Quiz - CFT / Noël Coward / CFT & Tour

No onstage seating in Chichester but the theatre was in the round so I’m guessing that the onstage seating is to give the sense of the Millionaire set which is in the round. The view may not be great if you’re at the back of the stage as I’d have thought they’ll play most of it “out front”, which might be why the onstage seats are cheap. Nonetheless I’m going onstage this time just to get closer to the action. There is also some (arranged in advance, consensual) audience participation which may only use onstage people, although it’s impossible to know until we see how they’ve restructured the staging.

The stage seats used to be £27 up until today. I went to book and they've shot up to £42!



I don't feel as keen now. Is it *that* good to justify the price rise?

Definitely dynamic pricing. My stage seats for early May were only £27 when I booked them in Jan.

My stage seat was £15 when I booked a month or so ago. Don't know if I got lucky with dynamic pricing, but there were loads of £15 ones about then.

Yeah mine were £15 though they are in previews.

Booked stage seats for eve Thu 12th Apr, hope you don’t consider myself presumptuous robertb213,used your code to save myself £10.

Initially sceptical, and being in the West End was going to give a miss, on re-reading the reviews and comments on here it seems my scepticism is misplaced. On stage seating if anything will provide a new experience and at least I can dine beforehand.

A friend and I were at the first preview tonight (B26 & 27 in the royal circle) and had a brilliant night! Daniel Evans came out at the top of act one and gave a brief speech, saying how because it was a first preview there was a chance that things could go wrong (as it was, one of the screens hanging from the truss in front of the proscenium wasn't working but it did not really affect things too much)

I didn't really know too much about the Ingram scandal going into it, having been too young at the time, but I don't think this really hampered my enjoyment of the piece. The set and video designs were brilliant, and the audience participation worked really well.

The cast were all brilliant, although Keir Charles deserves a special mention for his scenestealing and uncanny portrayal of Chris Tarrant (among others). Gavin Spokes and Stephanie Street played the Ingrams well, although I did not find them to be overly sympathetic.

I definitely thought showing the result of the final audience vote of previous performances was interesting (in this case the board presented the results of the final ten performances in Chichester).

Just so others don't make the mistake my friend and I did, the voting remotes are hanging from a black string on the back of the chair in front of you. We didn't find ours until the interval, so we missed most of the voting aspect.

I definitely would recommend going to see it! I never got to see it at Chichester so I can't say how it compares but it does work well at the Noel Coward, and judging by the audience reaction at the end, others felt the same way.

Well this was one of the most painful nights I've ever had in the theatre.

The stage seats were brutally uncomfortable but even worse was the appalling play. Without a doubt one of the worst things I've ever seen in the West End.

Horribly padded, how many song routines did we need, terrible dialogue, lifeless characters - ok I know it's hard when based on real people but unlike This House I wasn't interested in these people in the slightest. A messy production which felt the need to underline every point such as flashing up Trump Tower on the screen to accompany the reference in dialogue.

A waste of a theatre and Sarah Woodward who put in by far the best performance.

Delfont Mackintosh now saying it is cancelled tonight.

Saw this last night. Wow. From a writer with such a strong pedigree this was incredibly disappointing and considering that this is a transfer it doesn't really have the excuse of being a preview. I loved Ink and Labour of Love - both clever, informative, moving and funny. This play has none of that - it's like they swapped out anything that resembled an emotional arc or wit and replaced it with either a gimmick or a pretty poor Chris Tarrant impression.

The play basically shows us the events of the coughing scandal in benal detail. By the end of act one they had just told the story, by the end of act two they asked whether there should be a trial by media. I understand the statement but WHY choose this boring story to recreate when they could have made their point with something original and with higher consequences for the protagonists.

The gimmicks are pointless - there's a warm up guy who spends a good 6 minutes at the top of the show trying to get the audience to ooo and ahhh in the right places - all you wanted them to do was get on with it. You can cast your vote with some pretty tacky technology and don't start me on the pub quiz and throw back gameshows that the audience are forced to take part in.

Performances are fine but you're so bored by the end it doesn't really matter. Sat on the stage - perfectly comfortable but didn't really add anything to the show.

A shame that this is taking up space in such a great house.

I’ll be there tonight also. I don’t cough when I’m drinking gin so I’ll be fine.