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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2021 19:53:06 GMT
1. Come From Away (reopening night)
2. Six
3. Prince of Egypt
4. Anything Goes
5. Macbeth
Frankly though the West Side Story film was probably the best thing I've seen all year aside from that first CFA show.
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Post by marob on Dec 18, 2021 20:41:45 GMT
Madame Ovary,
Message in a Bottle,
Anything Goes,
South Pacific,
Can’t make my mind up about the 5th… possibly between Cinderella, Frozen and Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!
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Post by theatrekiwi on Dec 18, 2021 22:55:57 GMT
1. Come From Away
2. Les Miserables - Staged Concert
3. Heathers (TRH)
4. Ocean at the End of the Lane
5. Hairspray
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Post by emmy on Dec 18, 2021 23:35:42 GMT
1. Anything Goes
2. Spring Awakening
3. La Traviata (ROH)
4. Mischief Movie Night In (have absolutely loved these, hope there are some more over the new year)
5. The Normal Heart
Total of 30 shows this year (excluding the MMNIs, considering I watched basically all of them I dread to think how many that is), was hoping to see 5 more shows before the end of the year, but sadly have just found out I have Covid so that’s not happening.
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Post by Dave B on Dec 21, 2021 13:02:54 GMT
Indecent - Menier Yes So I Said Yes - Finborough Macbeth - Almeida Is God Is - Royal Court Anything Goes - Barbican
84 in total this year.
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Post by Being Alive on Dec 21, 2021 13:24:07 GMT
70 theatre trips this year - contrary to others I think it's been a pretty good year - but I guess a lot of this is from the joys of theatre returning and a lot of the reopening nights.
But my top 5 shows of the year would be:
1. Anything Goes (Playhouse)
2. Cabaret (Kit Kat Klub)
3. South Pacific (Chichester)
4. Operation Mincemeat (Southwark Playhouse)
5. My Son's A Queer But What Can You Do (Turbine)
Only a couple of real duds for me which would be:
Priscilla (UK Tour)
Back to the Future (Adelphi)
Cinderella (Gillian Lynne)
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 21, 2021 13:56:00 GMT
A little night music - opera North
Operation mincemeat
Anything goes
John and Jen
Best of enemies
No howlers (I've stayed away from AlW and NT! ) but I was disappointed with DEH and Singing in the rain. Incidently this pair was the most expensive out of all of them. I've seen 30 shows and my average spend is £18. My average spend for the previous year was £33, so like the Lib Dems I'm winning!
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Post by londonpostie on Dec 21, 2021 14:19:11 GMT
Yep, not a great 6 months or so for me, either. Also seeing Spring Awakening on New Year's Eve but lets do the leg work anyway: 1. Happy Days (Sam Beckett, Hammersmith Riverside) 2. Anything Goes - presumably the winner this year 3. What If If Only (Caryl Churchill, Royal Court) 4. Rigoletto (Verdi/Mears, ROH) 5. tba
Difficult 5th choice but I'll go with a second piece of new writing - Old Bridge at The Bush for several reasons but mostly its interesting perspectives on memory and remembrance.
Out of my hands but I might end up on 50 shows at an average spend of £18.43, conincidentally the year I was born.
2/3 were plays, 1/3 opera/musical, contemporary dance, ballet and panto.
Most visited were the ROH and Old Vic.
All activites from end of June to end of year.
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Post by n1david on Dec 26, 2021 15:15:34 GMT
So it's Boxing Day, the telly's rubbish until Anything Goes comes on tonight, this might be a good time to come up with you 5 best shows of 2021. So far we have a total of 140 votes, there are some very strong shows you'd expect towards the top of the table and a few surprising Fringe-ish shows just bubbling under.
I can do mine now that everything left in my diary has been cancelled. Given the reviews for some of the stuff I've had cancelled, that might have made my selection more difficult - I got to a Top 9 very easily, but getting it down to 5 proved more difficult. But my votes are for (in chronological order)
Cruise (Duchess Theatre) - really hoping this gets another life, probably my surprise of the year.
South Pacific (Chichester)
Crisis What Crisis (New Diorama)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Almeida)
Cabaret (KitKat Club, honest guv it's not the Playhouse Theatre)
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Post by zahidf on Dec 26, 2021 16:40:03 GMT
Top 5 plays of the year!
1. Normal heart (NT)
2. Macbeth (almeida)
3. Anything Goes (barbican)
4. Pride and prejudice (sort of) (criterion theatre)
5. Shark is broken (ambassadors theatre)
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Post by amuseical on Dec 26, 2021 20:05:59 GMT
Of the 49 shows I managed to see in the past five months, my top five (in no particular order) are:
Operation Mincemeat (Southwark Playhouse)
Indecent (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) (Criterion Theatre)
Red Riding Hood (Theatre Royal Stratford East)
Mario: A Super Musical (Union Theatre)
Special mentions for Little Women, John and Jen, Yellowfin, and Amélie.
Four first previews, three closing nights, and somehow zero of the shows I booked were cancelled.
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Post by David J on Dec 27, 2021 20:40:50 GMT
My top 5. Haven't seen many this year and am including ones I've seen before. - The Play That Goes Wrong (London back in June)
- Anything Goes
- South Pacific
- Spring Awakening
- A Christmas Carol (Old Vic)
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 27, 2021 21:47:28 GMT
I'm impressed that people have seen enough to have a top 5. I've only seen 7 different shows in 2021 (though I have seen 2 ballets multiple times with different casts) & of those 7 only 2 are ones I'd never seen before. Thinking before attending each show "Do I really want to see this enough to risk getting covid" really helps to concentrate one's theatregoing!
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Post by peggs on Dec 27, 2021 23:37:31 GMT
Me too, I have sat/stood there and thought this was not worth risking covid for several times, it's the new judgement it seems for me and more often than not for the I think nine things I saw it was not remotely worth it.
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Post by Mark on Dec 27, 2021 23:49:11 GMT
81 theatre visits for me. Lots of repeats as I've tried to see everything again as they've reopened.
No Particular order -
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Leopoldstadt
Spring Awakening
Anything Goes
Cabaret
(Including Anything Goes here even though I saw the same production on Broadway 10 years back. It really was great).
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Post by Jan on Dec 28, 2021 9:17:44 GMT
Couple of worst show awards for the Orange Tree above I see. They should stop doing new plays, they are hopeless at picking them and their audience aren’t much interested anyway.
Worst thing I saw, and it was really bad, was Miss Julie at Southwark Playhouse. Updated to pander to the identity politics enthusiasts by having the two main characters swap racist insults it embodied the very thing it was trying to oppose. One felt sorry for the actors. And Strinberg.
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Post by londonpostie on Dec 28, 2021 19:51:53 GMT
How about disappointing theatres?
At this rate the Dorfman will end up as a community centre, specialising in Covid jabs and jumble, and over-50s Pilates on Wed mornings. I loved the place for its artistic ambition, can't bear to see what's happened. Ended my membership because of it.
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Post by nottobe on Dec 29, 2021 17:30:34 GMT
My Top 5 shows this year are
1- Carousel (Regents Park)
2- Afterlife (National Theatre)
3- Cabaret (Kit Kat Club)
4- A Christmas Carol (Old Vic)
5- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Bridge Theatre)
A very close for 5 is South Pacific at Chichester.
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Post by robertb213 on Dec 30, 2021 22:09:10 GMT
55 visits for me, not too shabby as I only resumed activities in June. Also over half of them were free (either volunteering or reviewing), so pretty pleased with that.
My favourite 5 (no particular order):
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame @ Manchester Cathedral
A Chorus Line @ Curve
The Life Of Pi @ Wyndhams
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane @ Duke Of Yorks
Bedknobs & Broomsticks (tour)
I decided to exclude Anything Goes, I think it was a little overhyped and it'll undoubtedly win anyway so I thought I'd give some love to other shows 😁
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Post by romeo94 on Dec 31, 2021 0:36:38 GMT
Mine are:
1. Afterlife (National)
2. The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Lyric Hammersmith)
3. South Pacific (Chichester)
4. Spring Awakening (Almeida)
5. Anything Goes (Barbican)
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Post by theatrefan77 on Dec 31, 2021 1:23:30 GMT
My top 5 this year:
- The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Bridge)
- The Normal Heart (National)
- Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (Charing Cross)
- Anything Goes (Barbican)
- Cabaret (KitKat Club aka Playhouse)
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Post by n1david on Dec 31, 2021 9:27:09 GMT
Last call for votes please! As some people have surmised, we have a runaway winner this year (unless the "Manor" fans stage a guerrilla action on the board today), but it's very tight underneath that with about a dozen shows jostling for the Top 5. In terms of overall votes we are slightly ahead of last year but it would be nice to get some more. Remember, you don't have to have a whole Top 5, if you just saw one or two shows and loved them, please let us know so that I can include your views.
Cutoff is midnight tonight, I will post the results tomorrow after my socially-distanced New Year hangover recedes.
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Post by dontdreamit on Dec 31, 2021 9:58:11 GMT
I managed 23 performances this year, many were repeat visits. Not bad considering that was in the second half of the year when theatres began to open back up again.
1. Joseph, specifically with Linzi. Her first show back... absolutely magical!
2. Bat Out Of Hell tour- for a while I didn’t think the tour would ever actually happen but it did and I managed 2 dates on the first leg.
3. Carousel
4. Hairspray
5. Six
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Post by jgblunners on Dec 31, 2021 14:56:32 GMT
I got to 53 performances this year, a small improvement on 39 in 2020. It's been a really challenging time for theatre makers and I'm immensely grateful to everyone who persevered and continued to provide stunning productions despite little to no support for the creative sectors during the pandemic. My top 5 is:
1. Anything Goes (Barbican)
2. Carousel (Regent's Park Open Air)
3. The Last 5 Years (Garrick)
4. Joseph and the... (Palladium), specifically with Linzi Hateley!
5. Wonderful Town (Holland Park)
Happy New Year everyone and may 2022 bring us all may more wonderful theatrical experiences!
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Post by Wilf on Dec 31, 2021 15:07:32 GMT
Only managed a few shows mainly local.
1 What’s new pussycat? Birmingham Rep
2 &Juliet
3 Jersey Boys The Alex Birmingham
4 Heathers The Alex
5 Chicago The Grand Wolverhampton
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