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Post by sprampster on Aug 27, 2021 6:13:41 GMT
Agreed let’s shift this back !! So having the seen the show and loved it here and in NYC a decade ago I’m curious
How do we think Megan would have actually done??
And my personal choice for a tour takeover would be Ms Langford !
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 27, 2021 6:19:20 GMT
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Post by kathryn on Aug 28, 2021 9:11:08 GMT
Decided to take the plunge and grabbed a rush ticket for this afternoon.
It’ll be my first non-socially distanced event since March 2020.
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Post by robertb213 on Aug 28, 2021 10:15:06 GMT
Decided to take the plunge and grabbed a rush ticket for this afternoon. It’ll be my first non-socially distanced event since March 2020. Well done, I've been trying all week! I'll see if I have more luck next week. Enjoy 😁 |
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Post by kathryn on Aug 28, 2021 17:05:42 GMT
Well, that was fun! Lovely to be back in a packed theatre again with an enthusiastic audience.
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 28, 2021 17:59:39 GMT
Agreed let’s shift this back !! So having the seen the show and loved it here and in NYC a decade ago I’m curious How do we think Megan would have actually done?? And my personal choice for a tour takeover would be Ms Langford ! There's no way Megan would have been able to do the show in its current format. Blow Gabriel Blow (and particularly the title number) would be quite different I feel. They'd still be big glitzy numbers but in a different way. Reno wouldn't be as flat out dancing centre stage for the whole time I don't think. |
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Post by Jon on Aug 28, 2021 18:11:57 GMT
There's no way Megan would have been able to do the show in its current format. Blow Gabriel Blow (and particularly the title number) would be quite different I feel. They'd still be big glitzy numbers but in a different way. Reno wouldn't be as flat out dancing centre stage for the whole time I don't think. I saw the show with Stephanie J Block on Broadway years ago and while she can dance and did it very well, it wasn't on the scale of Sutton Foster. |
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Post by saral on Aug 28, 2021 18:45:55 GMT
Finally saw this today...just WOW, you can't take your eyes off Sutton in the dance numbers, was worn out just watching Anything Goes at the end of act 1
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Post by zahidf on Aug 28, 2021 22:59:19 GMT
This was ACE. Definitely agree that Sutton Foster was amazing
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Post by theinvisiblegirl on Aug 29, 2021 6:39:10 GMT
Has anyone sat in the £79.50 seats at the very ends of the front few rows? I'm wondering how restricted the view is.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 29, 2021 8:18:37 GMT
Not much I can add to what has already been said but it was a treat to see such a great cast, loved the set, loved the costumes. Money had certainly been flung at this show. Sutton Foster is all that others have said and, by the way, she smells lovely! I was sitting end seat row B of the stalls and the cast board the ship via the stairs next to me so got a lovely waff of her perfume as she went past. Luckily the lady sitting next to me warned me that the cast would walk past as she had been in the same seat recently as none of the ushers said anything and if I had my leg sticking out (which is why I bought the seat) poor old Sutton would have gone *** over *** and I would have made headline news and probably have been hunted down. Has anyone sat in the £79.50 seats at the very ends of the front few rows? I'm wondering how restricted the view is. There are various comments in the thread about those but I think alece10 is the furthest forward at the end of the row that Ive seen a review for. No one seems to have had any major issues. |
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Post by alece10 on Aug 29, 2021 8:26:03 GMT
Has anyone sat in the £79.50 seats at the very ends of the front few rows? I'm wondering how restricted the view is. As @burleybear mentioned I sat at the far end of row B and can confirm you miss very little. I was left hand side so just missed anything going on at the far edge of the stage but it was minimal and won't affect your enjoyment. Otherwise its fantastic view as you are really close to the actors. Hope that helps. |
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Post by theinvisiblegirl on Aug 29, 2021 9:07:28 GMT
Has anyone sat in the £79.50 seats at the very ends of the front few rows? I'm wondering how restricted the view is. As @burleybear mentioned I sat at the far end of row B and can confirm you miss very little. I was left hand side so just missed anything going on at the far edge of the stage but it was minimal and won't affect your enjoyment. Otherwise its fantastic view as you are really close to the actors. Hope that helps. Thank you that’s really helpful! I’ve bought row B tickets for Friday as I’ve not had any luck with rush and I don’t want to miss this! |
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Post by alece10 on Aug 29, 2021 9:13:09 GMT
As @burleybear mentioned I sat at the far end of row B and can confirm you miss very little. I was left hand side so just missed anything going on at the far edge of the stage but it was minimal and won't affect your enjoyment. Otherwise its fantastic view as you are really close to the actors. Hope that helps. Thank you that’s really helpful! I’ve bought row B tickets for Friday as I’ve not had any luck with rush and I don’t want to miss this! Which end of row B are you? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2021 12:40:39 GMT
Has anyone sat in the £79.50 seats at the very ends of the front few rows? I'm wondering how restricted the view is. As @burleybear mentioned I sat at the far end of row B and can confirm you miss very little. I was left hand side so just missed anything going on at the far edge of the stage but it was minimal and won't affect your enjoyment. Otherwise its fantastic view as you are really close to the actors. Hope that helps. Stage left or audience left? x |
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Post by alece10 on Aug 29, 2021 14:45:37 GMT
As @burleybear mentioned I sat at the far end of row B and can confirm you miss very little. I was left hand side so just missed anything going on at the far edge of the stage but it was minimal and won't affect your enjoyment. Otherwise its fantastic view as you are really close to the actors. Hope that helps. Stage left or audience left? x OK that's where I sat. Just a little word of warning. Keep you feet in towards the beginning as the cast walk right past you at one point as they board the ship and if you have your leg out in the aisle might trip them up. The ushers don't warn you. Then you are fine as no further movement. Sutton Foster smelt lovely as she went past. |
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Post by theinvisiblegirl on Aug 29, 2021 15:33:22 GMT
Thank you that’s really helpful! I’ve bought row B tickets for Friday as I’ve not had any luck with rush and I don’t want to miss this! Which end of row B are you? The lower numbers, everything else near the front was sold out already. |
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Post by alece10 on Aug 29, 2021 15:56:36 GMT
Sorry if I've confused anyone with stage left or audience left.
I can confirm I was low numbers row B, aisle seat.
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Post by tmesis on Aug 29, 2021 16:00:56 GMT
I was at last night's evening performance and really, really enjoyed it. I saw the commendable Crucible production of 10 years ago and loved the NT production of 20 years ago and thought that couldn't have been bettered. Wrong... this was streets ahead, particularly in nailing the comic dialogue, hilarious last night but only mildly amusing in Nunn's production (actually much as I rate Nunn I don't think his strength is comedy; his production of Acorn Antiques the Musical was a fairly laugh free zone.) Sutton Foster and Robert Lindsay's comic timing was impeccable and I think this is what lifts the show.
The band played beautifully with some lovely saxophone dominated arrangements playing in thirds and sixths with tasteful vibrato and portamenti. Some have complained about the volume level and thought the voices under amplified, not me, I felt it was very natural and not unlike the balance you get at an opera when the voices have no amplification. I also think the balance was closer to what Porter himself would have envisaged at the time of writing.
I can't imagine getting such a tip-top cast again in London and of course it was dominated by the awesome talent of Sutton Foster. She actually had a slight mishap in her big ensemble number Anything Goes - about halfway through her extended ensemble tap routine she fell over! There was about five seconds where she picked herself up and smiled at the audience and then straight back in for an immaculate ending as if nothing had happened. The result of that, this being a British audience, they loved her even more, and went absolutely insane at the end of Act One applause.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2021 16:10:08 GMT
Sorry if I've confused anyone with stage left or audience left. I can confirm I was low numbers row B, aisle seat. Don't be sorry, I think it's just my theatre brain overthinking. I have booked front row just audience right of centre. I'm so excited. I am praying Sutton doesn't get sick between then and now, I NEED to see her in the flesh. |
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Post by Figaro on Sept 1, 2021 10:00:47 GMT
Does anyone know if there is a cloak room at the Barbican?
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 1, 2021 10:07:13 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 1, 2021 11:40:21 GMT
Has anyone ever checked in a cloak into a cloakroom?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 1, 2021 14:23:55 GMT
Has anyone ever checked in a cloak into a cloakroom? Not since my best cloak went “missing”. |
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 1, 2021 14:58:23 GMT
It may have been your best cloak once, BurlyBeaR, but not anymore. I had two bookings on Friday and three on Saturday. The Hens love it! I'm that busy, I'm having to turn work down...so if you know anyone. Own cloak preferred, but not essential. 🙂 |
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