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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 30, 2016 16:12:59 GMT
Glad to hear positive comments. Is the script pretty much identical to last year's West End production? I remember they made substantial changes from the tour to the Apollo run. Yes, pretty much word for word, as far as I could tell without actually sitting there reading the script as they went along! There's nothing like the changes they made first from the original production to the tour & then from the tour to the West End. Of course this means that while Matt is technically playing the same role as he did on tour he's actually not doing the same track for about half the show! |
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Post by freckles on Dec 7, 2016 14:20:16 GMT
That's a shame as it's always been billed as "at Christmas". New Years Day would be quite nice but I was panicking going through the listings, it's one of the things I'm most looking forward to this year.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 7, 2016 18:55:12 GMT
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 8, 2016 21:44:33 GMT
Apologies for the double post but we now have a date & time. Good thing I'm not the sort of person who ever goes out on New Year's Eve.
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Post by freckles on Dec 9, 2016 8:22:25 GMT
Good news.
And it's on quite early, so still time to go out...
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Post by freckles on Dec 9, 2016 14:30:01 GMT
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Post by londonmzfitz on Dec 13, 2016 17:03:31 GMT
That's a very good time for listeners on Christmas Day - people driving hither and thither to/from families. They've had a proper good year, the Mischief Mob - 3 shows in the West End, Broadway beckoning, New Years Eve prime time telly and Christmas Day radio. They must be thrilled.
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Post by duncan on Dec 13, 2016 21:08:36 GMT
There is a 90 second or so preview clip on the BBCs Youtube channel
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Post by freckles on Dec 15, 2016 14:53:08 GMT
There is a 90 second or so preview clip on the BBCs Youtube channel While that is a great moment from the show, it's also supposed to be a shock and make the audience jump, so not the bit I would have chosen to preview. Maybe they just wanted to show Nancy's bum... |
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 15, 2016 21:22:36 GMT
There is a 90 second or so preview clip on the BBCs Youtube channel While that is a great moment from the show, it's also supposed to be a shock and make the audience jump, so not the bit I would have chosen to preview. Maybe they just wanted to show Nancy's bum... That seems to be Nancy's own opinion, given she's tweeted about it with that bit freeze-framed! I didn't think about it from a spoilers point of view (having seen the show so much I'm way beyond spoilers!) but yes, I guess it is giving one of the best gags away. |
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Post by danielwhit on Dec 18, 2016 13:31:21 GMT
Only a hour and five minutes - definitely a slightly condensed version then!
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 18, 2016 13:40:00 GMT
Really? I thought it was 1h20. I can't imagine how they'd get it into 1h05 given the scenes we saw filmed hadn't been cut that much compared to the stage version. Either they must have left out several scenes or done some major post-production cutting!
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Post by stevej678 on Dec 18, 2016 14:22:18 GMT
Definitely only 65 minutes in TV listings. The three-star write-up in the Mail on Sunday today said it will make you laugh rather than fill you with wonder, as if that amounted to a failure on the show's behalf! Looking forward to seeing it live and completing the Mischief boxset tonight!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 16:50:21 GMT
I mean, that's the POINT???
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Post by djdan14 on Dec 28, 2016 20:10:49 GMT
This is well worth a listen to anyone who may have missed it. Especially if you enjoy Irving Berlin's White Christmas and stories about sensible administrive owls. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 31, 2016 19:19:10 GMT
Watching this on BBC. Jeez it's as flat as a pancake. Surely it's funnier live? Tv does have the habit of killing live theatre.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Dec 31, 2016 19:29:20 GMT
So what is adapted and added for that Tv version? Is some of the set we saw just for the tv recording? As i struggled to see how some of that scenery and set changes could have been achieved in the theatre.
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Post by alece10 on Dec 31, 2016 19:34:18 GMT
There were some funny moments and great stunts. I laughed a few times. Bet it was much funnier on stage though
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Post by djp on Dec 31, 2016 19:38:14 GMT
Ok when it got going - tho shows the role of the warm up on stage. Tootles seems to have been denied most of her stutter - perhaps the BBC think its not PC emough.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 31, 2016 19:51:38 GMT
So what is adapted and added for that Tv version? Is some of the set we saw just for the tv recording? As i struggled to see how some of that scenery and set changes could have been achieved in the theatre. The sets are a kind of ramped up version of what is on stage, for instance more toys in the nursery, more cut-out London buildings for the first flying sequence, considerably more trees in Neverland, more rocks at the lagoon. The sets in the theatre all fit on the revolve, which they didn't for TV - as evinced by the fact that the revolve didn't get much of a look-in except at the end. Obviously the scene of the pirate ship crashing through other shows' sets doesn't happen in the theatre! I reckon we got about three-fifths of what is in the stage version, at a rough estimate. Lots of internal cuts in scenes. The underwater scene completely went, which I was expecting as I don't think it would work on TV. Interestingly, some of what londonmzfitz & I saw filmed at Pinewood didn't make it to screen, notably the pre-show speech by Chris & Robert that was filmed pretty much as it is on stage but obviously then got replaced by the behind-the-scenes bit at the beginning. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 19:57:54 GMT
Tootles seems to have been denied most of her stutter - perhaps the BBC think its not PC emough. Or perhaps the BBC thinks that comedy should be funny? Well, probably they don't, on the evidence of this programme. |
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Post by stevej678 on Dec 31, 2016 21:23:47 GMT
It's great to see so many people being introduced to Mischief Theatre for the first time tonight. And while watching Peter Pan Goes Wrong on TV doesn't compare with seeing it live, a quick look at Twitter or Digital Spy shows that Mischief Theatre have gone down a storm. "Best thing I've seen all year" is the sort of comment being made over and over again. I was there almost from the start, watching The Play That Goes Wrong in a small space at Pleasance Courtyard during the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013 and it never gets old, seeing the success they've had and hugely deserve.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 21:50:14 GMT
What a complete load of bollocks this is on TV... Like a rip-off of Acorn Antiques with a cast of complete nobodies. Ridiculously unfunny.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 22:08:56 GMT
unfortunately this has put me off seeing the play that goes wrong. I enjoy a good farce but this wasn't nearly funny enough. it has its moments but I expected more. Noises Off it aint
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2016 22:15:30 GMT
I have seen the play that goes wrong and really enjoyed it and liked this as well. I watched it with my mum and dad who did not see the play that goes wrong and they enjoyed it. It was good fun and had different suprises. This is not serious and people should just enjoy it for what it is. If we compare everything o other things than it just seems pointless.
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