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Post by ellie1981 on Apr 8, 2018 19:12:57 GMT
Well I hope all of you there are having a great time. The closest I’ve got to the Royal Albert Hall tonight is seeing it on TV in a scene from Spiceworld The Movie.
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Post by ellie1981 on Apr 8, 2018 18:51:19 GMT
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Post by ellie1981 on Apr 8, 2018 7:39:56 GMT
What time is the live ceremony? Going to keep off social media and watch the ITV broadcast “as live” (although I know it will be edited) There’s a red carpet show from 4 to 5:30pm so I presume 6pm. There’s so,e Backstage Interval show at 7pm too on their Facebook page. i don’t like that you have to go to Facebook for these things. Why not just their own website? I’m not on Facebook.
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Post by ellie1981 on Apr 8, 2018 7:30:39 GMT
A lovely little film with great performances from all of the young cast. I was happy to see it on Friday in a busy screening and a very diverse audience.
I thought Simon’s family set up was just a little too schmaltzy and perfect, but I suppose an idealistic outcome is needed at times on screen.
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Post by ellie1981 on Apr 4, 2018 20:39:53 GMT
Just finished planning my own timetable. Will hopefully be seeing (depending on ticket availability): 120 Beats Per Minute Battle of the Sexes Call Me By Your Name Downsizing Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool The Florida Project Last Flag Flying On Chesil Beach The Shape of Water And the surprise film. Most anticipating Call Me By Your Name as the book is gorgeous, the trailer is gorgeous and it's the best reviewed film of the year thus far. Also can't wait for The Shape of Water which also has a gorgeous trailer and great reviews. I am curious to know if you got to see On Chesil Beach. If so, what did you think of it? Do you know if it has been on general release? I saw On Chesil Beach. It was rather underwhelming to be honest. Well performed, but the constant flashbacks became very disjointed and it felt like it was being padded out. It would have been far better as a short film at a 30-40 minute running time and wouldn’t have lost anything in the cut.
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Post by ellie1981 on Apr 2, 2018 10:24:48 GMT
I’m usually great with spelling but I admit my vocabulary isn’t the best. On the other hand I have a very good friend in my team at work who has the widest vocabulary I know, however she can’t spell to save her life. We make a great team as she drafts the outgoing correspondence and I do the proofreading.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 31, 2018 11:17:51 GMT
Jennifer DiNoia certainly did take holiday - being the last time I saw it! I had got tickets on my mum's birthday to take her for the first time, wanting to see her but I hadn't checked her holiday schedule.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 31, 2018 7:40:30 GMT
I always roll my eyes at the crazy Wicked fans but then remember in 2014 I saw Matilda 4 times in 2 days, back in my mega obsession with it... I've never seen a show more often than once every 6 months since then though. How is that even possible?
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 30, 2018 20:25:50 GMT
I love Wicked and have been a ridiculously large number of times but those times are largely spread out with long periods in between, yet there is a new breed of fan who seems to be there almost every night! I really don't understand how anyone could or why they would even want to see ANY show that much. In the "good old days" were people there almost every single night? I cant really remember but if they were I suppose we didn't have social media as much to go on about it, and to highlight every little change from the score and every single riff. Perhaps to evoke some "missing out syndrome" for those not in the audience. I'm sure the cast sometimes look into the audience and see the same faces in the audience again and think "really?!?!" There were two occasions where I went twice in a week. This was however during Idina’s initial 12 week run and I just wanted to see it as much as possible before she left.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 30, 2018 15:47:59 GMT
Who exactly is the average Will Young fan? I mean I bought his second album and a couple of individual downloads after that, but that’s that. Are they a particular demographic? He doesn’t strike me as the kind of artist to have some rabid fan base - this is coming from someone who was part of the crazy Michael Jackson fan community for most of my life.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 30, 2018 11:25:21 GMT
I recommend reading Mark Kermode’s book ‘Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics’. Plus the very very entertaining ‘The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex’.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 30, 2018 11:16:55 GMT
Oh dear. This is really not what I was expecting at all. Although I’m going with a friend and his friend, whose only knowledge of music really is whatever tracks happen to make the generic “I Love The 80s” supermarket compilations, so he should love it.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 29, 2018 15:18:19 GMT
Do theatres have a policy on intoxicated customers? If not they should. Unfortunately the poor ushers are not paid nearly enough to have to deal with refusing entry to groups of drunks.
I still have a problem understanding why people do it in the first place. It’s one thing to have a few too many on a night out socialising in a pub. It’s completely different when you have paid to be in the audience for an expensive show. What’s the point in going at all?
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 28, 2018 15:06:34 GMT
6:20?! What cinemas are you going to, I'd love to only have to sit through *twenty* minutes of ads! Exactly. I go all the time (214 films last year which is my new record) and average is 30 minutes. There have been two occasions where the trailers and ads were 40 minutes! Luckily the BFI only have 5 minutes and Prince Charles Cinema 10 minutes, but big chain multiplexes are ridiculous - which is all the more baffling when some people arrive 30+ minutes into the film.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 28, 2018 6:58:28 GMT
I think 7:30pm is just about right, especially for anyone wanting a meal before when coming from work. What I like about theatre so much is how reliable the times are.
Just to hijack the topic for a second - What I don’t like is varying start times for Pop/Rock concerts. Almost universally tickets say that doors open at 6:30pm, when sometimes a support act might not even start until 8pm and main act not until as late as after 9pm. Encouraging people to turn up more than 2 hours early is purely a ploy to get people to buy food and drink.
You will often see people leaving shows early in order to catch their trains home. I don’t have a problem at the moment myself as I live quite central with good 24 hour bus services, but I’ve seen people around me looking at the time constantly and leaving only halfway into a concert before. It doesn’t help that some of the major London concert venues (The O2, Brixton Academy, Wembley) are on the far end of their tube lines, so the last trains are quite early. Seriously what difference would it make to event organisers and performers to just start a show an hour earlier, particularly on a Sunday?
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 25, 2018 20:32:15 GMT
I didn’t see the matinee but did see Idina’s final evening show that same day. She was phenomenal that night and it’s one I will never forget.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 25, 2018 16:55:37 GMT
Whilst we're on the topic of different leads, does anybody else have performers that you didn't get to see, and in hindsight would have absolutely loved to see and are gutted that you never did? For me, it's Jennifer DiNoia as Elphaba. I was living in France when she had her West End stint, and with only limited trips back home I couldn't justify a trip to Wicked. From listening to clips of her on YouTube, she sounds like an absolute powerhouse, giving 110% at every performance. Did anyone see her in the role and have any reviews of her performance? For a Glinda it's Dianna Pilkington. I never saw her because I just wasn't into theatre when she was in the show. It wasn't until late 2010 when I made my first ever trip to the West End and was treated to the sublime pairing of Nikki and Louise. Listening to Diane on YouTube didn't make me feel like I was devastated to miss her, like in the case of Jenny, but after seeing her in Young Frankenstein and realising how naturally hilarious she is and how strong her voice is, I could just tell that she would have been a fab Glinda, and it was a shame that I missed her. Anybody else have any thoughts to share? I saw Jennifer twice during the run, with the first being a no-fly and my first trip to Wicked. Vocally she was incredibly strong and she acted the role entirely differently to any actress I’ve seen since. I missed Jennifer DiNola unfortunately. Had tickets especially to see her, but Emma Hatton was on that night instead. I saw Emma once again after that when she had taken over fully and haven’t seen the show since then. I really do need to see it again. The only Elphabas I’ve seen have been Idina, Kerry and Emma. In fact I think Katie Rowley-Jones is the only NessaRose I’ve seen.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 25, 2018 16:43:58 GMT
Darling you're in the cheap seats you ain't special. (also one caught me texting a friend about them...oops) Whenever I hear people getting a bit above their station I always think of this scene in Ab Fab
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 25, 2018 15:02:14 GMT
I just follow @westendcovers on Twitter and they usually announce any cast changes by the afternoon for all WE shows.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 25, 2018 8:15:43 GMT
Any news yet on performers on the show?
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 24, 2018 13:12:55 GMT
Just wondering, are the UK productions based in Australia? Is everyone including Will Young going to be doing an OTT Aussie accent?
Its just the very Australian tone and humour of the film is one of the things I love so much about it, and I'm not sure if I can imagine it working on stage.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 22, 2018 16:58:41 GMT
I haven't seen the movie but this show seems fabulous! Is anybody else excited for this? I'm going to see it on Easter Monday and can't wait! 💃 I’m certainly excited. The film is one of my all time favourites so I jumped at this. I do hope I’m not disappointed. I had preview tickets originally which were cancelled so have re-booked for the first week in May.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 21, 2018 16:18:06 GMT
It’s all very unsurprising. I deleted my Facebook account in 2011 as I found it utterly useless and rather annoying.
Whenever they would introduce some new feature, it would be up to you to go into your settings and turn it off, rather than opt in in the first place. This would be irritating for the population of users who didn’t log in and check their account every 10 minutes. One time I went away for Christmas and had no phone reception in the area I was staying in the mountains. Someone had inadvertently signed me up to some discussion group, and I received an email alert every time someone posted. Came back from Christmas with 3000+ emails!
I fully deleted it when the face recognition software was announced.
Also a friend of mine who had been in an abusive relationship got her account suspended when an unsavoury character from her past found her. She changed her account to put her middle name as her surname, and Facebook accused her of breaking the rules. The person would anonymously report all of her posts and pictures as inappropriate - none of which ever held up, but because she’s understandably quite sensitive it upset her a lot. Facebook had no means of contact to identify this anonymous person. She still however insists of keeping her Facebook account, although I don’t understand why.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 20, 2018 11:50:57 GMT
Warning about AMEX in the UK - quite a lot of retailers won’t accept them as they incur higher charges to them than other providers like Visa and MasterCard.
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Post by ellie1981 on Mar 19, 2018 21:38:30 GMT
Well I’m really pleased it’s been such a hit. Even though I didn’t particularly like it there must now be a better chance of more musical films being made. I suppose the contemporary style of music and dance used here are what have struck a chord with the younger audiences, so what next... In The Heights maybe? I heard that got put on hold because it was being produced by The Weinstein Company. The Wicked movie is forever in pre-production hell.
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