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Post by Baemax on Oct 8, 2019 9:13:57 GMT
Transwomen do use women's facilities, and transmen do use men's facilities, but not all trans people "look right". Even cisgender women can be made to feel unwelcome by other toilet users if they don't look feminine enough, a transwoman who has only recently transitioned or who looks more butch than femme may already be anxious enough about using the toilet without all the recent anti-trans rhetoric making it feel like it's pretty much a sure thing that they'll be challenged with a "do you even BELONG here" when all they want is to pee in peace. That's why in some ways it makes more sense to have trans-inclusive signs on the toilets than gender neutral; it says "this is a women's facility and this is a men's facility", but it also says "and don't worry if it's a little more complicated than that for you, the staff will have your back if anyone decides to complain about your presence".
And two tiny points: TERFs are VERY concerned about transwomen, because TERFs are disgusting bigots who weirdly don't seem to have any opinions about men at all, and also there are (not many, but they DO exist) non-binary people who won't feel comfortable in either women's or men's toilets, hence gender neutrality.
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Post by Baemax on Oct 8, 2019 9:00:30 GMT
Which doesn't even work; kids aren't dumb, when they can see that *everyone* is being praised no matter how well they're actually achieving, praise becomes meaningless, and we've ended up with at least one generation of kids who simply will not trust you if you tell them they're doing great unless you've already proven yourself trustworthy and can back up your claim with evidence.
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Post by Baemax on Oct 7, 2019 11:00:39 GMT
Bearing in mind that the IMDb publishes information provided by members of the public, so that could easily be a "helpful" random person who's just copied the song list from the stage show and pasted it for the movie without actually having the insider knowledge that would render their song list legitimate.
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Post by Baemax on Oct 7, 2019 9:11:01 GMT
It's one I found way more satisfying to perform in than to watch. There's such a lot going on that it's easier to get the hang of who the characters are and what they're up to if you're experiencing it over a period of weeks rather than hours, but as you say, it's a play that clearly knows how it all works, so being an amdram society putting on a play about an amdram society just brings extra layers of enjoyment. It's almost unnerving just how recognisable it all is!
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Post by Baemax on Oct 7, 2019 9:06:00 GMT
Side on can be quite good at the Rose Kingston. If it's a particularly fussy set then you might lose things on the side of the stage nearest to you, but if the set is quite open and the action is mostly downstage, then you can find you've got yourself a proper bargain. And with the auditorium and stage being the shape that they are, sometimes you don't even feel that side on even if you're right in the very highest/lowest numbers. You should find it pretty satisfactory for Six!
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Post by Baemax on Oct 7, 2019 9:00:22 GMT
Jason Manford and Ore Oduba in a dusty old unknown musical would be a runaway hit,not that it’s ever going to happen... Is 12 years old "old" for a musical...?
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Post by Baemax on Oct 7, 2019 8:08:54 GMT
A Chorus Of Disapproval.
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Post by Baemax on Oct 1, 2019 9:40:54 GMT
I see they've cast Luke Bayer and Millie O'Connell, which to be honest sounds like a GENIUS combo to attract a pretty decent-sized crowd!
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Post by Baemax on Sept 30, 2019 8:55:46 GMT
Pre-emptively putting the full price tickets up to an even higher cost to compensate for the cheaper tickets we're all going to be fighting over when the deals and/or day seats and/or rush tickets start to appear nearer the time.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 27, 2019 8:15:15 GMT
In other competitive cooking shows, you can usually make a fairly educated guess as to who's going home that night based on how much footage there is of them. "Oh, Nathan's struggling today, and we've seen a LOT of him this episode, I guess his time is up". Something about the last couple of weeks of eliminations (this week's were a travesty) makes me think the producers are trying to subvert that trope, but in trying to make it less predictable who's going home based on how much we've seen of them, we're now in a space where the elimination decisions seem to come out of nowhere. There has to be a middle ground; I get you don't want to make it obvious, but at the moment it just looks unwarranted. We should at least be able to reply with "yes, that's fair" when they announce who's going home, rather than a rousing "are you KIDDING but [other person] did SO MUCH WORSE, what an insane decision!".
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Post by Baemax on Sept 27, 2019 7:18:09 GMT
The Barbican were being very strict on "you may only take one bag into the auditorium" last time I turned up there with a tote bag and a handbag. I rearranged the contents of the tote bag, put the handbag inside it, and they were happy to let me in.
When I take cushions into the NT, I have been known to squish it between my arm and stomach as much as possible with a jacket draped over the top so it hopefully looks like I'm only carrying the jacket (and maybe a few extra pounds around the middle). It would be phenomenally pointless to carry a cushion all the way into London in an attempt to make Lyttelton seating bearable only to have to leave it in the cloakroom because I am absolutely not going to leave my handbag in the cloakroom in order to meet the "one item of hand baggage only" requirement. It probably wouldn't be impossible to do the same for a single bag that shouldn't be an issue but the ushers take against for some reason (for example, if you use a small backpack as your only bag, and sizewise it's fine, but the mere fact of it being a backpack sets off their warning radar).
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Post by Baemax on Sept 26, 2019 10:03:54 GMT
I... I don't think a successful bluegrass career (five studio albums, regular tours, a live album, at least two Grammy awards), composing a Broadway musical and writing a Broadway play count as "much of note" somehow.........
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Post by Baemax on Sept 26, 2019 9:41:14 GMT
Somewhere else. If you're sat behind only one pillar and the staging is relatively central, then you can sometimes lose as little as absolutely nothing at all. There is only one seat that is so consistently fantastic though, and I'd hate the box office to realise what an unwarranted bargain it is, so I'm going to take you up on your implicit invitation to keep precise details secret.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 26, 2019 9:29:32 GMT
I wasn't sure if I wanted to see it but my favourite "restricted" £10 ticket was available for a decent-looking date so I'll give it a bash.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 25, 2019 8:06:20 GMT
Went into the queue at number 60, only moved 30 places since. Is the website just having a wee breakdown today, or...?
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Post by Baemax on Sept 25, 2019 7:54:28 GMT
You've got an onscreen clock? Well I guess if they're not going to let anyone buy anything until 10am, at least that explains why I haven't managed to get myself put in an online queue yet.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 23, 2019 8:13:18 GMT
First preview, second preview is tonight. Agree it's excellent though, also quite impressive how it managed to end on such a hopeful note, all things considered.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 16, 2019 11:47:09 GMT
Very much depends on the beanbags. If they've got any sense, they'll be densely packed and inflexible like the ones for My Mum's A Tw*t at the Royal Court (which were just like sitting on a stool, perfectly acceptable with the short running time) and not the big loose nightmares from my childhood that wouldn't hold a shape if you paid it and made a constant rustling noise the entire time you were sat on them.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 16, 2019 8:27:51 GMT
Well, I needed a laugh to perk me up on this grey Monday morning, and the pricing for this production has more than sorted me out on that front. It's a good thing I neither rate Jamie Lloyd that highly nor have any special need to see James McAvoy on stage again.....
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Post by Baemax on Sept 13, 2019 15:14:29 GMT
Welcome @forrest good to get some new enthusiastic musings on the board. Thank you! I most certainly don't lack the enthusiasm, but am nowhere near the theatre expert most people on here seem to be. Will try to keep up! There aren't as many experts as it might appear, there's definitely a reasonable number of people who just speak really confidently. Enthusiasm is always welcome though!
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Post by Baemax on Sept 9, 2019 7:22:22 GMT
I suppose it depends on the audience to whom the trailer is played. I can't imagine the audience of "The Lego Movie" or "Fast and Furious" queuing to see Downton, but there will be an audience and I'll be amongst it. You're going to be mindblown when you find out that people can like multiple things that are all very different from each other. My family loved The Lego Movie, spent some time in the Fast And Furious movieverse this summer, and the only reason we won't be queuing for Downton is because we'll book our tickets online and sneak in supermarket snacks, which bypasses most of the need to stand in a line.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 5, 2019 9:58:25 GMT
Thanks both, I feel reassured.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 5, 2019 8:24:56 GMT
Is the seating configuration very equitable? You say there's a circle, is it just a single row and there's no clear "front", as it were? I hate queuing for the Upstairs space at the Royal Court, but I booked this one based on having enjoyed Tim Crouch's work before, so it would be a huge relief if all seats were basically equal and I could join the queue further back than usual, where the fights and queue-jumping don't take place.
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Post by Baemax on Sept 3, 2019 13:50:30 GMT
Are you guys just acting incredibly shifty and self-conscious when you go to the theatre alone or something? I rarely go with anyone, and the only strange looks I've ever had from other audience members have been when I've laughed at niche jokes or accidentally kicked them. It's like restaurants, just because you feel weird and as though you're sticking out like a big lonely sore thumb doesn't mean anyone else is actually paying you any attention. Just focus on enjoying the shows and stop worrying about what other people might be (but almost certainly aren't) thinking!
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Post by Baemax on Sept 3, 2019 8:21:00 GMT
The announcement is coming, though if you want to know today, then this isn't exactly the most challenging puzzle I've ever had to solve.
They should really sort out their lead times though, it's less than seven weeks until 19th October, and people like me who like to book all their theatre as soon as seasons go on sale because that's a good way to get the most reliable cheap tickets will have had their October/November theatre slots booked up for probably months now. We'd be way more likely to go if they'd announce a season and give us time to sort it, dropping the info mere weeks in advance just ain't helpful for the forward planner.
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Post by Baemax on Aug 30, 2019 11:06:44 GMT
Please stuff it full of recent grads who are bright as buttons, but obviously use some fantastic known MT names for the older characters. This could be a really great production.
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Post by Baemax on Aug 29, 2019 12:33:26 GMT
Elimination decisions are based solely on the Showstopper round so no, not really "end of", saying that someone should have been eliminated for how they did on the previous day...
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Post by Baemax on Aug 28, 2019 12:41:15 GMT
For what it's worth, I think they'd probably rather spring for a new set of wigs than limit themselves to actresses who already have Rosalie Craig's hair.....
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Post by Baemax on Aug 28, 2019 10:30:47 GMT
The Welsh one is Michelle. Are we all aware that Michael works for the RSC, just in case anyone wanted a theatre link for this year? (And that's not a secret, they've been very proud of him all over the official RSC Twitter feed.)
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Post by Baemax on Aug 28, 2019 10:28:47 GMT
If it helps any, I've not seen the play but putting together the clues of one of the Mr Men having a name that these days carries negative racial connotations, I am confident I have worked out what word you're all talking about. Mid-thirties, if you're trying to put age brackets on whether people know of this word as being used in a racist manner or not.
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