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Post by joem on Jul 8, 2020 22:28:08 GMT
8th March. Not Quite Jerusalem at the Finborough. Then dinner at a Szechwanese restaurant where the staff received us with gratitude and warmth amidst the Sinophobia which was raging at the time.
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Post by vickyg on Jul 9, 2020 8:37:25 GMT
I saw A Number at The Bridge theatre on 2nd March. All those wasted months! I also went to the cinema to see Bombshell on 10th March and by that time I wasn't sure it was a good idea but was relatively happy to follow governmental advice which was wash your hands, don't touch your face and nothing more is required! Just missed out on Women Beware Women which is shame as I haven't seen Tara Fitzgerald on stage for *years*.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 9:11:56 GMT
Tragically my last two theatre visits were slight stinkers - Sinners at The Playground Theatre on 4 March (not terrible just overly melodramatic) and Corpse at The Park on 6 March (perfectly entertaining, veering towards so bad it's good territory).
Would have been La Cage at The Park on 13 March, which I was really looking forward to but it was cancelled for non-Covid cast illness reasons.
Alas...
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Post by lichtie on Jul 9, 2020 19:32:12 GMT
Missing People at the Leeds Playhouse on the 14th March. I think I said then that the audience was sparser than expected, and wasn't at all surprised by everything closing up rapidly after that. Not sure when I'll next be back at the theatre, but will be off to some galleries early August.
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Post by RedRose on Jul 10, 2020 8:58:32 GMT
Last in London was The Seven Streams at NT on 8th March.
Last at home was The Effect at English Theatre Frankfurt on 11th March. Two days later all was closed. I had a lot of Opera and plays coming up. Not so many visits in London fortunately, May and August. I also think mid October trip won't happen. I will try to see some plays in Germany after summer break from end of August. I seriously miss live shows!
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Post by Stephen on Jul 10, 2020 10:38:41 GMT
Last for me was Shoe Lady at work and A Number at the Bridge.
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Post by winonaforever on Jul 10, 2020 11:14:26 GMT
11th March, Waitress
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Post by liv22 on Jul 10, 2020 11:17:00 GMT
Last for me was the Six matinee on March 14th (via Rush, never had much luck before but maybe because the demand wasn't as high that weekend).
I had also rushed Pretty Woman the previous Saturday the 7th and then London felt pretty normal, tubes busy and crowds around Piccadilly Circus normal. The following Saturday when I went for Six it was so eerily quiet, the tubes were very empty and walking through Leicester Square to the theatre it seemed very quiet. And then obviously that was the last weekend of theatre.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 11:58:35 GMT
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie - UK Tour matinee on Saturday 7th March. It was weird as I kinda had a feeling it would be my last show for a very long time but I didn’t get confirmation until the 16th obviously.
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Post by Sotongal on Jul 10, 2020 15:43:04 GMT
Northern Broadside’s production of “Quality Street”, by JM Barrie at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, on 12th March 2020.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Jul 10, 2020 23:56:27 GMT
A two show day on the 14th March - The Last Five Years and Pass Over. It was pretty much the last day you could go to the theatre and I believe the whole West End was offically closed the following week. One of the cast members of Pass Over actually turned out to have covid but thankfully I was unaffected as far as I'm aware. Brilliant play to close out on at least! It's weird to think, though, that I averaged out more than one show a week last year whereas this year it'll be less than one a month.
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Post by jampot on Jul 11, 2020 6:42:05 GMT
Sat 14th March...City of Angels matinee then 9 to 5 eve...
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Post by dlevi on Jul 16, 2020 8:45:23 GMT
7th March, Shoe Lady at the RC: I’d hate for something to happen to me (or the theatre industry disintegrates altogether) and the last thing I saw was that 💩 Shoe Lady was my last show as well ( on March 12) and I too am wondering if this is how a lifetime of theatre going ends. No offense to Katherine Parkinson of whom I'm quite fond, but what a piece of junk it was. Oh well! |
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Post by JJShaw on Jul 16, 2020 11:00:53 GMT
Mine was the first preview for City of Angels, I called out of work to go see it and I'm so glad I did!
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Post by anthony40 on Jul 16, 2020 11:07:20 GMT
Second week of March- The Prince of Egypt, which for a weeknight was about three quarters full- the Dominion is a big theatre- and then Lockdown.
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Post by ensembleswings on Jul 17, 2020 9:38:49 GMT
1st March = last touring show (We Will Rock You)
5th March = last WE show/last show (Waitress). Nearly cancelled it for various reasons but now I’m very glad that I didn’t.
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Post by chestwig on Jul 19, 2020 9:18:10 GMT
Butlins Jason Donovan on March 8th. Not a show I know but the last live thing I saw.....
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Post by CG on the loose on Jul 19, 2020 13:18:15 GMT
Waitress and Come From Away on 15 February (and Pretty Woman the night before). I was out of the country for the first two weeks of March and due to see Phantom at the Curve on 20 March - the first of 38 cancelled and 7 rescheduled shows and concerts since. And a couple of the reschedulings now look in further doubt. On the upside, I've seen 41 pieces of theatre or concerts online in that period - many of which were new to me. And dippy ... I feel another spreadsheet coming on! ;-) |
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Post by Dave B on Jul 19, 2020 13:56:16 GMT
March 14th. A double bill, Endgame at the Old Vic in the afternoon and then Nuclear War / Buried / Graceland for the evening in The Old Red Lion.
Such a short time ago while also such a lifetime ago.
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Post by danb on Jul 19, 2020 19:16:02 GMT
‘Be More Chill’ matinee Sun 15th March. If only I’d have known it would be the last thing I’d see...well I’d probably still nod off and wince at the awfulness of it all...but I’d certainly have tried harder to enjoy it.
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Post by viserys on Jul 19, 2020 20:39:42 GMT
Come on, what am I supposed to say, my last show was... Thriller Live. As it was touring here and I could get in cheaply and I thought I'd check out the bête noir of so many people on this board.
It wasn't AWFUL, but...
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Post by maggiem on Jul 20, 2020 16:47:04 GMT
Northern Broadside’s production of “Quality Street”, by JM Barrie at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, on 12th March 2020. I saw that in February at The Lowry (Quays theatre). Good fun! Then "Coriolanus" at Sheffield Crucible on Sat 14th March, for the matinee. I almost didn't go, but now I'm so glad I did! |
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Jul 21, 2020 6:37:47 GMT
Just sorted my tickets etc. and my last show on my last London trip was Teenage Dick at the Donmar on December 19th 2019. Have to think about the great shows I saw on that trip and not think, what I have already missed this year...
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Post by londonmzfitz on Jul 21, 2020 19:29:36 GMT
7th March, City of Angels, which I adored and bought more tickets for later in the run (both now refunded).
I should have seen Roddy Doyle in conversation on the following Wednesday but I decided against, although I was still travelling to work on the tube until Tuesday 17th March.
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