Frozen - Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

This annoys me. The people causing the problem should have been moved, out of the door with a full refund if that was deemed necessary to get their sorry backsides out of the place. Why were the people who were behaving properly the ones to be inconvenienced and moved from the seats they chose? It’s because it’s the easiest way, the path of least resistance for the theatre which does nothing but reinforce the belief that you can do what you like in the theatre and if anyone doesn’t like it THEY’LL have to move. 

it makes me puke 🤮 

Dont get me wrong, i love watching those slime tutorials too, but it wasnt even a good one! Haha

Cloths are normally opaque and have some kind of design on them. Gauzes are thinner. When the scene behind is lit, the audience can see through them. If I'm remembering correctly, cloths were used a lot in Aladdin in order to move the scenery around behind it. Also, what is this IKEA shower curtain that keeps being mentioned? I don't remember anything of that nature in the show.

Hardly - anybody could have looked at me said said "wot no mums". It was an observation that there were many mums and children - that's all. Try to avoid overanalysing my comments just because you disagree with my view - it's a discussion forum.

Welcome!

You could hold off an try for Disney Day Seats - released at 10am each day. www.disneytickets.co.uk/disney-day-seats-tickets

I managed to pick up a brilliant mid stalls seat for this evenings show for £20! Dynamic pricing is used here so the closer to the date you get and including on the day, if there’s still good availability, you’ll find the prices get knocked down a level or so.

Although if you’re wanting a box, you’re limiting yourself and best not to follow above advice or wait until the day as you may end up disappointed.

Thanks guys! Helps a lot! I did not know about the Disney Day Seats. That sounds perfect for me! Is it like a lottery with a high chance not to get one? Or do they release all seats left for that day?

I think (if I get a chance to pick) to not opt for a box seat then. I do want to try to get the best view possible haha.

I was reading a Facebook thread started by a man who wanted advice on whether he should take his 3 year old to the show. I would have thought if you even have to ask that question the answer is probably “no”, especially when the theatre’s guidance is 6+ but that’s not enough it seems. 

So several people responded to say no, she’s too young. However an equal number if not more were full of advice and suggested compromises to allow this to happen. 
“my granddaughter saw Les Mis at 2 and was fine, shes been a MT fan ever since”
”mine can sit through both films at home without a sound”
”tell her before what’s going to happen and that it’s dark and no talking”
”have a back up strategy so you can get out of your seats and into the aisle easily for her to stretch and move”.

As a result of these people telling him exactly what he wanted to hear the chap has decided to ignore all of the very sensible advice to the contrary and take her. Bear in mind that the child has never even sat through a film in a cinema yet “because of covid”. 

I suppose I can try to get my head around how as a parent you want to do your absolute best for your children and to make them the happiest they can be. But really? Will a 3 year old even appreciate what they’re seeing and what are the odds that she will understandably get bored/tired/hungry or frightened and cause disruption to others and a load of stress to her dad.

I don’t get it 😕

I got my seat instantly at 10am this morning. I don’t think it’s very popular at the moment as most people don’t know about it unlike TodayTix Rush tickets.

It did then say ‘sold out’ but I kept checking in out of interest and it would offer more seats every 20 minutes or so, so best to keep checking until they release more. I guess it depends on what is remaining for the performance you want. Luck of the draw on these things. Always good to have a back up. I’ve managed to see everything I’ve wanted to see at some point through the various offers and haven’t paid full price for anything since theatre returned.

They have many many booster seats available. I would choose a tiered area rather than the stalls for the best view for them, although the grand circle isn’t too shabby either for a whole picture. Enjoy.

Agree about the booster seats. They have loads of them for the kids. When I went loads of kids in the stalls and they all seemed to be able to see with no problems.

LW Theatre customer services are not good at replying to e mails. I've been contacting them for a few months now about a couple of things and apart from automated replies saying how busy they are I've had no response from an actual person.
I don't think they are contactable by phone either at the moment.

Well, this is a tricky one to review.
Many things to like about it, but as per the movie, the story/book is still weak.
Act one really took a while to get going. The little Elsa and Ana were great, but for me, the show didn’t really kick into gear until ‘Love is an open door’.



Surprisingly given Robert Lopez’s hit rate with his other musicals, this one has very few memorable tunes in addition to the well known ones.



The cast were uniformly excellent and whoever played the Reindeer did a fantastic job of really bringing it to life.

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Hygge’, the opening song to Act 2 didn’t work for me at all. It felt totally random/ unfunny and I think ‘Fixer Upper’ would have made a much better act opener.



Once the mob were on the hunt for Elsa, it had an distinct similarity to Wicked and thinking about it, the whole show does really.



I would like to have seen some more inventive choreography, especially from the ensemble. That aspect felt very bland to me.



All that said, I did enjoy the show but I didn’t love it. We had a constant buzz of children talking throughout and I even saw a woman with a babe in arms.
Hard to work out why anybody would want to do that.



I’m certain the show will do well and it definitely leaves you with a feelgood ,warm hearted skip in your step when you leave, but with all the sparkly effects et al, it just didn’t have the magic I was hoping for sadly.












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