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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 27, 2018 15:12:31 GMT
And I'm seeing Fun Home on Friday, so if I get tickets for Saturday, I could think of it as my Steve recommends weekend. It is good. As some have said, the performance is probably better than the piece.
We went to see it last Saturday at 5.30, with Fun Home at 7.30 and a visit for some food in between at Cubana across from the Old Vic - which made quite a nice evening out with a relatively early finish.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 26, 2018 17:12:31 GMT
At an entrance to Regent’s Park. Woman looking at the park map. Her 4 year old is prodding it with her finger. “It won’t change. It’s not an iPad”, she tells her.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 25, 2018 16:50:50 GMT
£10 tickets available for the front row in the stalls and the back row of the grand circle. BARGIN!! Thanks for this - all booked!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 25, 2018 16:00:16 GMT
I've just been asked to complete a survey by the publisher through which I published a book recently (an imprint of Bloomsbury). There's lots of scoring questions. Oddly for all questions, a score of 1 is the best score, but a score of 10 is worst. This seems opposite to all other surveys that I recall (e.g. those from theatres seeking feedback on your visit). It feels odd filling it in!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 14, 2018 9:48:55 GMT
Why do you think I always ask for my tickets to be held at the box office? It's still on me to get there, but at least I'm clear as long as I remember my own name... Although, i’ve already managed to go twice to the box office on the wrong day his year... That’s familiar. Both last year and this year I’ve turned up a week early for shows.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 11, 2018 17:06:47 GMT
The Railway Children and In the Heights ran 2 years and 1 year respectively at the King's Cross Theatre as well as the Donmar King's Cross season and Lazarus so there's an appetite for a permanent venue in the area. I saw a production of Peer Gynt at The Place once which is in that area - normally a dance venue I think. Yes, I thought it was all dance there, so interesting to read that (I'm heading along there soon). Also in the area is the Platform Theatre at the back of St Martin's College, so very close to the proposed new theatre. Not a lot goes on at the Platform, though, and I'm yet to visit it.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 10, 2018 20:07:16 GMT
Watching new series of Poldark. Aidan Turner had his shirt off after about 0.00245 seconds. Is this a record?
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 9, 2018 19:25:02 GMT
Mmm... Follow the smokers, eh? Not sure this is the message on Healthy Eating we should be spreading but still... Some serious moobs
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 8, 2018 12:19:35 GMT
I went for the Thurs matinee. I quite enjoyed this. Of course the subject matter is unpleasant, but then if you want happy stories, life would be rather limited (incidentally I then trundled on to The Sleeping Beauty at the Coliseum for a sweet story with a lovely ending!!).
I sat in Box D. I've never been there before and would not recommend it (for anything) - right at the back, side view and neck craning!). Fortunately, the theatre was about half full. A few had seats in the back row of the stalls and FOH went and moved them all up. When a couple of us from the Box asked to be moved up we were told that, unlike the stalls seats, they could not official do it with box seats, but we could move anyway. I've no idea what in the system causes such a distinction, but it didn't make a difference. In the end, the last real row with anyone in it was Row M (and there were a few free seats in front of that).
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 8, 2018 12:12:13 GMT
When we went to see Cabaret at the Savoy and Will Young was ill, I'm sure the box office were handing out refunds or replacements as there were a lot of disgruntled customers. We just went for the show, so didn't mind a bit of extra space in the theatre!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 7, 2018 17:27:54 GMT
CALLED IT! On the one hand, I'd really like to see the artistic directorship go to someone other than a white man, but on the other hand, I'm immediately wondering if someone like Michael Longhurst would be up for it. Oh I wish I'd put a fiver on it now... www.theatreboard.co.uk/post/176662/threadI wondered where Mystic Meg had gone.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 5, 2018 19:41:17 GMT
Theatres should announce intervals with a ice cream van jingle and then serve up a Mr Whippy. Only choice should be whether to have a flake inserted.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 4, 2018 16:11:52 GMT
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 4, 2018 13:41:31 GMT
I've had endless chats with people seated around me over the years. One of the oddest was at the Wimbledon panto a year or two back, when I was alone (work, review) and the mother in the family next to me adopted me... and I ended up "minding" the kids at the interval for her, plus we had a dance together in the second half 'audience participation' bit. This does sound like the beginning of a very bad romantic novel.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 4, 2018 13:37:40 GMT
I was *so* close to liking that tweet, as I do love a good riverbank, but I can't be dealing with smartphone snobbery. Someone could be chatting with a geographically-distant loved one, or they could be reading a work of great literature, or they could be taking part in a great national birdwatching event, or they could just be hammering out opinions on a theatre discussion board, and none of that is inherently "bad" or "a shame" or "the downfall of society" or whatever. I spend at least two hours a day out walking through leafy green streets and parks, and I still use my phone to help me identify birdsong or take pictures of particularly lovely plants. The other weekend I went up to Jacksons Lane for a show. Beforehand I went for a wander in Highgate Woods. A woman was heading towards me with her (about) 12 year old daughter. She saw her looking at her watch. “Are you playing a game?” “What?” “You can stop that immediately – you are in the real world now.”
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 2, 2018 21:37:53 GMT
Interracial relationships are normal. Hmmm.... honestly, I'd love that to be true, but I'm really not sure that it is regarded that way across all sections of society? . Maybe it’s better to say they are less unusual. My interracial marriage is just approaching the 21 year mark and my 3 siblings account for another two. They’re great!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 2, 2018 16:42:20 GMT
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Post by bellboard27 on Jun 2, 2018 11:56:22 GMT
Amanda Holden should kick Cowell in the nuts I'd vote for that as the winning act personally. She should repeat a few times to prove the performance is not a fluke.
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Post by bellboard27 on May 29, 2018 17:58:31 GMT
Well, rather than shared light at the Globe, this afternoon it was shared lightning!
The heavens had opened long before the show and it kept pouring until well after the interval. Not just that, but there was a lot of lightning (with the forks displaying above the theatre) and thunder that went on and on. The rain pouring onto the concrete floor meant that the actors (or some of them) were not easy to hear, although eventually I got my ear in. Quite a few parts of the text worked well with the weather – some actors making better reference to it than others. Some paused for the thunder, others ploughed on (but were drowned out).
I was in the middle gallery, so was nice and dry, but I felt really sorry for those in the yard. Most huddled to the stage edge or along the lower gallery wall, where roof overhangs provided some protection. A few just stood the whole time in the rain. The place was far from full. The yard was particularly empty (I suppose many had decided against it!) and the upper gallery had hardly anyone in it. The Globe could have easily put all the yard patrons in the upper gallery with seats to spare, but they didn’t. I know they don’t allow yard patrons to take spare seats, but the conditions were horrendous.
As to the production, I quite enjoyed it. The humour increased as it went on and one the rain eased and the dialogue became clearer, it grew on me a lot.
It’s strange to say, but while at the beginning I was cursing the conditions, after a while I realised that it had created a whole new atmosphere that was totally different to anything else I had seen at the Globe.
Running time was 2 hours 20 including the interval.
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Post by bellboard27 on May 29, 2018 16:16:08 GMT
'King Lear' always makes me chuckle. Fancy calling your daughter Gonorrhoea and not expecting anyone to smirk. Smirk? Clap more like.
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Post by bellboard27 on May 29, 2018 16:14:26 GMT
I guess my unpopular opinion is that I'm very grateful for the bank of email templates we have at work. I'm perfectly capable of going off-book when it's an uncommon email that I need to send, but I have to send variations on the same basic email dozens of times a day, I'm SO much happier copying+pasting and making the few necessary alterations than typing up a new email every time. On this Board I wonder if templates for reporting bad behaviour at a show would work?
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Post by bellboard27 on May 28, 2018 11:42:57 GMT
Just got home from watching Karen and Kevin Clifton from Strictly Come Dancing's tour at Woking theatre (brilliant show - would definitely recommend if it comes near you) However during the show I lent back in my seat and got stabbed in the shoulder by a small pointy object, I turned round and the woman behind me had decided she should take off her shoes and place one bare foot on the back of my chair and the other on the back of my mums chair, the stabbing device was her very pointy big toe nail . I glanced up at her and she was sitting there in a short sundress with her legs wide open so we could see her knickers, I gave her a look but still her trotters remained on our chairs. I don't like feet, I know most people have them but please keep them away from me and definitely do not place them on my chair. At Red at Wyndham's on Saturday, we were in the front row of the upper circle. The young woman behind us continually put her foot (not bare!) on the back of our seats. I variously brushed it off, knocked it off, etc., but it would continually find its way back. Serious lack of manners!
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Post by bellboard27 on May 28, 2018 11:38:24 GMT
On coughing, there is definitely some mind over matter going on. The change in atmosphere in a theatre can trigger some coughing. I realised that if this happened to me, my worry about coughing only made it worse. So, if this happens I try to ignore it completely and this does help it go away.
I was once at a spa with the other half and having a massage. The person doing the massage started coughing. After a short time she apologise profusely. I said to her that she was making it worse by worrying about it and told her to forget about it and it would be OK. She did and didn't cough again.
Of course, this is no use for some coughing, but it can help sometimes.
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Post by bellboard27 on May 26, 2018 21:23:15 GMT
That was great. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
The fire alarm and visitation of the fire brigade was followed by “technical” issues which seemed to be about raising the safety curtain. On resumption we started from the beginning. Just over 50 minutes late (some did leave a bit before the end).
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Post by bellboard27 on May 25, 2018 20:37:51 GMT
Strikes me as very derivative of a certain hit show running near Victoria at the moment. The difference being that LMM used the melting pot of modern American musical genres to tell a piece of American political history - and this project (on the basis of just one short clip admittedly) is just taking the first part of that to tell the story of a British woman who ended her life in Ethiopia. So there is a significant disconnect between the two - whereas there was a unity to LMM's approach. It may well work - but from that short clip, it just feels an attempt to 'do a Hamilton' rather than being something unique. Strap in honey cos we're in for a whole bunch of British-born Hamilton-wannabes over the next few years. Mmmm.... I just noticed this on the website of Exeter's Northcott Theatre: "A forthcoming adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows takes the riverbank to the ‘hood in 2019 with the radical In the Willows – The Hip-Hop Musical, a co-production with the Northcott."
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Post by bellboard27 on May 25, 2018 15:18:30 GMT
I've got a £40 row E ticket for tomorrows matinee performance - wish me luck with the surtitles... Bonne chance!
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Post by bellboard27 on May 25, 2018 12:46:07 GMT
That was fairly painless! Got a couple of £15 tickets for the 5.30 performance prior to heading along the road later to the Young Vic for Fun Home - all very convenient!
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Post by bellboard27 on May 23, 2018 17:33:59 GMT
I wish I had a penny for every time I have read or heard someone in theatrical circles say they were going to “break the mould”.
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Post by bellboard27 on May 23, 2018 6:31:26 GMT
3 cast? Is this a new definition of “trilogy”?
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