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Post by fossil on Mar 23, 2018 14:49:11 GMT
Public booking on the Delfont Mackintosh web site showing a better selection of seats than were being offered by the RSC during members booking.
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Post by fossil on Mar 21, 2018 10:47:13 GMT
Painless members booking this morning. You cannot select your seat for the Gielgud. Premium price offered me row G seats and the second price row E. Gave me two seats towards the side E4 and 5 initially. I held these seats and asked for two more and was given E18 and 19 which are a bit more central. I was then able to discard 4 and 5.
Also was able to grab a bargain £8 centre front for R&J at the Barbican.
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Post by fossil on Mar 16, 2018 14:57:39 GMT
This is also on at the Exeter Northcott 30th Oct - 3 Nov with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. It is the production that was on at the Union Theatre and Bath. It is touring so I suspect more dates will be announced. Having just watched the video at www.rdww.co.uk/salad-days/ I am very tempted to see it again.
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Post by fossil on Mar 16, 2018 9:03:03 GMT
Grange Park Opera with the BBC Concert Orchestra. 7th June-7th Jul 2018.
I was going to book until I saw the eye watering ticket prices. Stalls are £130-£180. The cheap balcony/attic seats are £75.
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Post by fossil on Mar 16, 2018 8:47:14 GMT
Thought I would try public booking to see if any £15 front seats for Translations would become available. 17th in the queue so was through very quickly. For each performance 2 seats at each end of row C appeared that were definitely not on sale when I logged in an hour earlier. I did not bother as I am content to take my chances for a more central seat as a return or in the next booking period.
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Post by fossil on Mar 4, 2018 17:56:17 GMT
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Post by fossil on Mar 2, 2018 10:29:18 GMT
150 in the queue. Less than 10 minutes then quick and easy booking. Loads of seats available including the £25 end of row seats.
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Post by fossil on Feb 26, 2018 8:26:17 GMT
If anybody wants some good central seats, there are a few in rows H, J, L and R that somehow are priced at £30 for Saturday 3rd March matinee instead of the normal £125 or £85. But check Theatremonkey.com first, as I used the £10 (+ £.50 fee) deal which is better and should be valid as mine was for a later date and I got J for that price. I have been able to book myself a centre row D seat at £11.50 ticket for a more convenient date. Many thanks for pointing me to that deal.
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Post by fossil on Feb 25, 2018 18:30:50 GMT
If anybody wants some good central seats, there are a few in rows H, J, L and R that somehow are priced at £30 for Saturday 3rd March matinee instead of the normal £125 or £85.
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Post by fossil on Feb 23, 2018 19:49:44 GMT
£10 seats seem to be the rows M to R only
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Post by fossil on Feb 23, 2018 19:39:11 GMT
From the Stratford Herald website dated 21 Feb 2018.
"The RSC has been working with a household name on an exciting new project for 2019. The company had wanted to keep any details secret until early next year – but the star’s agents accidentally let the cat out of the bag…. Find out the full story in tomorrow’s Stratford Herald."
Nothing further on the web site. Does anyone have more information on this?
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Post by fossil on Jan 29, 2018 10:26:46 GMT
I managed to buy an Othello ticket at 9.50 this morning. Perhaps links on some pages became active earlier than others.
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Post by fossil on Jan 16, 2018 16:05:26 GMT
Looks like they have fixed this. On the priceless site there was a box to click to buy tickets. I can see they have removed this and added some login text instead. Looking back through my browser History I can see the web addresses I used, you could try tickets.royalalberthall.com/booking/production/bestavailable/59542You may have to log into a your account (create one if necessary) for the Albert Hall first.
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Post by fossil on Jan 16, 2018 14:37:42 GMT
Although tickets are not supposed to be on general sale yet, out of curiosity I went to the Albert Hall web site www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2018/the-olivier-awards/It let me select seats and go right through to the payment page and looks like it will accept any credit card. Not many seats showing as on sale though and £85 for a second tier seat is a bit too much for me for this event so I did not complete the transaction. I will wait and see if more tickets will become available for MasterCard holders.
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Post by fossil on Jan 14, 2018 17:15:32 GMT
I wonder if its just because they haven't actually announced the booking extension yet have they? So maybe they want to wait until they offically annouce it, likely with a cast announcement which we will likely expect in the next couple of weeks. Sidenote, I looked at the seating plan around 7pm last night for the 7:30 show as I was curious to see how it is doing. Lovely to see that the show was pretty much sold out bar a few single seats here and there. Considering its slow time in the West End, its really lovely to see. Yes Im looking at going on Wednesday. Checked the Matinee and all 4 sections look very well sold. For a Wednesday afternoon mid-January, I'm dubious. When looking at how well sold a date is, I can see that agencies, e.g. Seatplan, show a different selection of seats from the main 42nd street web site. For next Wednesday afternoon Seatplan have quite a few seats in the grand circle and balcony and 100 or so in the stalls.
Does anyone know if these are the ones that get sold cheaply on the day as day seats or Todaytix?
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Post by fossil on Nov 24, 2017 17:03:38 GMT
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Post by fossil on Nov 17, 2017 18:21:47 GMT
The BBC press release says it'll be filmed in Salford. Anyone know a) where Salford is & b) how to sneak into the TV studios there?! You can apply for the random draw for tickets. www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/a_christmas_carol_2dec17 Applications close next Tuesday.
Edit: Oops. Did not realise I was not on the last page
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Post by fossil on Oct 22, 2017 10:56:52 GMT
Yesterday's matinee was being filmed so those unable to get a ticket may have a chance to view this excellent production. I did not get the chance to ask but it was a simple two static camera set up. Possibly for the theatre museum?
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Post by fossil on Sept 20, 2017 15:23:34 GMT
Free daytime travel in London for the over 60's? I SO wish! This is one of the most galling inequities for seniors as it depends where you live. Apparently there is something known colloquially as a "Boris Card" for some lucky people, which plugs the gap, but have the misfortune to travel widely in the London area but live slightly further out and you don't even get a bus pass until (the current) state pension age. By the time I reach what would have been the qualifying age I fully expect the goalposts to have been moved again or the concession abolished on cost grounds. I live 1 mile outside London and also just miss out on the free train/tube travel (although I do have a bus pass!). One tip is to get a senior railcard. You can get this added onto an Oyster card at any TFL/Rail station in the Oyster area which will give 1/3 off Oyster tube and rail fares. Effectively this means you pay no more than just under 2/3rd of the travelcard fare as the Oyster max fare is 'capped' after 9.30am. About £8 or a little more if you are in zone 9.
With the railcard you can also get some remarkably cheap fares for your theatre trips, e.g. London to Stratford-Upon-Avon for £3.65 each way at the weekend. I have also found that with this concession and less expensive tickets it can be cheaper to see some touring productions outside London than it would be paying London theatre prices. As a bonus I have found the theatres can be much nicer as well.
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Post by fossil on Aug 30, 2017 12:55:35 GMT
both had the hearing loop (things) that the national give out. One of them was evidently malfunctioning and during any book part of the show, all you could hear was a high pitched electronic noise. At one point during the show it sounded as though the little old lady had a dial up modem under her seat!!! Happened when I was at "Kiss of the Spider Woman" years ago. They couldn't do anything except send an usher into the auditorium to tell her to turn the aid off. One of the cast ad-libbed a line about it being the noise of an execution down the hall, and they signalled at the lady during curtain call, too. I suspect this is feedback. The headset volume is too high so its output gets picked up by the microphones which then feeds back to the headset. This 'loop' causes the high pitched noise to occur. The problem is that if you cannot whisper to the user to get them to turn the volume down as they cannot hear you so you have to wait until an interval to explain the problem to them.
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Post by fossil on Aug 29, 2017 16:54:14 GMT
While Googling for clips of the current production I stumbled upon this. Apologies if the link to this has already been posted as 104 pages is too many to check through. For those who want to compare, here is about 15 minutes of the 1933 film:
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Post by fossil on Aug 27, 2017 18:26:11 GMT
A bit naughty of Troughton this. Captioned performance last week. David Troughton hesitates over the last word of a line, does this again. Looks up at the captioning and then repeats the line with the correct word.
The production was disappointing. It just did not seem to work as modern dress and some of the directors ideas just jarred. For example, what was the point of the opening sequence having a hoodies fight scene choreographed to music? Ok for West Side Story but not for this play.
Before the performance I checked and could see plenty of unsold seats in the stalls. In the theatre the stalls were quite full but the upper level was empty so I guess some lucky people got their seats upgraded.
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Post by fossil on Aug 12, 2017 15:47:29 GMT
I was not at the RAH and can only comment on this as a TV event. As such I thought this to be one of the best television showings of a staged musical production I have seen. I will echo the praise that posters have given the performers, orchestra and choreographer and what really did not disappoint was the TV direction. The director last night in the main showed us what we want to see - the performance on stage. There was little of the irritating gimmicky TV direction one usually gets when musical events are televised (i.e. frequently cutting from camera to camera, too many shots from beneath the stage, the back of the stage, far distance, rapidly moving cameras, etc.) The choice of camera angles and distance usually matched the action on stage so I feel a good deal of thought and rehearsal must have been involved. Sound balance was pretty good too. The only thing that jarred was the inane prattle from the TV announcer, whoever she was, over the applause.
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Post by fossil on Aug 1, 2017 14:59:54 GMT
Impressed by the Box Office on Saturday. While at "Ink," I went to collect some tickets I'd booked for the next season. Without me even having to ask, the lady kindly offered to hang on to my row A "Summer and Smoke" ticket (treated myself, well, it's Ferran), as they might be putting row AA in, and made a note I'd like to swap if possible. Apparently, it is easier to move me if they have the ticket - saves me returning it. Great service . They have done that for me a couple of times. As with you, they offered without being asked.
Unlike a few years ago at the Royal Court when I went to collect my front row tickets for Sugar Mummies and was handed tickets for back row seats without a word of explanation. When I queried this I was told they had had to remove the front row as sand on the stage was being kicked onto the patrons in the front row so had to move us. No apologies, no warning in advance even though they had my contact details.
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Post by fossil on Jul 29, 2017 17:15:14 GMT
Thanks for the all the seating advice, i've managed to get A1 for a performance - i'm 5f2 so it should be great! Hi Charlotte
I am also 5ft2 and have sat in A1. I can confirm that it is an excellent seat for us shorter people as there is nobody in front of you.
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Post by fossil on Jul 27, 2017 16:25:27 GMT
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Post by fossil on Jul 25, 2017 14:22:23 GMT
I am 90% sure it was Richard Wilson I was standing next to at the urinal in the gents at the Almeida last Saturday matinee. I can't be 100% sure as one does not wish to stare too intently at the chap next to you in such a situation.
The only other time I have had a wee with a celebrity was with John Peel in the gents at the Royal Court in 1971. This was at Bill Bryden's particularly memorable production of "Corunna" with Brian Glover and Steeleye Span.
I hope I have not started a new thread - "Famous People You've gone to the toilet with".
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Post by fossil on Jul 14, 2017 22:56:15 GMT
For me the music was not used intelligently. It is a play. Then they drag some mike stands on (even though everyone is already wearing a microphone) and perform a song as in a concert. Mike stands back to the side and it becomes a play again. I like a play with music to be directed so that the music occurs naturally with the flow of the piece as a whole so this did not work for me. However most of the audience seemed to love the show so I guess my view is a minority one. I did notice about half a dozen people in the rows near me left at the interval.
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Post by fossil on Jul 13, 2017 13:27:06 GMT
They are warning people now. I never understand why theatres invite problems by not adequately warning people in advance. This has been going on for years. The National did this all those years ago with The Romans In Britain when they ended up having to defend a court action, simply because they invited controversy by not giving adequate warning resulting in people attending trusting it was actually a historical drama.
From a news report:
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has been forced to defend a sex scene and strong language in its adaption of A Tale of Two Cities, after audience members walked out.
Reports in the Sun claimed that families with children were seen leaving, while a Regent’s Park spokesman argued that the play contains no nudity and had not been marketed to young children.
The scene that attracted criticism has now been removed from Matthew Dunster’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, following its first preview performance on July 8.
During the preview performance, the character Sydney Carton was seen to pay a prostitute who then removes her underwear before a sex scene.
However a spokesman for Regent’s Park says this was a “brief, fully clothed-scene” in which there was no visible nudity.
In a statement, he said: “The production is billed as a ‘new play adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens’ which seeks to frame the original, often shocking, story within a contemporary context.
“At the first preview on Saturday night there were very few children among an adult audience of more than 1,100.
“On arrival, those accompanying any children were spoken to individually and offered a refund for their party should they not wish to see the performance. The vast majority of the audience stayed for the entire show.”
The spokesman added that, as the play is developed through the preview period, the scene with Sydney Carton and “much of the strong language” was removed before the second preview on July 10.
Additionally, the theatre’s website has been updated with advisory information and all customers who have booked for future performances have been contacted.
A report in the Sun newspaper claimed that up to 100 people left the audience, however Regent’s Park Theatre argued that such figures were an overstatement.
The spokesman added: “There are a number of inaccuracies in the reporting of Saturday night’s performance of A Tale of Two Cities, which is neither aimed at nor marketed to young children.
“In particular, the three-hour play contains no nudity and reports of the number of children in the audience and the number of people leaving are overstated
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Post by fossil on Jul 12, 2017 10:22:02 GMT
If you cannot wait for your next visit to Drury Lane, you might want to listen to next Friday's 'Friday Night Is Music Night - Michael Feinstein sings Harry Warren' on BBC Radio 2. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08x1tjwI was lucky enough to be at the recording of the show last night at the Mermaid Theatre. They performed several numbers from 42nd Street - including some tap dancing! - four of the orchestra danced white shoes on vertical black boards. Really good hearing the music when performed by a large orchestra. The singers were not at all bad either. We even had an encore of 'We're In The Money' due to retakes.
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