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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 25, 2018 10:17:31 GMT
Well there are just a few tickets left for this if you are quick! Stalls and Dress Circle at only £125 and £75 and Upper Circle at £65 and £50. Unbelievable there is no cast announcements yet. There has to be a HUGE name attached to this to sell the few remaining tickets..... Not sure if you were looking at a paticuliar date but I've just checked a couple of random dates at the beginning of the run and there was loads of availability. So I'm still going to hold out until casting announced. Sarcasm does not translate well does it! LOL
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 24, 2018 23:40:32 GMT
This is the strongest series yet I would say.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 24, 2018 23:18:27 GMT
Well there are just a few tickets left for this if you are quick! Stalls and Dress Circle at only £125 and £75 and Upper Circle at £65 and £50.
Unbelievable there is no cast announcements yet. There has to be a HUGE name attached to this to sell the few remaining tickets.....
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 22, 2018 14:47:25 GMT
Yes, I understand they are actually skating on the tour. I suppose they need to shift tickets....I can't see this crop of celebs selling very many.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 21, 2018 23:50:17 GMT
OK...note to self - to join the millions of other viewers who have stopped watching this show!
The only positive I could say about tonight was that at least all 11 couples skated in 2 hours rather than just 6 in the previous two weeks which just showed how padded out those shows were. So at least there was more content and less padding from the backstage area.
However, it is astonishing that for the money that has no doubt been lavished on the series it manages to look so cheap!
The opening professional skaters routine was completely covered in dry ice so you could not see the skates!
The camera shots seem to miss vital bits of the routines!
It all looks under rehearsed and I am not just talking about the contestants.
T&D are missed on the ice and as they have understandably this telepathy they will agree on everything - so there is no jeopardy in the skate off as to who will leave as they hold the power having the casting vote every week, leaving Jason and Ashley redundant - a major format error.
As ever with these shows it is all about the casting and some of these "celebs" are frankly unlikeable and there is zero chemistry with their pro skating partners.
Such a missed opportunity really for ITV to have its own version of Strictly with the added jeopardy of someone falling over live on TV, but it is so poorly produced.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 16, 2018 19:32:41 GMT
Anthony Cotton - yes the sooner he is voted off the better the show will be too!
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 16, 2018 18:50:12 GMT
Hopefully it will improve further when all the contestants skate in one programme with less padding.
The programme does not need the "backstage" area interviews or the awful "group" dances.
The audience were very unnecessarily noisy and should be told to be quiet! The results were a shambles because of this and the fact that the contestants could not hear the results. It looked shambolic!
Plus of course the programme suffers from not seeing T&D on ice!
SO if any of the producers are reading this and implement the above I will expect payment as executive consultant/director!
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 16, 2018 10:15:22 GMT
The rights to musicals are an issue at Chichester. I think a lot of the musicals they would love to do simply are not available to the theatre especially if they hope for a West End transfer. So West Side Story simply would not be available or Cabaret for example as Bill Kenwright has the rights for the latter. So... I suspect the list of commercial available musicals is a bit thin.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 14, 2018 14:58:17 GMT
I think I read somewhere that Philip Quast said it would be his last musical and that he was returning to Australia?
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 11, 2018 15:39:49 GMT
Oh, nothing. Didn't like him anyway haha. I was devastated - I thought you were hot!!
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 11, 2018 12:04:52 GMT
There was also a man sat in front of me who stank of weed Thank goodness there was a "d" on the end of that. I was once sat next to an elderly woman at Chichester who did indeed smell of wee!
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 8, 2018 22:15:37 GMT
MUST see this again before cast change and then looking forward to seeing the show AGAIN with a new cast!
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 7, 2018 20:03:24 GMT
Hopefully this will improve as the series progresses but tonight it was far too long and padded out just to see six couples skate.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 3, 2018 22:23:52 GMT
Theatre hype is nothing compared to the hype films get. Films have a HUGE marketing budget and barely a week goes by without the stars on all the chat shows plugging their latest release. Lots of positive press articles pandering to the advertising power of the studios. All geared to make you feel that you live in a cave if you have not seen this weeks release. Rarely does a film match the hype.
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 31, 2017 17:48:55 GMT
Highlights 2017 for me
42nd St. Drury Lane On The Town. Regents Park Follies. NT Angels in America. NT King Lear. Chichester Yank. Charing Cross Theatre Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf. Harold Pinter
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 31, 2017 17:41:40 GMT
I assumed Newcastle was the same touring show just put in a 4000 seat arena to make a ton of cash. Did it sell? Joe gave up a lucrative panto this year to do this - so it must have been worth his while?
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 30, 2017 21:28:51 GMT
Yes, I would agree completely with the above. It is one reason why it does not work on TV as well as it does onstage.
Plus the conceit does not work for TV, in that if anything went "wrong" on the TV you would simply do a retake, but on stage it is "live" and the show has to carry on!
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 30, 2017 21:25:06 GMT
I think the key to these stunts though is that there’s no breaking involved. They’re walking through unlocked doors or jumping fences, in other words breaching security and trespassing but not actually breaking in which no doubt puts a different spin on it legally. Entering but not breaking.....where have I heard that before?
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 30, 2017 20:18:59 GMT
A huge fan of The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan in the theatre! Hugely funny.
However, I thought this was dire! Perhaps it simply does not work on TV or that we have seen the jokes before. I am afraid I didn't laugh once! Bah Humbug!
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 29, 2017 16:03:12 GMT
Well of course I LOVED this show.
Stupendous production values and so funny. I barely stopped laughing. Yes, the plot gets lost especially in the second act and it becomes a variety show but hey, it's Christmas and the season of goodwill.
All the "forgotten" lines, corpsing, and prompts well rehearsed and expertly delivered of course. Although I did feel there were some moments when Julian and Elaine seemed tired (12 show weeks!) and did not seem to know what day it was, but of course quickly recovered the pace being the professionals they are.
The Twelve Days of Christmas routine brought the house down only surpassed by Gary Wilmots Underground Station song which received ( rightly) the biggest applause of the night.
Nigel Havers in a bigger part than last year nearly stole the show and was hugely popular with the audience who all seemed to have been last year and were in on the joke.
Very few kids in the audience - which Julian acknowledged with " I really don't know why they let them in!" although the kids will have enjoyed it!
Elaine Paige was a good sport - the lyric re-writes of her "hits" were excellent and her line something like "I'll have Dick in my clutches" brought the house down! Worth the price of admission alone!
I didn't enjoy it quite as much as last year simply because I felt I had seen it all before - last year... the same formula - and in Paul Zerdins case exactly the same act! I feel they need to ring the changes a bit although given the response of the PACKED theatre - why change a winning formula?
Edited to add that the front of house staff at the Palladium were all superb - efficient and very friendly setting the right atmosphere for the show.
I had a lot of teenagers around me - girls and boys who of course were glued to their phones before curtain up - taking selfies, texting and chatting and I thought I was in for a nightmare of picture taking, checking phones and chatting through the performance, but a credit to the show and the performances once the show started the phones went away and they were completely engaged with the show, roaring with laughter and whooping and applauding. It added to the pleasure of the evening!
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 23, 2017 16:46:09 GMT
Now THAT is what I call a backstage tour of the NT.
I found the backstage tour of the NT very disappointing in that it was restricted to the workshops and sitting in the circle of the Olivier! That was it. Nothing "backstage" at all!
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 22, 2017 12:15:44 GMT
The theatre was built before the need for stringent security with so many entrances. The last time I visited the NT (Follies) I was astonished that there were rigorous bag checks at the main entrance but people were ascending the internal staircases from the car park completely unchecked!
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 22, 2017 11:54:08 GMT
They are not going to announce as early as last year then? Probably due to casting and contracts, although I would be surprised if they break with the winning formula of the last two years, by casting one huge star say to play the Wicked Queen in Snow White.
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 20, 2017 10:51:16 GMT
What are you talking about? That's the whole point. It was completely semi-staged. It derived from the Encores! concert book-in-hand production in New York which transferred to Broadway and then to London Yes, I realise it was the point of the production but I always felt it looked cheap to produce especially when the producers are charging full musical theatre prices (and premiums now) when other musicals provide full staging. I feel the same way about actor/musician shows where mostly it is about cutting production costs rather than artistic choices where again full musical theatre prices are charged. I always feel a bit ripped off!
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 19, 2017 23:24:36 GMT
It is a great musical but I was never a fan of this production. I always thought it was semi-staged before that became in vogue. I called it almost a staged concert version even with the superb Ute Lemper and Ruthie Henshall in the original Adelphi revival cast! Band on stage, stairs, black portals.
For those prices I would expect Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger! Perhaps they are lining up a big name? But if it is some ex-soap star then it will have to be heavily discounted. Perhaps they will cast the lovely Debbie McGee!!
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