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Post by Rozzi Rainbow on Feb 5, 2023 21:43:21 GMT
…with a few too many free days of wandering about in Newfoundland for my liking. Thanks both. That's probably not too bad considering. My local airport are organising a 4 night trip to Iceland later this year - for almost £2,000. And I'd expect the flights to Canada to be considerably more, and to be there for more than 4 days ... It sounds like a fantastic experience, and if I didn't already have a lot planned this year I'd probably still go despite the cost, chances like this won't come up all that often. |
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Post by christya on Feb 5, 2023 22:38:23 GMT
Yeah I don't think it's necessarily a bad deal, I worked out that I couldn't do the trip myself for under £2000 and theirs is longer than the one I looked at. Which is part of the problem - the first part of the trip is stuff I've already done, in the Toronto/Niagara area.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 5, 2023 22:41:18 GMT
While I wouldn't call £3150 cheap, it doesn't sound too bad compared to the trip the Royal Ballet is offering to Japan this summer which I read is apparently about £25000!
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Post by ceebee on Feb 5, 2023 22:51:23 GMT
…with a few too many free days of wandering about in Newfoundland for my liking. That's what put me off - too many "at leisure" days to justify the cost. |
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Post by ceebee on Feb 6, 2023 15:40:51 GMT
Leicester February 2024 apparently...
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 6, 2023 15:58:25 GMT
Tour to launch at curve
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 6, 2023 15:58:45 GMT
Yes I've seen that, but I'd seen that listed on sites prior to today so assumed more dates were going to be released today. Still nothing offical released on their socials
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Post by nomoretalkofdarkness on Feb 6, 2023 16:06:47 GMT
Yeah the tour was confirmed to start at Curve Leicester in February 2024 when the tour was announced.
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Post by westendrebecca on Feb 6, 2023 19:01:56 GMT
Beginning to think this announcement is coming at 8:46!
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 6, 2023 19:36:28 GMT
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Feb 6, 2023 19:48:13 GMT
seems they pushed it back a month as originally said february.
made me consider curve membership so i can get in there early!
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Post by christya on Feb 6, 2023 20:30:54 GMT
Did they seriously hype it for the announcement of one venue?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 7, 2023 8:40:50 GMT
Isn’t CFA a very small show for such a big stage?
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 7, 2023 8:43:07 GMT
I assume it will be playing big stages around the country anyway. It wouldn't be the first small shoe to play on massive stages
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Post by ceebee on Feb 22, 2023 19:00:24 GMT
Another two promo videos recently featuring Alice Fearne - should we assume that she will play Beverley on tour?
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Post by A.Ham on Feb 22, 2023 19:11:05 GMT
Another two promo videos recently featuring Alice Fearne - should we assume that she will play Beverley on tour? That’s what I keep thinking. Otherwise she’d have wrapped up her CFA commitments when it closed in Jan and would presumably have taken on another role in something else by now… ? |
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Post by danb on Feb 22, 2023 19:21:15 GMT
She’s great but I’d like to see someone else have a go.
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Post by theatremiss on Feb 22, 2023 19:46:18 GMT
Booked for opening night at The Curve and the following matinee. I hope they don’t push it back
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Post by Rozzi Rainbow on Mar 26, 2023 17:55:02 GMT
I've recently read two Come From Away books. I expect they've been discussed on here already, but I'm quite late to the party having only been able to see the show live just before Christmas (and it's not like we have much else to talk about here at the moment).
I first ordered "The Day the World Came to Town" by Jim DeFede. This wasn't quite what I was expecting. I knew that there would be lots of different stories, many more than those depicted in CFA, but while some of the CFA characters were featured, some were only mentioned very briefly, and others not at all. (I suppose it came down to who the respective writers interviewed, and which stories they decided to prioritise.) I enjoyed the start of the book, but once it got past the 12th it began to feel a bit samey. And I didn't really feel any emotion at the end like I get with CFA - it just felt a bit like "and they all went home".
So then I ordered "Come From Away Welcome to the Rock". Now this book IS CFA. I thought it was absolutely brilliant - it contains a lot of background material about how the show developed and interviews with the original cast, the full libretto with comments from the writers and also some material that didn't make the final cut. Some of the background material and parts that were cut actually tie up with parts of the first book I read, so there is actually more overlap between the two books than between the first book and the show. This book will hopefully keep me going until next year's tour!! I'd definitely recommend it for fans of the show - if you love CFA, I expect you will love this book too.
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Post by willjam39 on Mar 27, 2023 15:19:53 GMT
If you haven't seen them, there are vids from a concert the Broadway cast did which were the songs that didn't make it into the show called "cut from away". Is quite fascinating watching which bits did evolve into other songs in the show.
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Post by theatrekiwi on Mar 29, 2023 12:03:25 GMT
Another two promo videos recently featuring Alice Fearne - should we assume that she will play Beverley on tour? That’s what I keep thinking. Otherwise she’d have wrapped up her CFA commitments when it closed in Jan and would presumably have taken on another role in something else by now… ? Latest post on the CFA Instagram page today suggests someone else. Has Alice leaving "a little surprise for the next Beverley" while in Leicester. |
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Post by A.Ham on Mar 29, 2023 12:08:05 GMT
Thank you, just saw the same post on Twitter. Not surprising but a shame nonetheless.
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Post by Rozzi Rainbow on Mar 29, 2023 16:35:24 GMT
If you haven't seen them, there are vids from a concert the Broadway cast did which were the songs that didn't make it into the show called "cut from away". Is quite fascinating watching which bits did evolve into other songs in the show. I didn't know about these, thank you, they are brilliant! |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Apr 28, 2023 8:43:18 GMT
Has anyone heard anything about what future tour dates will be announced?
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Post by Mark on May 28, 2023 11:39:11 GMT
Looks like tour dates coming soon.
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