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Post by emeraldbaudelaire on Dec 24, 2017 1:21:53 GMT
Anyone know if the Elf Live showing is going to be on My5 app, I missed it on TV and won't be able to see it Christmas Day.
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Post by alece10 on Dec 24, 2017 15:28:40 GMT
I'm watching it on tv but in segments if nothing else on as I can't really get into it. It's ok but just something is missing. Ill persevere though. When the overture was playing and the camera was scanning the audience I noticed several empty seats. You would think for a tv recording they would make sure it was full even if they had to put fillers in.
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Post by freckles on Dec 24, 2017 16:35:52 GMT
Lovely to have a musical on tv but still feel (as I did when I saw it in London last year) that this could have been so much better. Liz McC was very good, captured the character as she is in the film really well. I wish they’d re-cast Ben F; he just doesn’t have the comic ability. I’d love to see Simon Lipkin in the role. The little boy was great too. There are some lovely moments, but it did seem to drag with all the ad breaks.
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Post by alece10 on Dec 24, 2017 18:56:50 GMT
Is this version Elf the gay musical? He is very camp in it.
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Post by Seriously on Dec 26, 2017 21:40:35 GMT
I tried watching this on Channel 5, but the songs seemed pointless, the set lacked any Christmas colour, and it took itself far too seriously.
If I'd paid the enormous Michael Rose ticket prices, I'd be livid.
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Post by loureviews on Jan 1, 2018 21:32:17 GMT
I'm watching the TV version now. Better than the film, but it still makes me want to murder an elf. A curious choice for prime-time TV really.
Jessica Martin - haven't seen her in a long time. Ben Forster is way too camp and swish in this.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 2, 2018 11:25:00 GMT
If this wasn’t a party pooper in December imagine what it will be like in the post Christmas doldrums period. I feel a tiny bit sorry for the cast.
Lowry is discounting.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jan 4, 2018 19:08:53 GMT
Really where is this discounting? Feel terrible now for paying £49 to see this tonight.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jan 5, 2018 14:26:36 GMT
Saw this at the Dominion a couple of years and really enjoyed it, despite super super premium prices, which I didn’t go for, instead got a regular seat in the back row.
Once again Ben Forster is reprising his reprising his role, who also really surprised me when he played the titular role in the Phantom of the Opera, my expectations wee low before hand, also Joe McGann and Jessica Martin are supporting, who I felt und both to be adequate, as well as the new comer Liz McClarnon
So saw this again last night in the Lowry Centre, one of my favourite theatres in the UK. Seeing Elf just confirms that I have a soft spot for this show, the book maybe on the cheesy side and the songs well I wouldn’t rush to listen to the cast recording on Spotify, but love A Christmas Song which is insanely hummable. For a 3 hour Christmas show, where it’s totally optional whether you take your brain into the theatre, it’s totally fine and fun.
4 Stars
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Post by shady23 on Jan 6, 2018 18:13:06 GMT
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Post by robertb213 on Jan 6, 2018 18:24:18 GMT
Oh god how awful! Hope he's ok and hasn't hurt hims'Elf (sorry. Taxi!)
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Post by shady23 on Jan 6, 2018 18:25:24 GMT
Where is the Elf and Safety?! (Can I share that taxi? )
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Post by Phantom of London on Jan 6, 2018 19:13:43 GMT
Shocked to read in the programme, that this show is doing a mini arena tour next Christmas, think it is Wembley, Cardiff and Birmingham.
So are they just going to put this show in a arena, as it is? They would need someone pretty big to play Jovie or this won’t sell.
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Post by The Matthew on Jan 6, 2018 20:25:27 GMT
Drama at Elf matinee today as Ben fell off a ladder and was whisked to hospital! It might have been better for him to be ambulanced to hospital, I would think.
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Post by musicallady on Jan 6, 2018 20:57:52 GMT
Who is the understudy?
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Post by westendcub on Jan 7, 2018 10:51:47 GMT
Wishing Ben a speedy recovery- sounds like a really nasty fall and painful injury.
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Post by richey on Jan 7, 2018 13:43:29 GMT
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Post by tonyloco on Jan 7, 2018 13:55:03 GMT
Ben out for rest of Lowry run with a broken ankle Will the understudy go out a youngster and come back a star? Sounds like a great idea for a musical! Hold that taxi!
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Post by daniel on Mar 5, 2018 9:17:15 GMT
Playing the Genting Arena, Birmingham, 20-24 December.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 5, 2018 9:31:20 GMT
It is going out - as a limited release - to the amateur market in 2019 (after a trial run in Glasgow last year that did tremendous business)
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Post by richey on Mar 5, 2018 11:26:26 GMT
David Essex and Martine McCutcheon to appear in it on this Christmas' arena dates
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 5, 2018 11:29:11 GMT
Please please please tell me David Essex is not playing the Elf.
As for Martine, she said on Graham Norton’s radio show not much more than a couple of months ago that she didn’t want to return to MT. Has her album flopped or something?
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Post by richey on Mar 5, 2018 11:59:05 GMT
Please please please tell me David Essex is not playing the Elf. As for Martine, she said on Graham Norton’s radio show not much more than a couple of months ago that she didn’t want to return to MT. Has her album flopped or something? David Essex is playing Buddy's dad. Buddy is Tam Ryan. I was a little surprised Martine is doing this, she was doing a lot of promotion for her last album (which I thought was actually quite good) www.westendwilma.com/news-david-essex-and-martine-mccutcheon-to-star-in-elf-this-christmas/
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Post by daniel on Mar 5, 2018 12:39:49 GMT
From Wilma's article, also playing Nottingham and Cardiff arenas too!
Has the cow been milked dry yet?
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Post by wickedgrin on Mar 5, 2018 13:42:43 GMT
Has the cow been milked dry yet? That's no way to talk about Martine McCutcheon!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 15:29:43 GMT
OMGosh. How fabulous! I can't wait to see which 2 out of 8 shows Martine turns up to. It'll be like the best game of Russian Roulette EVER!
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Post by The Matthew on Mar 5, 2018 16:07:19 GMT
It'll be like the best game of Russian Roulette EVER! Surely you're not suggesting she's so bad there'll be fatalities, are you? (Some of the celebrities that have been in Chicago, though...)
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Post by Mr Snow on Mar 8, 2018 15:07:29 GMT
Discount for groups via an email.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2018 20:43:03 GMT
Arena Tour website now live with dates and booking links 14th -16th December Motorpoint Cardiff 20th – 24th December Genting Birmingham 28th – 30th December Motorpoint Nottingham buddytheelf.co.uk/
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Post by iamamazing on Aug 8, 2018 8:53:53 GMT
I’m excited for this I’m going the first night. I’ve seen clips from the west end run and that’s it I tried to avoid the tv special last year. Excited to see how this will fit inside the motorpoint.
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