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Post by LaLuPone on Feb 18, 2019 18:03:20 GMT
The prices for the last show are crazy! £150 for something like Row Q of the stalls and £85 for the back row of the stalls!! 😳
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Feb 18, 2019 21:18:04 GMT
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Post by lolasangel on Feb 18, 2019 21:18:04 GMT
Francesca as Joanne tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 21:19:43 GMT
The prices for the last show are crazy! £150 for something like Row Q of the stalls and £85 for the back row of the stalls!! 😳 Or as we call them in New York: everyday Broadway prices |
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Post by LaLuPone on Feb 18, 2019 21:21:57 GMT
It’s great for Francesa to get to go on as Joanne but I don’t envy her with Patti’s shoes to fill! There will be many a dissapointed gay in that audience tonight!
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Feb 18, 2019 22:26:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 22:26:42 GMT
Is this the first shoe Patti has missed?
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Post by LaLuPone on Feb 18, 2019 22:28:53 GMT
Is this the first shoe Patti has missed? Yes I'm pretty sure it is. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 12:31:35 GMT
lmao at people on BroadwayWorld debating how devastated audience members would be upon learning Patti would be out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 12:52:08 GMT
Going all the way back to the subject of the production/set design, anyone paid any attention to the framing of this production?
All the rooms that roll in and out are bordered with LED, framing the scene up, lit in a complimentary color to the scene.
Not only the trucks though, the entire stage is framed with the same LED bars around the proscenium. Maybe I'm overthinking it but to me this frame could be interpreted as a window that we, the audience, are observing each scene through.
Anyone any thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 13:05:56 GMT
Patti probably threw a sickie on purpose to not show the others up who have been off all the time too much.
Amateurs.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 13:33:00 GMT
the entire stage is framed with the same LED bars around the proscenium. Maybe I'm overthinking it but to me this frame could be interpreted as a window and we, the audience, are observing each scene through I took it partly as a tribute to the original set, that looked a bit like "Celebrity Squares" ("Hollywood Squares" to Americans) but mostly that her life was a series of boxes and compartments and that she flowed between them. Oh wow! Yes. Looking at pictures of the original online now, there is definitely a visual reference to the 1970 production in the current production design. |
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Feb 19, 2019 16:16:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 16:16:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 17:37:07 GMT
Patti is back on tonight.  |
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Feb 19, 2019 17:56:54 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 17:56:54 GMT
lmao at people on BroadwayWorld debating how devastated audience members would be upon learning Patti would be out. They put her on a ridiculous pedestal, she isn't even remotely the best thing about this show - I found her performance pretty bland and I'd be interested to see her understudy! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 18:08:57 GMT
Patti is back on tonight. Hoorah! Back to show them all how it's done.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 18:11:15 GMT
lmao at people on BroadwayWorld debating how devastated audience members would be upon learning Patti would be out. They put her on a ridiculous pedestal, she isn't even remotely the best thing about this show - I found her performance pretty bland and I'd be interested to see her understudy! Come here. Let me just check for a pulse to see if you're alive. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 22:21:43 GMT
They put her on a ridiculous pedestal, she isn't even remotely the best thing about this show - I found her performance pretty bland and I'd be interested to see her understudy! Come here. Let me just check for a pulse to see if you're alive. Very much alive, just not afraid to disagree with the majority! I went into it hoping she'd be amazing but I'm afraid I thought her performance was largely very flat. No denying she can sing though. |
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Post by jampot on Feb 19, 2019 22:36:58 GMT
Sorry if already reported..Cd now available pre order with a release date of 29th March...
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Post by LaLuPone on Feb 19, 2019 22:44:47 GMT
Love that the actual CD is £3 cheaper than the MP3 download! Glad I didn’t buy it yet.
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Post by shady23 on Feb 20, 2019 8:48:25 GMT
Hugh Jackman was in watching the show last night!
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Post by apubleed on Feb 20, 2019 14:07:00 GMT
Patti is the only thing in this production that is truly irreplaceable. We've already seen the show works (and works very very well) with a great lead understudy...and I think the material speaks for itself for all the other supporting characters (as much as we all love Getting Married Today - I think there are other competent performers who could pull off a decent job. But Patti has hilarious comic timing, star presence and a killer voice. Plus, she is practically playing herself. Good luck finding anyone who can top that.
WILL SOMEBODY GET ME A DRINKK<delighted>oh, you have ^_^</delighted>
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Post by craig on Feb 20, 2019 14:58:08 GMT
Patti is the only thing in this production that is truly irreplaceable. We've already seen the show works (and works very very well) with a great lead understudy...and I think the material speaks for itself for all the other supporting characters (as much as we all love Getting Married Today - I think there are other competent performers who could pull off a decent job. But Patti has hilarious comic timing, star presence and a killer voice. Plus, she is practically playing herself. Good luck finding anyone who can top that. WILL SOMEBODY GET ME A DRINKK<delighted>oh, you have ^_^</delighted> COULD NOT AGREE MORE! I think the expectation around Patti is so high that it's easy to say she's just doing what she usually does. Maybe... but, if that's the case, what she "usually does" is utterly exceptional. LWL is the very definition of a showstopper. I had never seen Patti perform live before but I felt honoured to witness her sing that song. Goosebumps! I also think she's fantastic throughout. She makes the gentle, predictable humour of "The Little Things You Do..." laugh out loud funny thanks to excellent timing and she has an unbelievable presence in the group numbers without completing dominating. Sometimes I catch her looking and looking I just look right back. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 15:26:55 GMT
Having seen the show in previews and much more recently Patti's performance as Joanne has evolved. I can see why some of those who saw it earlier may not have been as won over as those who have been more recently.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 16:17:32 GMT
I think Patti does very well in this production and particularly contributes some nice touches in the songs where she is among the ensemble. That said, many people rightly go into the show predisposed to value La Lupone and bask in the aura of her star power.
Having seen a half-dozen different productions of Company, I think many strong performers could pull off a performance of Joanne that would rival what Patti does. Part of Sondheim's genius is that it is very, very difficult to not have a song like Ladies Who Lunch be a showstopper.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 17:11:34 GMT
Well, each to their own - I certainly won't be joining the Patti worshipping, but it would be a boring world if we all had the same opinions!
My indifference is probably just as much the piece as the performances though, the show didn't gel with me at all and just left me feeling a bit depressed! I half expected it, I'm not a huge Sondheim fan anyway.
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Feb 20, 2019 17:50:35 GMT
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