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Post by lou105 on Jul 27, 2016 17:44:46 GMT
Great sum up monkey! But Simon does not deny Jesus. Peter is the one who denies him three times, therefore his beautiful duet with Mary -'Could we start again please?'- expressing his regret. Ah, just to add confusion, Simon and Peter are the same person! His name is changed after he meets Jesus but I can't remember if that's explained in this show or not..It's an interesting topic, isn't it..Rather like the "Should I see the Cursed Child if I haven't read Harry Potter?" posts.
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Post by lou105 on Jul 27, 2016 12:37:58 GMT
Muted/After the Turn, and the Lyric Hammersmith Secret Theatre season..
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Post by lou105 on Jul 22, 2016 19:02:08 GMT
The Shakespeare prom has the second half devoted to musicals based on Shakespeare - West Side Story, Kiss me Kate and The Boys from Syracuse. I am taking my nephew. There is also a Gershwin prom
Marvellous thanks for the info will keep my eyes peeled for that, I need to look when on computer as phone screen hardly shows me anything! The Gershwin one is this year's John Wilson offering, on 13 August. It looks like it will have a live TV showing.
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Post by lou105 on Jul 22, 2016 18:04:48 GMT
Those row Y slips are tricky, too far along and you lose a lot of the stage. Yes, I considered these but ended up paying more because I was worried about this show being apparently very reliant on set, making a restriction unduly annoying. Not easy , though, with large areas of the stalls at £90
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Post by lou105 on Jul 22, 2016 9:40:58 GMT
Another joyful Donmar booking experience..as ever tickets coming and going, system crashing at various stages. I ended up using guest checkout as I couldn't get my account to load. Got tickets later in the run than I wanted but better than nothing. I may try the Front Row releases as well.
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Post by lou105 on Jul 8, 2016 7:56:31 GMT
Tall bloke, pink shirt, black glasses. Don't think that standing behind that pillar means we didn't spot you filming at the Bacharach concert last night. Despite regularly being told not to. Scumbag. This is what gets me. They get told to stop filming, FOH walks off, they immediately start filming again. Who has this amount of bare-faced, economy-sized cheek? The total lack of embarrassment at being reprimanded in front of an audience is like water off a ducks back. They're either incredibly incredibly self-assured and confident people or just plain thick. It's like school, isn't it? Only behave when the teacher is watching..ugh.
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Post by lou105 on Jul 6, 2016 9:21:46 GMT
Yes.. the end. It was pretty. Maybe,, though, they ended up spending a lot of money on something that didn't fit so well with the play they've come up with (so far, at least) - but given how much they've spent, they feel obliged to use it? Yes..the ending was what the trailer and the website images seemed to point to, but the rest of it was something else. And as you said, Jonjo was something else again!
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Post by lou105 on Jul 6, 2016 8:43:40 GMT
It's still very much a work in progress, and they are still asking the audience to bear with the actors who are dealing with rewrites. The audience last night seemed to take all that in good part, enthusiastically shouting Good Luck on request, and Matt Smith was good at mugging to the crowd when it got messy. There were some ecstatic reactions, and also some empty seats after the interval, though not many. The big question, of course, is how the final version is received when you take away the fun element of being somehow in the "in crowd", watching something being developed..I agree with a lot of chameleon's comments above. Some of it was very funny, some of it made me cringe and whilst the end was visually memorable, I'm not at all sure what I brought away from it.
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Post by lou105 on Jul 5, 2016 21:53:33 GMT
What time was the interval for this? Just saw Cuttin It Upstairs and that finished at 9.05pm and Downstairs was still on its interval. I thought it only lasts 2 hrs? That makes the second half the most 25 mins!!! They were saying two and a half hours including interval on the way in tonight. The interval was about 8.55.
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Post by lou105 on Jun 14, 2016 8:06:37 GMT
Would obviously prefer to see the show on a Saturday matinee but then again, I'm sure a weekday evening should be alright. There's no matinees! But you do realise you've got much less chance of meeting a performer at stage door if they've got another show? so you may have done yourself a favour..
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Post by lou105 on Jun 8, 2016 12:04:01 GMT
There's probably also an element of the idea of theatre being transient and impermanent feeding into the desire to make sure that even the filmed productions aren't available whenever people want them, I went to a charity Q and A after a performance of Frankenstein and they showed clips of the broadcast. Admittedly that was one of the earlier NT live events, but the actors were cringing a bit at seeing their stage performances on film. They even joked that Danny Boyle would have directed it differently for film.
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Post by lou105 on May 31, 2016 11:20:59 GMT
The Soho Theatre version is available on Digital Theatre.
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Post by lou105 on May 30, 2016 22:06:18 GMT
Ah, apologies, didn't realise how far back the post was.
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Post by lou105 on May 30, 2016 20:51:31 GMT
Would love to see this while i am in London in July, but unfortunately i have booked for "Lady Day" already...well, bad timing on my side - hope it comes to London in the future again and i can see it, can't afford a second trip to London this year Apologies if I have misunderstood your post, but it seems that you are saying that you don't have time to see Titanic because you have booked Lady Day? Did you know that the London run has been postponed because Audra is pregnant?
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Post by lou105 on May 5, 2016 19:06:26 GMT
I had an email today telling me that my tickets for a Tuesday Mat in July have now been transferred for the evening show. Some digging on the website also tells me that as of 31st May they have scrapped all Matinees on a Tuesday. Not a great sign! Assuming that's at the Phoenix, there has only been a matinee on Tuesdays, no evening show. When I was there this week a member of staff mentioned that they were switching to evenings.
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Post by lou105 on Mar 29, 2016 9:16:43 GMT
Is it particularly tricky to get the Monday tickets? Does anyone know what time they go on sale? I think it will depend whether Kit Harington fans mobilise for this..There was quite a scramble for Mondays for The Ruling Class with James McAvoy.
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Post by lou105 on Feb 29, 2016 15:56:29 GMT
show-stoppers didn't get a thing, Showstopper is up for Best Entertainment and Family
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Post by lou105 on Feb 27, 2016 18:42:44 GMT
I've just noticed that a recording of this with the Kenneth Cranham/Claire Skinner cast is being broadcast on Radio 3 at 9pm tomorrow (Sunday). Hopefully it will go onto iPlayer and I'll try to listen sometime.
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Post by lou105 on Feb 26, 2016 9:43:38 GMT
Ugh, I'd almost forgotten a visit to the Lion King a few years ago when some kids were leaning over the safety rails and spitting onto people in the stalls..
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Post by lou105 on Feb 3, 2016 10:19:56 GMT
Wasn't Threepenny Opera mentioned ? With Rory Kinnear, wasn't it?
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Post by lou105 on Jan 22, 2016 10:04:26 GMT
This is £10/ticket cheaper during the week of previews, if people are happy to see it at that stage!
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