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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 10:29:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 10:36:00 GMT
Great news, love her music and didn't, for a million years, think we'd get the chance of a transfer.
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Post by Jon on Apr 19, 2018 10:38:57 GMT
Seems less a transfer than a tryout for Broadway. Interesting it’s going to the Oliver rather than say the Lyttelton. I assume it’s running in rep with Ant and Cleo
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Post by MrBunbury on Apr 19, 2018 10:45:11 GMT
Superexcited about this. I didn't expect it to come to the National.
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Post by viserys on Apr 19, 2018 11:09:02 GMT
And of course public booking opens on 18th May when I'm on a coach to the land of dragons and can't snap up a ticket. How popular do we think this is gonna be? I'll be back in London next day, is it likely, I could pop over to the National Theatre and still buy a ticket at the box office?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 12:18:41 GMT
And of course public booking opens on 18th May when I'm on a coach to the land of dragons and can't snap up a ticket. How popular do we think this is gonna be? I'll be back in London next day, is it likely, I could pop over to the National Theatre and still buy a ticket at the box office? I'd be amazed if this sells out on the first day, as long as you're not after the £15 seats. I'm sure you'll be fine. |
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Post by viserys on Apr 19, 2018 12:46:26 GMT
Haha, that was actually the aim, but I guess I'd be OK forking out more, too. Buying at the Box Office would enable me to finally use up some Theatre Token which I've had for years since I always book online from abroad.
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Post by firefingers on Apr 19, 2018 13:37:55 GMT
Listening to this on youtube... it is rather good. Think I'll book a January ticket and hope I'm free.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 13:48:40 GMT
I don't know anything about it, but the announcement seems to have been met with some enthusiasm by the Americans on my Twitter feed, so I'll definitely be booking.  |
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Post by ali973 on Apr 19, 2018 13:50:55 GMT
I'm so excited about this. Been listening to it since the live cast recording came out. What a treat.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 13:52:26 GMT
I'd be amazed if this sells out on the first day, as long as you're not after the £15 seats. I'm sure you'll be fine. I hope it does. Just so I can come on here and post that you're a lyre. I thank you. |
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Post by jek on Apr 19, 2018 17:13:31 GMT
Just regained my status as my teenage daughter's temporary best friend (last achieved when she wanted Hamilton and Fun Home tickets). I had never heard of Hadestown but she tells me that it is wonderful and I simply must get tickets. Sometime on May 3rd (I have priority membership) normal service will be resumed and I will once more just be this rather sad middle aged woman who does her washing!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 17:16:35 GMT
Haven't heard of this before either but it sounds right up you street and even though November is a while away I will still get tickets asap. It seems like quite a brave new show for the Olivier (both the stage size and audience)but that excites me quite a lot.
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Post by sf on Apr 19, 2018 19:26:14 GMT
I'll see it - I like the recording very much - but I'm not sure it's absolutely appropriate for the National's taxpayer-funded resources to be used to provide American commercial producers with what amounts to a discount-rate pre-Broadway tryout.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 19, 2018 20:51:53 GMT
Having listened to the recording on Spotify I can’t help thinking its sound is very much a chamber musical.
*Thinking positive* it’s themes may be epic and so it may work in the Olivier barn ...
this would work in a small warehouse / gig venue. Ok may be hard to find so stick it in the Dorfman ...
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 19, 2018 21:08:44 GMT
I'll see it - I like the recording very much - but I'm not sure it's absolutely appropriate for the National's taxpayer-funded resources to be used to provide American commercial producers with what amounts to a discount-rate pre-Broadway tryout. American commercial producers funded Pinocchio and that then funds legendary productions of Macbeth |
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Post by sf on Apr 19, 2018 21:59:57 GMT
I'll see it - I like the recording very much - but I'm not sure it's absolutely appropriate for the National's taxpayer-funded resources to be used to provide American commercial producers with what amounts to a discount-rate pre-Broadway tryout. American commercial producers funded Pinocchio and that then funds legendary productions of Macbeth Not quite the same thing. Those were National Theatre productions, and American commercial producers made a contribution. This is a pre-Broadway tryout. It was going to happen anyway, it's going to lead to a commercial run on Broadway, so why does it need money from the Arts Council? Actually I suspect it's a substitute for something else - remember, the National were supposed to be doing a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's 'The Witches' this Christmas, and there's been no mention of it for quite some time. Presumably it's been postponed, and this - a more or less ready-made production from Somewhere Else - is filling the slot. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 23:26:57 GMT
American commercial producers funded Pinocchio and that then funds legendary productions of Macbeth Not quite the same thing. Those were National Theatre productions, and American commercial producers made a contribution. This is a pre-Broadway tryout. It was going to happen anyway, it's going to lead to a commercial run on Broadway, so why does it need money from the Arts Council? Actually I suspect it's a substitute for something else - remember, the National were supposed to be doing a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's 'The Witches' this Christmas, and there's been no mention of it for quite some time. Presumably it's been postponed, and this - a more or less ready-made production from Somewhere Else - is filling the slot. Pinocchio was originally scheduled for Christmas 2016, but because John Tiffany was working on Harry Potter it was delayed a year, which is probably why the Bristol Old Vic's Peter Pan came in instead, and probably is the same sort of thing that's happening with Hadestown and The Witches. |
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Post by ali973 on Apr 20, 2018 5:18:10 GMT
Wouldn't the NT make a cut from whatever revenues the show will make on Broadway?
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Post by bordeaux on Apr 20, 2018 6:30:12 GMT
Only 37 performances. Is that because it's a stop-gap or because they think it has limited appeal? It certainly appeals to me.
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Post by ali973 on May 3, 2018 10:38:35 GMT
Just booked my ticket for mid-December. There is availability left of course but it seems to be selling pretty well.
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Post by showtoones on May 3, 2018 12:35:32 GMT
They hold a lot back for members and Tickets always become available with exchanges. Tickets may not be avail now but maybe closer to the event?
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Post by ali973 on May 3, 2018 12:50:41 GMT
I bought two that were 67GBPs and one for another date that was only 18. I looked at several dates in December and I could only find one show that had the 18 ones.
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Post by jek on May 3, 2018 12:57:38 GMT
I got a couple of £15 ones (back row circle) for mid November. Found it harder (though did succeed) to get tickets for Pericles - but then that is only on for three nights and presumably a lot of tickets are held back for community groups involved in the production. Quite relieved to get anything as the usual gremlins seemed to have turned up for National booking. Lots of freezing and initially refusing to let me book anything. Had pretty much given up when I got an Error 503 page but somehow got back in.
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Post by sf on May 3, 2018 14:57:34 GMT
I got one £15 seat for Hadestown, but not for the performance I was initially looking for - first I got the dreaded Error 503, and when I got back in my basket had been magically emptied, then I tried again and hit a problem checking out when the voucher code the National's box office had sent me for a returned ticket didn't work. The transaction timed out while I was on hold waiting to get it sorted out, then the box office phone system cut me off. At the third attempt, I got as far as the checkout and the voucher code still didn't work - back on hold again, and while I was on hold the National's website spontaneously logged me out, which meant - yes - bye bye the reservations in my basket that I hadn't checked out. Phone on speaker, tried a fourth time - those seats gone for the performances I wanted, but I found one that was doable, albeit less convenient, plus a seat (miraculously where I wanted and when I wanted) for Follies. At this point, I'd been on hold (again) for about half an hour, and the box office staff finally answered the call just as I was putting the seat for Follies into the basket.
The voucher code didn't work because the box office employee who emailed it to me transposed two digits in it when he wrote the email.
From first joining the website to receiving the email confirming the transaction had gone through, the whole thing took about two hours and twenty minutes - I was given a relatively high number when I went on to the website before 8.30 (fair enough, I got a relatively low number last time) so it was an hour before I got to the head of the queue, and then what should have taken less than ten minutes ended up taking well over an hour. Pleased I ended up with the tickets I wanted, but that's not an acceptable standard of service.
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