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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 15:38:35 GMT
I wonder if we will get lucky and see this transfer to the West End too. With a cast like this with some performers that really deserve to shine in the West End, it would be lovely to see. I don't think there's a West End space that would work to transfer from Royal Exchange, Manchester. It's a very unique space.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 9, 2019 13:08:29 GMT
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 9, 2019 15:03:52 GMT
I can’t wait for this. My first ever play was Kes at the Royal Exchange. Manchester is my home city ❤️
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Post by danb on Mar 10, 2019 18:23:05 GMT
So, I’ve had a look for tickets in the first week whilst my son is oop North with his Nan and it appears to be sold out. Me & the wife will be horizontal on sun loungers in the Canaries, but I’d like to give them a treat while we’re gone. Will more tix be released? Do they do ‘day seats’ of a sort? He’s a child, she’s a pensioner? What are their chances?
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Post by david on Mar 10, 2019 18:26:05 GMT
So, I’ve had a look for tickets in the first week whilst my son is oop North with his Nan and it appears to be sold out. Me & the wife will be horizontal on sun loungers in the Canaries, but I’d like to give them a treat while we’re gone. Will more tix be released? Do they do ‘day seats’ of a sort? He’s a child, she’s a pensioner? What are their chances? Day seats at the REX are £10 each. More info here - www.royalexchange.co.uk/the-theatre-tickets
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Post by Jonnyboy on Mar 10, 2019 21:32:15 GMT
I can’t wait for this. My first ever play was Kes at the Royal Exchange. Manchester is my home city ❤️ With Andrew Garfield as the boy. I remember that as a great production!
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 11, 2019 16:19:52 GMT
I can’t wait for this. My first ever play was Kes at the Royal Exchange. Manchester is my home city ❤️ With Andrew Garfield as the boy. I remember that as a great production! Omg, yessss! 😄🙌 It was and it’s such a great venue!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 11, 2019 22:29:20 GMT
It is a beautiful venue and we’re very lucky to have it, although I think some of the choices they have made about the social spaces are questionable. That “pub” thing which sprawls it’s nasty tables across a quarter of the Exchange’s floorspace preventing you from walking round the lunar module would be the very first to go.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 17:50:31 GMT
This was the theatre that gave me a love of plays whilst the Opera House and Palace in Manchester were my musical theatre ‘teachers’.As sixth-form students,my friends and I used to dayseat for the banquettes at the REX and saw the likes of Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Courtney just a few feet away from us and paid next to nothing for the immense privilege.The futuristic lunar module inside the old Corn Exchange was and still is an inspired and breath-taking design.West Side Story inside this intensely atmospheric and almost claustrophobic space could be one of the great musical theatre ‘must-sees’ this year.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 15, 2019 18:38:11 GMT
I cannot wait. Ive booked twice.
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Post by bimse on Mar 15, 2019 19:15:39 GMT
This was the theatre that gave me a love of plays whilst the Opera House and Palace in Manchester were my musical theatre ‘teachers’.As sixth-form students,my friends and I used to dayseat for the banquettes at the REX and saw the likes of Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Courtney just a few feet away from us and paid next to nothing for the immense privilege.The futuristic lunar module inside the old Corn Exchange was and still is an inspired and breath-taking design.West Side Story inside this intensely atmospheric and almost claustrophobic space could be one of the great musical theatre ‘must-sees’ this year. Its a fantastic space, so atmospheric. I well remember my very first visit, from school, seeing Patricia Routledge in The Rivals. I hope West Side Story will be as memorable too. Just one point if I may, it’s the old Cotton Exchange, not the corn exchange. The corn exchange is now a nice development of restaurants, and if I’m not mistaken, the original theatre in the round which later moved to the Royal Exchange , was actually in the corn exchange.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 19:44:46 GMT
Thank you for this.You have inspired me to spend a few minutes reading up on the history of this iconic building on the REX website.Just had a quick scan through my programme collection and found to my astonishment that I must have seen a very young Kate Winslett before she became famous.
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Post by david on Mar 15, 2019 20:05:29 GMT
A bit off topic, but for anybody interested, the REX do a fantastic backstage tour. Costs £5 for a tour which lasts 90mins to 2hrs.
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Post by bimse on Mar 15, 2019 21:50:37 GMT
Thank you for this.You have inspired me to spend a few minutes reading up on the history of this iconic building on the REX website.Just had a quick scan through my programme collection and found to my astonishment that I must have seen a very young Kate Winslett before she became famous. You’re quite right, me too, Kate Winslett was in “What the Butler Saw”, and Hugh Grant was in “An Inspector Calls” , then there was Liam Neeson , Helen Mirren , Ben Kingsley .....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 22:22:55 GMT
At the risk of de-railing the WSS thread and with apologies,just a few memories after looking at old REX programmes....Smoke by Rod Wooden in 1993 when vast swathes of the wealthy fur-coated ‘Cheshire set’ (as we called them) walked out of the theatre in the first Act as the very fruity language upset them.The Odd Couple in 1989 when I thought I was literally going to die laughing and The Lodger previews in 1994 when the director,Richard Wilson asked me what I thought of the show in the interval with notebook in hand.What a theatre and what memories!
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Post by undeuxtrois on Mar 17, 2019 22:23:09 GMT
I'm very excited to see this next month, Andy Coxon sounds fantastic
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 27, 2019 11:43:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 11:05:21 GMT
RX Theatre have reposted some stizprobe videos on their Instagram Stories feed. The orchestra looks pretty comprehensive and this has now got me pretty excited!
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Post by theatre241 on Apr 8, 2019 9:26:15 GMT
Is or has anyone dayseating for this? It is pretty much sold out and the day tickets are the very back row of the 3rd tier
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Post by freckles on Apr 8, 2019 9:55:52 GMT
This looks wonderful, I love the artwork and the leads look just perfect.
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 8, 2019 10:16:39 GMT
Is or has anyone dayseating for this? It is pretty much sold out and the day tickets are the very back row of the 3rd tier And, unless the policy has changed for this production, the very front row of the 1st tier.
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Post by alforshort on Apr 8, 2019 10:35:41 GMT
Is or has anyone dayseating for this? It is pretty much sold out and the day tickets are the very back row of the 3rd tier And, unless the policy has changed for this production, the very front row of the 1st tier. Only 16 day seats - back row of the second gallery, no banquettes. The queue was massive this morning, all tickets spoken for by about 8:30 I think, lots of people got turned away.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 10:39:57 GMT
And, unless the policy has changed for this production, the very front row of the 1st tier. Only 16 day seats - back row of the second gallery, no banquettes. The queue was massive this morning, all tickets spoken for by about 8:30 I think, lots of people got turned away. Darn. Did suspect this though with it being a dance heavy show. Presume you mean 9:30 not 8:30, the former being the usual day seat opening time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 10:43:05 GMT
No, I think they meant 8:30. If there are only, say, 20 seats for sale and 20 people are there by 8:30, then even though the tickets won't be sold for another hour, there's not a huge amount of point queuing up after then (unless you're optimistic about returns or hoping that some of the people queuing are just there for fun and not to buy a ticket). That's why they said "spoken for", not "sold".
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 10:51:20 GMT
Ok
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Post by theatre241 on Apr 8, 2019 10:52:43 GMT
The policy has changed because they needed a bigger stage so banquettes have been removed. I think as more people see it (if it is good) the day seat queue will be seeing more people and people queing earlier !
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 8, 2019 11:15:47 GMT
Can’t wait to hear feedback. Anyone going to previews?
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Post by Dr Tom on Apr 8, 2019 11:47:31 GMT
Just spotted a seat available for tonight, so have booked (even though I already have a seat booked for later in the run). One of my favourite musicals of all time.
There are seats appearing, so keep a look out.
Now to sort the train and hotel. Luckily I'm off work this week.
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 8, 2019 11:53:24 GMT
Thanks for the update, theatre241. You've saved me an early morning trip across the Pennines. Might try and do the tour, though, so at least l can say I was there!
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Post by wickedgrin on Apr 8, 2019 14:45:59 GMT
It pays to keep checking the royalexchange.co.uk website as tickets do indeed pop up!
VERY excited - I have just booked a seat for this for next Monday (15th April) evening! It is a very long time since I was at the Royal Exchange, but when I lived "up north" I went regularly and saw some great theatre in this very exciting space.
Really looking forward to this......
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