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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2024 12:41:14 GMT
Wouldn't go anywhere near any project Cleese is involved im with a bargepole.
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 3, 2024 15:41:59 GMT
Last night I was trying to remember another catchphrase that me & my mate used regularly and it's just come back to me...
Being snarky about your pal by asking a question and finishing it with "are we?", like Miranda & Stevie always did.
"Wearing that shirt like you're going out in 1993, are we?"
"Staying in with Ben & Jerry tonight to deal with the pain of another year alone, are we?"
That sort of friendly banter, you know.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 3, 2024 15:53:45 GMT
To be fair people have been saying those things for donkeys years. Miranda just nicked them and milked them!
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Post by lynette on Feb 3, 2024 17:55:57 GMT
Wouldn't go anywhere near any project Cleese is involved im with a bargepole. Does he have anything to do with the play? I thought part of his financial prob was that he lost the rights to FT years a go. I know he is developing an updated series with his daughter but this would be new material? |
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Post by n1david on Feb 3, 2024 18:15:15 GMT
Wouldn't go anywhere near any project Cleese is involved im with a bargepole. Does he have anything to do with the play? I thought part of his financial prob was that he lost the rights to FT years a go. I know he is developing an updated series with his daughter but this would be new material? Yes, he's done the adaptation to merge the stories into one and written a new ending. |
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Post by david on Feb 3, 2024 18:56:58 GMT
I am certainly looking forward to this and will be booking ASAP. I think the TV show is great fun and still holds up after so long. Hopefully we will see the car get a damn good thrashing on stage.
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Post by keyspi on Feb 3, 2024 20:47:15 GMT
Well if Miranda is on the list of classics, might as well chuck Not Going Out on there as well!
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Post by crabtree on Feb 4, 2024 14:34:30 GMT
Can you imagine if dinnerladies had been written by a writer's room - shortlived in terms of episodes perhaps but each one utterly brilliant. Miss Wood's brilliant phrasing would clearly have been lost I suspect.
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Feb 4, 2024 15:48:15 GMT
As this show is being directed by the director, assistant director and resident director (as well as the same set and costume designer) as the Only Fools and Horses Musical I’m really interested in seeing what they do with it.
Only Fools was very well done so I do trust the creative team, it’s only the writing that might let it down.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 6, 2024 14:01:42 GMT
This play was made for me (no clues as to why).
FT is my favourite sitcom of all time, and the characters are at least in good hands. I am highly looking forward to this, I don't care what anybody says.
The chap who plays Basil I saw playing Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps a while back so he has the energy and physical comedy chops certainly.
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Post by stevej678 on Feb 7, 2024 10:06:06 GMT
Prices on Ticketmaster for a random midweek matinee. £101 for the front row of the stalls that's flagged as restricted view. £135 elsewhere in the stalls apart from the back few rows which are £73. Everything in the Dress Circle is £73 or £101.
Prices around £10-£15 less with Nimax directly but two thirds of the stalls appear to be off sale, as well as the rear half of the dress circle.
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Post by talkingheads on Feb 7, 2024 10:22:39 GMT
Prices on Ticketmaster for a random midweek matinee. £101 for the front row of the stalls that's flagged as restricted view. £135 elsewhere in the stalls apart from the back few rows which are £73. Everything in the Dress Circle is £73 or £101. Prices around £10-£15 less with Nimax directly but two thirds of the stalls appear to be off sale, as well as the rear half of the dress circle. I was going to try and get tickets, but seeing those prices I just laughed and closed the website. I'll consider a day ticket if it's no more than £30. |
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Post by max on Feb 7, 2024 11:19:56 GMT
Wow - I forgot what thread I was in, and scrolled up thinking it was the Jamie Lloyd 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Perhaps it will be excitingly high octane see three episodes of Fawlty Towers interpolated into even more manic farce, but....
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free.
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Feb 7, 2024 12:11:10 GMT
Prices on Ticketmaster for a random midweek matinee. £101 for the front row of the stalls that's flagged as restricted view. £135 elsewhere in the stalls apart from the back few rows which are £73. Everything in the Dress Circle is £73 or £101. Prices around £10-£15 less with Nimax directly but two thirds of the stalls appear to be off sale, as well as the rear half of the dress circle. I was going to try and get tickets, but seeing those prices I just laughed and closed the website. I'll consider a day ticket if it's no more than £30. Exactly my opinion too. I am curious and want to see it, but after the first week or so there are no seats below the Gods for less than £60 and that’s way too much. |
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Post by talkingheads on Feb 7, 2024 12:23:37 GMT
I was going to try and get tickets, but seeing those prices I just laughed and closed the website. I'll consider a day ticket if it's no more than £30. Exactly my opinion too. I am curious and want to see it, but after the first week or so there are no seats below the Gods for less than £60 and that’s way too much. I'm guessing there will be huge discounts nearer the time. |
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 7, 2024 13:10:02 GMT
So after getting extremely hyped up for this, I entered the website to book, and then...glanced at the prices 🙃
I don't mind the front row high stage slightly restricted seats...but not for £80 bleedin' quid. Less than half that if it's being advertised as such.
Most of these prices are not justifiable, despite how iconic FT is, especially considering I took three people to the Only Fools Musical at TR Haymarket for £50. Good seats too!
Needless to say I am disappointed. Will take the day seat route I guess...
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Post by mkb on Feb 7, 2024 13:30:22 GMT
Worth noting that the running time (presumably based on the Australian outing) is listed as 1:50 including interval. That means there is only 90 minutes of theatre, so if it's three 30-minute tv episodes combined, the new material at the end won't amount to much.
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Post by aspieandy on Feb 7, 2024 13:31:54 GMT
21-week run initially, from Spring Bank Holiday through the last half term to all of the school summer holiday period. Obv. confident in a robust nostalgia market after Fools and Horses. I can see mums and dads from across the country dragging the teenagers along, in between the museums and sights.
I wonder how they've priced in summer walk ups. Maybe that's the key flexibility in this market.
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Post by happysooz2 on Feb 7, 2024 13:48:53 GMT
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free. I don’t think they are. We tried to watch it over Christmas and couldn’t find them on any streaming service, either free or paid. I just checked iPlayer again as making them available feels like a no-brainer in the run up to the show. |
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Feb 7, 2024 14:32:10 GMT
So after getting extremely hyped up for this, I entered the website to book, and then...glanced at the prices 🙃 I don't mind the front row high stage slightly restricted seats...but not for £80 bleedin' quid. Less than half that if it's being advertised as such. Most of these prices are not justifiable, despite how iconic FT is, especially considering I took three people to the Only Fools Musical at TR Haymarket for £50. Good seats too! Needless to say I am disappointed. Will take the day seat route I guess... I know it wasn’t loved by everyone, but I’ll stand by the opinion that Only Fools and Horses was a perfect piece of introductory theatre (aka a gateway drug) for non-theatre-goers. Every time I went there were so many in the audience who obviously weren’t typical musical/play people and afterwards were vocally open about going to see more theatre shows (or people saying ‘I took my mum/dad/extended family and they loved it’). The problem for Fawlty Towers is that Only Fools was a dream of the creator, which after his death was continued as a passion project by the creator’s family and Paul Whitehouse (who himself is a big fan), who later then starred in the show throughout its run. This adaptation of Fawlty Towers feels more of a ‘John Cleese needs to pay his alimony checks’ so idk how much passion this will have even with the same Only Fools directing team behind it |
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Post by n1david on Feb 7, 2024 17:01:23 GMT
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free. I don’t think they are. We tried to watch it over Christmas and couldn’t find them on any streaming service, either free or paid. I just checked iPlayer again as making them available feels like a no-brainer in the run up to the show. is my guide for this sort of thing and it says they're not available on any UK streaming service at the moment. |
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Post by andys on Feb 7, 2024 18:39:56 GMT
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free. I don’t think they are. We tried to watch it over Christmas and couldn’t find them on any streaming service, either free or paid. I just checked iPlayer again as making them available feels like a no-brainer in the run up to the show. Given John Cleese has not been especially kind about the BBC in recent years, and some of the "of it's time" content of the series, maybe they consider it better left in the past. |
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Post by aspieandy on Feb 7, 2024 19:08:33 GMT
some of the "of it's time" content of the series, maybe they consider it better left in the past.
What do you have in mind?
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Post by max on Feb 8, 2024 0:23:34 GMT
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free. I don’t think they are. We tried to watch it over Christmas and couldn’t find them on any streaming service, either free or paid. I just checked iPlayer again as making them available feels like a no-brainer in the run up to the show. Ah, you're quite right. I think I watched them on iplayer last year, but they're not there right now. |
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Post by cat6 on Feb 11, 2024 19:23:05 GMT
Well, I bought tix for May 9. Matinee. Front row. Living dangerously.
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