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Post by partytentdown on Mar 27, 2019 15:56:35 GMT
I found this intriguing... Anyone know what happened?
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 27, 2019 15:08:33 GMT
Explained to my dancer daughter what this awful show is about.Her response to para-phrase it was that watching two and a half hours of office politics set to music sounded like a crashing bore! I breathed a sigh of relief that she didn’t want to see it and complimented her on such good taste. Your family get-togethers must be a riot.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 23, 2019 17:20:42 GMT
Can anyone be bothered to go back through this thread and calculate the % of correct predictions?
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 22, 2019 21:24:37 GMT
Genuine question, related to theatre actually, all the footage of them doling out the parts for the musical - is that all fake? Cos presumably they need to have the right costumes, wigs etc ready. That magnificent Oprah get-up was definitely specifically sized for Silky.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 22, 2019 17:03:15 GMT
Can't say I agree with the winner of this week's episode - I don't think she was the stand out of the bunch. But the standard was higher than I expected overall The big shock was which previous queen was cast as Trump in the Rusical. I really couldn't work it out - and still can't just by looking at her. Untucked - I skipped quite a lot of it - just rehashing old ground over and over gets dull. Good for Scarlet for refusing to buy into Yvie's stirring. It's Ginger Minj, there was a name caption briefly
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 22, 2019 16:33:51 GMT
Overheard someone referring multiple times to this as 'Jesus Hopped on a Train' which sounds quite jolly.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 21, 2019 13:02:49 GMT
Thanks for that partytentdown. Others had used tags before, and it would have been nice not to know. Put in tags now. Please think of others, people, as many of us don't want anything given away before we see something. Thanks. Oh I'm really sorry, genuine mistake. Apologies...
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 21, 2019 0:08:59 GMT
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 20, 2019 23:28:11 GMT
I sat in Row A for this and the view was great. Ticket said restricted view but no idea why. Stage was pretty much eye level and everything happens in view. So close I could smell the new carpet smell!
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 19, 2019 20:21:11 GMT
When this was on at the Brum Rep, there was an accompanying immersive theatre type ‘show’ called Seance,outside the theatre in a shipping container (yes, really!).A colleague of mine went to experience it.It cost him £8 for 15 minutes in the truck and he said that it was dreadful.He said it mainly consisted of sitting in the dark and listening to strange noises through headphones.Scariest thing I have ever seen on stage has to be ‘The Woman In Black’ at the very atmospheric Fortune Theatre in London.As scary as Susan Hill’s source novel and so much better than the inept and frankly silly movie of the same name. Seance was at the Vault Festival in Waterloo this month.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 19, 2019 20:08:55 GMT
brought over intact from Steppenwolf in Chicago with at least four members of the original cast. They and their English colleagues are all superb. This is powerful theatre, deeply provocative and disturbing theatre. And isn't that what we want?
Interestingly, I believe it's exactly the same cast. They cast it equally between US and American actors to reflect the co-production nature of the show, coincidentally this ended up meaning all the males are American and all the females are British.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 19, 2019 8:32:00 GMT
My only hope based on this new trailer is that they are slightly hinting Cassie will be Elsa. I know that's reading too much into it, but a boy can dream. 😂 Where's the hint?
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 19, 2019 8:00:03 GMT
I find it slightly ridiculous that they're starting to build hype for a show that's not opening until late 2020 when some West End theatres haven't even announced their programming for the rest of this year yet. Why's it ridiculous? They've got shed loads of tickets to sell!
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 19, 2019 7:59:33 GMT
OH MY GOSH THIS IS NEW INFORMATION
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 17, 2019 18:50:47 GMT
'and once a year we have our party day!'
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 17, 2019 8:18:18 GMT
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 16, 2019 15:04:28 GMT
Me too. For the purposes of future avoidance of her work. Oh no, don't do that! This one is a dud for sure but her 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' on Broadway was just one of the most thrilling things! Also, I hated this but adored Hadestown.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 15, 2019 23:54:43 GMT
That was dreadful. What on earth?
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 12, 2019 8:00:29 GMT
Picking holes in the words used in posts is nothing to do with Les Mis. There are some posters here who are trying to damage this message board by driving away posters. If you don't like being called out for using language that others don't like, don't use it in the first place. Have you considered that it might be that that's driving people away? I can go into more detail about why the word 'Snowflake' is not appropriate but I'd hate to be accused of being 'horrible' again. I get you probably weren't being intentionally rude but I'm afraid I'm stubborn and I made it my New Year's Resolution to call out people saying things that aren't right. If we all did that we'd be a tiny bit of a better world.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 10, 2019 12:51:35 GMT
I agree! Sweeping generalisation and rude to that generation. Also strongly associated with racists and those who think being angry about a discriminatory society and flawed democracy, or daring to be offended by hate speech, makes you a 'snow flake'. We shouldn't use it here.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 10, 2019 9:35:24 GMT
the snow-flake generation I despise this phrase.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 8, 2019 12:49:02 GMT
Even not knowing what her performance will be like in comparison to Caroline, it must have cost them a huge amount just in terms of extra rehearsals, flights, accommodation etc.
Might have been a simpler decision just to carry on as they are.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 7, 2019 13:41:18 GMT
Louise still due to return this month, according to their Instagram
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 5, 2019 8:26:39 GMT
I’m led to belive he favours a trainer liner; 5 for £1.99 off of Primark. They don’t really wash but at that price who cares? Either way he is doing an awfully large amount to get new musical writing seen and heard in this country. Sure, his social media skills and the accuracy of what he puts out sometimes show him up, but I don’t see the need to attack him? Attack him?! Are you serious?
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 5, 2019 7:19:08 GMT
Being blocked by Paul Taylor-Mills on Twitter (life goals ✌) for saying Heathers winning the WOS Award was a joke without tagging the show, cast or him and him seeing it because all the fangirls came for me. 😂😂 There's something about that man and his lack of socks
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 4, 2019 13:45:36 GMT
But presumably they know well in advance who's won each award. Irregardless, she was unable to enter the venue as a nominee via the red carpet and had to go in a side entrance. The point being made is that no nominee (or attendee) should be sidelined due to access requirements. Oh I totally agree it's awful and agree she shouldn't have had to use a side entrance, I imagine the organisers didn't think beyond how wheelchair users usually get in to the theatre. But presumably if they'd known she was going to win they would have made more of an effort to find a way to get her on stage. You'd think this wouldn't really be a problem these days!
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 4, 2019 12:58:11 GMT
How can things like this not be considered in 2019? Outrageous. Apparently if she had won the award she was nominated for they would have brought the microphone down to her as she wouldn't have been able to get onto the stage. They have now apologised. Also well done to Don Warrington who I presume arrived with Nickie Miles-Wildin (they were both nominated for Death of a Salesman at the Royal Exchange) and refused to go down the red carpet as it wasn't accessible to her. But presumably they know well in advance who's won each award.
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 4, 2019 8:48:02 GMT
Last night at the What's On Stage Awards a lady got a real lesson in phone/theatre etiquette from host Vicky Vox! Rest of audience didn't know whether to applaud or sink into their seats!
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 4, 2019 8:43:08 GMT
Have we worked out who was the person at the receiving end of Vicky Vox's phone rant yet?!
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Post by partytentdown on Mar 4, 2019 8:31:50 GMT
Remember it's also a money making exercise for the company, and they do sell tickets, so broadcasting it online at a decent enough quality would probably cost too much.
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