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Post by shownut on Apr 15, 2024 8:48:54 GMT
Mincemeat should be aiming off Broadway at a push. Agreed. It might last a short while at New World Stages or one of the small houses along W 42nd but a Broadway house? Maybe the Helen Hayes (which already has an open-ended tenant lined up) but I wouldn't bet on it.
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Post by Mark on Apr 15, 2024 9:31:39 GMT
The Booth would be perfect for it.
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Post by distantcousin on Apr 15, 2024 9:48:18 GMT
Issue with Hannah, and I watched her host Eurovision too- she just tries TOO HARD. But admittedly I much prefer dry humour & hate slap stick etc. it just comes off so hammy. She comes across as too earnest - which is typically a very American trait. Maybe that's where she's learnt it. It's quite incongruous on an Englishwoman!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 15, 2024 9:55:47 GMT
She looked fabulous in that blue dress.
Nicole also looked extremely classy and elegant. Every inch the superstar diva.
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Post by distantcousin on Apr 15, 2024 10:26:53 GMT
Following on from earlier comments about the wider British public's interest about something that "only happens a London" - a perennial bugbear of many an average Brit...
I noticed the ITV news features sole focus was on "people you would recognise from the TV" - they said as much. An attempt to try and make the West End relatable to the masses, I suppose...
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Post by Fleance on Apr 15, 2024 10:29:59 GMT
I have it on VERY good authority that both Dear England and Mincemeat are going to Broadway in 2025. Madness, but true. Also The Motive and the Cue with both leads. Dear England are trying, but they have not yet been successful in finding a place.
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Post by ladidah on Apr 15, 2024 11:25:14 GMT
Happy to see Operation Mincemeat win, and Mark Gatiss.
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Apr 15, 2024 11:26:04 GMT
Pleased for Sunset (haven't heard a score so celebrated by an orchestra in years, nowadays it's often very rushed), happy for Mark Gatiss, a bit mystified but pleased about Haydn Gwynne. Stranger Things over Old Friends is a joke, politics I presume. Best Musical category didn't interest me this year. Overall happy.
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Post by capybara on Apr 15, 2024 12:38:13 GMT
Really enjoyed watching it live via a VPN. Some hugely deserved accolades for theatre’s finest but am also of the view that Old Friends and Charlie Stemp woz robbed.
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Post by Dave B on Apr 15, 2024 12:57:10 GMT
Question for those who watched it live by VPN? Was it live live? Did you get the flubs and outtakes and all? There were two restarts at the actual show.
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Post by sophie92 on Apr 15, 2024 13:12:50 GMT
Question for those who watched it live by VPN? Was it live live? Did you get the flubs and outtakes and all? There were two restarts at the actual show. Yes, live live with the flubs and restarts (as much as a stream can be - the Official London Theatre account was posting the winners on X a few seconds before they were announced on my stream)
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Post by capybara on Apr 15, 2024 13:13:25 GMT
Question for those who watched it live by VPN? Was it live live? Did you get the flubs and outtakes and all? There were two restarts at the actual show. Yes it was properly live. There were two moments when Hannah W had to re-record a line. We also had to sit through a 40 minute long 20 minute interval.
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Post by sf on Apr 15, 2024 13:43:29 GMT
That NT "celebration" was a pure circle jerk of cringe. It was a bit, but look on the bright side: at least it didn't feature Kevin Spacey playing the harmonica.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 15, 2024 13:50:40 GMT
That NT "celebration" was a pure circle jerk of cringe. It was a bit, but look on the bright side: at least it didn't feature Kevin Spacey playing the harmonica. From what I could make out it was mainly people who were singers performing, Joanna Riding, Janee Dee, Fra Fe, Adrian Lester, Calum Howells, Tracie Bennett (who was different!) and, of course, Meera Syal that famous MT singer??? Or was she the token Asian?
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Post by aspieandy on Apr 15, 2024 13:57:38 GMT
The Guardian saying Guardian things >>>
Unclear how more Hytner and less Jamie Lloyd would help Ms Akbar's perceived imbalance. Ditto Marisha Wallace instead of Nicole S.
Imo, there is a case for other productions to be in the revival catagory (rather than The Effect), and the Almedia's King Lear would be among my contenders. Though that would mean tossing out a living woman for a very dead white bloke.
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Post by parsley1 on Apr 15, 2024 14:32:27 GMT
The Guardian saying Guardian things >>>
Unclear how more Hytner and less Jamie Lloyd would help Ms Akbar's perceived imbalance. Ditto Marisha Wallace instead of Nicole S.
Imo, there is a case for other productions to be in the revival catagory (rather than The Effect), and the Almedia's King Lear would be among my contenders. Though that would mean tossing out a living woman for a very dead white bloke.
She is really is quite sad actually Awards aren’t given for risk They are given for excellence She regrets not giving Guys and Dolls 5 stars 😂
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Post by shownut on Apr 15, 2024 14:38:34 GMT
The Guardian saying Guardian things >>>
Unclear how more Hytner and less Jamie Lloyd would help Ms Akbar's perceived imbalance. Ditto Marisha Wallace instead of Nicole S.
Imo, there is a case for other productions to be in the revival catagory (rather than The Effect), and the Almedia's King Lear would be among my contenders. Though that would mean tossing out a living woman for a very dead white bloke.
She is really is quite sad actually Awards aren’t given for risk They are given for excellence She regrets not giving Guys and Dolls 5 stars 😂 What a silly article. Totally whining for the sake of whining and nothing else. So THE WITCHES wasn't nominated. Boo-friggin'-hoo. At least A STRANGE LOOP was given a nom and if that doesn't scream diversity in nominations I'm not sure what else does. Btw, I loved A Strange Loop but expected it to be forgotten. Given last night's baffling and pretty awful performance by it's author/composer Michael R Jackson, I almost wished it had been.
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Post by marob on Apr 15, 2024 15:47:04 GMT
I watched it this afternoon. Highlight was easily Tom Francis doing Sunset Boulevard. Realising he was on the steps outside was weirdlythrilling in the same way it was in the Savoy.
She seems lovely but I’m slightly baffled by the popularity of Hannah W, and the fact she’s somehow become the face of British theatre when she hasn’t done any in over a decade. I think I’d rather them get Manford back next year.
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Post by damaskanddark on Apr 15, 2024 17:09:56 GMT
Video going around on X of Hannah Waddingham telling off a photographer for telling her to show a bit of leg whilst he took a photo of her. She refused and stormed off, giving him a telling off (called him a d!ck, and asked him if he'd ask a man to do the same). Strange when the same woman sexually harassed Tom Francis on stage later that evening saying she wanted to throw her knickers at him. What if a man said that after a woman performed?
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Post by damaskanddark on Apr 15, 2024 17:10:52 GMT
I watched it this afternoon. Highlight was easily Tom Francis doing Sunset Boulevard. Realising he was on the steps outside was weirdlythrilling in the same way it was in the Savoy. She seems lovely but I’m slightly baffled by the popularity of Hannah W, and the fact she’s somehow become the face of British theatre when she hasn’t done any in over a decade. I think I’d rather them get Manford back next year. I agree. And to be honest, anything she did on stage was never that good. She is so unbelievably arrogant and obnoxious.
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Post by parsley1 on Apr 15, 2024 17:28:51 GMT
It’s so interesting
Now she has gone to Hollywood
And “looks different”
She does think she is IT
In reality she struck it lucky with a mediocre TV series
Overexposed to her ratio of talent TBH
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Post by d'James on Apr 15, 2024 17:40:29 GMT
Video going around on X of Hannah Waddingham telling off a photographer for telling her to show a bit of leg whilst he took a photo of her. She refused and stormed off, giving him a telling off (called him a d!ck, and asked him if he'd ask a man to do the same). Strange when the same woman sexually harassed Tom Francis on stage later that evening saying she wanted to throw her knickers at him. What if a man said that after a woman performed? I haven't seen the ceremony yet, so I didn't know about that. My first instinct was to think 'of course she's right.' However, the more I think about it, especially the event it was, I'm not sure. It is the exact sort of event where more and more men and non-binary people wear dresses/skirts - I'm thinking Billy Porter or Sam Smith. As I say, not sure.
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Post by theatremiss on Apr 15, 2024 17:54:50 GMT
Not directly about the Oliviers, but watching the awards it suddenly dawned on my it’s NT 60 this year. Does my one think there will be some sort of celebration of it?
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Post by bigredapple on Apr 15, 2024 18:52:46 GMT
Not directly about the Oliviers, but watching the awards it suddenly dawned on my it’s NT 60 this year. Does my one think there will be some sort of celebration of it? I guess war horse coming back seems like some sort of commemoration
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Post by d'James on Apr 15, 2024 19:58:09 GMT
Video going around on X of Hannah Waddingham telling off a photographer for telling her to show a bit of leg whilst he took a photo of her. She refused and stormed off, giving him a telling off (called him a d!ck, and asked him if he'd ask a man to do the same). Strange when the same woman sexually harassed Tom Francis on stage later that evening saying she wanted to throw her knickers at him. What if a man said that after a woman performed? I haven't seen the ceremony yet, so I didn't know about that. My first instinct was to think 'of course she's right.' However, the more I think about it, especially the event it was, I'm not sure. It is the exact sort of event where more and more men and non-binary people wear dresses/skirts - I'm thinking Billy Porter or Sam Smith. As I say, not sure. Thought some more, and I don’t want it to sound like Hannah W is fair game for photographers. She should not be made to feel uncomfortable, it was more the ‘you wouldn’t ask a man to do that’ that I was responding to.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 15, 2024 20:44:47 GMT
Video going around on X of Hannah Waddingham telling off a photographer for telling her to show a bit of leg whilst he took a photo of her. She refused and stormed off, giving him a telling off (called him a d!ck, and asked him if he'd ask a man to do the same). Strange when the same woman sexually harassed Tom Francis on stage later that evening saying she wanted to throw her knickers at him. What if a man said that after a woman performed? It’s a little different to say a cheeky comment- as opposed to being asked to ‘show some skin’ I think? Good on her I say.
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Post by normasturban on Apr 15, 2024 20:54:30 GMT
Yes lots of men and non-binary people do wear skirts and dresses but absolutely no photographer would ask Billy Porter to show some leg on the red carpet.
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Post by d'James on Apr 15, 2024 20:57:20 GMT
Yes lots of men and non-binary people do wear skirts and dresses but absolutely no photographer would ask Billy Porter to show some leg on the red carpet. Fair enough. I don’t really know anything about him apart from Kinky Boots and the red carpet outfits.
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Post by Jon on Apr 15, 2024 21:05:14 GMT
I have it on VERY good authority that both Dear England and Mincemeat are going to Broadway in 2025. Madness, but true. Also The Motive and the Cue with both leads. Dear England I think would do well at the Vivian Beaumont as a limited run, it would need a big Broadway theatre for a commercial run and there aren't many available. The Motive and the Cue transferring isn't too surprising although I wonder who will they get for Elizabeth Taylor? The Booth would be perfect for it. The Booth or the Golden would be the best theatres. All the other Broadway theatres that are smaller are owned by non profits.
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Post by Fleance on Apr 15, 2024 21:08:08 GMT
I have it on VERY good authority that both Dear England and Mincemeat are going to Broadway in 2025. Madness, but true. Also The Motive and the Cue with both leads. Dear England I think would do well at the Vivian Beaumont as a limited run, it would need a big Broadway theatre for a commercial run and there aren't many available. The Motive and the Cue transferring isn't too surprising although I wonder who will they get for Elizabeth Taylor? Dear England is a great play but is perceived to be too British in its subject matter. It is going to be a challenge to present it in New York. To paraphrase mrbarnaby, "I have it on VERY VERY good authority."
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