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Post by Steve on Jul 18, 2024 18:57:51 GMT
TodayTix has Front Stalls tickets to this for £30. Yes please.  |
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Post by ladidah on Jul 18, 2024 19:28:23 GMT
I got a great ticket today too.
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Post by ladidah on Aug 19, 2024 7:19:25 GMT
Anyone else going to this tonight?
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Post by alece10 on Aug 19, 2024 12:24:52 GMT
I'm there.
Row D stalls.
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Post by rayc on Aug 19, 2024 12:31:54 GMT
Going tomorrow matinee. Back of Royal Circle
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Post by ladidah on Aug 19, 2024 13:15:09 GMT
I've asked the venue for timings, nothing back yet
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Post by alece10 on Aug 19, 2024 14:07:07 GMT
I've asked the venue for timings, nothing back yet It's quite a long musical from what I remember and I believe it's the original orchestrations so we may be out by midnight! |
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Post by ladidah on Aug 19, 2024 14:07:46 GMT
Oh lord!
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Post by ladidah on Aug 19, 2024 14:09:18 GMT
Can't they just cut the Ballet?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 19, 2024 14:09:54 GMT
What do they do about the ballet in these concert versions? Skip it?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 19, 2024 14:10:21 GMT
Can't they just cut the Ballet? Snap! |
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Post by ladidah on Aug 19, 2024 14:10:56 GMT
haha! See - they should cut!
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Post by rayc on Aug 19, 2024 14:19:27 GMT
Gives the Orchestra time in the spotlight I guess.
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Post by ladidah on Aug 19, 2024 14:29:10 GMT
I bet even they get bored halfway through
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Post by Talisman on Aug 19, 2024 15:06:36 GMT
I’ve never enjoyed this part. It really doesn’t seem to belong. Agnes de Mille had a classical background although her work on Rodeo seemed to fit.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 19, 2024 15:09:43 GMT
What do they do about the ballet in these concert versions? Skip it? The semi-staged Proms performance in 2017 had the ballet staged, helped I suppose by having in Scarlett Strallen a Laurey who could do her own dancing rather than requiring a double. So I suppose it depends whether this concert is the everyone-stands-in-a-line-behind-music-stands sort or the semi-staged sort. (I'm not going so I don't know what the advanced publicity has indicated.) |
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Post by alece10 on Aug 19, 2024 16:03:03 GMT
It's a Forth Wall production so there will be no music stands and the cast will be in costume.
I was also at the Proms concert and they also had Robbie Fairchild who is an amazing ballet dancer so made the ballet scene enjoyable but I agree it could be cut and you would miss nothing.
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Post by ladidah on Aug 19, 2024 20:12:40 GMT
Loving this so far, Phil Dunster is just getting away with it due to a real charm and chemistry.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 19, 2024 20:43:14 GMT
I was also at the Proms concert and they also had Robbie Fairchild who is an amazing ballet dancer so made the ballet scene enjoyable but I agree it could be cut and you would miss nothing. I'm afraid I don't actually remember Fairchild being in the ballet sequence, as it's focused on the characters of Laurey, Curly & Jud. (To my considerable annoyance our Tivo box at the time malfunctioned not long afterwards & had to be replaced so I lost my recording & have never been able to watch it back.) |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 19, 2024 21:16:25 GMT
I was also at the Proms concert and they also had Robbie Fairchild who is an amazing ballet dancer so made the ballet scene enjoyable but I agree it could be cut and you would miss nothing. I'm afraid I don't actually remember Fairchild being in the ballet sequence, as it's focused on the characters of Laurey, Curly & Jud. (To my considerable annoyance our Tivo box at the time malfunctioned not long afterwards & had to be replaced so I lost my recording & have never been able to watch it back.) The full thing appears to be on the YouTubes |
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Post by alece10 on Aug 19, 2024 22:25:30 GMT
That was a lovely, lovely concert.
Phil Dunster utterly charming.
I'll report more tomorrow.
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Post by westendgirls on Aug 19, 2024 22:57:30 GMT
Just home after a great evening. Overall I really enjoyed it, the only weak link for me was ZiZi I’m afraid. While she is obviously a very accomplished singer her style didn’t mesh well with Phil’s during People Will Say We’re In Love. She completely took over and it didn’t feel like a duet. Which is a shame as it’s one of my favourites in the show
Also several times it was hard to make out what she was saying, don’t know if it was the sound or her accent but was difficult to understand her especially towards the end. We thought it was just us but overheard a group saying the same thing while we were on the tube going home
Phil Dunster was great. Never seen him sing before but was pleasantly surprised and would like to see him do more on stage. Christina and Jordan were great as Ado Annie and Will
I know this has been heavily discounted through offers and the theatre definitely seemed quieter than at Something Rotten two weeks ago but the audience seemed to love it. Would have loved a song after the curtain call to finish it off though
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Post by 141920grm on Aug 20, 2024 0:14:16 GMT
… an Oklahoma megamix?
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Post by ladidah on Aug 20, 2024 6:35:11 GMT
I agree with so much!
Zizi was too operatic and loud, so she drowned him out.
Will Parker, Jud, the Peddler and Aunt Eller were incredible.
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Post by Talisman on Aug 20, 2024 8:29:19 GMT
Was ballet danced?
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