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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 20, 2024 6:23:00 GMT
The person selected to be called up on stage from that seat is pre-selected to sit there. They know they will be called up beforehand. I believe that often it’s people known by the cast. When I saw it, the production team were sat behind me talking and they knew the guy who had been chosen and were saying how they knew him.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 5, 2024 8:36:30 GMT
I really didn’t rate Sheridan’s performance either. Seen it all before. Can spot all the same tics. And the American accent is always pretty terrible
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Post by theatrelover123 on Apr 3, 2024 12:43:59 GMT
The Menier really is fast becoming the theatre not to go to, isn’t it?
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 31, 2024 12:43:12 GMT
I quite enjoyed the poster tbh. I was just disappointed to discover that the poster guy isn’t in the show
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 31, 2024 12:40:01 GMT
Saw this last week. Will write more later as there is sooo much bad stuff in it. It has made me angrier and more perplexed in the days since. Which is rare as I tend to be more forgiving afterwards. They really need to turn Hadley Fraser’s voice down too. Not his mic. His voice I got a brilliant Todaytix seat for £30. Middle of Row C in the Dress. Worth absolutely every penny to say you’ve seen it, you were there and you have an opinion about it.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 28, 2024 20:07:33 GMT
The Girls sold infinitely more tickets when they changed the name to Calendar Girls The Musical... Can you share the box office receipts before and after renaming please?
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 28, 2024 20:06:29 GMT
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 28, 2024 19:01:02 GMT
Why would they rename it Live Aid? It’s not Live Aid
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 26, 2024 14:13:51 GMT
She’s doing sound and music And maybe Juliet If she's doing sound/music but is also an actress could she be a Juliet understudy? She COULD be doing any of them
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 25, 2024 21:16:01 GMT
The Daily Fail papped Tom Holland going for a 3 hour long chemistry read with actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers. This was about nine days ago so I'm guessing at that this stage of pre-production she either is Juliet or was one of the Juliet finalists. Rehearsals will surely start soon and that should mean the rest of the cast list being announced. She’s doing sound and music And maybe Juliet
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 25, 2024 13:23:14 GMT
I’m going to wait until it comes to NT At Home. It seems like that sort of show
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 24, 2024 17:33:17 GMT
Neither part of the song fits her voice properly. And breath control is not what it should be. Hopefully by the end of rehearsals it will be a better integrated vocal performance There’s no real light and shade It’s just all pushed, like she is trying to show off on every line You can sing nice, we get it, now give us some character!
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 24, 2024 11:25:26 GMT
Well that was quite a lot of painful noise
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 21, 2024 11:02:34 GMT
New Diorama to Royal Court and then two full on West End runs and this thread doesn't exceed a single page...
Puts me in mind of the incredibly short thread length of the Bob Marley musical at the Lyric, considering how long it ran... We may have a slight diversity issue on this board. May we? Or maybe people just didn’t fancy seeing it and/or commenting on it, irrespective of ethnicity, age, sexuality or gender?
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 20, 2024 19:07:10 GMT
The plant was sat near me in the Stalls the other night. He made a point of shouting out something early to let the cast know where he was. And then he was the ‘last’ person to speak, giving quite an eloquent diatribe, which the cast then used as the point to move on. I’m sure many of the audience didn’t twig but it was quite apparent.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 20, 2024 8:51:21 GMT
JC will be playing “a serviceman in the midst of a crisis”. A serviceman! Corden! Ahahaha
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 16, 2024 9:24:36 GMT
I quite enjoyed the Comic Relief performance… always hard for musical theatre to come across well on TV, but the medley gave a good flavour of the show. I’m glad this’ll have a further life in the West End and will look forward to finding out where it’s going and when. Agree - looking forward to the transfer and the show reaching a wider audience. Shows rarely shine on TV and the social media haters will always drop their pearls of poison regardless. I'm pleased for all involved that it'll have a longer life. Why are they haters dropping pearls of poison because they don’t like the look of a show - or didn’t like the show after they saw it - just because you like it? Please respect other people’s opinions
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 16, 2024 6:26:39 GMT
A queue of 5000 and still it’s not sold the handful of tickets left in the run? Hmmmm
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 15, 2024 22:02:15 GMT
Really not sold on it at all after that Comic Relief performance. Yeah don’t bother. It’s worse than that over 2.5 hours
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 15, 2024 21:50:33 GMT
Was it live tonight? Who’s at the Old Vic? I think it was being done by professionals at the Old Vic tonight
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 15, 2024 21:46:59 GMT
Jeez it was terrible on Comic Relief. Reminded me how horribly and amateur it was on stage. I am sure there will be an audience for it though
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 15, 2024 12:19:03 GMT
Is AD American or Northern Irish in this? I think he hopped across the ocean back and forth many times in that video
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 14, 2024 22:08:47 GMT
Maria Friedman, Sheila Hancock or Elaine Paige
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 13, 2024 6:49:27 GMT
I think they should have had the matinee at 1300 or 1330 rather than 1430. Why do you think that? Was fine timing for me .
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 10, 2024 17:51:26 GMT
Is there a pause in between the 2nd/3rd act? Yes. You can’t do much more than stand up in it though. I think it came with about 1hr to go. Went to the matinee of this yesterday. There was no pause in the second half. It was about 1 hour 50 mins first part and about 1 hour 30 mins second half. Both straight through either side of a 20 min interval. Came down at about 6.17pm after an 2:30pm start. Imagine that will be the same in Manchester and London. They may even keep shedding some minutes off.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 5, 2024 23:20:24 GMT
How can it be a car crash when they are filming on the streets? Can you imagine it in this day and age? Not just filming… but outside the theatre…..on the street. It’s mindblowing when you think about it. Revolutionary
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 5, 2024 23:00:09 GMT
This is dire I fell asleep after 10 mins I did awaken briefly to see a very nice torso bared onstage But left at the interval Whose torso? Whose torso?
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 5, 2024 22:21:02 GMT
Oh dear, that's some pretty bad impro in the (too long) clip. Need to find some further things for 'the director' character to say, or it just sounds like impro run dry of ideas. Still, if this is all they're doing of the outside filming it's not such a big part of the show. How long before people shouting 'Hi Sheridan' causes them to play in a recording instead? With 'Sunset Boulevard' your casual passerby didn't know Tom's name. Not so much Opening Night as Amateur Hour imo
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 5, 2024 20:47:15 GMT
I saw this last night. I was quite surprised that there were a fair few empty seats, considering how hard it could be to get tickets for Jez Butterworth's last couple of plays. While watching this I quite enjoyed it. It never dragged, the acting was uniformly great, the script was quite sprightly and witty. But there were a number of things nagging at me about it, and afterwards, when I had time to think on it, I actually came to the conclusion that it was a fairly lazy piece of writing for such an esteemed and experienced writer. I will concede that it turns like a well oiled machine but, a few themes and plot points aside, it could have been written any time in the last 100 plus years. It was a solid, archetypal domestic drama, but there was absolutely nothing new or clever about it. I felt like I had seen it all before. There was certainly nothing for me to puzzle out afterwards, nothing I could not have predicted, and nothing daring in terms of structure, language or approach to making theatre. I thought that the Blackpool setting was woefully underused, as was the stiffing 1976 summer. I never felt the heat. I never felt like I was in 1970s or 1950s Blackpool. There were some perfunctory mentions, but no real sense of lethargy, decay, exhaustion. I was so looking forward to being enveloped in the atmosphere of time and place but it never happened. There were way too many characters. Cut the nurse. Cut most of the men. They're not needed. They can be referenced, but there's no reason to spend time with any of them. What did any of them add? Moreover, certain key plot points felt like they stretched credulity for something aiming to be naturalistic. {Spoiler - click to view} First up - Joan's baby. What?!? There was a baby in the porch through all those act 3 arguments and it never cried, never made a sound... And Joan has flown over from America and made her way to Blackpool with a six-month old and a random suitcase with a few baby clothes and a bottle and two toys? Even if we are to infer from the Act 3 opening scene that she arrived earlier and has been waiting in Blackpool, trying to get the courage to return home, this whole situation is clunky and very badly handled. Secondly, are we really supposed to believe (or, at least, infer) that the mother had four daughters out of wedlock in the 1940s? One, or even two, is perfectly plausible, but four?!? That would have been a huge scandal, and the daughters would inevitably have known about it, unless they were born in anther town far away. Thirdly, what is the deal with Joan's career? Did the agent guy feel so guilty that he'd got her pregnant, that he paid for her to fly to America, set her up with a new home and arranged for her to make an LP? That seems very unlikely to me, I thought the four youthful daughters were acted and sung brilliantly but, aside from Joan, badly differentiated in the writing and almost without character. Personally, I would also have liked to see the past and present intermingle, and the big reveal, such as it is, implied much more subtly. It's unlikely it would shock audiences now, with what we now know about the world, but it could still have packed a punch, which I felt it definitely didn't. I know I'm in a minority, but to me this was a fairly enjoyable play but one that tackled well-worn material as though it thought it was being radical and new, and which had too many clunky elements for me to truly rate as more than two stars. Interesting isn’t it? I completely value other people’s opinions but I didn’t agree with much of the above. I didn’t feel like it was professing to do anything radical, new or clever; I didn’t think the ‘mystery’ was sold as a ‘mystery’; I think the nurse and the surrounding characters, particularly the men were pivotal to giving a sense of place and time and how they slotted in to make up a broader tapestry around the female characters; I felt the heat, the place, the period and I’m not sure how they could have introduced more of Blackpool on that set; I thought the 4 sisters were clearly delineated and I think the points in the spoiler couldn’t have been done much differently without giving the game away and it’s clear that cover ups are universal. I think it could be argued that The Ferryman and Jerusalem didn’t do a huge lot more in terms of daringness of structure, language or approach.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Mar 4, 2024 23:29:38 GMT
I wonder why Giant is listed as being performed at multiple venues. London and New York?
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