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Post by anthony40 on Nov 19, 2018 16:43:07 GMT
Sure. Which means the London audience misses out
The point I’m trying to make is once it was decided, why not release the damn thing ASAP, that way you capture both the London audience (that in all likelihood would have more international audience members than regional audiences) as well as the regional audience.
Sadly, this seems like a missed opportunity to me.
But again, what do I know
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Post by danb on Nov 19, 2018 18:00:07 GMT
I’ll just leave this here, because I think calling people enjoying themselves and finding something to belong to ‘nauseating’, is far worse. I don't really see the connection between (as a fan of the show) not wanting to call myself a "corn nut" and being a fat-shaming bully who ends up getting assaulted in a slightly hard-to-believe tale. Be assured that as someone who was bullied for being fat, and for being gay, and a few other things it's not something I really stand for, and if anyone somehow was perturbed or offended by me making fun of a dodgy collective noun for fans of the show you have my apologies. It was mean spirited, sneery and likely to make someone feel exactly the same as you felt in the circumstances you describe happening to you; which makes it hard to believe that you would be so careless with words if they have hurt you in the past. But it’s just an opinion. |
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Post by andrew on Nov 19, 2018 18:31:30 GMT
I don't really see the connection between (as a fan of the show) not wanting to call myself a "corn nut" and being a fat-shaming bully who ends up getting assaulted in a slightly hard-to-believe tale. Be assured that as someone who was bullied for being fat, and for being gay, and a few other things it's not something I really stand for, and if anyone somehow was perturbed or offended by me making fun of a dodgy collective noun for fans of the show you have my apologies. It was mean spirited, sneery and likely to make someone feel exactly the same as you felt in the circumstances you describe happening to you; which makes it hard to believe that you would be so careless with words if they have hurt you in the past. But it’s just an opinion. Really? Exactly the same way? I think you've lost some perspective there, but as I've stated I'm sorry if anyone was upset by what I said, it doesn't give me any pleasure to think of anyone being put out by me posting on theatre board. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 18:33:33 GMT
I think they really missed a trick not recording the Cast Recording before the Haymarket run. Having that on the Merch stand would of sold out every performance without a doubt.
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Post by danb on Nov 19, 2018 18:52:06 GMT
It was mean spirited, sneery and likely to make someone feel exactly the same as you felt in the circumstances you describe happening to you; which makes it hard to believe that you would be so careless with words if they have hurt you in the past. But it’s just an opinion. Really? Exactly the same way? I think you've lost some perspective there, but as I've stated I'm sorry if anyone was upset by what I said, it doesn't give me any pleasure to think of anyone being put out by me posting on theatre board. Mine might have been an overeaction, but without new generations of theatregoers being encouraged to enjoy theatre in different ways we will be lumbered with the same old rota of shows coming round and round again, and producers will charge more and more for the ‘classics’ thinking people keep wanting them, when really there isn’t a choice! Theatregoing is to be encouraged if we want to keep it alive, not looked down on and judged, is where I was trying to get to. |
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Post by mt24601 on Nov 19, 2018 19:05:07 GMT
Sure. Which means the London audience misses out The point I’m trying to make is once it was decided, why not release the damn thing ASAP, that way you capture both the London audience (that in all likelihood would have more international audience members than regional audiences) as well as the regional audience. Sadly, this seems like a missed opportunity to me. But again, what do I know I do agree with that, I don’t know why they announced it months before releasing it |
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Post by anthony40 on Nov 19, 2018 23:27:29 GMT
I think they really missed a trick not recording the Cast Recording before the Haymarket run. Having that on the Merch stand would of sold out every performance without a doubt. Thank you Daniel! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 1:52:51 GMT
Carrie said on her Instagram story yesterday something along the lines of .... she is sad the show is ending but is pretty sure its by for now and not bye for forever so maybe she is already lined up to tour with the show.
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Post by Mark on Nov 20, 2018 7:34:41 GMT
Carrie said on her Instagram story yesterday something along the lines of .... she is sad the show is ending but is pretty sure its by for now and not bye for forever so maybe she is already lined up to tour with the show. Carrie would be great for the tour - she has enough “fans” around the country to be able to sell tickets for a weeklong run at the midsized venues. “Starring the Whatsonstage 2018 Best Actress in a Musical” |
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Post by shady23 on Nov 20, 2018 7:43:40 GMT
Big drama online as some fans have been spreading a story that security are not letting anyone queue up for day tickets before 5am on Saturday. Turns out no such rules exist, they just want the tickets for themselves!
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Post by martello736 on Nov 20, 2018 8:39:13 GMT
Big drama online as some fans have been spreading a story that security are not letting anyone queue up for day tickets before 5am on Saturday. Turns out no such rules exist, they just want the tickets for themselves! That's almost infuriatingly clever. Childish, but clever. |
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Post by danb on Nov 20, 2018 10:04:01 GMT
Look how resourceful this generation are! We’re gonna be fine.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 10:30:14 GMT
Lining up before 5am for tickets feels like the exact opposite of the lazy generalisations that people like to make about millennials (or whatever we call young people these days.)
Bravo to them!
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Post by shady23 on Nov 20, 2018 11:23:39 GMT
They will be at the Friday show, come straight out and start to queue straight away.
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Post by cmj on Nov 20, 2018 13:04:42 GMT
No one is denying the right to get up early and dayseat any show. The problem has been that on more than one occasion a regular few have allowed others to queue jump denying others who had also queued from 5am tickets. These same people have also deliberately misled others who have sought their day seating knowledge so that they were still first in the queue.
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Post by cmj on Nov 20, 2018 13:18:28 GMT
No they don't(personal experience of being refused), but if you re not on your own one person can buy 2 for matinee and the other can buy for evening
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Post by danb on Nov 20, 2018 15:16:27 GMT
It’s all getting a bit tasty on twitter about this. Aunty Willie from MTAS has pointed out what the youngsters did re: trying to convince people to not get there early and is now being accused of bullying young kids! I can see no evidence of this but it does all seem a bit extreme. Passionate is one thing, psychotic a bit different...
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Post by shady23 on Nov 20, 2018 15:33:51 GMT
They are doing no different to what fans have done for years and what people going to standing concerts do every day.
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Post by danb on Nov 20, 2018 15:50:27 GMT
Is the problem that both shows are sold out and the only hope they have of going is day seats? Or just bonkers fan girl stuff? I don’t get it, but then I don’t like queuing in Sainsburys so certainly wouldn’t loiter around Picadilly at 5am for this. I’d have just booked in time!
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Post by martello736 on Nov 20, 2018 16:42:06 GMT
I follow a fair few of the Heathers crazies on twitter (before Heathers opened they were regular theatre fans - hence why I followed them - but Heathers seems to have sent them a bit rabid). They are definitely no worse than a lot of the Wicked gang from a few years ago but there is an astonishing sense of arrogance and entitlement amongst them. They seem to think that anything the Heathers cast say (e.g. don’t throw things onto the stage, don’t expect photos at stage door etc) applies to everybody other than them, and that they are part of an exclusive in group who are basically best friends with the cast, and that other fans need to learn their place and realise that they’re inferior..
There’s one particular fan who was boasting about the audios she’s recorded on Twitter and tagging cast members in the tweet, which led to Carrie tweeting her and saying that she shouldn’t be recording and that she could be banned from the theatre, an interaction which she celebrated as she thought it was proof of Carrie showing her love for her. A couple of weeks later she was tagging cast members in pictures she’d taken of them without permission (things like taking a picture of them walking off towards the tube station from stage door or pictures of them having a conversation with other cast members in front of the theatre) and Carrie AGAIN tweeted her telling her it wasn’t appropriate, and still she thinks she has a special bond with her. I don’t know if this is the same clique that perpetuated the 5am rumour hit it wouldn’t surprise me.
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Post by theinvisiblegirl on Nov 20, 2018 16:46:51 GMT
It’s ironic that the whole 5am thing is totally Heather behaviour and therefore against the actual message of the show.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 16:49:06 GMT
It’s ironic that the whole 5am thing is totally Heather behaviour and therefore against the actual message of the show. Indeed. Let's poison them or shoot them in the face. That'll teach 'em! |
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Post by sophie92 on Nov 20, 2018 16:58:53 GMT
Is the problem that both shows are sold out and the only hope they have of going is day seats? Or just bonkers fan girl stuff? I don’t get it, but then I don’t like queuing in Sainsburys so certainly wouldn’t loiter around Picadilly at 5am for this. I’d have just booked in time! I know some of this group have seats booked for the final show, so they’re not relying on day seats (like some may be) but they consider the day seats ‘their seats’ and so they’re trying their best to make sure no-one else gets first dibs! |
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Post by No. on Nov 20, 2018 17:03:01 GMT
It’s all getting a bit tasty on twitter about this. Aunty Willie from MTAS has pointed out what the youngsters did re: trying to convince people to not get there early and is now being accused of bullying young kids!. A lot of irony in that considering I’m pretty sure the girls they’re talking about are around 20 |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 17:06:13 GMT
That makes sense. I did wonder what kind of parents were allowing their teenage daughters walk the streets of London to queue up outside a theatre at 5am in the morning which will be cold and dark at this time of year.
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