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Post by liverpool54321 on May 21, 2017 21:22:40 GMT
Manage to get to see this yesterday. All this talk of will it, won't it extend forced my hand as my Winter/Spring theatre fest soon to come to an end for 6 months aside from odd mid week shows.
Overall impression was it was good, but not brilliant. I thought the script was witty and song lyrics well crafted. Where I struggled a bit was with the music. It seemed to bounce all over the place and for the most part was not very memorable. I got the felling Gary Barlow had sat down with a list of different styles of songs in a musical, and then proceeded to write a song for each.
I liked the way stage set worked although I still don't get what all the cupboards symbolised. Great cast performance who do a sterling job stripping off as they do. There is little left to the imagination.
We sat in Stalls row J25 and J26 which at the end of the row was lower £35 seats. Really good view from here and much better value than £70 adjacent seat.
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Post by shady23 on May 22, 2017 5:23:37 GMT
Before the Take That concerts they are now showing The Band advert on the big screens. Nothing about The Girls though.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2017 6:32:15 GMT
Before the Take That concerts they are now showing The Band advert on the big screens. Nothing about The Girls though. That would make more sense, from a marketing point of view though. The crowds going to a Take That concert are more likely to be inclined to see a musical written around Take That songs. |
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Post by shady23 on May 22, 2017 7:39:10 GMT
True. It's just a new thing though, the first dates of the tour didn't have it.
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Post by TallPaul on May 22, 2017 14:09:36 GMT
I liked the way stage set worked although I still don't get what all the cupboards symbolised. Great cast performance who do a sterling job stripping off as they do. There is little left to the imagination. I knew I'd read something about the cupboards in The Stage (https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/2017/charting-girls-journey-yorkshire-west-end/). This is a quote from Robert Jones: “I remembered my first visit to Burnstall village hall years ago, when we were researching the play. I saw a whole row of green cupboards – that was what kicked off the idea of recreating the Yorkshire Dales landscape out of these cupboards. I didn’t want a naturalistic look, I wanted to keep it abstract. I’d already tried to put a mountain on stage at the London Palladium, when I did The Sound of Music, and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. |
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Post by TallPaul on May 22, 2017 14:14:04 GMT
Before the Take That concerts they are now showing The Band advert on the big screens. Nothing about The Girls though. That would make more sense, from a marketing point of view though. The crowds going to a Take That concert are more likely to be inclined to see a musical written around Take That songs. With all that free advertising on prime-time BBC One, I'm surprised that tickets for The Band aren't selling like hot cakes. I remember reading that Sonia Friedman wasn't very happy, because of course Harry Potter has never had a single second of airtime! |
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Post by wickedgrin on May 22, 2017 16:16:22 GMT
Sorry completely off topic (The Girls) but will anyone remember the lads who won this competition to be in The Band? I always think that they wait too long between the TV and stage show to maximise sales. By the time the theatre show comes along there is the latest X Factor or BGT winner taking all the media coverage.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 16:25:36 GMT
Surprised this isn't performing st West End Live or taking part in Kids Week? I guess the latter wouldn't work because the show isn't really aimed at families but surely WEL would've been good marketing for them??
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Post by d'James on May 25, 2017 16:35:17 GMT
Claire Machin seems surprised that they're not, on Twitter, as well.
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Post by infofreako on May 25, 2017 17:18:30 GMT
I'm very surprised its not. In fact I'm also surprised that The Band hasn't been squeezed in as part of the publicity drive.
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Post by zak97 on May 26, 2017 7:53:08 GMT
Another great performance last night and a sham again that the upper circle is closed as has been of every visit of mine. That said I was a little concerned as to what the audience would be like, not bad behaviour but rather engagement, the audience seemed a bit timitd to begin with. That said, by the end of act 1 it seemed like everyone had been won over.
To start with I was slightly concerned about Claire Moore and Sophie Louise Dann as, for both, their voices seemed a bit flaky. Saying that, you'd have never known during their big numbers and didn't hold back. Frazer Hadfield was on again for Tommo and really impressed me, in the space of month he has really grown into the character with so few performances. Josh Benson (normal Tommo) was in the audience a few seats from me and that just demonstrated how much of a loving cast this is, especially with respect to his onstage mother Claire Machin and fellow young counterparts Ben Hunter, Chloe May Jackson and Frazer Hadfield. Unsurprisingly, there was a full standing ovation.
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Post by infofreako on May 26, 2017 7:58:27 GMT
Don't forget there's the upcoming West End Live. Surely that'll generate some interest and out some bums on seats. The Phoenix seats 1000 people, I don't think there will be enough 'bums' in Trafalgar Square to keep this show afloat. They must've heard you and decided not to bother |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 14:06:59 GMT
Just over 500 seats out of 1000 sold for tonight's performance and still no announcement about extending the show in a mere seven weeks. Heard a rumour about a touring show being interested in an Autumn slot at the Phoenix.
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Post by zak97 on May 26, 2017 14:12:41 GMT
Oh gosh, I'm preparing myself for The Girls to close in July, but I'm deep down hoping it won't. If it is sadly replaced, I hope the replacement show is of high budget, not something mediocre of easy seller status.
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Post by CG on the loose on May 26, 2017 18:18:15 GMT
Closing in London 15 July. 42 venue UK tour opens Leeds Grand 15 August 2018.
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Post by partytentdown on May 26, 2017 18:24:29 GMT
Closing in London 15 July, touring in 2018. Is this announced? |
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Post by CG on the loose on May 26, 2017 18:25:33 GMT
I'm seeing tweets partytentdown - not official, but from people likely to be in the know. |
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Post by CG on the loose on May 26, 2017 18:26:16 GMT
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Post by d'James on May 26, 2017 18:32:36 GMT
Oh dear. I do want to see it - hopefully I will manage before it closes. Maybe Claire Machin will do the Titanic tour now, or have they already cast that?
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Post by cheesy116 on May 26, 2017 18:44:05 GMT
Looks like another case of an article announcing the closing date before official sources! hopefully the cast have been told already
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Post by cheesy116 on May 26, 2017 18:46:35 GMT
just officially announced closing on 15th July on The Girls twitter
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Post by infofreako on May 26, 2017 19:13:33 GMT
Sad but they've just not been able to get bums on seats. I guess this is why they're not bothering with west end live
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Post by daniel on May 26, 2017 19:19:47 GMT
Closing in July. I must have words with my source - I was assured that it was 100% extending! My apologies folks.
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Post by d'James on May 26, 2017 19:21:34 GMT
I wonder what'll happen to the planned Cast Recording. It'll probably go ahead I guess as the tour is happening.
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Post by infofreako on May 26, 2017 19:23:04 GMT
Closing in July. I must have words with my source - I was assured that it was 100% extending! My apologies folks. You should totally sack them |
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