Bat Out Of Hell The Musical - MCR/Dominion/Tour/Peacock/Tour

I’m planning on going to a Saturday matinee in September. I prefer to be in the stalls and close ish to the stage. I can’t find any discount offers for Saturdays at the moment, have they had any? Am I likely to beat the £50 front row seats that are on sale?

You could look at what Todaytix offers (no obligation to buy) and head to the box office to see if you get something better. Saturdays sell fairly well, but it's never sold out, so could luck upon a single seat left somewhere in the middle section of the stalls.

Given the choice between the front row and anything that's even cheaper, I'd definitely second the Monkey, it's fabulous value for money. You couldn't pay me to sit on the far sides or far back of the stalls.

No idea about that, sorry. I'm firmly glued to Row A which I've booked ages ahead when booking first opened/was extended. But given the fact that they have quite a few empty seats to fill, I'm sure they wouldn't be fussy over a single seat.

I had first seen this in Manchester from Row J and while the overall view was certainly better, there's just something special about being up close, like front row at a rock concert, especially when you get showered with silver and red stuff and very nearly even get some stage blood on you.

Curious about this too. It doesn't seem to be selling well at all, but the Dominion is such a barn. I've still not seen it, not so much as it doesn't appeal but because at the moment, there's always been something I more urgently want to see.

Book of Mormon has only ever had short booking periods (they're also only booking to October atm) to try and fill the house better. Why try and sell 100-200 seats for performances post October now, when you still have so many seats to fill now?

Whether Bat is "selling badly" or not probably depends on calculations: If they expect (and count on) sold-out houses, yes, it's a flop, because it's not selling out at all, so they're not earning as much as they hope. But if they take the size of the theatre into account and manage realistic expectations, 1200-1300 seats sold per performance (maybe a little less mid-week, maybe some more in the weekend) would still mean a sold-out house in a smaller venue and isn't bad at all.

I think Bat, like all jukebox musicals, also depends a lot on tourists spontaneously booking once they're in town, daytrippers who only book a few days ahead and decide to end their day with a show, etc. and right now between the heatwave and the football world cup, there are probably many people who prefer to spend the lovely summer evenings outdoors and/or watching football. So they may be waiting to see if sales improve once the classic English summer with rain and cool temperatures is back and the football is over and then decide whether to extend or not.

I've not been hiding the fact that I love this show with its terrific rock music to pieces and I'd be very sad to see it go so early when a glorified tribute show like Tina - the Musical is selling out and stuff like Thriller Live and Motown keeps running. Where have all the rock music lovers gone

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I was only saying to my son the other day that I think I’m done for a bit. After the near perfection of my last visit from row c, I don’t see how I could improve on it. I’d like to see another Strat maybe, but Jordan just seems a bit too MT for me and doesn’t have the madness of Polec. Hopefully their rent is low (thanks Hillsong) and they can keep going past October. Nothing has been in the Dominion that looks like it belonged there since WWRY, so hopefully the owners are cutting it some slack. Plus it gets new marketing materials on a practically monthly basis...I don’t think anyone is giving up on it just yet.

I dropped in to the Dominion at 5pm yesterday and got £35 rear circle seats for that evening and was pleasantly surprised with the view. In my opinion these seats were far better than rear stalls seats and the sound quality here was excellent. I'd say that the circle was about 70-75% full and I still managed to move further down to the front at the interval after being distracted with the drunken arm waving and singing of the group in front of me. This was the first time that I'd seen any covers (7th visit now) and have to admit that I really missed Danielle Steers as Zahara. The cover was good but I don't think that anybody else can match the supremely talented Danielle with her incredible vocals. I agree with Mallow that Hannah was brilliant as Sloane and Sam did a great job as Ledoux. I'd like to hope that the show will continue on beyond October.

Well it obviously works for BoM, otherwise they hadn't stuck with it. Perhaps it works to permanently vibe that they are sold out and that tickets are hard to get, as it makes people think "wow, this show is always sold out, it must be terrific!"



Well, considering Steinman had been working on his Peter Pan thing since the late 60s, you'd think he had plenty of time to get it right. That said, I don't think the story is that terrible anyway, it's a fairly decent Romeo & Juliet pastiche and zips along well enough. It doesn't try to be anything more than it is (like WWRY did) and is just fun. If anything, I'd personally say, drop the whole mutant nonsense and just make it a simple "rich girl meets bad boy, Daddy flips his lid" story but that would go against the core of what Steinman wanted with his "forever 18" Peter Pan thing.



True enough - I think there are just some shows that have at some point crossed from being a musical to being something of a tourist theme park thing, something that seems to be around forever, just like Les Mis and Phantom. And whether that's a good thing because it keeps people employed and producers in funds to produce new stuff or a bad thing because it clogs up theatres forever and stops audiences from giving new things a go is another debate.

As for Frozen, I wouldn't be so sure, it's not the juggernaut everyone expected on Broadway - I'm seeing this more on the level of Aladdin in terms of Disney success. And I also wonder if too many Disney/family-orientated shows won't eventually start cannibalizing themselves because there's only so much money going around. Which brings me back to wondering why Bat isn't doing better, as it's such a different style musically to most everything in the West End and should find its own audience, much like WWRY did.

Wicked only needs to do strong business on Friday and Saturday to make its running costs, the rest of the week is pure profit.

Saw this again tonight - I love that the producers keep trying new things to perfect it. It's still excellent - more light hues/tones and some tweaks to the score, suits the new blood red imagery. One hell of a marketing budget, one hell of a show. If you haven't been, then go! Still the battiest show in town!