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Post by stevej678 on Mar 25, 2024 10:21:29 GMT
Well this bodes well.
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Post by A.Ham on Mar 25, 2024 11:11:06 GMT
I thought exactly the same when I read that part of the interview. Asking people to ‘get involved’ really doesn’t sound like a good idea! |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 25, 2024 11:31:22 GMT
To be fair she won’t have to do it many more times once the reviews come out.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 25, 2024 11:52:11 GMT
I think the suggestion earlier in the thread that they make the opening night of Opening Night the closing night was brilliant. Go out with a bang.
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Post by ladidah on Mar 25, 2024 12:07:08 GMT
Very meta!
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Post by Rory on Mar 25, 2024 12:16:03 GMT
If they're looking for a replacement, Faith Healer has had brilliant reviews.
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Post by annette on Mar 25, 2024 16:55:48 GMT
The curtain call is very much "let's all sing and dance and try to pretend the last 2hrs never happened" Please tell me there wasn't a standing ovation. Maybe the whole audience should get up and dance with them, as they do in Mamma Mia? What you've described sounds hilariously inappropriate and therefore if some of the audience have actually managed to stay put until the end, a flash mob dance complete with Mexican Wave sounds like the perfect way to end the night. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 25, 2024 17:43:44 GMT
The curtain call is very much "let's all sing and dance and try to pretend the last 2hrs never happened" Please tell me there wasn't a standing ovation. Maybe the whole audience should get up and dance with them, as they do in Mamma Mia? What you've described sounds hilariously inappropriate and therefore if some of the audience have actually managed to stay put until the end, a flash mob dance complete with Mexican Wave sounds like the perfect way to end the night. It’s like performing Hedda Gabler and then doing Barbie Girl for the curtain call. It’s hilariously awful. |
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Post by annette on Mar 25, 2024 18:14:36 GMT
Maybe the whole audience should get up and dance with them, as they do in Mamma Mia? What you've described sounds hilariously inappropriate and therefore if some of the audience have actually managed to stay put until the end, a flash mob dance complete with Mexican Wave sounds like the perfect way to end the night. It’s like performing Hedda Gabler and then doing Barbie Girl for the curtain call. It’s hilariously awful. Mr Barnaby, I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this, but your reviews are comedy gold. Your comments on Opening Night have been a joy to read and much better than any of the current crop of critics we have. Unfortunately as a pre-birthday treat after I expressed an interest in ON when it was first announced, I've got the pleasure of seeing it this week on the day after the critics have been in. I'm fully expecting a cast of understudies, including Henry the Hoover in place of the Dyson (I'm not casting aspersions on understudies, here but the cast originally peaked my damn interest). Maybe I'll like it, but in my opinion Van Hove's work has been on diminishing returns since Lazarus. |
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Mar 25, 2024 19:29:41 GMT
I booked towards the end of the run.
Actually regretting this now.
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Post by mattnyc on Mar 25, 2024 20:23:47 GMT
Maybe the whole audience should get up and dance with them, as they do in Mamma Mia? What you've described sounds hilariously inappropriate and therefore if some of the audience have actually managed to stay put until the end, a flash mob dance complete with Mexican Wave sounds like the perfect way to end the night. It’s like performing Hedda Gabler and then doing Barbie Girl for the curtain call. It’s hilariously awful. That’s actually a really excellent comparison lol |
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Post by adamkinsey on Mar 25, 2024 20:43:05 GMT
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It’s like performing Hedda Gabler and then doing Barbie Girl for the curtain call. It’s hilariously awful.[/quote]
Reminds me of an amateur West Side Story many years ago. At the end the entire cast came back on and did an eight-minute medley of all the up tempo numbers to get the audience clapping and cheering. Yeah, there's been some death and it's actually a dark ending but the director wants to send the audience out as if they've been at Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Post by stevemar on Mar 25, 2024 20:54:11 GMT
Maybe the whole audience should get up and dance with them, as they do in Mamma Mia? What you've described sounds hilariously inappropriate and therefore if some of the audience have actually managed to stay put until the end, a flash mob dance complete with Mexican Wave sounds like the perfect way to end the night. It’s like performing Hedda Gabler and then doing Barbie Girl for the curtain call. It’s hilariously awful. Actually Van Hove used “I’m a Barbie Girl” in this play www.youngvic.org/whats-on/who-killed-my-father . Your post triggered a memory of that😱😱. Alas, it was used effectively in the context of a gay man remembering when his homophobic father caught him dancing to Aqua’s hit, and a whole scene of the song. 😟 |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 25, 2024 20:55:54 GMT
It’s like performing Hedda Gabler and then doing Barbie Girl for the curtain call. It’s hilariously awful. Mr Barnaby, I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this, but your reviews are comedy gold. Your comments on Opening Night have been a joy to read and much better than any of the current crop of critics we have. Unfortunately as a pre-birthday treat after I expressed an interest in ON when it was first announced, I've got the pleasure of seeing it this week on the day after the critics have been in. I'm fully expecting a cast of understudies, including Henry the Hoover in place of the Dyson (I'm not casting aspersions on understudies, here but the cast originally peaked my damn interest). Maybe I'll like it, but in my opinion Van Hove's work has been on diminishing returns since Lazarus. Such a sweet thing to say ! Thankyou. I hate to break it to you though -Henry the Hoover is no more. He quit after a few previews and fired his agent |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 25, 2024 20:56:24 GMT
I booked towards the end of the run. Actually regretting this now. Don’t worry- it will close early and you’ll get a refund. |
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Post by simon on Mar 25, 2024 21:07:36 GMT
I do feel sorry for Sheridan Smith fronting this show. She works so hard but is fighting a losing battle. Ì do wonder what the creatives were playing at.
I also sympathise with SS fans, many I suspect are occasional theatre goers.Its enough to put them off theatre for life. They deserved better.
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Post by happysooz2 on Mar 25, 2024 21:25:25 GMT
How quickly could a total turkey show close in London? Who holds the record?
(I nearly booked for this but then I remembered that I prefer Martha to Rufus and I think Sheridan’s finest moment was Pooch Perfect.)
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Post by drmaplewood on Mar 25, 2024 22:12:43 GMT
It can't be worse than Viva Forever
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 25, 2024 22:30:12 GMT
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Post by lotster on Mar 25, 2024 22:53:51 GMT
I Can't Sing closed 6 weeks after opening night. Was on at the Palladium.
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Post by Rory on Mar 25, 2024 23:13:11 GMT
Not a musical but to a lot of people's surprise, The Enfield Haunting managed to complete its West End run, when many thought it would never manage to open in London, so bad was the word of mouth from the tour.
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Post by Steve on Mar 25, 2024 23:24:40 GMT
And nobody must ever forget the contributions of Professor John Robinson, who wrote the musical, "Behind the Iron Mask," which ran for 3 weeks at The Duchess Theatre in 2005, and "Too Close to the Sun," the musical about the death of Ernest Hemingway, which ran for 2 weeks at the Comedy Theatre in 2009. The actual shortest run, I believe, was "The Intimate Revue" in 1930, which, to prevent it running past midnight, only managed half a performance at The Duchess before closing immediately thereafter. So, "Opening Night" is winning by that yardstick.  |
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Post by Mark on Mar 26, 2024 0:13:26 GMT
It can't be worse than Viva Forever Yes, yes it can. |
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Post by sph on Mar 26, 2024 0:33:41 GMT
If it were an open-ended run, its days might be numbered, but since it's a limited engagement with a popular "name", it might just cling on for the duration. Reviews don't tend to close shows here as quickly as they do in New York.
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Post by drmaplewood on Mar 26, 2024 7:56:06 GMT
Well, Andrzej Lukowski has tweeted hinting that he liked it a lot so who knows!
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