Poppy or Drood
Auditioning
What is your all time favourite musical they ask...?
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Post by Poppy or Drood on Oct 7, 2024 21:12:54 GMT
Interesting in the latest casting announcement there are four members of an 'ensemble' listed...not sure where they'll fit in...I guess I'll find out come January...
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Post by cherokee on Oct 7, 2024 22:15:32 GMT
Understudies presumably - who'll be used judiciously depending on how the 'reimagining' develops.
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Post by marob on Oct 8, 2024 6:34:10 GMT
Yeah looks like that’s it. The announcement just says ‘ensemble’, but the NT website is a bit more detailed, ‘Ensemble/Understudy Lady Bracknell’, etc.
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Post by parsley1 on Oct 10, 2024 20:50:04 GMT
Just see the stalls pricing for the few tickets left for this show
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 10, 2024 20:54:40 GMT
Will this make 3 Dr Who's on 3 stages simultaneously.. ?
It's quantum superposition gorn mad. What's the collective noun?
*Trafalgar, Pinter, Lyttleton
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Post by nash16 on Oct 10, 2024 22:22:03 GMT
Just see the stalls pricing for the few tickets left for this show There was me thinking Here We Are was going to be the first show for them to charge over £100 per ticket, but here we are. Our National Theatre: £110. Per seat. Wow. |
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Post by lynette on Oct 10, 2024 22:31:52 GMT
No! Ludicrous. The NT stopped being a national theatre a while back . So now it competes with the commercial West End but without the clout.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Oct 10, 2024 22:53:20 GMT
£110?!!!!! WHAT?
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 10, 2024 22:57:41 GMT
It's not completely bad; if you're - pardon the topicality - earnest, you can get those £20 Ryan Air seats at the front or via Friday Rush.
I guess you can also avoid DP by booking reasonably early, or even re/join.
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Post by Rory on Oct 10, 2024 22:58:35 GMT
Crazy. Such a shame for the NT to charge this. |
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 10, 2024 23:04:29 GMT
tourist rates - NT looking specifically at the last-minute market. That much is a WE trait.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Oct 10, 2024 23:05:39 GMT
How much is top price for Here We Are?
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Post by nash16 on Oct 10, 2024 23:23:44 GMT
How much is top price for Here We Are? £110. It was meant to be the first NT show to break the £100 mark, but now they’ve got Earnest in on the action to break that record first. So depressing. |
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Post by Jon on Oct 11, 2024 0:08:04 GMT
I do think we nip in the bud to get the idea that subsidised theatre equals cheap tickets for the best seats, the National still needs to make money even with subsidy, it's an expensive place to run and £110 top price is still less than top price at say Macbeth in the West End or the Cate Blanchett Seaguall. The National has affordable tickets as well as the Friday Rush so you can see Earnest at a low cost.
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Post by Jan on Oct 11, 2024 6:24:29 GMT
I do think we nip in the bud to get the idea that subsidised theatre equals cheap tickets for the best seats, the National still needs to make money even with subsidy, it's an expensive place to run and £110 top price is still less than top price at say Macbeth in the West End or the Cate Blanchett Seaguall. The NT is a charity and so does not make a profit, so comparing it with purely commercial West End productions is not valid. Since it opened on the South Bank the NT top price tickets were always less than West End commercial equivalents, it's only in recent years they haven't been. |
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Post by kate8 on Oct 11, 2024 6:24:58 GMT
I do think we nip in the bud to get the idea that subsidised theatre equals cheap tickets for the best seats, the National still needs to make money even with subsidy, it's an expensive place to run and £110 top price is still less than top price at say Macbeth in the West End or the Cate Blanchett Seaguall. The National has affordable tickets as well as the Friday Rush so you can see Earnest at a low cost. I agree. It is possible, normally easy if you book early, to get the front 4 rows for all NT show at £20/£25. Back of circle is the same price, and a much better view than most WE cheap seats. Plus they give good discounts for children & young people, disabled people, a matinee discount for pensioners. All of those make theatregoing more affordable for a lot of people. It’s not unreasonable to pay for that by selling premium seats at a high price, but still lower than WE. |
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Post by Jon on Oct 11, 2024 14:04:34 GMT
I do think we nip in the bud to get the idea that subsidised theatre equals cheap tickets for the best seats, the National still needs to make money even with subsidy, it's an expensive place to run and £110 top price is still less than top price at say Macbeth in the West End or the Cate Blanchett Seagull. The NT is a charity and so does not make a profit, so comparing it with purely commercial West End productions is not valid. Since it opened on the South Bank the NT top price tickets were always less than West End commercial equivalents, it's only in recent years they haven't been. The Old Vic is a charity as well but they're charging £110 for premium tickets for A Christmas Carol as well as £140 for ticket, drink and programme packages. |
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 11, 2024 14:13:13 GMT
Goodness me .. OV is a charity, but not a charity for benefit of the punters.
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Post by Jan on Oct 11, 2024 14:26:09 GMT
The NT is a charity and so does not make a profit, so comparing it with purely commercial West End productions is not valid. Since it opened on the South Bank the NT top price tickets were always less than West End commercial equivalents, it's only in recent years they haven't been. The Old Vic is a charity as well but they're charging £110 for premium tickets for A Christmas Carol Exactly you make my point. The NT ticket prices are comparable to the Old Vic who get no ACE grant at all whereas 30% of NT income is from the taxpayer. Their prices should therefore be 30% lower than the Old Vic, not the same. |
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Post by Jon on Oct 11, 2024 14:38:53 GMT
Exactly you make my point. The NT ticket prices are comparable to the Old Vic who get no ACE grant at all whereas 30% of NT income is from the taxpayer. Their prices should therefore be 30% lower than the Old Vic, not the same. The National is a much bigger venue than the Old Vic so it's not a like for like comparison. Surely if subsidy means lower prices all round then that would be true for the Royal Ballet & Opera which has subsidy but charges three figures for top price tickets. |
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Post by Jan on Oct 11, 2024 16:33:39 GMT
Exactly you make my point. The NT ticket prices are comparable to the Old Vic who get no ACE grant at all whereas 30% of NT income is from the taxpayer. Their prices should therefore be 30% lower than the Old Vic, not the same. The National is a much bigger venue than the Old Vic so it's not a like for like comparison. Surely if subsidy means lower prices all round then that would be true for the Royal Ballet & Opera which has subsidy but charges three figures for top price tickets. But it was you offering it up as a like for like comparison ! And now you’re citing grand opera as a like for like comparison, a massively expensive art form to stage which has NO purely commercial counterpart at all so we don’t know if their prices are lower all round due to subsidy or not. Normally at this point you also you cite Broadway (but not Berlin or Paris). |
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Post by fclou on Oct 11, 2024 17:08:54 GMT
Will this make 3 Dr Who's on 3 stages simultaneously.. ?
It's quantum superposition gorn mad. What's the collective noun?
*Trafalgar, Pinter, Lyttleton
and Paul McGann in Greenwich in The River - but he finishes before Ncuti starts so not quite 4 on 4 stage simultaneously... |
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Oct 11, 2024 17:47:05 GMT
I know it’s a musical not a play. But I’ve paid £8.50 per ticket for A Face in the Crowd (Young Vic) tomorrow. I find their pricing the most accessible.
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Post by parsley1 on Oct 11, 2024 19:11:43 GMT
I know it’s a musical not a play. But I’ve paid £8.50 per ticket for A Face in the Crowd (Young Vic) tomorrow. I find their pricing the most accessible. Most likely as the show isn’t in demand |
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Post by aspieandy on Oct 11, 2024 20:09:32 GMT
Will this make 3 Dr Who's on 3 stages simultaneously.. ?
It's quantum superposition gorn mad. What's the collective noun?
*Trafalgar, Pinter, Lyttleton
and Paul McGann in Greenwich in The River - but he finishes before Ncuti starts so not quite 4 on 4 stage simultaneously...
That would have been excellent.
Greenwich used to be the Trafalgar, so potentilly 2 of those, as well: 'Former Dr Who onstage at the Trafalgar, and the Trafalgar'
/Aspie out
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