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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 16, 2021 17:52:09 GMT
Drama Desk Award winning actress that played Reno Sweeney in the latest US tour of Anything Goes - so she already knows the lyrics and the steps. Last seen in London a couple of decades ago in the West End revival of Kiss Me Kate with Brent Barrett, she replaced the late great Marin Mazzie.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 16, 2021 13:30:11 GMT
It's so annoying this doesn't have rush tickets (yet)
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 16, 2021 9:59:13 GMT
My first time at the Barbican, it is impressive. The theatre felt more like a new studio theatre than all of the West End theatres, great seats, no restrictions, a great place. Loved the fire curtain, very unexpected when it closed during intermission, never seen something like that. Though it is a bit difficult finding the Barbican. I never thought it was hard to find, but for me it's impossible to leave. I walk and walk and walk and after 30 minutes I realize I'm back at the foyer
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 16, 2021 7:24:18 GMT
Rachel York?
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 16, 2021 7:23:25 GMT
Plot twist
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 15, 2021 15:25:42 GMT
I have no idea what this show is but... Amy Adams. Booked. I’m in a similar boat! Without spoilers can anyone advise if I will be safe going in blind or if I should do any prior reading. you're very safe
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 15, 2021 7:34:21 GMT
In normal times an American lead wouldn't bother me much, but when the whole industry has been shut down for best part of 15 months and loads of actors have lost work it just doesn't quite sit right to import someone with so many talented local actors out of work. It would be the time to support home grown talent. I'm really curious about supporting roles, especially the Danny Burstein one
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 14, 2021 5:02:14 GMT
I'm still upset we didn't get the one with Isabelle Huppert at the Barbican, I hope they'll reschedule it.
Also I don't love that they're having two actors playing Tom but you never know.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 9, 2021 17:24:00 GMT
The trailer of the Netflix recording is out and it's hysterical
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 9, 2021 11:51:49 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 9, 2021 7:08:24 GMT
This is not about Frozen, but is it me or the Guardian is giving loads of 5 stars review lately?
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 8, 2021 12:05:56 GMT
Same here, I randomly joined the queue and getting a seat was nice and easy. I somehow suspected it was already sold out or that it would have been a nightmarish experience
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 7, 2021 9:30:20 GMT
Lia Williams (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) will direct a new staging of John Patrick Shanley's seminal, Pulitzer-winning play "Doubt: A Parable", playing from 22 January to 5 February.
Set to star Monica Dolan (W1A), Sam Spruell (The North Water) and Jessica Rhodes (The Sugar Syndrome), the hit play is set in a Catholic Church in New York in 1964.
The production is designed by Joanna Scotcher, with lighting by Paul Keogan, music and sound by Melanie Pappenheim and Giles Perring, with casting by Charlotte Sutton.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 4, 2021 11:51:02 GMT
whenever I watch Hamlet, as I probably have about thirty times, I am always taken up with the characters' personal catastrophes that I always forget to listen to the political situation and the advancing armies. Anyone care to elaborate on what is going on outside the walls of Elsinore, and just who and why the armies are advancing. Thanks. it's the same with antony and cleopatra - too many chaps chatting, bring on cleo. Hamlet Sr had killed Fortinbras Sr in combat and claimed some Norwegian lands for Denmark. Now Fortinbras Jr wants them back. But at the beginning the Danes think that Fortinbras is gathering troops only to invade Poland and realize later on that Denmark is his true aim. I guess the point is that Fortinbras, like Laertes, is another "double" for Hamlet, someone with whom he can compare his effort to avenge his father and find it lacking. But yeah pretty much since the Romanticism most productions tend to cut or reduce the political aspects of the play in order to highlight the psychological ones.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 4, 2021 11:45:10 GMT
This is nice
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 27, 2021 13:16:07 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 24, 2021 11:57:54 GMT
tickets keep popping up actually, so if you keep refreshing you might be lucky
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 24, 2021 11:41:09 GMT
sold out for the entire slot
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 23, 2021 9:33:37 GMT
The New York Times reviewed it as well - a positive review, if not a rave
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 18, 2021 16:59:30 GMT
According to WhatsOnStage:
The full team accompanying James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan (taking on the lead roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth) in the Almeida's Shakespeare revival will be Michael Abubakar, Ross Anderson, Aoife Burke, Emun Elliott, Annie Firbank, William Gaunt, Akiya Henry, Maureen Hibbert, Reuben Joseph, Gareth Kennerley, Valerie Lilley, Adam McNamara and Richard Rankin.
The children will be played by Myles Grant, Jamie-Lee Martin, Henry Meredith, Dereke Oladele, Emet Yah Khai and K-ets Yah Khai.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 16, 2021 17:07:47 GMT
Running at New York City Center May 4-15 with a stellar cast that includes Sara Bareilles (Baker's Wife), Christian Borle (Baker), Heather Headley (Witch), and Ashley Park (Cinderella).
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 13, 2021 10:21:45 GMT
Extended until September 11th
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 13, 2021 7:48:55 GMT
It's hardly surprising, she's always been a devoted Republican
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 11, 2021 12:48:35 GMT
It ran for 168 performances at the New London (now Noel Coward Theatre) in 1970 and they even made a cast recording
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 10, 2021 16:16:31 GMT
Bringing this back for future goers, it's very useful
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 10, 2021 14:00:34 GMT
New trailer
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 8, 2021 18:18:52 GMT
I do wonder if Sondheim wasn't as keen being solely the lyricist on both WSS and Gypsy compared to his own shows where he composed the score and wrote the lyrics. Yeah he has been quite outspoken about not wanting to be just the lyricist but then he was persuaded into giving it a go to gain some experience, working with Bernstein (WSS) and writing for a star (Gypsy)
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 8, 2021 18:16:44 GMT
Sondheim has always been a strange beast. Sn amazing body of work and a living legend who connects us directly to Hammerstein and the legends of the past. But he is someone who has been admired more than adored and has certainly struggled to find real popular acclaim. MT would be much poorer without him and he is to be cherished. But he has always made some idiosyncratic choices that have not always paid off. And his WSS lyrics only fail for me when they (understandably) avoid swear words that would be part of gang talk. He really wanted to say f*** in "Gee Officer Krumpke" but they didn't let him. He wanted to be the first person to write it on Broadway lol
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Post by couldileaveyou on Aug 7, 2021 15:53:01 GMT
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