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Post by alece10 on Jan 18, 2017 13:12:33 GMT
Wasn't there talk about Pippin? My bud says they are putting on (a) Pippin in Manchester this year......would they have two major productions on a once? Also in ur first season would u put on a Broadway transfer??? I just remember EP mentioned it on her programme a good few months ago and it stuck in my mind as I am a big Pippin fan. It's probably all changed since then. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Jan 18, 2017 13:38:03 GMT
I heard the same announcement on EP. Let's face it you listen to that show for the music.
So I would say Pippin, even though Chichester are preparing for the 2017 announcement, I would have thought they are already planning 2018 shows.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2017 13:54:56 GMT
It just don't make sense no matter what EP says....
Mr Evans's first season and he's putting on a transfer? And said transfer uses the circus as a setting as did Barnum which was on just 4 years ago? Which didn't go down very well
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2017 13:58:02 GMT
Wasn't there talk about Pippin? My bud says they are putting on (a) Pippin in Manchester this year......would they have two major productions on a once? Also in ur first season would u put on a Broadway transfer??? Is the forthcoming Manchester production of Pippin "major" though? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2017 14:06:26 GMT
It's at Hope Mill, an emerging theatre, and quite different from a Broadway show.
A new artistic director might very well programme a major transfer at one end of their first season. For example, Rupert Goold began his first Almeida year with a remount of Headlong's 1984 and ended it with a remount of his RSC The Merchant of Venice, also including a remount of the Barrow Street Theatre production of Our Town in the middle!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 18, 2017 14:08:14 GMT
My bud says they are putting on (a) Pippin in Manchester this year......would they have two major productions on a once? Also in ur first season would u put on a Broadway transfer??? Is the forthcoming Manchester production of Pippin "major" though? Depends how you define major. The Hope Mill is about the size of the SWP, Katy Lipson is producing it. It won't be big, but it won't be thrown together either. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2017 14:40:38 GMT
It's at Hope Mill, an emerging theatre, and quite different from a Broadway show. A new artistic director might very well programme a major transfer at one end of their first season. For example, Rupert Goold began his first Almeida year with a remount of Headlong's 1984 and ended it with a remount of his RSC The Merchant of Venice [ But hadn't Goold directed these? Big difference from DE putting on his Company to putting on something by someone else |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2017 16:34:54 GMT
But hadn't Goold directed these? Big difference from DE putting on his Company to putting on something by someone else 1984 was directed by Robert Icke and Our Town was a remount of a New York production by an American director. |
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Post by altamont on Jan 31, 2017 18:55:29 GMT
They are announcing the new season on the 16th February, with friends tickets on sale on 25th Feb
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Post by CG on the loose on Jan 31, 2017 19:02:05 GMT
That's handy... my membership runs to 26th Feb!
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Post by theatremad on Jan 31, 2017 19:07:03 GMT
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Post by theatremad on Jan 31, 2017 19:07:20 GMT
CFT website states 16/2/17 for announcement
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Post by altamont on Jan 31, 2017 19:13:20 GMT
There is a long running thread in General Chat about the new season
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Post by theatremad on Jan 31, 2017 22:01:02 GMT
My apologies all, missed this one
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Post by showgirl on Feb 1, 2017 4:58:51 GMT
Odd, as they told me 11 February, so either there has been some "slippage" since, or they gave me duff gen. However, as my membership has already expired, I still need to know what's on this year in order to judge whether to renew.
So far I've found no advantage to membership other than slightly earlier notice of, and booking for, productions. If you go alone and already buy the cheapest tickets, including any concessions which apply, membership appears to add nothing and given the cost, would more than cover 2 tickets to the main house.
However, if anyone here is aware of other benefits I've not mentioned and which might tip the balance, please point them out.
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 1, 2017 6:32:25 GMT
Never been tempted by membership. So long as you dont leave it too late shows are never sold out. Like most of these it really depends on your connection to the theatre in question and whether you just want to support yhem, as i do with RSC.
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Post by showgirl on Feb 1, 2017 8:26:23 GMT
True about there being no problem getting tix once public booking opens. I wouldn't mind supporting CFT as I do go there quite a lot and enjoy doing so; however, to get me to fork out the extra cost, it'd have to be of mutual benefit, whereas at present it would seem to be one-way only. Last year I thought I'd qualify for the members' multi-show discount as I booked for 5 productions, but of course there's always a catch: turned out that this didn't apply to the lowest-priced tickets, which I had naturally chosen.
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Post by CG on the loose on Feb 1, 2017 9:55:46 GMT
Depending on how much I like in the season, I usually find it pays on the basis of the 5 show discount even if I'm going alone to all shows, but I sometimes book for friends too and then the benefit really kicks in.
And the no fee/quibble exchange or refund comes in handy sometimes as, travelling from afar and booking so far ahead, does sometimes mean my plans change.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 1, 2017 21:26:19 GMT
There is a Tennessee Williams starring a very good American actress in the main house
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Post by showgirl on Feb 2, 2017 5:34:14 GMT
Hmm, appreciate that appeals to some but more like a disincentive to me. And given the current discussion re the American influence on the NT and other London venues, is this a coincidence or an emerging theme?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 10:15:46 GMT
There is a Tennessee Williams starring a very good American actress in the main house That could exactly fit the template of Daniel Evans's Wyndham's American Buffalo by David Mamet with John Goodman, Damian Lewis and Tom Sturridge. Which was juicy to anticipate but pedestrian in practice. Except that Tom Sturridge was electrifying! |
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Post by meister on Feb 4, 2017 8:35:30 GMT
Can't someone with the technical know-how dig around and find some holding pages😉
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Post by altamont on Feb 12, 2017 16:35:41 GMT
Baz tweeting that Sharon D Clarke to star in "Caroline, or Change" directed by Michael Longhurst, in May
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 14, 2017 17:06:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 17:14:07 GMT
Well after Glynis I don't think I could handle another Lear so soon. Up for a Fiddle though and I'm hoping it's the trilogy not just the one conquest |
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