say "Summer and Smoke" in a small theatre like the Almeida, why don't you have a quiet word with an usher at the interval about finding somewhere else to watch the show, rather than going back into your seat at the interval, thus requiring half a dozen people stand to let you out, disrupting most of the stalls and surely being noticeable to the actors, just at the point which arguably defines the whole play. Exactly. Once at the Orange Tree Theatre the production started late as the lift got stuck with a disabled person in it and it took a little time to free them! I had another appointment afterwards and asked FOH for a different seat after the interval so I could slip out of a door without disturbing anyone if needed before the end (which I had to). On that note a friend and I are getting slightly paranoid because the last two plays we've seen someone moved from the seats next to us...for that reason we clearly heard them say to the usher. But still a girl gets paranoid. Also re: Vomit (there's a sentence you don't use every day thankfully!). It's a line we employed for kids theatre (not a hard and fast 'rule' I grant you but 'we can't let little Johnny back in because he's puked' never went unchallenged) so I say we should indeed extend it to grown up Johnnies. Wait. That's something else.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2018 0:39:54 GMT
On that note a friend and I are getting slightly paranoid because the last two plays we've seen someone moved from the seats next to us...for that reason we clearly heard them say to the usher. But still a girl gets paranoid. Hope no-one has accused you of humming Emi?
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 28, 2018 10:24:20 GMT
On that note a friend and I are getting slightly paranoid because the last two plays we've seen someone moved from the seats next to us...for that reason we clearly heard them say to the usher. But still a girl gets paranoid. Hope no-one has accused you of humming Emi? No....Emi was reciting all the lines aloud along with the actors at Angels in America! Even Nathan Lane (in character) shouted "shut the f*** up"!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2018 11:57:20 GMT
We are a bit cruel to Emi but she is a great poster on here and we all love her really!
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 28, 2018 13:12:15 GMT
My comment was only in jest! I am sure Emi is impeccably behaved!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2018 14:36:54 GMT
We are a bit cruel to Emi but she is a great poster on here and we all love her really! Not according to some of the graffiti I've written read. My comment was only in jest! I am sure Emi is impeccably behaved!I'll bet she isn't. I have it on good authority that Marianne Elliott has reported her to the police several times.
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Post by michalnowicki on Mar 28, 2018 14:57:27 GMT
I'll bet she isn't. I have it on good authority that Marianne Elliott has reported her to the police several times. I heard the same, but about one Mr James McArdle
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Post by tysilio2 on Mar 29, 2018 9:15:54 GMT
3 friends of mine attended Wicked in Liverpool on Saturday night, had the show ruined for them by the people in the row behind eating, using phones, chatting, and singing along. I assume they were also drinking as before the interval one (or more) of them vomited!. The ushers cleaned it up during the interval but, to my friends' dismay, they were allowed back for the second half. Not sure yet how that turned out. My friends complained to theatre management, but again I'm not yet sure how that concluded. An update after speaking to one of the party last night. The group behind were pi$$ed when they arrived, the vomiter didn't realise she had been sick until a woman next to her informed her when she returned to her seat after re-stocking with snacks at the interval. She was told that she had vomited on my friends coat but offered no apology. The evening was completely ruined. The theatre (or ATG, not sure which) have offered two tickets for one of four specified shows as recompense. However, none of the shows appeal to my friend and they are only Monday to Friday tickets which doesn't help due to work commitments. They have since requested dry-cleaning costs for the coat.
Anyone have any further suggestions for complaint other than to keep contacting ATG?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 12:39:34 GMT
3 friends of mine attended Wicked in Liverpool on Saturday night, had the show ruined for them by the people in the row behind eating, using phones, chatting, and singing along. I assume they were also drinking as before the interval one (or more) of them vomited!. The ushers cleaned it up during the interval but, to my friends' dismay, they were allowed back for the second half. Not sure yet how that turned out. My friends complained to theatre management, but again I'm not yet sure how that concluded. An update after speaking to one of the party last night. The group behind were pi$$ed when they arrived, the vomiter didn't realise she had been sick until a woman next to her informed her when she returned to her seat after re-stocking with snacks at the interval. She was told that she had vomited on my friends coat but offered no apology. The evening was completely ruined. The theatre (or ATG, not sure which) have offered two tickets for one of four specified shows as recompense. However, none of the shows appeal to my friend and they are only Monday to Friday tickets which doesn't help due to work commitments. They have since requested dry-cleaning costs for the coat.
Anyone have any further suggestions for complaint other than to keep contacting ATG?
I’m sorry your friends’ evening was ruined. From what you say they have already registered a complaint and have been offered something they’re not particularly happy with (I wouldn’t be either) so I would look to speak directly with the Theatre Manager. (Googling I see that Liverpool Empire’s Manager won some award or other back in 2016 but it could be someone different now...) www.atgtickets.com/news/liverpool-empire-theatre-manager-wins-top-uk-theatre-award/Anyhow, once I’d got the name (from a programme? From ATG?) I would contact them directly, either by email or by telephone, going over the same details and informing them that the compensation already offered isn’t acceptable for the reasons you’ve stated. The theatre staff have not reacted to the use of phones and singing along, they have allowed the group back when they should have been ejected, and they have acknowledged some blame already from the offer of complimentary seats for another show. Like any business you complain to, they will usually try to pacify you with a small gesture up front. If this isn’t acceptable to you then you persist until you are reasonably happy. Personally speaking I feel that some shows are now completely off-limits especially at weekends. They often attract the wrong crowd that theatre staff simply don’t know how to deal with, and it can make for a very unpleasant evening. In the words of Mr John, “...it’s a sad, sad situation, and it’s getting more and more absurd...”
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