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Post by jess173 on Oct 5, 2016 7:45:24 GMT
These pictures are so weird... Is there more to the set than a table and 3 chairs? I would have expected a bit more for the price they are charging... And Kerry looks so out of place. Her outfit and hairstyle are way too tame for the character of Sarah...
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Post by jess173 on Sept 30, 2016 6:48:16 GMT
So sad to hear that. I loved her! May she rest in peace.
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Post by jess173 on Sept 12, 2016 11:59:08 GMT
I never left at intermission, but I was tempted a couple of times. I really wanted to leave at Once and A Gentlemans Guide to Love and Murder. I stayed for both in hope something good might happen in the second half... It never did.
And I once saw a German production called "Der Schuh des Manitu". This was so horrible but I could not leave because I got the tickets for my birthday and the person that gave them to me was with me that night. So it would have been very rude in several ways...
I had to dash from wicked once because they had a technical problem with the set and there was an extra break because of that. The show ran late and I had to catch my train so I had to run for the exit right after the last note...
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Post by jess173 on Sept 11, 2016 10:19:16 GMT
I was at American Idiot yesterday and a family with two kids was sitting behind me. The teenage son was fast asleep in his seat right until the show started. He looked as if he was really bored (or just tired?) but it turned out that he was a huge fan once the show started. He started singing along instantly. I know it is a loud show, but he was singing so loud, I could hear him over the actors. I glared at him several times but that did not seem to help. He was also singing at the quieter parts and even singing along to the female actors. Then he started to explain the plot to his younger sister - talking loudly during quiet scenes. At this point I shushed him. That shut up the explaining but not the singing. The parents were just sitting there, doing nothing. In one very quiet scene the dad fiddled with his watch, clicking it open and closing it again several times. They were in the third row and clearly visible from the stage... It was really annoying...
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Post by jess173 on Sept 3, 2016 17:28:29 GMT
Seriously? Is this a real recording of the show? What were the producers thinking? It is so incredibly bad. Dear god...
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Post by jess173 on Jun 17, 2016 19:45:21 GMT
Yes, they had a bar and a pool table in the centre as you can see on those pictures. The bar was fully functional. Some audience members would sit at the tables at the bar and the actors would act around them, climbing the tables or coming into or out of the audiences on the side. It was pretty cool. I've sat on both sides of the centre "stage" but never at the tables though... I'm pretty curious how they are going to do this at the arts. There is no set besides the bar and the pool table. So the stage will look pretty empty if the don't change something...
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Post by jess173 on May 15, 2016 22:26:33 GMT
Many years ago I had tickets to see Wicked. Before the show we did some sightseeing and I wanted to take some pictures of the Tower. It was already dark outside and while I was busy looking at my camera I walked straight into one of those stone benches in front of it. I badly bruised my knee but there was no way I was going to see a doctor and miss the show... I sat through the show and my knee kept swelling. When I got to the hotel I could hardly put down my pants. I went to the doctor the next day. The knee was twice its original size and deep blue but nothing was fractured... Thank god... ^^ And one time I was at Joseph in the Netherlands. I was sitting front row and my phone started ringing. I did not realise that it was my phone because I was 100% positive that I had put it on silent mode before the show. This was actually true. But if you set your phone on silent mode it doesn't mean the alarm is put on silent mode as well. It was in fact my phone and an alarm I had set the day before, accidentally putting it on repeat. It took me probably more than a minute to realise that. The cast and several audience members gave me mean looks. It was so embarrassing...
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Post by jess173 on Apr 3, 2016 21:39:13 GMT
That performance was dreadful... -.- Why was she singing it alone? This song is a duet.
I saw murder ballad twice in New York with Caissie Levy and Will Swenson. I really liked it back then but I'm really not sure about Kerry in the lead...
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Post by jess173 on Mar 11, 2016 7:12:02 GMT
Cats - That was just horrible. Every single cat got to sing a song and then it was over. No thanks...
A gentleman's guide to love and murder - I wish I had listened to the music before I went and got tickets to that. Everyone around me was apparently loving it and people were laughing their asses off. I thought the music was horrible and the jokes were just lame and unfunny. I could have seen Hedwig with NPH for a second time but I chose to see this. Big mistake...
Once - This was the most boring thing I have ever seen. Everyone raved about it and we couldn't get rush seats so we paid a lot for those tickets just to see it. It was definitely not worth it. I nearly dozed off several times...
And finally Hamilton - This is a matter of taste I guess but I absolutely don't get all the hype. The lyrics are quite clever but the music is simply not my cup of tea. I never really liked rap music but I decided to give this a go because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. For me this show just dragged on and on. Definitely not worth paying hundreds of dollars for it like most people do nowadays.
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Post by jess173 on Feb 28, 2016 9:17:31 GMT
Sleeping during performances happened to me before. The first time this happened was at a performance of My Fair Lady. I had to get up early and had an exam at university so I was super tired in the evening and the show was so long it seemed to go on forever. I dozed off in the second act. I just couldn't help it. And I had serious problems at a performance of Hedda Gabler in London once. I really liked it, it was interesting and all, but it was so hard to keep my eyes open. I managed not to doze off, but it was hard work. I never was in the front row though, so no one noticed...
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Post by jess173 on Feb 28, 2016 8:47:13 GMT
Aladdin's flying carpet on Broadway is really impressive. Still not figured out how it's done. I saw an excellent flying carpet effect in a panto, and I worked out that it was done with an extending arm from the stage coupled with an extremely tight followspot and a wider ultraviolet light. The flying carpet on Broadway is extremely impressive, especially when they are flying in front of the moon and you can't see a thing. I looked it up on the Internet. It's done in the same way David Copperfield did his flying. There's a patent for it. I really like all the effects from Ghost. I have figured out most of them but I still haven't figured out the folding letter in Molly's hand. I saw it malfunctioning once but I still don't know how it's done...
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Post by jess173 on Feb 19, 2016 15:03:27 GMT
Then in the evening at Phantom of the Opera the woman in front of me started off watching the show whilst wearing a bobble hat which she luckily took off after about 5 minutes, unfortunately she then started leaning forward, at one point she was almost out of her seat! I put up with it for a little while but I'd had enough by the dressing room scene so tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to stop which to give her her due she did. However in the row behind were some foreign people who talked and rustled all the way through the first act. They started to do it again in the 2nd act and I was thinking about saying something when the lady next to me turned round and said "will you be quiet!". That seemed to do the trick :-) That show really does attract the worst audiences, my friend had a similar experience the previous week. Oh it definitely does... I saw the show just before New Year's Eve last year and it was horrible. There was a couple in front of me. The guy was very tall and kept leaning forward, almost blocking my entire view. I tried tapping him on the shoulder several times but he kept ignoring me. His girlfriend brought a bag of Maltesers and of course always decided to open and rustle it during the quietest scenes. She also brought a big bottle of water. She raised the bottle almost vertically to drink, blocking even more view and then closed the lid, only to open it again after 5 seconds to take another sip. She repeated that about 10 times... Plus she was taking pictures with her phone during the show. Sometimes they would lean together to snuggle and I really liked that as I was finally able to see... ^^° Next to me was a guy who was conducting along and singing the lyrics to all the songs of the Phantom. I glared at him every time he started singing and he stopped, but only until the next song. The woman next to him left at the interval (coincidence?) and he moved further away from me, which was a relieve. Then there were two girls behind me. They arrived late but brought a pack of Maltesers. Maltesers everywhere!!! -.- They rustled through the show and had to get up several times to leave the auditorium. They always let their seats bang upwards and let the door fall to the lock instead of holding it and shutting it quietly... And there were several people with colds in the audience which always started coughing at the same time or shortly after each other... This was the most horrible audience I have ever experienced. Thank god I had seen Phantom before. I was not able to enjoy the show even one bit that evening...
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Post by jess173 on Feb 13, 2016 11:56:33 GMT
I saw this tour in Amsterdam and Liverpool and saw Jason Donovan both times. I really don't like him in the role. He didn't hit the notes (especially the low ones sounded horrible) and his voice sounded hoarse in Liverpool. Plus he over acted like hell... But the audience seemed to love him. Oh well... I'm going to see it again in Bristol and Duncan James is scheduled for those dates. I'm really looking forward to seeing him. It can only get better, right? However I love the show. And I like this tour a lot more than the last one, as the bus looks so much better and the old west end songs are back. Can't wait to see it again.
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