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Post by talkingheads on Apr 17, 2020 14:02:17 GMT
Rumour is that the Palladium Panto is Jack and the Beanstalk with Nigel Havers.
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Post by dontdreamit on Jun 9, 2020 8:13:35 GMT
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Post by xanady on Jul 6, 2020 16:12:31 GMT
.....erm??
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Post by xanady on Jul 6, 2020 16:18:33 GMT
....oh,yes...the govt starring in a new version of ‘Babes In The Wood’,entitled ‘Boris In The S**t’....
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 6, 2020 16:30:41 GMT
I'm surprised we haven't seen an in depth article about the catastrophic effects of losing the panto season.
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Post by basdfg on Jul 6, 2020 17:03:33 GMT
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Post by kathryn on Jul 6, 2020 20:33:22 GMT
Well, Matthew Anderson has achieved the seemingly impossible in uniting Theatre Twitter!
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 6, 2020 21:27:03 GMT
I'm surprised it's only 20%, I thought it was closer to 70%!
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Post by xanady on Jul 6, 2020 21:43:51 GMT
talkingheads,I agree...I’m sure that I’ve heard 72% quoted before possibly the Belgrade,Coventry or the Grand,Wolverhampton?....the 20% seems very,very low.
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 12, 2020 17:34:20 GMT
Julian Clary said on Sunday Brunch that there is a slim chance that the Palladium Panto will go ahead. It deems they are sticking to the August 3rd deadline for deciding. I can't see it, especislly one as lavish as that.
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 13, 2020 11:53:35 GMT
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Post by dontdreamit on Jul 13, 2020 15:30:32 GMT
That’s a great idea, and I really hope other theatres consider doing the same- I would book the whole family tickets in a heartbeat even though I don’t often do pantos much any more.
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 13, 2020 16:14:33 GMT
That’s a great idea, and I really hope other theatres consider doing the same- I would book the whole family tickets in a heartbeat even though I don’t often do pantos much any more. Me too, I'd booked opening and closing night of the York Panto mainly because Berwick Kaler is back, so hopefully they will keep tickets already booked for the new dates.
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Post by princeton on Jul 26, 2020 12:22:18 GMT
Please let's not give his views an airing on this board at all - even if it is by linking to a tweet which may be condemnatory but also includes an extract from his video and his twitter handle. It's all too easy to press play or go to his account to find out more - which is the very reason such clickbait was posted in the first place.
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 26, 2020 13:33:49 GMT
Please let's not give his views an airing on this board at all - even if it is by linking to a tweet which may be condemnatory but also includes an extract from his video and his twitter handle. It's all too easy to press play or go to his account to find out more - which is the very reason such clickbait was posted in the first place. That's true, just reporting on the Twotter backlash, didn't think about the video.
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 3, 2020 18:43:10 GMT
The Marlowe in Canterbury have postponed Jack and the Beanstalk to 2021:
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Post by CG on the loose on Aug 3, 2020 18:56:33 GMT
I spotted similar announcements from Salisbury Playhouse and Loughborough Town Hall on Twitter today, and from the Grand Opera House, Belfast - the first of the QDOS postponements.
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 3, 2020 19:03:16 GMT
The Palladium hadn't even gone onsale had it? I wonder if they'll risk selling for the 2021 season to get a bit of capital in? I know I'd buy tickets!
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Post by duncan on Aug 5, 2020 9:38:02 GMT
And there goes the Kings in Edinburgh.
Release says its over £2 million lost in takings etc.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2020 15:41:47 GMT
Belfast, Aberdeen and Glasgow all gone. With NI and Scotland having lower case per population than England and Wales. What chance does the rest of the country have?
My only positive line of thinking is these pantos sometimes open a few weeks earlier than others, so did they need to decide sooner?
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Post by mortal on Aug 5, 2020 21:08:28 GMT
Cinderella at Southampton Mayflower has been put back to next year
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Post by Dr Tom on Aug 6, 2020 9:24:38 GMT
Goldilocks in Birmingham postponed to 2021/22. The Hippodrome now closed until at least February 2021.
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Post by longinthetooth on Aug 6, 2020 9:26:28 GMT
Birmingham Hippodrome have now postponed Goldilocks and the Three Bears for a year. Their staging of The Nutcracker also affected. They say they will be closed until at least 1st February.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2020 19:12:57 GMT
The answer to this question is none thanks to the ****** in Wuhan!
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Post by firefingers on Aug 6, 2020 20:33:21 GMT
The answer to this question is none thanks to the ****** in Wuhan! I mean, theatre isn't over all over the world. South Korea, New Zealand, and others have been able to have theatre happening but the British government bungled it, and are providing too little support to the industry to ensure its survival. Johnson declares so much of his "achievements" to be world beating, but our theatre genuinely was, and that includes panto. The w*nker in Westminster is more to blame than the one in Wuhan for our lack of pantos this year.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 10:36:16 GMT
The answer to this question is none thanks to the ****** in Wuhan! I mean, theatre isn't over all over the world. South Korea, New Zealand, and others have been able to have theatre happening but the British government bungled it, and are providing too little support to the industry to ensure its survival. Johnson declares so much of his "achievements" to be world beating, but our theatre genuinely was, and that includes panto. The w*nker in Westminster is more to blame than the one in Wuhan for our lack of pantos this year. South Korea are certainly the country the rest of the world should have followed. New Zealand has a population under a 10th of the UK and locked down their borders very quickly so I cannot compare them to us. No other major European Country has got their Arts and Live Entertainments up and running yet. Sadly in the scheme of things stuff like the theatre is down the list of things getting back to normal. We have been without attended live performances for nearly 5 months now and it honestly looks like being a year plus now unless a vaccine is found.
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 7, 2020 12:15:41 GMT
It's a bit early to be writing off the ENTIRE panto season. They may not be in the form we are used to, but there will be pantos this year. Oh yes there will! (And it's panto, so there aren't really any rules anyway.)
I'm going to be unusually controversial, but any producing theatre that doesn't stage a panto this year is, frankly, undeserving of support or sympathy.
This far out, you just cut your cloth accordingly, based on the size of the audience you think you'll have. That's what the world-famous Crucible Theatre is doing, for example, starring Damien Williams in his 13th(?) consecutive Sheffield panto.
It's normally over the square at the Lyceum, so having a panto back at the Crucible will be just like the days of Bobby Knutt and Marti Caine.
And after listening to Jeremy Vine yesterday on Radio 2, there are going to be pantos elsewhere too.
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Post by firefingers on Aug 7, 2020 19:08:04 GMT
I mean, theatre isn't over all over the world. South Korea, New Zealand, and others have been able to have theatre happening but the British government bungled it, and are providing too little support to the industry to ensure its survival. Johnson declares so much of his "achievements" to be world beating, but our theatre genuinely was, and that includes panto. The w*nker in Westminster is more to blame than the one in Wuhan for our lack of pantos this year. South Korea are certainly the country the rest of the world should have followed. New Zealand has a population under a 10th of the UK and locked down their borders very quickly so I cannot compare them to us. No other major European Country has got their Arts and Live Entertainments up and running yet. Sadly in the scheme of things stuff like the theatre is down the list of things getting back to normal. We have been without attended live performances for nearly 5 months now and it honestly looks like being a year plus now unless a vaccine is found. My comparison with NZ was quite relevant. Both island nations, working on the same info. As soon as they had cases they locked down hard, had very few cases and deaths and as a result can have theatre. Our prime minister wasted time, didnt attend meetings and ignore it until it was too late. With a different leader (and I'm not suggesting one of our current actual candidates but a hypothetical) we could have had panto. But we didnt and I suppose over all we got what we voted for. Sorry if I'm coming across touchy, as a sound engineer Christmas was my most profitable time of year, earning sometimes double what I could on a normal week. During the rest of the year I'd mix in theatres <1000 seats, but at Christmas I'd often find myself in double that. Demand sky rockets as regional playhouse that normally don't need a sound engineer suddenly need two. I've had employers offer to drive me personally 100s of miles home on Christmas Eve in an attempt to sign me. I could earn 25% of my yearly in those five weeks. I haven't worked since March and and my union is mooting next March as the restart point. My savings are drained as is my love for my industry. No one works in theatre for the money, but without it it becomes untenable. A survey several months back said a third of sound engineers were considering retaining and that number can only have gone up since, along with myriad of other skill sets. Theatre will be back, but the extensive quality work force? That's gone for a good while.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 22:19:55 GMT
I see Portsmouth are still going ahead with 400 capacity down from usual 1,400. Bigger vwnues could probably get 500 plus in but for few theates this will be cost effective even if they did strip back the supporting cast a bit and possibly used recorded music which would be great for actors or musicians either.
A lot of bigger panto stars are often paid a box office percentage I've read so with 30% capacity they would be unlikely to make what they usually do so would they want to risk performing especially the more mature performers or some who may be more at risk for a number of reasons.
With reduced capacity shows could run longer I guess if they they could figure out how to remunerate the casts adequately. If some performers don't want to perform, it could even be a chance for some new faces to step up.
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 10, 2020 12:11:39 GMT
Inevitably both the Lyric Hammersmith and Hackney Empire have rescheduled to 2021.
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