Calendar Girls the musical (was: The Girls)

This is Mousetrap Theatre Projects' June event - anyone aged 19-23 can get tickets for a tenner. Think it was 20th June, deets on their site.

Sad but true. I'd like it to do well for all the cast who make it what it is. The signs aren't looking great though

This was another 5 star show

Even 4 from Biddy Billington

"Classy" was used

I wonder how it's doing as compared to Half a Sixpence? Both shows, it would seem, cater to a similar audience but, perhaps, there's only room for one in the West End in this very competitive time for musicals?

[quote author="martin1965" source="Curse of this theatre again?

There are never cursed theatres, just poor or average shows that for whatever reason fail to find an audience.
Three theatres used to have terrible reputations but then along came the hits; New London- Cats/War Horse, Shaftesbury- Hairspray/Motown and Cambridge- Matilda.
Put a decent show in any theatre and people will find it.

Just had a look at the September extension and the prices are quite frankly disgusting! No wonder this show will fail at the box office if something doesn't change. All of the dress is top price, and all bar the back row of the Grand Circle, which is £29.50, is £49.50. Do they seriously think people are going to pay £50 a ticket to sit in the Grand Circle when a little bit more will get a better view and experience closure to the stage?
Quite frankly, their line of 'we aren't doing dayseats because we offer good seats with good sightlines' cannot apply anymore, and it's good they are offering dayseats on 'some days'.
Realistically, who are they targeting? Are they hoping to sell fewer tickets per week to make their money? To be frank, if tickets are priced like this through the earlier months of the extension, I predict we will see bigger offers and this show not even make it to September.

But you would've thought that, even with dynamic pricing, they would realise that the current pricing strategy isn't working. Surely they should make the Grand Circle much cheaper to thereby guarantee selling more seats at a lower price to a large extent in the long term, rather than hoping a last minute ditch in price to a lower level will boost already bleak sales? Or add some bargain seats in the stalls. Realistically I don't see why anyone would want to book at those prices. Even if the casual theatregoer or someone who has never been before was to google "The Girls musical tickets", chances are they were see one of the websites that are doing offers, check in there and if there are no offers for the dates they want maybe wait to see if something that is better value comes up that what ATG are offering.

Atleast they are doing some £20 tickets now. Tbh if we weren't offered them the other week we would have gone to see something else.

It seems online they offer them at £29.50 in the front row and at the sides also for the remaining performances this week. TKTS also has some good deals (59.50 tickets down to £35

It's obviously being operated by a halfwit.

I mean, if someone can't spell or doesn't know grammar thats ok. It might not be their fault. But just don't put that person in charge of your twitter maybe? 

Oh, and the irony - a grammar error in my own post

Barlow still on the piano though of course.

£10 best seats for NHS staff all shows mon to Thursday including matinees