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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 14:57:17 GMT
While it's true that not everyone has been offered the vaccine, it's important to remember that the risk of death to those who haven't had it is tiny. The older and more vulnerable have already been offered it. The only ones left, really, are the young and relatively healthy. Not strictly true - none of us know what underlying health conditions or predispositions we may have that we don't yet know about! It also doesn't take into account that young & healthy people can get long covid & suddenly not be healthy. Some people who had covid last March have still not recovered from it. I for one would not want anything like that.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 14:32:11 GMT
I am so, so relieved that they are doing it online. Another 25 shows, if I've counted correctly. I was afraid they'd do a live-only run. I'd love to be able to see it live but I don't know yet if I'll be able to get down to London by July & I imagine the live tickets will sell out very quickly. Also Riverside Studios is completely the wrong side of London for me & not exactly walkable from Kings Cross/Liverpool Street!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 13:01:46 GMT
Hot cross buns with sweetcorn in? Really? Why would anyone think that was a good idea?! Sorry I should clarify. What started off with slagging off hotcross buns has now spread to chocolate, coffee and what ever that suitabley offends us I did think that was a seriously bizarre combination! The most variation in hot cross buns I've tried is apple & cinnamon & I found that deeply disappointing, partly because I only found one small piece of apple in the whole bun.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 11:54:15 GMT
I can imagine Kevin Clifton as Cosmo. However it's Charlotte Gooch as Kathy who I really want to see. I have everything crossed that I'll be able to get down to London by August/September.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 11:49:37 GMT
Sad day. My Liza mug which I bought at her RAH concert in 2011 and have used every day since then has finally gone to that glitter ball in the sky as the bottom literally fell out of the mug this morning. Not sure whether to Bury or cremate her. Burial is surely much easier. Not sure china is cremate-able!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 11:47:46 GMT
My puritanical friend and I started slagging off inappropriate flavours for hot cross buns. Salted caramel I'm talking to you. Now in the supermarket we take random pics and zap them to each other, chocolate with sweetcorn, instant coffee flavoured with whitechocolate and raspberry. Its become a competition to see who can find the most gross item. Hot cross buns with sweetcorn in? Really? Why would anyone think that was a good idea?!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 18, 2021 21:06:44 GMT
And people who use 'literally' wrongly! 'I am literally gutted!' No you're really not!! "I am literally dead" is the most annoying example of this. If you were literally dead then you wouldn't be saying/writing that you were!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 18, 2021 12:20:06 GMT
They need to stop messing around with Jaffa Cakes. None of this lime or blackcurrant nonsense. Orange middles ONLY. There were so many recommendations on here a few years ago for the lime ones that I bought a box. Deeply disappointing. I disliked the first one so much that I binned the rest of them. I've not tried blackcurrant but am not going to take the risk again!
ETA Just looked up jaffa cakes & found pineapple, cherry & passion fruit flavours. What is wrong with McVitie's?! Jaffa cakes are named after jaffa oranges so if they're not orange flavoured then they shouldn't be called jaffa cakes!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 17, 2021 12:32:40 GMT
Without wanting to start a fire, why shouldn’t it cost the same as seeing a big music act at the O2? There are many more people involved with a lot of upfront costs to get it off the ground. The money will be visible on stage. Fair enough when you are paying £90 for ‘Heathers’ cardboard fold up set you’d have every right to feel cheated, but not for a visual spectacle which this will be. I've never been to a pop concert but I understand that an act would only do a few shows at a venue, maybe 2 or 3 days, not 8 shows a week for months/years on end. Paying for an expensive ticket for a limited event makes more sense to me than paying the same amount for a regular performance of a show. In the same way that I'm prepared to pay more for ROH tickets than for WE tickets because the former usually only has 8-10 performances of a piece per season. Though even then I wouldn't pay £190 for the ROH, I don't go over £100 & usually try to get something for around £60-£70. I am very happen that I'm not interested in seeing Moulin Rouge as the prices seem ridiculous. £75 for the front stalls wouldn't be too bad but to charge that for the upper circle! And clearly the past habit of charging less for previews has had it, given stevejohnson678 is quoting prices for the 2nd preview.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 15, 2021 10:41:38 GMT
Do you have any aloe vera plants and/or thing with it in? very good for burns. No. I just put some Savlon on. Less ainful this morning but still somewhat painful while washing my hands - it seems to be the hot water rather than the rubbing motions that are the issue.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 14, 2021 18:24:51 GMT
I knew cooking anything other than pasta & vegetables was bad for me: burnt a finger on a baking tin while serving up sausages this evening.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 13, 2021 19:07:35 GMT
I wonder whether "as live" means they'll be streaming a difference performance each time or the same performance each time. If they former then I might book for more than one stream, assuming I enjoy the production upon first viewing.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 13, 2021 19:04:32 GMT
BurlyBeaR I've not come across that before. Presumably it's only sold up North? I won't be trying it though as I will be remaining fully masked throughout any theatre performances I attend for the next few months, & possibly for the next few years.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 13, 2021 11:40:04 GMT
And if the full house was sold, it's not breath on your neck you need to worry about in the rebuilt Quarry, but knees! 🙂 I guess I'm a bit paranoid about people breathing/coughing/sneezing right behind me after an incident back in summer 2017 when someone sitting just behind me in a theatre sneezed violently. I could feel the air hitting me. 2 days later I came down with an agonizing sore throat, which persisted for 6 days so we had to cancel the short holiday we had booked to Edinburgh & York that week.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 12, 2021 18:42:50 GMT
Thursday matinee is 8th July maggiem but I’m sure you’ve spotted the typo. I’ve booked , hope it’s fully seated by the time we go, that would be so good . I really hope it isn't. The Leeds Playhouse website says "All performances of this production will be with a socially distanced audience." and I booked based on that. I would be extremely unhappy if they suddenly changed to a full auditorium & I had someone just behind me, breathing down my neck. I'm worried enough about going to Leeds. I'll be keeping a close eye on the covid rates in the area nearer the time & have booked for the last week of the production as I should have had my 2nd vaccine by then.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 11, 2021 19:01:58 GMT
Think I disliked most books we read just because of how we read and studied them and being relieved when we didn't study things I liked and ruin them. I think Austen was the only adult* author I studied at school whose books I was prepared to still read afterwards. Having to suffer through To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby & Of Mice And Men put me off 20th century American literature to such an extent that I'm not sure I've ever read any in the 20 years since GCSEs.
*Reading children's literature in younger years at school didn't have the same off-putting effect. I still enjoy The Hobbit, Wind in the Willows & The Dark Is Rising.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 9, 2021 16:27:37 GMT
Hopefully this signals a step change in casting that will be more representative of the people we know in our own lives. That will differ for everyone though. For those living outside large cities, the majority of the population is still white. Personally most people I know are white, including a quite a lot of Eastern Europeans at work, plus a few of Indian origin. The recent trend in musicals, where ethnic minority representation seems to only equal more black cast members, isn't at all representative of the people I know in my life.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 9, 2021 11:43:25 GMT
Roxie How annoying for you. Most people feel a bit like that after having the vaccine, not before!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 6, 2021 12:36:32 GMT
I too think I booked the same seat I had for last year, however this time I also had to book the seat next to it. As TallPaul has already pointed out, it was cheaper than booking any single seat. And I thought I'd better go as cheap as possible as I don't know yet whether I'll actually be able to risk going up to Leeds come July.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 5, 2021 19:29:03 GMT
I see it is stated towards the end that the dogs were twins. Maybe they'd also appeared in a production of Die Walkure & had picked up some ideas!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 5, 2021 19:25:00 GMT
Gosh. Life is for living. You're 26. It's only for living if you aren't dead. Young people can die of Covid too, and none of us know what underlying health conditions we may have undiagnosed! Or how we might react in terms of long Covid, which could very much restrict living. Exactly. Someone I follow on Twitter got covid in March 2020 & is still suffering from long covid. She tweets things like she's exhausted just from walking down the road to her nearest shop. She's hardly going to be able to jump on a train to London when the theatres re-open. Personally I'm not afraid of dying of covid, I'm afraid of being ill for months/years. (I'm also absolutely petrified of giving it to my mother, but that's a separate issue.)
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Post by Dawnstar on May 4, 2021 14:43:39 GMT
I don't think she can be their stepmother — there's no King around. So she must be Queen in her own right, otherwise Prince Charming would already be King. Another option would be that she's the regent for Prince Charming, but he'd still be called King, and is clearly over 18 anyway. If he's actually abdicated or is presumed dead, the crown would have gone to Prince Seb. I suppose she could be Queen, who married a man with children and adopted them, but that doesn't seem to fit with conventional fairy tales tropes, and Belleville is all about the fairy tale tropes. Perhaps the King was black and both the Princes are mixed race? (And yes, I'm possibly putting more thought into this than it warrants!) I thought maybe they hadn't announced the casting of a King yet, as they've only just announced Prince Charming.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 4, 2021 13:50:16 GMT
Maybe theatres should have mask-wearing & non-mask-wearing sections of the audience after 21st June. If I dare venture down to London later this summer (which is by no means certain) I would feel more comfortable if I knew I would be sitting next & near to others who like me will choose continue to wear a mask rather than those like Mark who will refuse to do so after 21st June unless forced by law.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 4, 2021 13:44:21 GMT
Looking at the pictures of the Queen and the Princes, I can only assume she's been nipping off to the Fairy Godmother for a bit of 'help'. Either that or she was a teenage mum! Maybe she's only their stepmother? Which would make genetic sense given she's white & both Princes are black. Maybe Cinderella & Prince Sebastian could bond over both having stepmothers they don't get on with.
Given all the publicity a while back about Andy Rees as a Baker character, it's a bit odd to see him credited as a Swing on the website.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 4, 2021 13:38:28 GMT
It's nice to see a reasonable number of actors who aren't straight out of drama school. However I looked at Earl Carpenter & Nic Greenshields in the ensemble while Bradley Jaden is Javert & though hmmmm.....
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 29, 2021 20:39:05 GMT
Quirijn de Lang was excellent in Kiss Me Kate. However I was not enthralled by Stephanie Corley ... acting is not her strongest suit. A pity Jeni Bern, who was Lili Vanessi in ON's first run of KMK & when WNO borrowed the production, hasn't been booked for ALNM as I thought she was better than Stephanie Corley as Lili & can imagine her being good as Desiree. But I still want to try to see it just for Quirijn de Lan, who I've thought excellent in everything I've seen him do (2 runs of Nozze di Figaro, 3 runs of KMK, & The Merry Widow).
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 29, 2021 12:00:54 GMT
The SW and tour runs are separate beasts, with partially different casts. Has there been a cast announcement? The Sadler's Wells website only names Adam Cooper & I'd like to know the rest of the leads at least before deciding whether to go - especially as when I saw it in the WE Cooper was off (& it was one of the few occasions where I've found an understudy unsatisfactory) so I wouldn't have 100% confidence he'd be on if I tried seeing it this summer!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 29, 2021 11:56:48 GMT
A distinct lack of casting info - do many people book ALNM for the Madame Armfeldt? - but the mid-June to mid-July dates make me think I might be able to go after all, as I should have my 2nd jab the first week in July so if I booked for the last week of the run...
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 28, 2021 20:12:33 GMT
And part of what saddens me about that is that means there will be no one in the cast who will ever have worked with Hal Prince. Or Gillian Lynne. Didn't Gillian Lynne come in & work with each new cast until near the end of her life? If I'm remembering that correctly then at least 2 members of cast, Killian Donnelly & Tim Morgan, would have worked with her during their previous stints in Phantom. (In yet another instance of slightly dodgy press release comments, the statement from ALW that "I am thrilled to announce our first entirely new cast" isn't quite accurate given at least 4 people in the new cast have been in Phantom previously.)
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 28, 2021 11:17:51 GMT
I don’t understand your “change is coming?” Have you seen Six? Lion King? Hamilton? Colour blind casting in Les Mis decades ago.
I find it a bit odd that there have been loads of comments on social media about a black actress playing Christine but I haven't seen any comments about an Asian actress playing Carlotta. Surely that is equally diverse? It sometimes seems as though people saying they want more diversity only care about more visibility of black people and not about any other ethnicities.
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