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Post by alece10 on Mar 23, 2021 11:30:29 GMT
I barely went to the cinema more than once or twice a year before lockdown but the one thing I want to go and see this year is In The Heights. I want to see it on a big screen with proper sound.
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Post by david on Mar 23, 2021 11:37:48 GMT
Good news about Cineworld reopening. I just want to see the new Bond film this year if nothing else.
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Post by zahidf on Mar 23, 2021 11:44:48 GMT
I imagine the Kong vs Godzilla and Black Widow films will be the first ones out
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2021 11:53:07 GMT
Weirdly I'd happily go to the cinema over the theatre during the next few months. I think because of the bigger seating and the likliehood of not being crammed in anywhere.
The 'More of Less Theatre' thread gave me my first 'nightmare' in a long time last night. I was sat bang centre of the circle at a theatre waiting for a show to start and some big man sat next to me started coughing and wouldn't stop and no-one would budge to let me out so I was trapped there with him right there next to me constantly coughing. Stressed just thinking about it now.
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Post by poster J on Mar 23, 2021 12:19:47 GMT
I barely went to the cinema more than once or twice a year before lockdown but the one thing I want to go and see this year is In The Heights. I want to see it on a big screen with proper sound. And West Side Story for the same reason!
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Post by christya on Mar 23, 2021 13:00:07 GMT
Yeah I want to see both Heights and West Side Story in cinemas. I'm still a bit disappointed at them releasing Hamilton for home viewing, I'd much rather have seen it at the cinema.
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Post by vickyg on Mar 24, 2021 9:43:13 GMT
I have woken up in a very pessimistic mood and I can't see how in less than three months the rules are going to allow hundreds/ thousands of people to sit next to one another in an auditorium. Shows that have started rebooking for dates in July and had previously decided they couldn't/didn't want to work with social distancing will inevitably have to postpone/cancel again one social distancing is maintained for the foreseeable future.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2021 11:01:21 GMT
I have woken up in a very pessimistic mood and I can't see how in less than three months the rules are going to allow hundreds/ thousands of people to sit next to one another in an auditorium. Shows that have started rebooking for dates in July and had previously decided they couldn't/didn't want to work with social distancing will inevitably have to postpone/cancel again one social distancing is maintained for the foreseeable future. Yes I also have moments like this. I am a bit torn really. On the one hand with the endless negativity in the news, all the panic now about Europe's 3rd wave and the fact that it feels we have been in this unrelenting lockdown forever, it does seem very hard to imagine theatre with no distancing from 21st June. Also in the UK we have had a pretty solid record of opening booking optimistically then cancelling, rescheduling, repeat ad infinitum. It's exhausting. Nothing on Broadway has taken bookings since this began. But on the other hand, with the vaccine roll out, I kinda think why CAN'T we open in June. Nearly all adults will be vaccinated by then and as far as I can tell there is nothing more that can be done. So if that doesn't work as well as we'd like don't we have to take the hit and 'learn to live with the virus' as people keep saying. As if not when everyone is vaccinated, then when? At some point we have to take the plunge. Is a tricky one - but I do remain hopeful for June.
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Post by jojo on Mar 24, 2021 12:03:06 GMT
Weirdly I'd happily go to the cinema over the theatre during the next few months. I think because of the bigger seating and the likliehood of not being crammed in anywhere. The 'More of Less Theatre' thread gave me my first 'nightmare' in a long time last night. I was sat bang centre of the circle at a theatre waiting for a show to start and some big man sat next to me started coughing and wouldn't stop and no-one would budge to let me out so I was trapped there with him right there next to me constantly coughing. Stressed just thinking about it now. I agree. And for me I have to travel for most live theatre so all in it's more expensive and will have more potential for pinch points. The cinemas can afford to operate with audiences spread out, and presumably multiplexes can negotiate with the distributers to adjust their costs per play of a film appropriately if they put on extra screenings to allow it. Well timed screenings mean there should never be big queues for the toilets and I would argue that people who are feeling under the weather are more likely to postpone their trip to the cinema than a person who booked theatre tickets months in advance. Regardless, my first visit to a cinema will be a slightly anxious affair, so I'd rather get used to sitting in an audience when I am not spending as much or it's not a special night out. If I get there and realise that safety measures aren't what I'd expect, it's not a big deal for me to leave.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Mar 24, 2021 12:07:06 GMT
I have woken up in a very pessimistic mood and I can't see how in less than three months the rules are going to allow hundreds/ thousands of people to sit next to one another in an auditorium. Shows that have started rebooking for dates in July and had previously decided they couldn't/didn't want to work with social distancing will inevitably have to postpone/cancel again one social distancing is maintained for the foreseeable future. Yes I also have moments like this. I am a bit torn really. On the one hand with the endless negativity in the news, all the panic now about Europe's 3rd wave and the fact that it feels we have been in this unrelenting lockdown forever, it does seem very hard to imagine theatre with no distancing from 21st June. Also in the UK we have had a pretty solid record of opening booking optimistically then cancelling, rescheduling, repeat ad infinitum. It's exhausting. Nothing on Broadway has taken bookings since this began. But on the other hand, with the vaccine roll out, I kinda think why CAN'T we open in June. Nearly all adults will be vaccinated by then and as far as I can tell there is nothing more that can be done. So if that doesn't work as well as we'd like don't we have to take the hit and 'learn to live with the virus' as people keep saying. As if not when everyone is vaccinated, then when? At some point we have to take the plunge. Is a tricky one - but I do remain hopeful for June. Not wanting to be pessimistic, but... fourth wave surely
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Post by Mark on Mar 24, 2021 13:28:55 GMT
Third wave? Fourth Wave? Heck, 10th wave? Yes. Will they be as "deadly"... with the vaccine - no.
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Post by poster J on Mar 24, 2021 13:38:09 GMT
I've had enough of pessimism. Life is too short to be scared and negative all the time, I certainly have no intention of living like that. Each to their own of course, and I am not saying don't be cautious, but I need to think more positively now otherwise what point is there to life.
I am under no illusions, the virus is here to stay and anyone who still thinks the aim is the eradicate the virus completely does need to think again as that just isn't realistic in the short or even possibly medium term. That's life, that is unfortunately how viruses work.
This has always been risk management, no more than that, and that will undoubtedly continue, but it needs to evolve to the changing vaccine landscape. A third, fourth or whatever wave is not the same cause for alarm it was a year ago. It is inevitable, but it no longer means life has to stop. Endless lockdowns and closing things down just aren't feasible.
If people are not personally willing to take risks of going to events that is of course their decision, and places where people have no choice but to go such as supermarkets undoubtedly need to continue with safety measures, as well as basic hygiene measures everywhere, but other than that there is no reason to assume that everything will inevitably have to be closed again.
At some point there is a tipping point between case reduction and other damaging factors such as economic destruction where the lesser harm is to reopen and keep going with life almost as we knew it. With the vaccine, that point cannot be that far away, and it will then be a case of monitoring to ensure hospital caseloads are manageable and imposing some temporary restrictions if they are not.
Unless there is compulsory vaccination, there is no other way to make life any safer except to keep locked down indefinitely, which I doubt anyone really wants.
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Post by talkingheads on Mar 26, 2021 15:45:02 GMT
I have noticed particularly with comedy clubs, bookings for a lot of places are being sold only in tables of two, four or six; which leaves the solo traveller out in the wind!
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 29, 2021 13:34:49 GMT
In non-theatre news, there are people playing bowls in the park for the first time since the end of the 2019 season. Crown green, obvs. None of that flat nonsense around here.
We are getting there...though that's what I thought last year. Maybe if I keep saying it we will eventually get there?
(There is actually a John Godber play about bowls; except Crown Prince is not really about bowls, it's about climate change. Written in 2007 it were. Very much ahead of his time is our JG!)
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Post by anita on Mar 29, 2021 13:58:46 GMT
In non-theatre news, there are people playing bowls in the park for the first time since the end of the 2019 season. Crown green, obvs. None of that flat nonsense around here. We are getting there...though that's what I thought last year. Maybe if I keep saying it we will eventually get there? (There is actually a John Godber play about bowls; except Crown Prince is not really about bowls, it's about climate change. Written in 2007 it were. Very much ahead of his time is our JG!) My dad used to be a regular bowls player. - but it was the flat one!
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Post by talkingheads on Apr 13, 2021 8:57:36 GMT
This is upsetting:
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Post by zahidf on Apr 13, 2021 9:53:29 GMT
From the Barbican. Interesting! Wonder if it will make more shows viable
Thank you for booking some time ago to attend one of our 2021 Live From the Barbican concerts. We’re really looking forward to welcoming audiences back in to the Barbican Hall for live music from late May.
Since these concerts originally went on sale, the government guidance on social distancing for venues like ours has been updated; we originally had seating bubbles arranged for social distancing at 2 metres but have now been advised that we can adjust to distancing at 1 metre.
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Post by talkingheads on Apr 21, 2021 12:14:04 GMT
ATG have suspended performances until 26th June. Especially annoying as I just this morning booked train tickets for the shows!
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Post by romeo94 on Apr 21, 2021 12:52:54 GMT
Wait... what about the SFP Re-emerge season that just went on sale for performances in May?
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Post by andrew on Apr 21, 2021 14:12:51 GMT
Wait... what about the SFP Re-emerge season that just went on sale for performances in May? This announcement doesn't concern socially distanced performances.
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Post by zahidf on Apr 23, 2021 22:43:47 GMT
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Post by marob on Apr 24, 2021 6:38:48 GMT
The replies to those tweets make for some depressing reading. But they do prove why its so important to keep those idiots out. I’m all for it.
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Post by Mark on Apr 24, 2021 8:12:50 GMT
I’m actually very pleased to read that the trial of the Brit awards won’t require masks indoors. If you satisfy the vaccination or negative test criteria, then it shows there is confidence that they aren’t needed. I’m all for it, but as mentioned before, not with that continued need for mask wearing as well.
There is also the question of whether home lateral flow tests will be valid for this purpose. I know for the pilot in Liverpool people will have to go to a testing centre for it. I’m doing them every 3 days, wouldn’t make sense to have to go to a test centre for another one to be able to go to an event.
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Post by crowblack on Apr 24, 2021 11:27:13 GMT
I'm rather concerned it's going to be an audience of key workers though! I understand the idea to give them a reward for all they've been doing (some of those cheap seat offers were for key workers pre-covid), but if it goes wrong, that's a lot of key workers potentially getting infected and ill in the capital city!
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Post by Mark on Apr 24, 2021 11:37:04 GMT
I'm rather concerned it's going to be an audience of key workers though! I understand the idea to give them a reward for all they've been doing (some of those cheap seat offers were for key workers pre-covid), but if it goes wrong, that's a lot of key workers potentially getting infected and ill in the capital city! We have to start trusting vaccines and testing though when the case rates are now extremely low. Key worker is a very loose term, even I am able to apply due to the job I do (but can’t because typically, I’m working). It’s still only going to be at a quarter or so capacity.
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Post by zahidf on Apr 24, 2021 15:59:15 GMT
I'm rather concerned it's going to be an audience of key workers though! I understand the idea to give them a reward for all they've been doing (some of those cheap seat offers were for key workers pre-covid), but if it goes wrong, that's a lot of key workers potentially getting infected and ill in the capital city! Keyworkers should be vaccinated by now...
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Post by talkingheads on Apr 24, 2021 17:09:40 GMT
I'm rather concerned it's going to be an audience of key workers though! I understand the idea to give them a reward for all they've been doing (some of those cheap seat offers were for key workers pre-covid), but if it goes wrong, that's a lot of key workers potentially getting infected and ill in the capital city! Keyworkers should be vaccinated by now... The vaccinated can still get it and pass it on. More than anyone, keyworkers know that.
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Post by zahidf on Apr 24, 2021 17:25:05 GMT
Keyworkers should be vaccinated by now... The vaccinated can still get it and pass it on. More than anyone, keyworkers know that. All the PHE studies shows very good rates of mot passing on infections post vaccination.
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Post by Mark on Apr 24, 2021 17:31:08 GMT
I'm rather concerned it's going to be an audience of key workers though! I understand the idea to give them a reward for all they've been doing (some of those cheap seat offers were for key workers pre-covid), but if it goes wrong, that's a lot of key workers potentially getting infected and ill in the capital city! Keyworkers should be vaccinated by now... I’m not And I just went to India last week with work. But still not eligible for a vaccine. (And I’m exempt from quarantine)
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 27, 2021 12:09:59 GMT
John Godber leads the way, yet again, with an outdoors Moby Dick on the left bank of the River Hull. 2 to 12 June.
His Dick also coincides perfectly with the world premiere in Scarborough, obvs, of The Girl Next Door, Alan Ayckbourn's 85th full-length play. 4 June to 3 July.
As always, Yorkshire's the place to be!
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