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Post by Being Alive on Apr 12, 2024 12:00:03 GMT
Producers and creatives give the impression that they have created something amazing and can't believe the audience reaction. Some super egos I suspect not used to failure. That's unfair, it's just disappointment that it didn't work out. Exactly, Van Hove has made plenty of polarising stuff in the past (still haven't forgiven him for Obsession) and Wainright knows his music isn't for everyone - to say they have super egos not used to failure is absolute nonsense.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 12, 2024 11:57:34 GMT
You can only assume at this stage that Heathers and 2:22 A Ghost Story are a front for some kind of money laundering scheme, because there's no other explanation as to why they're still around....!
(I'm kidding...sort of...)
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 12, 2024 11:56:42 GMT
They definitely have Broadway ambitions. I’m wondering if a West End return may be on the cards first. Wild this is considering a return, given that it was on papering sites for every night of it's run apart from the final fortnight...
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2024 16:26:28 GMT
If I was to have to make a bet, it would be this. Please, God, no. Enough. That would be too depressing. I hope they transfer The Deep Blue Sea from the Ustinov with Tamsin Greig. Okay now THIS I want.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2024 15:48:44 GMT
I know it shocks people, but people are going, even if it's not in big numbers - it had an advance (not huge) because of Sheridan. People are going because it's Sheridan, and some people are enjoying it (me included) I'll be going at least once more to see it.
Very sad for the cast - I think they took a big risk with this by going to the West End with Sheridan - on reflection there would have been logic in somewhere like the Almeida to iron out the bits of it that needed work, and then bring it in, but they took a risk with a name like Sheridan and star creatives like Ivo and Rufus. On this occasion it hasn't paid off, but I'm still glad they did it. There has to be a place in theatre for stuff like this or we are doomed to endure musicals that sound like they were created by AI and have absolutely zero creativity (I say this as Heathers is about to return...!)
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2024 15:24:26 GMT
The Grand Budapest Hotel would be a hoot - music and lyrics by David Yazbeck please
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2024 15:11:43 GMT
It looks like the tour finishes in Salford on 15th June? There's more than one set of this available.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2024 14:28:29 GMT
I thought Being Alive meant 2:22. Tour finishes end of May If I was to have to make a bet, it would be this.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2024 13:55:31 GMT
I think we can all guess what'll fill the gap 👻
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2024 11:20:17 GMT
Not another one.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2024 11:13:25 GMT
Six shows a week is interesting but not surprising.
He needs to be able to sing and dance though or this is going to be a slog (and let's not even start in the inevitable scaffolding Nikolai will use)
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 10, 2024 13:14:17 GMT
Interesting size of venues - doesn't fill me with confidence there'll be much in the way of production...
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 10, 2024 11:17:49 GMT
Lovely to see a few of the Anything Goes sailors in this - hoping for a lovely big tap number for Too Darn Hot!
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 10, 2024 11:11:10 GMT
If Johannes can act and sing then I'm game
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 10, 2024 9:25:11 GMT
Painless actually. Front row for a date in July. Lovely.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 10, 2024 8:46:36 GMT
As I assume it's just a generic link (and mine hasn't come through) could someone send me the link?
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 9, 2024 21:38:07 GMT
It's been very clear that entrance to the first class carriages will be limited during the show from the off I think.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 9, 2024 20:33:33 GMT
Very interesting casting Is this the first time a a Brit has gone straight into a lead role in wicked in the us? Agree she is a shoe in for next Elphaba in London They must have originally auditioned her here to take over from Alexis before she extended Exciting How do you come to any of these conclusions 😂 She's lived in the US for years now, hence why she's doing the US Tour - this doesn't make her a shoe in for London, or the person who was going to take over from Alexia. Also we've no idea if she'll be any good, she's not done a single performance yet 😂
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 9, 2024 13:01:53 GMT
I think some of us are looking back at Side Show with rose tinted glasses, there were a lot of sound issues there too and the god awful costumes that had the ensemble looking like a New Look clearance rail. I feel like we have all come to expect bad quality from Lambert Jackson’s concerts, even before Side Show, we were joking about ‘if’ we would be able to hear them or not. Agree, we had the classic LJ problem of 'as soon as more than 3 people are singing at the same time you can't hear what anyone is saying' along with a fair number of late mic queues.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 9, 2024 8:53:52 GMT
You'll notice that the three the poster above says were poor were all from the same producer...
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 8, 2024 21:11:46 GMT
She said it's for the Oliviers performance.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 8, 2024 18:42:58 GMT
Bev is doing 8 shows a week
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 8, 2024 10:30:12 GMT
Would be up for a swap with Jessica Chastains Dolls House.
Still annoyed that COVID killed that here.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 8, 2024 9:49:31 GMT
There are concert producers who get it right (Fourth Wall who do a lot at Cadogan Hall, and also some bigger stuff at Drury Lane and Palladium usually have decent sound, but their concerts look like they put a lot more money into them than the likes of the producers of Bare and Made In Dagenham)
These concerts do have their place, but there are too many different producers who simply are doing it as a cash grab, and they are tarnishing the companys reputation of those who do get it right, and most of the people attending have no idea it's not one production company doing all these concerts that pop up. It's really not fair on the ones who are putting the time, effort and money into ensuring the sound (the most important element of a concert!!!!) is good.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 7, 2024 22:14:25 GMT
Were you at the same show as everyone else Matt? 😉
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 7, 2024 21:38:17 GMT
Quelle surprise the sound was sh*t - these guys so rarely get it right (Jason Robert Brown was good, and Side Show only had a handful of outright bad moments sound wise, but otherwise the Lambert Jackson ones are usually fairly inaudible) - this does sound like it was particularly bad though.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 7, 2024 11:26:07 GMT
I imagine it'll just be a video of him going 'great to get to do it again, we had a great time, here's Eve singing Playing Nancy' or something
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 7, 2024 9:04:14 GMT
I have no idea, but Clary gets some kind of writers fee as well I think as he writes all his own material.
I just remember hearing that's what Donny Osmond got, and Dawn French was pretty close to that a couple of years back.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 6, 2024 13:54:24 GMT
Either I have blocked the whole thing from my memory or that curtain call is very different from the one I saw at 2nd preview. Curtain call became this later into previews. I didn't have quite as full as this at preview 3
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 6, 2024 13:19:09 GMT
I like the curtain call - fun that it's something a bit different 🤷🏻♂️
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