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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 29, 2021 12:56:02 GMT
But not this cock, in this frock, on this rock.
It’s a horrible, cheapskate production which looked inadequate onthe Palace Manchester stage. It’s going to look ridiculous at the Dominion.
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 29, 2021 13:43:01 GMT
You know I’ve never actually seen it?
I’ve seen the film, of course, but never the stage production.
Does that make me a bad Aussie?🤔
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Post by danb on Oct 29, 2021 14:14:00 GMT
I’m appalled Ant! Especially having never seen it myself (the wife saw it and said I’d hate it…that was enough for me). 😂
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Post by LaLuPone on Oct 29, 2021 14:15:37 GMT
Sad that Prince of Egypt is getting replaced with this, I know which I’d prefer…
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Oct 29, 2021 15:31:05 GMT
I saw this at the Churchill Theatre Bromley yesterday and while the audience loved it and the cast worked their socks off it looked less impressive than the last (amateur) production of Priscilla I saw.
Totally agree a five figure spend will be needed to bring it up to West End standard.
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Post by theatregod on Oct 29, 2021 20:52:55 GMT
People have to realise, there’ll be 5/10 shows in the side wings waiting to go into the westend at any given point. Not because it’s a good product, it’s just another place where people might just buy tickets.
The uk has yet to have a lot of international trade due to covid so London until summer next year is just another touring location.. and tbh, it has just been another touring stop for a while now.
And yes, sadly most amdrams or semi pro productions rent better sets than pro stuff these days. Anyone remember the 2015 producers tour, it was Crap, Cheap cheap cheap!
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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 29, 2021 20:55:59 GMT
People have to realise, there’ll be 5/10 shows in the side wings waiting to go into the westend at any given point. Not because it’s a good product, it’s just another place where people might just buy tickets. The uk has yet to have a lot of international trade due to covid so London until summer next year is just another touring location.. and tbh, it has just been another touring stop for a while now. And yes, sadly most amdrams or semi pro productions rent better sets than pro stuff these days. Anyone remember the 2015 producers tour, it was Crap, Cheap cheap cheap! And who knows even if next summer will see a lot of the international trade returning. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 30, 2021 1:46:55 GMT
Ahhh. The days of international trade…
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2021 2:21:21 GMT
You know I’ve never actually seen it? I’ve seen the film, of course, but never the stage production. Does that make me a bad Aussie?🤔
I love the film, didn't like the stage show. It's a story that could have a great original score, instead it's a lowest common denominator hen party.
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Post by danb on Oct 30, 2021 5:21:01 GMT
Ahhh. The days of international trade… I suspect you may have misunderstood 😂 |
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Post by hairspray57 on Oct 30, 2021 7:58:36 GMT
Ahhh. The days of international trade… I mean international travel. (Through tensions with international trade might well end up affecting international travel to and from the Uk.) |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Oct 31, 2021 8:52:19 GMT
I saw this at the Churchill Theatre Bromley yesterday and while the audience loved it and the cast worked their socks off it looked less impressive than the last (amateur) production of Priscilla I saw. Totally agree a five figure spend will be needed to bring it up to West End standard. 5 figure? I think you mean 6. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 31, 2021 9:07:47 GMT
If they spent £10,000 on it that would double the original budget by the looks of it.
That corrugated iron… those costumes…. 😝
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Post by shady23 on Oct 31, 2021 9:45:30 GMT
They will be able to get away with spending any extra money at all, the girls night out crowd will be quite happy with the boys having their tops off! If this production keeps some rowdy theatre goers away from shows I want to see then I am happy.
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Post by danb on Oct 31, 2021 9:55:45 GMT
If they spent £10,000 on it that would double the original budget by the looks of it. That corrugated iron… those costumes…. 😝 Oy!!! Less of it Bear! They took me a good 20 minutes to run up! Borrowed Aunty Di’s Singer. Don’t look too close at them though as they’ve all got the same colour thread. I can’t do that bit. |
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Post by chestwig on Oct 31, 2021 9:57:10 GMT
The only way I’d go and see this again is to have the original West End version back, not this Cheap version. You can’t beat the original and the best. They need the rights back and put that in the West End again and not this version….
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Post by richey on Oct 31, 2021 11:01:17 GMT
The only way I’d go and see this again is to have the original West End version back, not this Cheap version. You can’t beat the original and the best. They need the rights back and put that in the West End again and not this version…. I was watching a video on YouTube the other day of the original London production and it reminded me just how spectacular it was. That opening moment when the divas came down over Sydney Harbour Bridge and the first reveal of the bus were fabulous moments. It's a crime the show has been watered down to the poor tour we have now. |
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Post by cherokee on Oct 31, 2021 11:41:50 GMT
My memory of the original production was sitting halfway back in the stalls of the Palace Theatre, having paid for top price tickets, only for the overhang of the dress circle to block all the scenes that happened on top of the bus or on Ayers Rock, rendering entire musical numbers including Adam's operatic 'aria' and most of the three divas' songs invisible to our party.
By that stage they'd put a couple of telly screens up which relayed a very blurred and fuzzy image, but I was not happy.
I had quite a battle but they gave me a full refund in the end.
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Post by danb on Oct 31, 2021 12:04:03 GMT
The Palace is a bugger for that. I booked some Potter tickets that I subsequently found out were restricted view but were not advertised as such. It took me a while but we ended up with free drinks and centre aisle premiums by way of an apology. A lot more people are a lot more canny these days about r/v seats. STAR need to be policing poor practice so it never gets to the complaining stage.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Oct 31, 2021 14:47:44 GMT
My memory of the original production was sitting halfway back in the stalls of the Palace Theatre, having paid for top price tickets, only for the overhang of the dress circle to block all the scenes that happened on top of the bus or on Ayers Rock, rendering entire musical numbers including Adam's operatic 'aria' and most of the three divas' songs invisible to our party. By that stage they'd put a couple of telly screens up which relayed a very blurred and fuzzy image, but I was not happy. I had quite a battle but they gave me a full refund in the end. The Palace could not have been a worse theatre for this show. Shocking sightlines |
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Post by welcome2hollywood on Oct 31, 2021 17:36:30 GMT
Highly doubt they'll put the existing tour set in that cave, it will look awful
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Post by cheesy116 on Nov 2, 2021 0:23:18 GMT
Tom Scanlon (ensemble) has just tweeted a ‘meme’ which makes it seems as if he thought the show was going to the west end but is now no longer doing so. I guess something last minute has changed ?
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Post by robertb213 on Nov 5, 2021 20:27:19 GMT
Nick Hayes has also confirmed on his Instagram that the West End transfer isn't happening.
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Post by A.Ham on Nov 5, 2021 21:53:20 GMT
Nick Hayes has also confirmed on his Instagram that the West End transfer isn't happening. Probably for the best - it’s a great show but this latest touring version is very much that, and in the nicest possible way, not up to the standard most of us would expect from a West End production. I’m primarily talking sets and costumes etc rather than the cast, just to be clear! |
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Post by Seriously on Nov 5, 2021 23:55:22 GMT
Ironically it was the casting that was the reason.
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