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Post by Mr Snow on Jun 30, 2020 15:36:59 GMT
42nd st.
Overture over. Cue dancers, curtain starts to rise and pauses...
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Post by Mr Snow on May 17, 2020 17:01:38 GMT
I've seen it live, heard it on the Radio and seen the film.
At the same point each time, I just burst into tears. Nothing else can do it so predictably.
I do often well up at drama, but nothing like this.
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Post by Mr Snow on May 15, 2020 14:10:54 GMT
Pick a pocket or two - Oliver
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Post by Mr Snow on May 12, 2020 21:04:21 GMT
Queen of the Night Aria
Mozart's The Magic Flute (its a A Singspiel literally Sing Play)
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Post by Mr Snow on May 10, 2020 20:28:11 GMT
The 2017 Opera North production of Trouble in Tahiti will be shown on Sky Arts at 6AM on Thursday 7th May. That reminds me. If you can't wait, or don't subscribe to Sky, it's on Opera North's YouTube channel at 7pm on 6 May. This is terrific. Double thank you and extra Karma aimed your way.
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Post by Mr Snow on May 9, 2020 13:23:56 GMT
Found this from TodayTix in my Junk box.
Thank you for using TodayTix to purchase tickets for 'Sunday in the Park with George' at the Savoy Theatre.
We are writing to inform you that the run of this show (due to commence performances on 5th June 2020) has been postponed. We are currently working with the production team to confirm details of new performance dates in 2021, ensuring that our customers attain tickets to see this highly-anticipated production.
“We are, of course, disappointed to postpone our upcoming season, but know that safety is a top priority and science must lead the way. London’s West End is incredibly special to me, and it will be an absolute honor to return to the stage so we can eventually share Sunday In The Park With George with audiences in 2021." Jake Gyllenhaal
"As we all do our part to make the world a safe place for ourselves and our neighbours, it is with a heavy heart that this production of Sunday in the Park With George is postponed. I believe at the end of this storm; we will be together again in “our perfect park” on a beautiful Sunday." Annaleigh Ashford
"We are happy that despite having to postpone the imminent production of Sunday in the Park with George, London audiences will eventually get to see Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford reprising their wonderful performances alongside a terrific British company." James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim
Rest assured, we will inform all affected TodayTix customers of the new season dates and next steps for your booking for ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ as soon as we possibly can. Please do not contact us, we will be in touch as soon as we have more information - we cannot amend your booking until new dates are confirmed with the producers of the show. N.B. We will contact you via the details on your TodayTix account, please ensure that these contact details are correct & up-to-date.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding during these unprecedented times.
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Post by Mr Snow on May 5, 2020 20:35:20 GMT
if so
Rocky Horror Show
(or if taken)
Rose-Marie
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Post by Mr Snow on May 5, 2020 20:33:04 GMT
I beat you by 2 minutes Has to end in a 4 Too easy Don't you mean START with 4 err fouR
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Post by Mr Snow on May 4, 2020 21:17:30 GMT
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raving Queens.
(amazing how many times a title ends (and of course begins) with an "S")
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Post by Mr Snow on May 3, 2020 15:45:18 GMT
Lady, be good.
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Post by Mr Snow on May 2, 2020 21:12:19 GMT
Your own thing.
900+ performances on Broadway, 1968. Bombed in London.
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Post by Mr Snow on May 2, 2020 13:17:32 GMT
Stop the world I want to get off.
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 20:30:11 GMT
Guys and dolls
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 20:03:49 GMT
Destry rides again.
(Maybe just one song, but it's a goodie)?
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 18:46:32 GMT
Edit. Too late (obviously this is not a show)
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 17:00:41 GMT
Yellow Submarine
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 15:16:18 GMT
Eight cancelled. Most disappointing was the Jermyn Street "Tempest" which I was only a couple of days away from seeing when it was cancelled. I see Jermyn Street has been flooded causing a lot of damage - they are not doing well. As mine were all small venues I split the cost evenly between a donation and a credit note. That's what we've done with the smaller ones - even if there's more risk they won't be able to honour the note. Have donated upto 25% to the large Opera co's. I see this as an act of self interest. I want as many as possible to reopen.
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 13:41:14 GMT
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 13:12:40 GMT
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 12:58:16 GMT
You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
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Post by Mr Snow on May 1, 2020 12:40:41 GMT
Singing in the rain.
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Post by Mr Snow on Apr 30, 2020 20:01:15 GMT
We're in. Love a new experience... Have seen Opera in a Warehouse, a Pub, a Roman Ruin, a Greek Ruin, Bow St Courthouse, Goldsmiths Hall, Phillips Auction rooms, various Parks, NT properties, the round Chapel, a canal barge.... Last went to a drive in, Orange County California in 1978. Sat in the middle of a bench seat in the front of a Ford Station Wagon between two sisters, "California Girls". (Actually the middle of the seat was bloody uncomfortable, the speaker you put in your window tinny and the movie had Sylvester Stallone as a bare knuckle fighter. We left early. Last saw 'the girls' in 2008).
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Post by Mr Snow on Apr 29, 2020 9:07:21 GMT
Did my ears get used to it or did they sequence the worst audio ones first?
A mixed bag but worth it. "Down by the sea" the biggest surprise from a performer I'd never heard of.
I recently saw saw on iplayer the Prom that marked his 80th. A much more satisfactory 'show'. Worth checking out.
Miss Peter's definitely has her portrait in the attic...
Many Happy Returns "Mr Sondheim".
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Post by Mr Snow on Apr 28, 2020 10:27:24 GMT
I originally put this in a spoiler alert but I guess those who want to will have seen this show by now.
SPOILER
According to this version, the wife only got in touch with the 'cougher' the night where the Major had to wait to return the next day. So no premeditated plan for this to happen. I would have thought it a good part of a defence to point out that we need to believe that two parties, previously strangers, agreed this over the phone and enacted it well enough to walk away with the million. MAYBE I MISSED THIS AND they did discuss it? It rather seemed to me the opposite and they were deliberately distracting us from this realisation and its implications.
Is there any evidence they shared the prize - such an action would surely have been 'proof'(perhaps not as I'm not sure they ever were paid?).
But it was an entertainment and I couldn't convict on what I was shown.
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Post by Mr Snow on Apr 20, 2020 21:35:47 GMT
Will try and add a few but...
As my year long attempt to emulate Marie Kondo get rid of anything, continues, I've discovered I have two identical CD copies of Sondheim Sings Volume 1 1962 -72
Happy to brighten someones life in these times. Frist to "out thier hand up" secures.
Please state if you'd like it on here and then send me a PM with your address.
My pleasure.
(PS Hope he's isolated well away form NYC. Good luck Steve)
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Post by Mr Snow on Apr 19, 2020 16:05:09 GMT
I doubt he's reading the audience on the million pound question. I have no doubt he's part of a criminal conspiracy to defraud the show of a million pounds. The million pound question was pretty easy, compared to some of the others (my knowledge of Craig David is and was zero!). The wrong answers used mega nano and giga as part of the word, which many will have known were too small to be the correct answer. By process of elimination it had to be googol. I would only been able to answer that one if...... I'd Googled it! I would get my hat and coat but I've already been outside once today.
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Post by Mr Snow on Apr 16, 2020 8:56:08 GMT
{Spoiler - click to view} Did I miss something? For the prosecution case to make sense we had to accept that by coincidence at the end of a disastrous first day Tarrant said come back tomorrow and read out the names of the next bunch of FFF contestants, one of whom was in the book the brother had given the wife. Without that no fraud? So the fraud was not planned, just dreamt up after a disastrous first day?
It seems odd that the defence apparently didn't mention the unlikeliness of this?
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Post by Mr Snow on Apr 16, 2020 8:11:13 GMT
First episode great tv but diminishing interest as it went on. The fantasy sequence was pure padding. Still worth it though.
Martin (sic) Sheen (I though he was supposed to be one of the nice thesp's?) Didn't give us Tarrant's legendary charm. Played him as just another oleaginous TV host. The famously astringent journalist Lynn Barber described meeting him as being as joyous as being licked by a box of puppies. Also missed a trick by not using the famous pause.
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Post by Mr Snow on Apr 6, 2020 20:52:31 GMT
Bear with me...
In the late 50's my late father in law worked at The West Ham Stadium, which hosted the largest crowd ever at a Britsh event. 122000 (I recall) to see England vs Sweeden Speedway match.
He was also starter for the Greyhounds and one season opened with a visit from the Rank Starlets including Miss Honor Blackman.
Even though Tom had hapily married a girl he became engaged to in 1939,whom he next saw and married in 1946, every time MHB was on the TV he'd shake his head and tell us about the day she came to the Stadium. Clearly she made an IMPRESSION.
FF 45 years and his eldest son is sitting opposite MHB at a 'stagey' lunch and eventually he tells her the above story. She laughs and asks for his business card. Within the week a beautifully framed inscribed photo dating from her Rank days arrives. From memory she wrote it was one of the happiest days of her life and she'd never forgotten how attractive Tom looked in his boots and bowler. When it was given to Tom on his next Birthday it was the only time I ever saw him speechless.
A class act MHB. RIP.
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Post by Mr Snow on Mar 15, 2020 5:52:58 GMT
I take it you didn't see the production at the Royal Opera House?! mostly great cast, big orchestra, great set but... At least you got to see it! We travelled down from Norwich, had a hotel booked and after the first ten minutes or so the production was halted. A torrential rain storm had flooded the back stage area. We all milled around in the bar for a while, before we were sent off into the night. Ticket refund only. We booked to see ITW at Regent's Park. Hotel etc. Got down there, rain, matinee abandoned! Luckily (for once), we were booked for the evening performance, which went ahead. Phew! Would it be rude of me to ask you keep the group informed of which date you book for? 😈
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