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Post by showtoones on Dec 12, 2017 17:55:34 GMT
Parsley - you never like anything except for 42nd Street and Bend It Like Beckham...no one really takes your opinion seriously unfortunately because you are never constructive.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 17:58:22 GMT
It's clear at this point the posts you write are just to get the reaction and nothing more. If your reviews had some substance, there really would be something more worth while to discuss. (Not you showtoones hahaha).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 18:41:10 GMT
Parsley - you never like anything except for 42nd Street and Bend It Like Beckham...no one really takes your opinion seriously unfortunately because you are never constructive. That’s not really true is it People DO take note of my comments And you may want to read the plays thread Where I outline how much I enjoyed Grimly Handsome and Goats At the RC Both of which I saw only in the last 2 weeks And neither of which are bend it or 42nd street I have also loved this year Ink and Slaves of Solitude Macbeth at Barbican Snow in midsummer at RSC Trouble in mind The firm All offhand Please try not to exaggerate and generalise It’s really unhelpful and deceitful
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Post by Mr Wallacio on Dec 12, 2017 22:15:34 GMT
I think people would be more accepting of reviews if they were not written in such a visually irritating way.
You didn't like the show, fair enough, but enough people did in Bristol for it to gain a transfer and hopefully people who see it in London will too as it's different and it's so refreshing to see something out of the norm opening.
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Post by lonlad on Dec 13, 2017 0:02:27 GMT
Peculiar taste, too, since GOATS is a total dud and is coming off a week early; SLAVES OF SOLITUDE was warmed-over Rattigan that has already vanished from memory; and THE FIRM was a David Mamet retread, albeit done well
I did love GRIMLY HANDSOME, though
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Post by showtoones on Dec 13, 2017 4:35:08 GMT
It's clear at this point the posts you write are just to get the reaction and nothing more. If your reviews had some substance, there really would be something more worth while to discuss. (Not you showtoones hahaha). The SHADE of it all LOL...my vote is for Daniel Johnson to be the next PM...muah ;-)
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Post by martin1965 on Dec 13, 2017 6:57:10 GMT
Parsley - you never like anything except for 42nd Street and Bend It Like Beckham...no one really takes your opinion seriously unfortunately because you are never constructive. That’s not really true is it People DO take note of my comments And you may want to read the plays thread Where I outline how much I enjoyed Grimly Handsome and Goats At the RC Both of which I saw only in the last 2 weeks And neither of which are bend it or 42nd street I have also loved this year Ink and Slaves of Solitude Macbeth at Barbican Snow in midsummer at RSC Trouble in mind The firm All offhand Please try not to exaggerate and generalise It’s really unhelpful and deceitful Unhelpful! Thats rich coming from you
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 9:09:13 GMT
I loved The Grinning Man in Bristol and am excited to see it again in London. I was excited for Goats but ultimately disappointed when I saw it. If Pars and I hadn't both enjoyed Ink, I'd be giving some SERIOUS consideration to returning my Grimly Handsome ticket based on his appreciation for it. It's almost getting to Quentin Letts levels - I know if he enjoys a show I'm in trouble but if he hates it I'm probably going to be fine.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 13, 2017 9:53:36 GMT
If the herb annoys you then please do not give him or her air.
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 13, 2017 10:20:26 GMT
Went yesterday. Theatre close to full. Crowd enthusiastic. At the end many stood to applaud and the woman behind me was in tears at the emotion of it all.
But for me it was 3 stars. I liked the staging (and the decoration of the theatre generally). I liked the puppets. I liked some of the singers. I liked the clown in particular. However, I thought the music/songs were often not great and a couple of the singers were poor vocally.
I can see why some would love this. Conversely, I can also see why some, like @parsley , would not get on with it at all. My other half, for example, was more enthusiastic than I was (although we had the same positive and negative comments) - just shows that you add up the same points and come to a different overall feeling about something!
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Post by musicalmarge on Dec 13, 2017 22:29:07 GMT
Saw this tonight.
I thought it was creative, haunting, unique, amusing and very entertaining. A tad long and it’s rather dischordant but that’s part of its charm. The puppets are a charm.
It is very different yes, but everyone in my group enjoyed it very much.
Some wonderful performances and voices. A really enjoyable, dark and alternative show - especially for non musical lovers. Really worth seeing.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 11:34:00 GMT
Well. I thought it was just gorgeous.
The puppets were brilliant and no-one can tell me that mini Grinpayne wasn't real. I gasped, yes gasped (ask the woman next to me) when the wolf first appeared. And the whole thing looks like a storybook come to life.
The cast are sensational, Louis Maskell is a delightful hero and he's ably supported by Amanda Wilkin as the sex mad Duchess and Sean Kingsley as Ursus. Sanne Den Besten is lovely and coped magnificently with a rogue contact lens in the second act. But the two standouts for me are Mark Anderson as Dirry-Moir and especially Julian Bleach as Barkilphedro. If he features on the Olivier list next year, it'll be more than deserved.
Go see it and in the words of Dirry-Moir, prepare to sh*t kittens.
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Post by musicalmarge on Dec 15, 2017 12:46:56 GMT
Well. I thought it was just gorgeous. The puppets were brilliant and no-one can tell me that mini Grinpayne wasn't real. I gasped, yes gasped (ask the woman next to me) when the wolf first appeared. And the whole thing looks like a storybook come to life. The cast are sensational, Louis Maskell is a delightful hero and he's ably supported by Amanda Wilkin as the sex mad Duchess and Sean Kingsley as Ursus. Sanne Den Besten is lovely and coped magnificently with a rogue contact lens in the second act. But the two standouts for me are Mark Anderson as Dirry-Moir and especially Julian Bleach as Barkilphedro. If he features on the Olivier list next year, it'll be more than deserved. Go see it and in the words of Dirry-Moir, prepare to sh*t kittens. The random modern expletives were hysterical! I’m booking to see this again!
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Post by paddy72 on Dec 15, 2017 19:04:38 GMT
The little I saw of this last night I loved. However I gave in at the interval. My stupid mistake was booking seat BB6 which i thought had leg room and was at the end of a row. It was actually half a seat with the proscenium arch set cutting right through the middle of it. So avoid it at any cost. Based on my experience alone I would suggest that the owners of the trafalgar remain true to form with their grab for every last penny they can screw out of us punters. If they only spent time sitting in their own auditorium and expended less energy banging on about 'their new craft beers now available at the bar' they might appreciate that this charming little show and its audience really deserves so much better. Fix the basics ! Be interested to hear from others now about what the second act was like....
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Post by jamb0r on Dec 15, 2017 22:27:31 GMT
There’s about 8 seats on the sides of AA and the benches behind them (I’m presuming BB) that they really need to just get rid of. They are practically perpendicular to the stage and the view from all of them is terrible - there was a tiny girl on the end seat next to the wall on the side opposite the seat I was meant to be in (AA6), all I could see was the top of her head over the wall that borders the stage, she can’t have been able to see a thing. I can’t see this being a sell out at all, so are they really necessary?
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Post by melly on Dec 16, 2017 1:21:37 GMT
I sat in AA14 for act 1 yesterday and it really shouldn't be sold for any price. My right leg could almost fit, pressed right against the wall in front which is a lovely rough wood just to make it even more pleasant, but I could not have my left leg in the space at all. I had to turn in the seat so my legs were in a space that luckily existed at the side of my seat. This meant having my head turned throughout so I also got neck ache.
I may count the view as even worse though. There's a curtain that doesn't pull fully back that blocked most of the view I may have had, and cast sat there frequently, pulling this even further forward. I spotted a seat and moved myself at the interval luckily. I noticed AA1, the equivalent seat on the opposite side, was also empty for act 2.
If you're taller than 4 and a half foot, or bigger than a size 4, you will be ridiculously uncomfortable. But if you're shorter than 5'4, you'll struggle to see anything at all. Leg room wasn't as bad in the other 3 seats, and I don't think the view was as drastically blocked, but the first and last seat in AA should definitely be avoided.
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Post by ali973 on Dec 16, 2017 7:06:15 GMT
This reminds me of the first row of The Other Palace. I'm about 5'7" and weight 75. Not a big guy by any stretch of the imagination. And that little horrible space they created between the first row and the stage in the Other Palace is pretty shocking. No reduced ticket price is worth this nonsense.
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Post by Jon on Dec 17, 2017 1:54:33 GMT
I really liked this, visually it's stunning and unusually for a musical based on a Victor Hugo novel, its more of a intimate tragicomedy and that works in its favour. I quite liked how they use the whole theatre as the performance space.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 17:29:15 GMT
Any one had any luck with deals on this? ATG main portal for tickets but no deals with an ATG card. Official London Theatre Jan sale seats are ok but not great for the price... Given that Ive had a Premium seat at Hamilton for £80 theres not a chance Im paying £95 for this.
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Post by robertb213 on Dec 18, 2017 19:10:53 GMT
Any one had any luck with deals on this? ATG main portal for tickets but no deals with an ATG card. Official London Theatre Jan sale seats are ok but not great for the price... Given that Ive had a Premium seat at Hamilton for £80 theres not a chance Im paying £95 for this. TodayTix has it on offer at the moment for around the £30 mark 😁
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 19, 2017 21:35:31 GMT
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Post by jaqs on Dec 19, 2017 22:26:13 GMT
Any one had any luck with deals on this? ATG main portal for tickets but no deals with an ATG card. Official London Theatre Jan sale seats are ok but not great for the price... Given that Ive had a Premium seat at Hamilton for £80 theres not a chance Im paying £95 for this. There was a £15 deal with showfilmfirst. I think that has gone but they still have some under £20.
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 19, 2017 22:49:30 GMT
Any one had any luck with deals on this? ATG main portal for tickets but no deals with an ATG card. Official London Theatre Jan sale seats are ok but not great for the price... Given that Ive had a Premium seat at Hamilton for £80 theres not a chance Im paying £95 for this. There was a £15 deal with showfilmfirst. I think that has gone but they still have some under £20. I just checked with my ATG theatre card login and most seats seem to be on offer for £12 for some dates in December and start of January - but not all dates in January. Might be useful if flexible for dates and happy to go fairly soon. Also there seems to be an offer for under 25s of £25 for premium seats (not sure how extensive this is by date).
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Post by Mark on Dec 20, 2017 11:55:42 GMT
I managed to get a very last minute ticket for this last night - AA7 in the stalls. Don’t be fooled by seating plans - there is no seat 6 or 8, and this seat is by itself right at the front. I was right in the heart of the action and had a fantastic view of everything - a really immersive experience.
I really liked the show too, I thought the performances were all very strong and I disagree with reviews which say the plot is difficult to follow - it’s really quite simple. Some excellent puppetry. I hope this does well!
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Post by jamb0r on Dec 20, 2017 12:02:44 GMT
I managed to get a very last minute ticket for this last night - AA7 in the stalls. Don’t be fooled by seating plans - there is no seat 6 or 8, and this seat is by itself right at the front. There definitely is a seat AA6 as that's where I was originally meant to be sat (until I moved to just behind AA7 for a better view), but it's right off to the side (it would have been on your right the other side of the aisle) on the side of the stage
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 16:41:45 GMT
There was a £15 deal with showfilmfirst. I think that has gone but they still have some under £20. I just checked with my ATG theatre card login and most seats seem to be on offer for £12 for some dates in December and start of January - but not all dates in January. Might be useful if flexible for dates and happy to go fairly soon. Also there seems to be an offer for under 25s of £25 for premium seats (not sure how extensive this is by date). Good to know. Fairly inflexible currently due to work commitments. Jan 16-20th is my only window of opportunity.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 16:58:40 GMT
Thanks for the links to reviews. Looking forward to this.
(The Guardian erroneously credits Audrey Brisson, who is not in this production. She is currently playing the role of J Cricket in the NT Pinocchio!)
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Post by dave72 on Dec 20, 2017 18:43:34 GMT
Thanks for the links to reviews. Looking forward to this. (The Guardian erroneously credits Audrey Brisson, who is not in this production. She is currently playing the role of J Cricket in the NT Pinocchio!) That was the Guardian's review from a year ago, when the production was in Bristol (with Audrey Brisson).
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 20, 2017 18:50:28 GMT
Thanks for the links to reviews. Looking forward to this. (The Guardian erroneously credits Audrey Brisson, who is not in this production. She is currently playing the role of J Cricket in the NT Pinocchio!) That was the Guardian's review from a year ago, when the production was in Bristol (with Audrey Brisson). Yes, you are quite right. Sorry!
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 20, 2017 19:03:08 GMT
I just checked with my ATG theatre card login and most seats seem to be on offer for £12 for some dates in December and start of January - but not all dates in January. Might be useful if flexible for dates and happy to go fairly soon. Also there seems to be an offer for under 25s of £25 for premium seats (not sure how extensive this is by date). Good to know. Fairly inflexible currently due to work commitments. Jan 16-20th is my only window of opportunity. Out of interest I had a look at 16th and 18th - the £12 offer is there for theatre card members.
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