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Post by TallPaul on Mar 21, 2019 16:13:44 GMT
The very idea that @ryan would slum it with Moet!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 16:15:47 GMT
The very idea that @ryan would slum it with Moet! Oops, clearly I'm too unsophisticated to know the good brands of champagne! Somebody help please! |
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Post by beatrice on Mar 21, 2019 16:40:54 GMT
The very idea that @ryan would slum it with Moet! Oops, clearly I'm too unsophisticated to know the good brands of champagne! Somebody help please! Babe I'm a student, can't help you 😉😂 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 18:06:59 GMT
The very idea that @ryan would slum it with Moet! Oops, clearly I'm too unsophisticated to know the good brands of champagne! Somebody help please! If the cork pops, I'll drink it! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 18:36:34 GMT
Oops, clearly I'm too unsophisticated to know the good brands of champagne! Somebody help please! If the cork pops, I'll drink it! Same, same....this is why we get on so well I feel (and why a night out will end badly...or well) |
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Post by singularsensation10 on Mar 22, 2019 12:58:27 GMT
Managed to bag 3 separate rush tickets this morning for tonight’s performance - couldn’t even get 2 together after logging on at 10:01 so this rush initiative must be proving really successful for today tix and the shows that are choosing to do it!! Very excited after not having seen one single bad review, and many people whose opinion I trust calling it such things as ‘life changing’!
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Post by shady23 on Mar 22, 2019 13:58:03 GMT
Rachel is off Monday to Thursday next week if anyone fancies catching her understudy
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Post by lolasangel on Mar 22, 2019 14:31:44 GMT
Rachel is off Monday to Thursday next week if anyone fancies catching her understudy Is this including Thursday? I believe Kirsty is the 1st Beverley cover. Bob Harms is also Kevin T this weekend! Looks like the cast holidays are starting |
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Post by shady23 on Mar 22, 2019 17:28:23 GMT
I assume it means she is back Friday and for purely selfish reasons I am overjoyed that is so as I am going on Friday.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 22, 2019 17:29:40 GMT
Bob Harms is also Kevin T this weekend! Looks like the cast holidays are starting That's mildly annoying, as I'm seeing the matinee tomorrow & David Shannon is one of the people I was vaguely interested in seeing, having seen him as Valjean & the Phantom. However Bob Harms was good in Showboat in Sheffield so I daresay he'll be fine in this too. (Frankly I can't manage to muster much enthusiasm for seeing the show right now, irrespective of the cast.) |
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Post by singularsensation10 on Mar 22, 2019 22:56:42 GMT
Well I believe every good review I’ve heard and read. What a joyous experience. Why some shows get huge amounts of hype and sell out whilst this slips under the radar except for those in the know I will never be able to understand (for example, most of the GenPub has heard of Hamilton but few have heard of this show).
Absolutely wonderfully written and performed. I loved every moment and didn’t want it to end. I will be back again...and again probably. Few shows have made me want to go back recently, but I would happily return to this tomorrow even.
A rare 5* from me. Lovely poignant theatre.
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Post by singularsensation10 on Mar 22, 2019 22:58:12 GMT
Sorry to double post but must shout out the box office guy that sorted me out - we had 3 separate seats from the rush on today tix this morning (two in dress one in grand) and he put us all together in the stalls. I know it’s better for them to pack out the stalls but thought that was a lovely thing to do.
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Post by djp on Mar 22, 2019 23:58:05 GMT
Well I believe every good review I’ve heard and read. What a joyous experience. Why some shows get huge amounts of hype and sell out whilst this slips under the radar except for those in the know I will never be able to understand (for example, most of the GenPub has heard of Hamilton but few have heard of this show). Absolutely wonderfully written and performed. I loved every moment and didn’t want it to end. I will be back again...and again probably. Few shows have made me want to go back recently, but I would happily return to this tomorrow even. A rare 5* from me. Lovely poignant theatre. Ironically, the person sitting next to me actually aid it was better than Hamilton at the end.
It got a very enthusiastic full standing ovation when I went - pretty much full too.
Its secret is that its very funny with the odd bit of poignant reminder. That doesn't obviously come over in the name or the description, or the advertising. Though people seem to have caught on that its not about being marooned in an airport.
its also possibly benefiting from the current aptness of its message to the world of religious massacres, angry rows over finite infinite backstops, and intolerance of opposing views and groups. Its therapy from the real world news.
its also not an example of rip off pricing elsewhere - got a good stalls seat for what it sold at(with inflation added) before shows started charging US prices - because the could get the money from tourists who knew no different.
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Post by ensembleswings on Mar 23, 2019 11:17:00 GMT
To clear up the confusion Rachel’s off Mon-Wed, she’s back for Thursdays performance.
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Post by ptwest on Mar 23, 2019 17:08:51 GMT
Just stunning. Loved it this afternoon! What a sensational cast.
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 23, 2019 17:46:39 GMT
To clear up the confusion Rachel’s off Mon-Wed, she’s back for Thursdays performance. How come they don’t announce the holidays sooner? Are they not allowed to do you know? |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 23, 2019 19:06:19 GMT
I found the show to be an interesting mixture of Once (some of the music), Les Mis (the revolve) & Showstopper (lots of chairs). I thought it was very good but not the life-changing experience some have hyped it as. It did stir up a lot of memories of 9/11. I could see in my mind's eye turning on the TV & seeing those images of the towers collapsing. I wonder what younger people who can't remember that day make of the show?
It was very good to see a show with a cast made up of a mixture of ages & not just a bunch of 22 year old Arts Ed/Mountview graduates! I particularly liked Helen Hobson as Diane & Robert Hands as Nick (anyone know what role he played in Mrs Henderson Presents? His programme bio says he was in it but I have no recollection of him!). I wasn't impressed by the apparent complete lack of any understudy notices. I was looking out for them, having seen on both here & Twitter that Bob Harms would be on for David Shannon, but couldn't see any, either in the lobby or on my way to the upper circle. I think the rest of the cast were all on but being shortsighted & in the upper circle I wasn't 100% certain.
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Post by shady23 on Mar 23, 2019 19:12:29 GMT
To clear up the confusion Rachel’s off Mon-Wed, she’s back for Thursdays performance. How come they don’t announce the holidays sooner? Are they not allowed to do you know? They are not allowed to. Something becoming more common in shows, sadly. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 19:55:59 GMT
It did stir up a lot of memories of 9/11. I could see in my mind's eye turning on the TV & seeing those images of the towers collapsing. I wonder what younger people who can't remember that day make of the show? This is what I find quite interesting about the show. For anyone who remembers that day, I think you very quickly become involved with the story, because we all know how confusing that time was. We all have our own experiences and stories from that day - and we’ve processed them and know how we feel about 9/11... and that acts as a shortcut that places us instantly into this story with these characters imo. Some audience members don’t have that. Some of them might not ever remember Bush being the POTUS, or the rise in the use of the word ‘terrorism’ into the daily vernacular. I’m sure they have all seen the footage and know the story, but they don’t have that emotional shortcut. Not that it’s needed to enjoy the show - far from it. But that’s what is interesting to me, because I’ll never to be able to see the show from that view point. (NB: I’m not accusing the show of exploiting the audience’s connection to 9/11 - some things are simply unavoidable) |
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Post by esteveyb on Mar 23, 2019 19:59:24 GMT
It did stir up a lot of memories of 9/11. I could see in my mind's eye turning on the TV & seeing those images of the towers collapsing. I wonder what younger people who can't remember that day make of the show? This is what I find quite interesting about the show. For anyone who remembers that day, I think you very quickly become involved with the story, because we all know how confusing that time was. We all have our own experiences and stories from that day - and we’ve processed them and know how we feel about 9/11... and that acts as a shortcut that places us instantly into this story with these characters imo. Some audience members don’t have that. Some of them might not ever remember Bush being the POTUS, or the rise in the use of the word ‘terrorism’ into the daily vernacular. I’m sure they have all seen the footage and know the story, but they don’t have that emotional shortcut. Not that it’s needed to enjoy the shoe - far from it. But that’s what is interesting to me, because I’ll never to be able to see the show from that view point. (NB: I’m not accusing the show of exploiting the audience’s connection to 9/11 - some things are simply unavoidable) I was a teenager when 9/11 happened and at school, so I guess my relation to it would be different to someone who was an adult at the time, but I was less moved by Come From Away than I expected to be. I genuinely expected to be in tears - it doesn't take much for me to get there, especially in live theatre (when Gemma Arterton was streaming tears during Stand Up at Made In Dagenham, so was I), but there was only one moment where I came close during this - and I was surprised by that considering the subject matter. I agree that it's fantastic, and I think it's a very relevant, necessary story for our generation, but there was just something missing for me that held this back from being one of the best things I've ever seen. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 23, 2019 20:39:05 GMT
I likewise cry easily in general but didn't this afternoon. I felt emotional at times when I was remembering how I felt at the time of 9/11 but the show itself I didn't find as moving as I would have expected it to be.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 21:23:33 GMT
I thought it was very good but not the life-changing experience some have hyped it as. If it were a life-changing experience for someone else, aren’t they entitled to that? Why does it make it hype if it changed their lives, but you only found it very good? |
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Post by Sean on Mar 23, 2019 21:29:36 GMT
I thought it was very good but not the life-changing experience some have hyped it as. If it were a life-changing experience for someone else, aren’t they entitled to that? Why does it make it hype if it changed their lives, but you only found it very good? Very well said. |
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Post by shady23 on Mar 23, 2019 21:30:26 GMT
I don't think Dawnstar is saying otherwise. All of us are doing the same thing at the end of the day. We are just commenting on shows how WE find them. Some we love. Some not so much. Someone's hype show is another's hated or anything in between. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 23, 2019 21:45:52 GMT
I thought it was very good but not the life-changing experience some have hyped it as. If it were a life-changing experience for someone else, aren’t they entitled to that? Why does it make it hype if it changed their lives, but you only found it very good? I didn't say that other people weren't entitled to anything. I said that it wasn't life changing for me. In fact in 15 years of regular theatregoing I've only seen one piece that I would say genuinely changed my life. ETA The first paragraph of my comments was spliced together from 2 tweets. I didn't have the characters on Twitter for "the life-changing experience that some both on Twitter and the Theatreboard have described it as" so "hype" was a useful shorthand that is used often used in such situations, i.e. saying something did/didn't live up to the hype. |
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