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Post by Rory on Apr 25, 2024 23:27:26 GMT
If you go back to my review of the show (at the top of this page!), you'll find there's a lot about the show I liked, and I wanted bits of it to be better because it's got bags of potential so I don't know where you've come up with the idea that I'm anti-Witches TBF. I'm just trying to explain that this show is enormous (the NT themselves literally acknowledged they made a show that can only fit into Drury Lane) and the Gillian Lynne does not have the capability to house it... Something else is filling at least some of that 7 months to be announced shortly. I see a social media rumour that The Lehman Trilogy may be coming back to the Lynne. It's a good show but it's been done to death, if true.
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Post by Rory on Apr 25, 2024 7:57:15 GMT
Imelda was on Radio 4 Today around 8.30am this morning, talking about being put through to Jerry Herman.
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 20:01:53 GMT
The Witches is the new Into the Woods from Bath. Everyone wants it to transfer but it isn't going to, by the looks of it.
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 19:42:54 GMT
Does anyone actually know which musical is apparently going into the Pinter then? So we don't have to endure Shaun Tossell going 'no, not any of those' for days on end.
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 19:15:08 GMT
I didn't realise Sonia Friedman was connected to Starter for Ten?
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 18:11:27 GMT
The Pinter doesn't feel like the right place for this - somehow I can't think of that as a venue for a popular musical - and I rather hope that the creative team is taking the opportunity after Bristol to tweak the show: although it was good, i don't think it was quite good enough yet for the West End and I'd love it to be even better if/when it comes to London. Sunny Afternoon had a good run at the Pinter
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 16:58:02 GMT
His posts are a total pain!
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 8:45:54 GMT
D'oh! I didn't read that too carefully!!! As you were! 😂😂😂
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 3:41:44 GMT
Is this a record for the number of West End theatres that a single production has used? I would have to check but I recall Bill Kenwright's production of An Ideal Husband kept popping up in different houses a lot also. Not as many as this though.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 20:49:33 GMT
Heathers. Probably, and starring Charlie Dimmock. Wouldn't surprise me after today's announcement.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 17:38:04 GMT
Wonder what will take the Gielgud between September and November? I'll cry if that crock of sh*te 2:22 goes back there a third time.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 17:36:28 GMT
Good instincts Rory, I think you have called this one more than once! Thanks Dave, but I think I called this wrong. I thought it would play the Gielgud!
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 12:29:02 GMT
Stacey Dooley as Jenny. Get ready for lots of sympathetic nodding . No worse than some of the other people who've done it Ffs! What a slap in the face to the Opening Night team to be replaced by Stacey Dooley. Has she even got an Equity card? I really hope after this run that this lame production disappears off the face of the earth.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 10:12:37 GMT
The Hills of California finishes in Pinter on 15 June. Macbeth starts 01 October. What goes in there in-between? I wonder if it could be The Lover / The Collection from Bath. Claudie Blakly has suggested on Instagram that it's possibly transferring.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 10:11:06 GMT
Wonder if this will fill the gap at the Pinter?
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 8:51:18 GMT
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Post by Rory on Apr 22, 2024 11:37:36 GMT
Looks like the West End transfer is being announced tomorrow at 10am to an ATG venue, so either the Duke of York's or the Harold Pinter. Do we know if Tennant is transferring with it? I couldn't imagine a transfer without him!
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Post by Rory on Apr 22, 2024 11:08:03 GMT
Looks like the West End transfer is being announced tomorrow at 10am to an ATG venue, so either the Duke of York's or the Harold Pinter.
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Post by Rory on Apr 19, 2024 15:39:24 GMT
Opening Night is miles better than 2:22, far superior. And I will die on that hill!
I am however bemused by the suggestions on social media of casting Sheridan and Hadley in the new iteration of 2:22 (obviously he's done it previously).
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Post by Rory on Apr 19, 2024 14:51:39 GMT
There are rumblings about a transfer. Where could this go? The Pinter?
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Post by Rory on Apr 19, 2024 11:40:16 GMT
I think what's happened here is exactly how I feel about the state of London theatre in general. New work like Opening Night that is (in my eyes) bold and fresh can't succeed and we have to endure rubbish like 2:22 and Heathers until the end of time. Totally this. I agree wholeheartedly. Opening Night closing early to be replaced by 2:22 really saddens me.
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Post by Rory on Apr 19, 2024 9:23:48 GMT
It is depressing when theatres have to constantly rely on stuff like Heathers and 2:22 for a filler. Nothing from Bath, Chichester or other regions?
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Post by Rory on Apr 19, 2024 9:21:50 GMT
Having now seen both 2:22 A Ghost Story and Opening Night, I know firmly which one I enjoyed more and would happily sit through again. A real shame ON is closing to make way for this tired old tale.
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Post by Rory on Apr 18, 2024 14:50:52 GMT
Could it go in to replace Opening Night? No because something else is going in and then Frank Skinner in August.
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Post by Rory on Apr 18, 2024 10:12:24 GMT
Till the Stars Come Down and The Picture of Dorian Gray for me also!
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Post by Rory on Apr 18, 2024 9:09:08 GMT
So there is a short filler going into Gielgud until end of July when Opening Night was meant to close and then something scheduled goes in for a run before Olivier opens December 14th. Any news on any of that? Ta! I have a hunch, and that's all it is, that Macbeth from the Donmar may go to the Gielgud in the Autumn.
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Post by Rory on Apr 18, 2024 6:37:16 GMT
Saw it tonight and absolutely loved it. So glad I caught it before it closes next month. It is a travesty that this is closing early, especially as the filler which is replacing it is so uninspiring.Have I missed something, what's the filler? To be announced next week apparently but don't get your hopes up!
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Post by Rory on Apr 17, 2024 22:26:59 GMT
I saw the matinee today and can only add to the chorus of superlatives being heaped on this show. It is simply astonishing. I have never done stage door before in my life, but I couldn't resist the chance to convey my thanks and appreciation of Sarah Snook's artistry to her when the opportunity presented itself, and to congratulate her for her well deserved Olivier win. She was utterly charming. What a tour de force!
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Post by Rory on Apr 17, 2024 21:56:40 GMT
Saw it tonight and absolutely loved it. So glad I caught it before it closes next month. It is a travesty that this is closing early, especially as the filler which is replacing it is so uninspiring.
The audience tonight was very full and it got a very good reception. I thought the music was great and not a weak link in the talented cast. Sheridan was terrific. Yes, it's bonkers in places but I was thoroughly entertained throughout.
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Post by Rory on Apr 17, 2024 11:18:41 GMT
I only just clocked that Will Close won Best Supporting Actor In A Play (for 'Dear England'), and that Luke Thompson and Zubin Varla (both for 'A Little Life') didn't. None of the footballer characters in 'Dear England' have much depth, or require much of an acting stretch. I think there was a likeability factor for Close and Thompson's characters as written, but I also thought Luke Thompson's performance had the biggest range of all the performances in 'A Little Life'. I'm really gutted for him. For me THAT was a performance that wove through the entire play with great demands. Perhaps other nominees who I didn't see were also as complex in performance. I just know that the collection of cute ticks required for Harry Kane in 'Dear England' were nothing in comparison. I agree with you. Will Close was brilliant in Dear England and gave a very entertaining turn, but for me Luke Thompson performance in A Little Life was more deserving of the Olivier. He and JN together were heartbreaking. I was even more moved whilst watching it a second time at the cinema.
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