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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2016 1:32:52 GMT
And to add to the spreadsheet topic, I have one, but it is simply: show/genre/theatre... and then an additional column for amount of times seen if I have returned a second, third or fiftieth time!  Also there is an additional column for if I have attended a significant performance at said show: so for Wicked the column has Louise and Gina's final performance, Rachel's return performance, 10th Anniversary performance etc. I also have two additional spreadsheets for shows I want to see and shows I want to see again, with the dates of any booking period or closing dates which change as the booking period extends. In the case of the return spreadsheet there is also a reason to return box. So sometimes it is just because I want to see the show again or it is closing soon, but somwtimes it will be a reminder to go before a certain cast member leaves or something! I don't know if i am organised or sad. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2016 6:40:38 GMT
And to add to the spreadsheet topic, I have one, but it is simply: show/genre/theatre... and then an additional column for amount of times seen if I have returned a second, third or fiftieth time! I don't know if i am organised or sad. I think it's safe to say you're not sad, you're amongst kindred spirits. I like the idea of an area to record the shows you want to see still. Mine contains the date and time, the type of show (play/musical/dance/performance) the show itself, visit number, venue, seat number, noteable cast members, cost, and notes (like the legroom was dire, school trip, press night etc.) |
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Post by Mr Snow on Nov 2, 2016 8:06:09 GMT
Recently, I've removed the ticket price column from my spreadsheet (the numbers were just too scary), but apart from that it's up-to-date. Will post the numbers when I'm back home. I totalled how much I'd spent earlier in the year and almost had a canary when I realised that I'd spent just over £4000 in the past 17 years. Its an average of £235 per year, which at 1 show per month over that period means I'm spending just a smige under £20 per month, which isnt so bad. ....at least thats what I'm telling myself. A "canary" ...now thats serious! |
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Post by freckles on Nov 2, 2016 8:25:58 GMT
Re: spreadsheets, dont have one myself but was chatting to a friend last night who does. (It's clearly much more widespread than I realised!)
She's a keen bargain hunter like me, so has a ticket spend column - and a column of what the ticket could have/should have cost. She finds this very satisfying.
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Post by Mr Snow on Nov 2, 2016 8:36:44 GMT
I have thought about a spreadsheet, particularly since my main interest is Opera which means I've seen 5 or more productions of some of the warhorses and it would be good to be reminded. Also to add comments and track the careers of singers and see when I first noticed star quality. I found the program of my first Trovatore and it featured Carreras and Ricarrelli just as they were becoming famous. They made little impression on me from a note I found with it! (PS It’s an Opera I don’t really like.) I have this in mind as a retirement project as I have most of the Opera Programmes (300+) from over the years and many, many Theatre ones.
So based on some work I did when I had a tidy up a few years ago.
ROH 180+ times
Colosseum 60+
Then a big fall off to the most visited (guestimates)
Regents Park Open Air. 10+ times
Savoy 10+ times
The old Players Theatre, under the arches 10+ times
Kings Head Islington 10+ times.
The Hackney Empire 20+ but not just for shows.
National Theatre – various visits over the years. More than 10.
Most of the west end theatres several times and with 4 visits to the Edinburgh Festival some venues there seem like a home from home.
Shows seen most- without checking, a tie.
Pal Joey at the Albery (now renamed The Noel Coward) with Dennis Lawson and Sian Phillips. This was the show that really started it for me. Summer of 1981 we had lots pf people come and stay with the family and I insisted they all come and see this amazing show. They were all very polite and said they loved it. Went 5x.
Since then I’ve probably seen at least 5 revivals of the Jonathon Millar Rigoletto but with different casts. If I include all productions of Rigoletto I have probably seen it more than 10x and Traviata even more than that.
Other Musicals. Off the top of my head I can recall 4 different productions of Guys and Dolls including the original and the revival of the NT version, so that also gets at least 5.
I’ve enjoyed this reminisce and it comes with being OLD, now if only I could remember them all.
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Post by Flim Flam on Nov 2, 2016 9:05:30 GMT
Full of admiration for all you people with your spreadsheets. I am quite organised in my working life, but when it comes to my theatre going, it's my hobby and I can't be bothered to track things this diligently. I do use an online calendar and organise my advance bookings carefully, but my main aide-memoire for shows I have seen is a large box full of my used ticket stubs, flyers, cast lists and programmes. Mainly ticket stubs, as I only occasionally buy programmes these days. Love a good old rummage through this box, reminding me of what I have seen. And as for cost, the last thing I want to be reminded of is how much I have spent per year on theatre!  |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 2, 2016 9:30:22 GMT
I feel like I spent the best years of my life at the Old Vic watching Lear last week
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Post by synchrony on Nov 2, 2016 9:40:42 GMT
I'm another spreadsheeter. I try not to look at the cost column, but it is there. I love a spreadsheet though - I have a running one for books and for my nail varnish (I have a nail blog, and 499 nail varnishes - I was going to write 'around 500 nail varnishes' but who am I kidding? I know to the exact number how many I have!) How can you live with 499?!! I think the non-round number would torment me enough to need to buy one more asap ;-) My spreadsheet has: Show; Theatre; Nr of times I've seen the show; Date; Whether I have the soundtrack; A score out of 10 for whether it's a fundamentally good show or not; A score out of 10 for whether this production was good or not; Who I went with. There is also a pivot table to keep track of how many shows I've seen and how many of those I've seen multiple times. But I never thought to keep track of the ticket price. I'm feeling sad now :-( ;-) |
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Post by rumbledoll on Nov 2, 2016 9:55:22 GMT
Easy one. Certainly The National.
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Post by viserys on Nov 2, 2016 12:13:37 GMT
There is also a pivot table to keep track of how many shows I've seen and how many of those I've seen multiple times. But I never thought to keep track of the ticket price. I'm feeling sad now :-( ;-) I would not feel sad about THAT. I suppose I never thought about a spreadsheet because I started theatre-going before (digital) spreadsheets were a thing. But I have kept all my programmes including the cast I saw, typed out on a sheet of paper with the ticket glued to the paper as well (handy to keep track of understudies). The very first big West End shows I saw were Starlight Express, Cats and Miss Saigon in 1989 and the top price was £25 for Cats/Saigon and I paid £17.50 for a front dress circle seat at Starlight Express. I'm more sad looking at these prices now. I'm sure those who started theatre-going in the 60s or 70s have even better prices to report. And yes, I know that inflation is a thing, but still... |
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Post by dippy on Nov 2, 2016 12:14:59 GMT
Yet another spreadsheet person here, mine informs me that my most visited theatre is the Bristol Hippodrome. Makes lots of sense since I saw lots of different productions there when I was at university. My spreadsheet seems to be pretty standard it consists of theatre, seat, production, day, time, date, cost. I've very slowly started going through all my programmes and am making a new spreadsheet which includes cast and character columns but I've only done about 50 performances so far. I've also got a private wordpress site where eventually I'll have a scan of the programme cover, date and show listed. Then clicking the cover takes you to a page with all the info from both spreadsheets except for cost but also including creatives. Looks like this: postimg.org/image/d6522notr postimg.org/image/bb3r1o00t/ |
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Post by Steffi on Nov 2, 2016 13:55:46 GMT
In London: Prince Edward Theatre because of the huge amount of times I've seen Jersey Boys while it was running there. Possibly followed by the Dominion back from my WWRY days 2003 to 2007.
I think Drury Lane wins third place.
New York: The McKittrick Hotel (I'm guessing it counts as a theatrical venue).
Germany: Capitol Theatre in Dusseldorf without a doubt. I wish they would still do proper runs of shows there instead of just having touring productions come in now and then.
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Post by ldm2016 on Nov 2, 2016 14:40:22 GMT
The National.
Have seen 95% of productions there over the last 3 years with the only ones missed done so by choice except for one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2016 20:34:00 GMT
How can you live with 499?!! I think the non-round number would torment me enough to need to buy one more asap ;-) I think I've been stuck at 499 for ages now and I'm really stubborn, so I'm sort of determined now that the 500th will need to be something REALLY special! |
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Post by Phantom of London on Nov 2, 2016 20:46:09 GMT
That is such a geeky think to do and that is to keep a spreadsheet right? I must be one of these geeks too, I even shade the boxes in if the show is coming up. Eek
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 2, 2016 22:10:12 GMT
Keeping a spreadsheet is not geeky. Putting the information in a text file and writing a 1017-line Perl program to process it and produce summaries of various aspects of the data: that's geeky.
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Post by mattw on Nov 3, 2016 0:20:07 GMT
I have a spreadsheet too, I don't keep price on it though, that would be too scary!  The theatres I have been to most are the Birmingham Hippodrome, then the Birmingham Rep and then the Birmingham Alex. In London it's the Savoy, the Adelphi, the Union, the Garrick and the Geilgud |
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Post by PalelyLaura on Nov 3, 2016 16:30:41 GMT
I have lists of all the shows I've seen in London since I moved here, but not a spreadsheet: feeling rather inspired to make one now!
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Post by ldm2016 on Nov 3, 2016 16:56:08 GMT
I have lists of all the shows I've seen in London since I moved here, but not a spreadsheet: feeling rather inspired to make one now! Yep, me too and going to start one at the weekend! |
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 3, 2016 19:05:20 GMT
How could I forget the Garrick? 22 visits just to Zorro!
Does anyone better at spreadsheets than me know if you can import space delimated data where only some of the spaces are used as column breaks? Trying to work out if there's a way to import my word doc more quickly than copying & pasting a line at a time.
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Post by The Matthew on Nov 3, 2016 21:41:42 GMT
Does anyone better at spreadsheets than me know if you can import space delimated data where only some of the spaces are used as column breaks? Tricky. You could try replacing each run of two or more spaces with a tab, but you need something that can do a search and replace for two or more spaces. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 8:29:26 GMT
I realised I'd neglected my spread sheet for several months, and dutifully updated last night. I just put date, show, venue I used to put who with but neglected it for too long!
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 4, 2016 8:29:36 GMT
Does anyone better at spreadsheets than me know if you can import space delimated data where only some of the spaces are used as column breaks? Tricky. You could try replacing each run of two or more spaces with a tab, but you need something that can do a search and replace for two or more spaces. Sounds like it'll be copying 1 line at a time then! |
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Post by westendcub on Nov 4, 2016 12:05:26 GMT
Over my theater lifetime then this goes to The Phoenix theater due to the vast amount of times I was there for 'Blood Brothers' even since that departed I have seen 'Once' (twice), 'Bend it like Beckham' (twice) and 'Guys and Dolls', whilst I am yet to book a ticket I plan on seeing 'The Girls' so it is for sure the place I can say I have spent many hours in!
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Post by Raven on Nov 6, 2016 11:34:54 GMT
As I don't live very close to London my theatre visits are not nearly as impressive as some of you on here. Having seen Les Mis the most (four times) I have to say that I have spent the most time in the Queens Theatre.
Also, I love how quite a few members keep a spreadsheet record of their shows. I keep mine listed in a Word ducument with the dates of each performance.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Nov 6, 2016 12:23:25 GMT
That is such a geeky think to do and that is to keep a spreadsheet right? I must be one of these geeks too, I even shade the boxes in if the show is coming up. Eek I shade show I've attended so the upcoming shows stand out. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2016 23:00:01 GMT
As I am significantly bored, I decided to actually work out what my Top 10 most-visited theatres are in London. Actually quite nice to look over the shows and venues I have been too... all other venues are 2 shows or less but there is a lot of them so couldn't put them all in. But I also realise how much my theatre going has expanded over the last year. I have visited a lot more out of the way/fringe venues this year or smaller venues and seen some stellar shows as well as amazing West End shows too! I definitely hope I catch more before the year is out, and make next year an amazing one! • Apollo Victoria (15) - Wicked • Adelphi (14) - The Bodyguard, Made in Dagenham & Kinky Boots • Savoy (6) - Guys & Dolls, Gypsy & Funny Girl • Kings Cross (5) - In the Heights • Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (5) - Shrek & Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • The London Palladium (5) - The Wizard of Oz, I Can't Sing! & Cats • Apollo (4) - The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time, Let The Right One In, My Night With Reg & The Go-Between • Piccadilly (4) - Ghost, Viva Forever! & Dirty Dancing • Aldwych (3) - Stephen Ward & Beautiful • Dominion (3) - Elf & The Bodyguard |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2016 0:43:11 GMT
The Palace Theatre because i've seen Les Miz way too many times since 1986. Drury Lane because I was seeing the Theatre Manager there.... but thats a whole different story  Regionally, it would be the Swan Theatre in Worcester, where ive done many shows back in the day, when I used to live there. |
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