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Post by danb on Apr 28, 2023 6:05:09 GMT
…harsh words where you called Lucie a LIAR? …twice? Those harsh words?
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Post by danb on Apr 27, 2023 13:58:41 GMT
Whenever I’ve caught even five minutes of the film on tv in the last fifteen years it has felt incredibly dated yet Its’ themes are just as relevant today; possibly even more so. The ever widening gaps in society grow by the minute.
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Post by danb on Apr 26, 2023 15:56:15 GMT
I think this could be the show to give the Dominion a long runner. Plenty of space, room to extend the stage out if need be and large enough to turn a profit quickly. It can price despicably high for the front 2/3rds of the stalls but still have a good spread of cheap seats. It isn’t too flashy or tech heavy (apart from the trapeze element) and could have the animals on video screens.
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Post by danb on Apr 25, 2023 17:03:48 GMT
Did anyone else ‘win’ the chance to buy tickets for the anniversary? We’re on holiday if anyone wants mine.
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Post by danb on Apr 24, 2023 19:19:40 GMT
Surprised to see what looks like Shaq Taylor in the new IKEA ad. Is it him?
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Post by danb on Apr 24, 2023 18:15:19 GMT
Agree. I've seen it in the west end only from back dress or the grand, but I went on broadway and got orchestra seats right at the front (although to the extreme side) and it just felt like a completely different beast. so much more energy and immersion, I loved it! I second this! Any spectacle seen close up will always win me over …and I’ll third it. We were rear dress circle and it just felt like a big noisy far away mess; however I can well imagine it would be a wholly different beast close up and enveloping you.
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Post by danb on Apr 24, 2023 4:38:48 GMT
It’d look great in The Roundhouse. The Roundhouse is nowhere near as flexible as the Troubadour plus they're booked up with concerts for the rest of 2023. I said it would ‘look’ great. Nothing else.
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Post by danb on Apr 23, 2023 20:35:06 GMT
It’d look great in The Roundhouse.
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Post by danb on Apr 23, 2023 6:42:28 GMT
Is there seriously no large playhouse that this can go into? It’s gonna die on its arse otherwise. Lyric Hammersmith would be preferable to the Barbican…the Garrick? That size. Its like they’re trying to sell it as ‘art’ rather than ‘a bit niche’.
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Post by danb on Apr 21, 2023 15:32:37 GMT
I think they realised their mistake in not taking ‘demand’ into account, whilst not santing to havr to pay for more staff/security when it all kicks off.
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Post by danb on Apr 21, 2023 8:11:04 GMT
I still remember her fantastic run as a presenter on ‘This Morning 😳
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Post by danb on Apr 20, 2023 18:21:15 GMT
Standard Thursday in our house.
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Post by danb on Apr 20, 2023 5:10:48 GMT
Does my muddled old brain deceive me, or was the matinee for this on a Tuesday back at the Apollo Vic? I know Phantom did Tuesdays for a while, but wouldn’t it be great to fill the few empty matinee days? I love it over Christmas and New Year when show schedules go rogue and you can fill otherwise dull days with unexpected treats. More of that please theatre gods.
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Post by danb on Apr 19, 2023 21:09:55 GMT
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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Post by danb on Apr 19, 2023 20:44:25 GMT
I’m not sure what 76 year old JC could do with ‘Evitas’ unforgiving score…Legacy throwbacks are a nice idea but not at a detriment to its sound.
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Post by danb on Apr 19, 2023 20:23:01 GMT
V. Interesting idea.
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Post by danb on Apr 18, 2023 17:39:52 GMT
Safer to keep it as a museum piece and raise a discussion, than turning it into a ‘tripping over itself mess of ‘right on’. They are people acting; ‘pretending to be trains’. As long as the bad behaviour is ‘punished’ and made a point of, it is definitely preferable to a ghastly mess.
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Post by danb on Apr 18, 2023 5:21:18 GMT
I’m more interested in the ‘how’? The scale etc. I’d love to be proven wrong, and see actual money invested in a major sit down of this, but I have NO desire to see either of the previous tour presentations brought back.
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Post by danb on Apr 17, 2023 18:44:34 GMT
But is it happening in Wembley or is it just happening? With Phantom closed and Bad Cinderella bombing on Broadway, ALW surely has time to dedicate himself to Starlight Express for a few months now. Or maybe he would just like time to grieve his son Ouch with the ‘moral superiority’ burn! You realise that ALW has a production company who will be doing things for him? Not just him on his iPhone 5 trying to find Arlene's number. 🤣
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Post by danb on Apr 17, 2023 16:47:56 GMT
It’s happening in theatres up and down the land. Seems unfair to judge them unfairly because someone happened to catch it on their phone.
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Post by danb on Apr 17, 2023 15:27:26 GMT
Birmingham Hippodrome has just teased an announcement for tomorrow As has WMC Cardiff http://instagr.am/p/CrJDpRmt-AM And Bristol Hippodrome, Sunderland Empire and Bord Gais It will look glorious on the Donald Gordon stage surrounded by all that wood.
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Post by danb on Apr 16, 2023 17:26:54 GMT
…and assuming Glenn Adamson is the cover Galileo? There has to be some benefit to going from leading a ‘west end’ show to an ensemble role. A paycheck maybe? I would hope that he’d be in demand after his excellent performance in Bat. They’re getting a reliable and vocally superior performer.
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Post by danb on Apr 16, 2023 15:05:24 GMT
They had asked me, but I’m busy watching rubbish on Netflix, so was unable to make my Elphaba debut today. Y’all gonna have to wait a bit longer. (Like, a reeeaallly long time).
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Post by danb on Apr 16, 2023 6:30:36 GMT
I can’t wait for this show to close for the goss to abound. …why wait!?!?
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Post by danb on Apr 15, 2023 22:39:27 GMT
I’d love any of us to try doing an eight show Elphaba week and not be peeling bits of our shredded uvula off the ceiling of the Apollo Victoria…for there not to be 2 scheduled alternate shows is quite frankly, madness.
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Post by danb on Apr 15, 2023 21:57:25 GMT
We saw an incredible amateur KB this evening at The Playhouse in WSM. I hated this at the Adelphi, quite liked it on tour but watching Weston Operatics tonight perform their last of 4 performances added many new dimensions. 6 great varied angels, an absolutely phenomenal Lola (didn’t get a programme so no idea of their name) and the bits that grate when they shoehorn in every last member into ensemble numbers, made perfect sense and just gave it a bit more ooomph.
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Post by danb on Apr 13, 2023 19:36:36 GMT
They aren’t ticketing any of it are they? Just 120 seats on a first come first served basis. I can’t really risk a 150 minute journey on the hope that there is still space. I’d be happier to pay for tickets and know I’m getting in.
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Post by danb on Apr 13, 2023 19:25:15 GMT
…as if more reasons were required to not attend.
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Post by danb on Apr 12, 2023 18:24:23 GMT
…and assuming Glenn Adamson is the cover Galileo? There has to be some benefit to going from leading a ‘west end’ show to an ensemble role.
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Post by danb on Apr 11, 2023 12:00:00 GMT
They just need to stick it into a big top and tour it like a circus or in arenas for one night only. Its criticised if it isn’t a spectacle and it closed because everyone had seen it…yet now we want it back bigger & better than ever do we? No doubt with 20p day seats and a free bag of candy floss? The insurance premiums alone would be crippling so I suspect we will never see Starlight as it was ever again.
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