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Your 2018
Dec 10, 2018 8:32:04 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2018 8:32:04 GMT
One word: Company. Highlight of my entire year.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2018 8:33:53 GMT
For the first time in years I haven't kept an up to date spreadsheet, so this year's list involves a strange matching up of diary and any tickets I can find and/or going back through reviews...this may take some time...
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Post by theatrefan77 on Dec 10, 2018 10:02:56 GMT
A total of 106 theatre trips for me so far, with 4 more to come before the end of the year: The Merry Wives of Windsor and repeat visits to Hamilton, Company and A Very Very Very Dark Matter
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Post by Stasia on Dec 10, 2018 11:29:54 GMT
I still have 5 more theatre visits in London to add and I may even squeeze smth here in Moscow before that, but in the first 11 months of this year, I made 89 theatre visits. 66 in London, 22 in Moscow and 1 in Paris. the best show of the year = the most expensive show in my life = the show I've seen most times this year = the show I am _slightly_ obsessed with = HAMILTON 11th visit to happen on Dec 31  |
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Post by Marwood on Dec 10, 2018 12:04:25 GMT
Have been to see this year:
De Profundis
The Play That Goes Wrong
Young Frankenstein
Rita, Sue and Bob too
Wicked
Network
Julius Caesar
Mood Music
Nightfall
Trainspotting
Tartuffe
Red
Julie
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Allelujah!
King Lear
Othello
Early Doors
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
Pinter Two
Pinter Three
Haven't included any of the concerts I went to, some of which included a few actors (Kathleen Turner, Jeff Goldblum and Bill Murrays shows spring to mind) - been to probably the same amount of rock shows on top of those.
Still got Pinter Five, The Cane and The Tell-Tale Heart to come before the end of the year, I doubt I'll book anything else unless something gets seriously papered before Christmas Eve,
My favourites out of those
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Julius Caesar
The Play That Goes Wrong
And the ones I wasn't impressed with (to put it kindly):
Wicked
Mood Music
Red
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2018 12:24:54 GMT
I'm on 147 with 10 more to go, but the ten have a helluva lot of heavy lifting to do if they want to be better than Summer and Smoke. I'm not even sure I can do a "these were my ten best of the year, in this order" list this year, because when I try thinking about it, I just default back to thinking about Summer and Smoke and I find it hard to remember what else I've even seen, let alone what else I liked. What I'm saying is I REALLY LOVE Summer and Smoke.
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Post by maggiem on Dec 10, 2018 12:42:53 GMT
In no particular order of date or preference...
Art (Salford Lowry & Birmingham Hippodrome)
This House (Salford Lowry)
The Cherry Orchard (Manchester Royal Exchange)
Death of a Salesman (Manchester Royal Exchange)
The Producers (Manchester Royal Exchange)
Macbeth (RSC Stratford)
Tamburlaine (RSC Stratford)
Troilus & Cressida (RSC Stratford)
Antony & Cleopatra (NT Olivier)
Julius Caesar (The Bridge)
The Grinning Man (Trafalgar Studios)
Network (x2) (NT Lyttleton)
Pressure (x2) (The Ambassadors)
Red (Wyndhams)
The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Duke of Yorks?)
Summer & Smoke (Duke of Yorks)
True West (Vaudeville)
Harry Potter & the Cursed Child (x2) (Palace Theatre)
Still to come... Dr Dolittle (Salford Lowry)
NT Live
Follies
King Lear
Madness of George III
Merry Wives of Windsor
Macbeth
Hallelujah!
Julius Caesar
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Post by robertb213 on Dec 10, 2018 20:06:02 GMT
I can't finalise quite yet, but with 3 weeks to go, I'm on 128 so far (86 paid, 37 through volunteering, 5 through reviewing). Unless anything blows my mind in the next 3 weeks, my highlights will be Jeremy Jordan, Megan Hilty, Company and the Kinky Boots tour 😀
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Post by AddisonMizner on Dec 10, 2018 20:36:47 GMT
I’ve only got one more show left of 2018 - WHITE CHRISTMAS in Leicester on Sunday. I’ve seen quite a bit this year - most are listed on my profile so I won’t put them all down here. As well as those, I have been to see a fair few Met Live in HDs, Jonas Kaufmann and Diana Damrau at the Barbican as well as Pavol Breslik and Piotr Beczala at Wigmore Hall. Out of everything, here are my highlights of the year:
- AMADEUS at the National - A visually stunning spectacle. I loved this!
- MACBETH at the ROH - This was my first time hearing Anna Netrebko sing live, and she did not disappoint. An absolutely stunning voice, and I can’t wait to hear her again (hopefully in 2019).
- THE KING AND I - A breathtaking production of a show that I adore. I was an absolute mess for most of it. It was also great to finally see Kelli O’Hara live, and she was just divine.
- COMPANY - An absolutely innovative production, which made me see the piece anew. Everything a revival should be.
Honourable Mentions:
- Allison Cook in SALOME - The production was questionable, but the central performance was stunning.
- LSO’s CANDIDE - If only for Make Our Garden Grow. A spine tingling moment, that still sends shivers down my spine, and tears to my eyes. A moment of the year truly to cherish.
Quite an ecclectic mix, but so much enjoyment. Here’s to an equally successful 2019!
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Your 2018
Dec 11, 2018 6:51:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2018 6:51:41 GMT
Despite a slow start, and two months off theatre to focus on my dissertation, I’ve had another bumper year, although not the most I’ve seen in one year.
Musicals
Everybody's Talking About Jamie (x2)
Pinocchio
Barnum
The Grinning Man
Pippin (x2)
Kinky Boots
Legally Blonde
Chess
Tina
Heathers (x3)
Titanic
Fun Home
The King and I
Bat out of Hell
Hamilton - 2nd Time
Miss Saigon - 5th Time
Dreamgirls - 4th Time
Aladdin - 3rd Time
Matilda - 3rd Time
Eugenius!
Nativity
Company
The Calendar Girls
Caroline, or Change
White Christmas
Still to see this month:
Frozen
Once On This Island
The Band’s Visit
Murder for Two
Plays
Mischief Movie Night
The Birthday Party
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
War Horse - 2nd Time
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
A Christmas Carol
I’m also returning to Radio City Music Hall for the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes next week.
By far my top shows this year are (in no particular order) Tina, Fun Home, ETAJ and Heathers at The Other Palace. I have high hopes for my trip to NYC too though, so that could still change.
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Post by kiwi on Dec 11, 2018 14:02:25 GMT
I should probably keep an actual list, but off the top of my head I remember
Hamilton
Girl from the North Country
Kinky Boots (Seeing again next week)
HADESTOWN
The King and I
Miss Saigon
The Band
Fat Friends The Musical
Fun Home x2
Motown The Musical
The Grinning Man
Young Frankenstein
Dreamgirls
42nd Street
Wicked
Six (Seeing again in Glasgow)
Heathers
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story
Eugenius!
Pinocchio
War Horse
This House
The Great Wave
Nine Night
The Inheritance
Plus about 25 shows in the Edinburgh Fringe & some amdram shows my friends were in.
My favourites have to be Girl from the North Country, HADESTOWN, Fun Home & Nine Night.
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Your 2018
Dec 11, 2018 18:00:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2018 18:00:11 GMT
I'd also include two special mentions for musical films A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody. Amazing films with amazing performances. I suspect for alot of us, Mary Poppins Returns will join that list too.
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Post by indis on Dec 11, 2018 18:07:02 GMT
saw not that many shows this year as last year but was on the road even more : was in Kilworth to see "Guys and Dolls",
saw West Side Story in Malmö and in Dortmund, loved both - and been in London in summer for a week to see some musicals , saw
Bat out of hell, the King and I, Hamilton, Knights of the Rose, Chicago and Les Mis , oh and Book of Mormon again
my higlights - Guys and Dolls, West Side Story Malmö and Dortmund, Bat, the King an I
plus 2 concerts i saw with Anton Zetterholm this year, one with his fiance Harriet Jones, and this monday with
his former Glinda Joana Fee Würz, was supposed to be Harriet again, but for personal reasons she had to cancel on
short notice
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Post by david on Dec 11, 2018 22:03:38 GMT
After reading this thread it got me curious to see how many trips to the theatre I had done this year as I don’t normally keep count. I quick count up of my programmes currently stands at 109 with an end of year trip to London coming up should bring the grand total to 112 for 2018.
The standout WE musical productions for me have been Hamilton, Fun Home, Company
For WE plays, the standouts have been The York Realist, The Inheritance, Pressure and Summer and Smoke
For regional theatre - Copenhagen and Flowers for Mrs Harris (CFT), Madness of King George III (Nottingham) and Mary Stuart (Salford Lowry).
The stinkers - The Prisoner, Julie and I’m not running (NT)
It’s been a great year for regional theatre in Manchester and Liverpool, especially at the Manchester RX who seemed to have had an excellent 2018 programme and the 2019 programme looks just as exciting.
It was also great to meet some of the other board members at various productions throughout the year.
So with 2018 coming to a close here is to an exciting and fun filled theatre viewing in 2019.
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Post by Dr Tom on Dec 12, 2018 0:29:46 GMT
I haven’t counted, although I’ve certainly been to the theatre more than 100 times this year, which is a record for me and seems a huge amount of shows (and money). And that’s included shows in Melbourne, New York and Toronto, as well as other parts of the UK.
A lot of that was down to a change of job and needing to be in London regularly (and what is there better to do to fill your evenings?). I’ve been making regular weekend trips for a few years but it’s different when you’re based here.
The compromise has not been seeing the local touring shows so much. I just haven’t been in the right place.
I base a lot of theatre visits around what’s on, what styles do I like, what do I want to see before it closes and the cast changes? My guilty pleasures this year have been 42nd Street, Jamie and The King and I. I also love seeing different casts and understudies. I’ve seen some excellent (and terrible) fringe productions. I’ve seen Beautiful on three different continents.
And I’ve already started booking in things for 2019.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Dec 12, 2018 13:46:59 GMT
Been slim pickings this year; after quite a few disappointing shows last year I’ve been more select about shows this year.
5*
Hamilton (3 visits)
Kinky Boots - with Killian & Matt
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Christmas Carol with Rhys Ifans
Guys & Dolls at the Royal Albert Hall
Les Miserables (Killians last one at Queens)
Harry Connick Jr at the Palladium
4*
42nd Street
Brief Encounter
Chess at the ENO
Heathers
Network
3*
Christmas Carol with Stephen Tompkinson
King & I
Me & My Girl (Chichester)
Follies
An American In Paris
2*
Spamilton
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
1*
Young Frankenstein
Hamlet
Booked but missed (excuses include ill health, couldn't be arsed and too blooming hot to get on a train)- Wise Children, Bring It On, Key West, Julius Caesar.
I love my spreadsheet which tells me I have 42nd Street last matinee, Come From Away, Waitress and Ramin and Tim Minchin shows set for 2019.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2018 14:44:33 GMT
Guys, it's December, we'd be worried if you *hadn't* started booking for 2019 yet!  |
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 13, 2018 9:58:23 GMT
This year my shows are around a couple of hundred again (still several to go). The main highlight for me was the Ring Cycle at ROH – from the anticipation of the first sustained chord to the final standing ovation. Other highlights – The Inheritance (Part 1), ENB’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, Caroline or Change, Company, Summer and Smoke, Julius Caesar at the Bridge and a rather good production of Chicago in Paris.
In the “I want to poke my eyes out” category was Brief Encounter.
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Your 2018
Dec 13, 2018 13:21:38 GMT
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Post by dontdreamit on Dec 13, 2018 13:21:38 GMT
Guys, it's December, we'd be worried if you *hadn't* started booking for 2019 yet I'm slightly worried that I have confirmed tickets for November and December next year now. My partner has booked tickets for some comedian in 2020! |
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 13, 2018 13:30:05 GMT
I'm slightly worried that I have confirmed tickets for November and December next year now. My partner has booked tickets for some comedian in 2020! That's a joke, right? 🙂 |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 14:29:11 GMT
I'm not going to lie, I was extremely tempted to book a performance of Fairview at the Young Vic for 2020, but you can take a joke too far, so I stuck with early December 2019. That's my furthest out one, but most of my 2019 bookings so far only go up to June.
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Your 2018
Dec 13, 2018 17:37:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 17:37:45 GMT
Interesting. Can you share what they pay out for and if there’s an excess? I never take the insurance on tickets and often wonder if I am being silly.
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Post by joem on Dec 14, 2018 23:24:17 GMT
50 plays
1 play reading
5 operas
Haven't worked out which were the highlights yet.
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Post by schuttep on Dec 17, 2018 15:01:47 GMT
Will have seen 93 shows this year.
Loved the Wilde and Pinter seasons, Summer and Smoke, The York Realist, The Inheritance, Machinal, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Translations, Lehman Trilogy, Dealing With Clair, Company, In Praise of Love, Caroline or Change, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, The Overcoat (Clapham Omnibus), Little Shop of Horrors, Girls and Boys, The Height of the Storm, White Teeth, A Monster Calls,Home I'm Darling, and Hamilton.
Underperformers: Fat Friends The Musical, Macbeth (National), My Name is Lucy Barton, Miss Nightingale (Hippodrome Casino), The Way of the World, The Play That Goes Wrong.
Pleased to have finally got to The Bridge theatre, revamped Kiln, Ustinov Studio in Bath, Omnibus, and Winchester Theatre Royal.
Overall, a good year.
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