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Post by greenice on Sept 9, 2022 14:45:50 GMT
Fans furious that the social media team doesn't understand what they believe is the point of the show. A rebellion against an entirely different type of monarch and regime in another country nearly 200 years ago? I'm amazed the Les Mis team caved in to the sort of vile people who yesterday tweeted stuff like this to them (offensive comment behind spoiler brackets) I hope the queen rots in the fiery depths of hell. but it looks like they have. Exactly, those fans don't really understand Les Miserables or appreciate its depth if they think a point being made in that part of the story is constitutional monarchy bad, republic good. However it does illustrate twitter in a nutshell.
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Post by greenice on Jan 16, 2022 16:49:31 GMT
This will be a very popular move, definitely coming out now as a distraction but in fairness it was mentioned in the run up to the 2019 election. The licence fee is effectively an outdated, regressive tax with the heaviest burden on those with the lowest incomes, everyone being basically forced to pay (or face being harassed by licence enforcement and eventually criminal proceedings) regardless of whether they use any BBC services or not.
This was probably always coming but the BBC have accelerated it in my view with various issues, for example, off the top of my head: middle aged women being forced to retire whilst men go on for much longer, the general lack of political diversity in their recruitment (admitted at different times by Andrew Marr and John Humphrys), fake footage of the queen, the hounding of Cliff Richard and the big one, Savile.
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Post by greenice on Oct 11, 2021 9:16:22 GMT
I'm honestly not bothered about hybrid working or WFH. The workplace has always evolved to suit the times and trying to force people to go back to the office full time is not going to work. Quite, even before the pandemic, in my area of the public sector, organisations have been in offices with maximum desk space on any one day for around 65% of their total work force. In practice this meant that some people were in 3 days a week, others all the time and a third group hardly at all, depending on circumstances.
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Post by greenice on Jan 19, 2021 13:51:57 GMT
dreamt of electric
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Post by greenice on Jan 18, 2021 20:30:23 GMT
presented an award
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Post by greenice on Jan 15, 2021 5:20:20 GMT
of Rentaghost, starring
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Post by greenice on Jan 14, 2021 9:54:07 GMT
, Donovan left in
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Post by greenice on Jan 13, 2021 20:56:02 GMT
Royal Albert Hall
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Post by greenice on Jan 13, 2021 9:12:32 GMT
started to sing
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Post by greenice on Jan 12, 2021 21:33:05 GMT
controversial views on
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Post by greenice on Jan 11, 2021 15:24:45 GMT
announced a collaboration
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Post by greenice on Jan 7, 2021 21:08:37 GMT
Russell Brand and
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Post by greenice on Jan 7, 2021 20:10:52 GMT
he had time
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Post by greenice on Jan 7, 2021 15:21:07 GMT
Of their holiday
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Post by greenice on Jan 6, 2021 9:04:02 GMT
William Shatner was
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Post by greenice on Aug 2, 2019 8:23:34 GMT
There's a few interesting things about that result:
UKIP in last place behind the Loony Party. Despite all the disarray and chaos, the Tories could conceivably have won with a fresh candidate. Labour only just retains its deposit. Brexit party takes votes from both Labour and Tories.
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Post by greenice on Jun 28, 2019 13:14:36 GMT
Eponine's scream in Les Mis.
As others have said, the title track in Phantom and the cadenza too I think.
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Post by greenice on May 11, 2018 4:45:33 GMT
The Christmas Truce (RSC) showed a bit of this I think and the more plegmatic attitude of experienced soldiers.
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Post by greenice on May 23, 2017 15:40:17 GMT
He had class. There's a nice story about him dropping everything and driving through the night when David Niven died to go and help his daughter with the arrangements.
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Post by greenice on Apr 27, 2017 21:05:28 GMT
Can't stand it, not what I go to the theatre for. Instead of relaxing and losing myself in the performance I spend the whole time stressed about it. Theatres should make clear it's involved when selling tickets. The only time I left before the interval, shortly after the beginning actually, was at the rsc when Rufus Hound started going through his audience participation routine.
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Post by greenice on Apr 25, 2017 15:44:57 GMT
I've always bought the cheapest tickets they do, the rv ones are fine as are the those up in the circles. In my experience the rv means you might have to move your head either side of a thin pillar to follow the action. The advantage of the cheap seats is that if the production's a bit of a dud you can leave at the interval with not much lost.
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Post by greenice on Apr 22, 2017 11:37:55 GMT
I don't think "wings" come into it as much as "heritage". Liverpool gave us the most left wing socialist in Derek Hatton, but his popularity didn't spread far beyond the boundary of Merseyside. People I talk to see the Labour party as more concerned with international matters rather than the goings on in say Leeds or Salford (more widely,the old industrial heartlands). Tony Blair I am reminded was not so popular up here, because he tried to move Labour to what was supposed to be the aspirations of the new Labour voter. Those aspirations were more real in London than (say) St. Helens where industry was closing down left, right and centre. Whilst the south east prospered, the north got left behind and Labour appeared to concentrate it's activities down there. Just my opinion from talking to people, I ain't no Gallop pollster though! I think that's true but the people of St Helens still repeatedly elected Shaun Woodward with a large share of the vote. He was the Tory defector from a safe seat in Oxfordshire. He reportedly had a butler, was married to a Sainsbury heiress and claimed the maximum second home allowance and some other really petty expenses (i.e. Private Eye delivered), despite being one of the richest men in the house of commons.
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Post by greenice on Jan 22, 2017 13:28:28 GMT
All of the public sector employment pension schemes still provide excellent value for money, even after the recent changes. The contribution rate in some of the schemes is undoubtedly high, however it would be very difficult if not impossible to achieve the same benefits independently with the same monthly payments placed elsewhere. All of the investment risk is yours, as is the cost of inflation proofing, and the scheme also provides protection pre retirement; ill health and death benefits.
Even if you are fortunate enough to achieve very good growth every year, the £1M lifetime allowance on pension funds would cap retirement income at well below the level a doctor with around 40 years of service could expect from the scheme.
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Post by greenice on Jun 2, 2016 15:27:30 GMT
I would disagree on Les Miserables actually. Yes, the book is too long with too much philosophical waffle, but some things are so rushed in the musical, that they make very little sense. Until this very day, I never got the attempted blackmail by Thenarder with the ring at the wedding. I also like the tough Eponine of the book much more than the dippy whiny chicklet from the musical created to tug at people's heartstrings (uh oh, I can sense the firing squad getting ready for me). I would add that Marius/Cosette makes sense in the book, in the show the love story is very quick. The Who am I sequence is probably my favourite section both versions, the book naturally enough is a lot deeper with more temptations/obstacles for jvj to overcome.
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Post by greenice on May 28, 2016 6:16:21 GMT
Fair point, but once she sees past that and realises that he is completely useless there'll be trouble!!! The Christine as bait plan could be seen as Raoul primarily protecting his investment in the theatre. It was a bit ineffective anyway, could have just sent the mob down after the Phantom in the first place. I've always thought of him as a shallow Prince Charming, Love Never Dies Raoul is a lot more interesting imo.
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Post by greenice on May 4, 2016 16:08:05 GMT
Does anyone know if Sheridan Smith has any confirmed holiday dates for this show please? No holiday dates, she is scheduled to be on at every performance bar illness or emergencies (like the Meiner with her father etc...) Thank you.
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Post by greenice on May 4, 2016 16:01:52 GMT
Does anyone know if Sheridan Smith has any confirmed holiday dates for this show please?
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Post by greenice on May 4, 2016 15:56:21 GMT
I haven't see The End Of Longing so don't know how inappropriate the language would be for a 4 year old but if it's very inappropriate then the fact that none of them spoke English was probably a good thing! The thing has a "no under 15s" warning on it, a lot of swearing, one bare posterior (male), a hooker and a drunk... real family stuff... not LOL.
They got let in because nobody could communicate with them, really, I'm told. Rather more than a posterior in the show I saw.
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Post by greenice on Apr 13, 2016 15:59:57 GMT
Thenardier used to punch Eponine in the face after her scream, she'd come out in after the interval with a bruise. I guess it was cut to make him more of a lovable rogue.
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Post by greenice on Feb 20, 2016 13:40:30 GMT
In my experience a lot of theatre gents toilets have 1 basin and dryer for around 5 toilets, cubicles and urinals. Doesn't sound a lot but it seems to work, maybe because about that proportion of guys actually wash their hands afterwards.
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