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Post by Jon on Apr 2, 2023 16:58:52 GMT
I think making DnD an action comedy was a stroke of genius because a lot of fantasy tends to be quite po faced whereas this film embraces its fun side.
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Post by Jon on Apr 1, 2023 22:53:11 GMT
Bat Out Of Hell audiences have always been awful. If I had to take a guess at which show this whole thing happened at, BooH would be my first choice. It's a nightmare. I still remember when someone throw one of those BooH beer bottles at someone else. I haven't found BOOH audiences that bad, the first show of the tour back in Manchester there was a couple that kept filming the show (sat front row so everyone could see it) and kept whispering to each other, but other than that everyone was behaved. Rocky Horror 'fans' are have always been the worst audiences. I'm comfortable with the audience participation, but I have been punched by an over excited fan for not standing for the Time Warp fast enough, and had to leave their Facebook group for the way they talk about newbies and the casual theatre goer - the Rocky Fans are just too entitled. I've said this before but Rocky Horror needs a new production that goes back to its B Movie roots and perhaps wean itself off the movie and be it's own thing, I'd go as far as getting rid of the audience participation.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 22:04:51 GMT
I'm not going to link it but YouTube has the unedited episodes of Blankety Blank which is a lot funnier than what went out on air!
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 21:10:18 GMT
People are addicted to their phones, it's a wonder that they sleep at night.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 21:08:04 GMT
It's a good show but the story is very similar to Jersey Boys.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 20:57:07 GMT
TBH the nudity loses its 'shock' factor after a couple of times, it's more degrading in the context of certain scenes if anything.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 20:51:44 GMT
”Better to have a sure fire hit than a half empty theatre”. No. Absolutely not. If you believe that then there’s no point having a subsidised theatre at all. “Toroto didn’t transfer because it’s a big production”. I guess that’s why Les Miserables didn’t transfer either. Stop making out that Totoro was a failure, it just makes you look foolish and you didn't see the production anyway so you don't know what the scale of it was.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 20:22:34 GMT
Toroto was such a hit that it didn’t transfer to the West End, or anywhere else, and is only getting a revival because the RSC are using their next Barbican season to revive it when they should be using it for their core repertoire. Matilda and Les Miserables it ain’t - no West End transfer, no Broadway transfer. Why not ? I'm sure the Barbican are thrilled that the RSC are bringing back Totoro, it was a sellout last time, better to have a surefire hit than an half empty theatre. Totoro didn't transfer because it's a big production, there are not many places where it could transfer to. The National brought back War Horse after its first run before its West End run so I have no qualms about them doing that. You are bitter because it was a success.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 19:58:36 GMT
I don't think anyone is 'gagging for another RSC flop', or 'hates' Erica Whyman, or is 'bitter' about Hamnet selling well. You are making this about the pettiness and meanness of people posting anything critical of EW. Can you really not see any legitimate reasons to be concerned about the current direction of the RSC? Can I turn it around and ask you what you think the RSC's priorities should be? What should they be doing to justify the 15 million grant and £19 million recovery loan? Do you feel that having one theatre open in Stratford has been enough? Are you happy with the quality of recent productions and casts? Do you think it's OK to stop putting on plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries? I am happy to say that I enjoyed the recent Richard III, I'm looking forward to Hamnet and I wish I'd been able to go to The Tempest. But it's still not even close to the company it was 10+ years ago. It ultimately doesn't matter what Whyman does now because there is a new regime coming in soon who will make changes. The RSC is a mixed bag but they'd have success recently, it's not been all failures and I think personally that the RSC should have new writing along with the classics, the likes of Les Miserables, Matilda, Nicholas Nicklebly etc wouldn't have happened if the RSC had stuck with just being about the classics and I've enjoyed the new work that has come from the RSC more than the classics which probably makes me a heretic in some people's eyes but so be it. No Theatre organisation is perfect and I think we need to perhaps stop with the pile ons, you're allowed to dislike the decision but don't be personal about the person behind the decision by suggesting she should driven out of town.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 17:53:18 GMT
Paul O'Grady's description of the Palladium was along the lines of rat infested flea pit which I think LW Theatre should engrave on a plaque for laughs.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 17:34:34 GMT
It's ironic that there is so much disdain for Whyman and yet tomorrow is the opening of Hamnet which is already a smash hit with a transfer to London later in the year. The usual suspects are probably bitter about that. The novel Hamnet is a smash hit. Yes. What has Whyman got to do with that ? Or are you saying she personally bought the rights for the RSC ? I doubt that - probably Doran did. What other smash hits has she directed in the decade she's been at the RSC ? None ? You thought Totoro would be a failure which was proven very wrong and despite certain people gagging for another RSC flop, it looks like Hamnet will be another success.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 17:14:02 GMT
It's ironic that there is so much disdain for Whyman and yet tomorrow is the opening of Hamnet which is already a smash hit with a transfer to London later in the year. The usual suspects are probably bitter about that.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 14:45:31 GMT
It's a longer list than that. I find it a difficult thing to call. It looks like we are now likely past 'peak Woke'/Twittermob dominance, but for a time it must have been nearly impossible to manage 240 character agendas, programming and that other thing ... art!
Coincidentally, I see Lisa Burger, once of the Southbank parish, has popped up recently as a trustee to the Board at the ROH. Good hire.
I think there's a cultural shift starting. Massive layoffs are happening at Disney, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and different media companies. The economic situation we're in is pushing this but overall they are trimming off the unnecessary fat. It doesn't matter who you are or look like, unless you're REALLY talented and can deliver products that can sell for them, you're out the door. Meritocracy in a nutshell. I find theatre is slow to react but soon I think companies will get people who who will focus on just getting quality plays and productions out there. Even if there's more safe revivals. Worthy of discussion on another thread anyway. As for Daniel Evans coming in. I don't know. I know he's done Shakespeare before and even performed in the RSC early in his career but moved onto performing and directing musicals with the occasional play since. I wonder if the RSC will start doing musicals again under his leadership. His track record as AD at Chichester has been good but not as outstanding as Jonathan Church. I've never been to Theatre Clwyd so can't comment on Tamara Harvey. Generally they seem better candidates than Erica Whyman and I'll remain hopeful that they will surprise me. I mean I thought Gregory Doran was a perfect choice for AD back in 2013. They just need to get the talent back to Stratford. And I hope they won't be treated like outsiders by the RSC who have been used to Doran and Whyman's leadership for the past decade. The layoffs at Disney and the tech companies are more to do with the fact they over expanded during the pandemic.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 14:37:41 GMT
I remember seeing The Paul O'Grady Show being recorded just after it had moved to Channel 4 and he slagged off ITV in the breaks to the audience's amusement.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 14:17:48 GMT
Erica Whyman is leaving anyway and people here seem to want her dragged out of Stratford Upon Avon, let the poor woman finish her tenure.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 14:09:10 GMT
Are the reviews for ALL appearing at the weekend as it's strange that no reviews have surfaced.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 8:06:20 GMT
Quite an eclectic cast!
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 0:15:32 GMT
I wonder who'd want it, it's mixed arts so you couldn't really split it.
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Post by Jon on Mar 31, 2023 0:11:00 GMT
My Fair Lady isn't that old Burly, it's only 67!
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Post by Jon on Mar 30, 2023 20:11:27 GMT
Not sure why certain people here have such hate for Erica Whyman.
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Post by Jon on Mar 28, 2023 20:44:22 GMT
What are the on stage seats like for anyone who has sat in them? Don't what it's like at the Pinter but at Richmond, they were excellent seats. You do have minor restrictions where the actors have their back to you but frankly for the price, it's worth it.
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Post by Jon on Mar 28, 2023 20:15:22 GMT
No objection to the show but I wish they could just go to one place and stay there! Just when you hope something decent is going to get a prime West End theatre slot, this pops up again. If 2:22 is selling well, why not move it for another season. I do think we forget that theatre is all about bums on seats.
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Post by Jon on Mar 28, 2023 16:49:33 GMT
The 7pm start might be less to do with length and more due to the fact it's Winter. Frozen has 7pm performances and that's show is only 2 hours 20 minutes.
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Post by Jon on Mar 28, 2023 15:22:01 GMT
It's a play that's done good business so no qualms with it moving, the alternative is a dark theatre throughout the summer. Would it really have been dark without this? I very much doubt it. Nothing from Chichester? Broadway? If no one has anything that can go in at short notice if something fall through then yes there is a chance the Apollo would have gone dark for months.
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Post by Jon on Mar 28, 2023 9:58:12 GMT
It's a play that's done good business so no qualms with it moving, the alternative is a dark theatre throughout the summer.
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Post by Jon on Mar 27, 2023 13:08:31 GMT
Do you have to enter the numbers with the dash or without? Can’t seem to redeem
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Post by Jon on Mar 26, 2023 17:48:21 GMT
Julianne Moore, Andrew Garfield and Greta Gerwig were at A Little Life yesterday according to social media.
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Post by Jon on Mar 26, 2023 17:23:00 GMT
What I’m always amazed at is that some of the most people famous for being ‘nice’ - usually on daytime tv- are actually the rudest and most unpleasant people. There’s a huge disconnect preteen the persona they play and the reality of what they are like. I'm guessing you're referring to a certain daytime duo whose name rhyme with Polly and Hil?
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Post by Jon on Mar 26, 2023 16:13:43 GMT
Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy's stories about rude fans gave me a lot of sympathy towards actors who perhaps a little hesitant when it comes to dealing with fans although McAvoy's story about the person who said that they were a fan of some his work did make me chuckle.
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Post by Jon on Mar 26, 2023 0:27:07 GMT
ITV showed Olivier highlights at 9pm a few years back and it bombed, awards show on TV generally get low audiences so showing the Oliviers live would be a disaster.
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