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Post by hannechalk on Apr 19, 2019 14:38:58 GMT
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Post by Dr Tom on Apr 19, 2019 17:43:33 GMT
“Do you hear the people sing?” |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 18:19:45 GMT
I remember in the bar queue at Local Hero last week I overheard in the queue for programmes. “Oh I really hope it’s not a musical. I hate musicals”
I did slightly smirk.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 20, 2019 8:35:59 GMT
I remember in the bar queue at Local Hero last week I overheard in the queue for programmes. “Oh I really hope it’s not a musical. I hate musicals” I did slightly smirk. I am amazed at the amount of times I hear these comments. Quite often my friends ask similar, I guess they trust me #morefoolthem |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2019 10:04:41 GMT
I remember in the bar queue at Local Hero last week I overheard in the queue for programmes. “Oh I really hope it’s not a musical. I hate musicals” I did slightly smirk. I am amazed at the amount of times I hear these comments. Quite often my friends ask similar, I guess they trust me #morefoolthem In that person's defence, the Lyceum usually don't do musicals, just plays, and most of the posters had just advertised "Local Hero" and not "the musical". |
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Post by Dr Tom on Apr 20, 2019 22:33:04 GMT
Currently in NYC. Walked past the theatre where King Lear is playing, advertised as something like “the greatest role on stage”.
Two girls talking.
“How can that be a great role, it’s Shakespeare? The role everyone wants to play is Hamilton.”
Have to wonder if Glenda Jackson feels she’s missed out!
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Post by Dr Tom on Apr 20, 2019 22:34:56 GMT
My Fair Lady in NYC. People in the row behind at the end.
“There weren’t any good songs in it.”
“They should have reprised them all at the end.” (a megamix).
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Post by Snciole on Apr 21, 2019 20:09:55 GMT
At Dinner is Coming my friend whilst waiting at the bar heard a couple loudly discuss their plans for the weekend.
"So we will shag, get some dinner and then see a gig"
As a busy woman I have partaked in scheduled sexy times with my partner but not in public.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 8:39:19 GMT
At Dinner is Coming my friend whilst waiting at the bar heard a couple loudly discuss their plans for the weekend. "So we will shag, get some dinner and then see a gig" As a busy woman I have partaked in scheduled sexy times with my partner but not in public. Presumably not in a cubicle in any West End theatre as there's barely enough room to accommodate one person in them, let alone the shenanigans of two people. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 9:18:15 GMT
At Dinner is Coming my friend whilst waiting at the bar heard a couple loudly discuss their plans for the weekend. "So we will shag, get some dinner and then see a gig" As a busy woman I have partaked in scheduled sexy times with my partner but not in public. Very wise, get the duty sex over with early so you can enjoy the rest of the evening! Lie back and think of pizza and Montipulciano, that's my motto. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 9:32:28 GMT
Presumably not in a cubicle in any West End theatre as there's barely enough room to accommodate one person in them, let alone the shenanigans of two people. Plus the tutting from everyone in the queue would put you right off your stride |
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Post by showgirl on Apr 22, 2019 12:54:58 GMT
Even worse, they might wish to join in.
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 22, 2019 13:00:54 GMT
Gives a whole new meaning to 'immersive theatre'. 😉
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Post by waybeyondblue on Apr 22, 2019 17:10:57 GMT
Even worse, they might wish to join in. Standby, understudy or swing? |
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Post by david on May 16, 2019 23:40:02 GMT
Whilst waiting for matinee production of “Hell, Yes I’m tough enough” at the Park theatre yesterday, 2 FOH staff questioned a gentleman about why he was trying to enter the Park 200 auditorium when he hadn’t got a ticket for the Boris Johnson play. Quite calmly he replied “ I wrote the play”. The gentleman in question was Jonathan Maitland. The poor FOH staff member was totally horrified. I assume he hadn’t phoned the theatre to let him know he was coming or if did he had the theatre management hadn’t told the FOH team.
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Post by showgirl on May 17, 2019 4:03:24 GMT
Having been there too it did seem to me that the FOH team knew little or nothing of the advertised post-show Q & A which the author was due to attend.
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Post by lynette on May 17, 2019 16:47:06 GMT
Should have bought a ticket. Then he could have assessed if it was worth the money!
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Post by daisy24601 on May 17, 2019 20:05:25 GMT
Having worked front of house, I must say it is annoying when people associated with the show just assume FOH know who they are. Their job is to check tickets, not let anyone in without one. If they don't recognise you (why would they?) then they are going to question you.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 21:08:05 GMT
Overheard in the staff room at work today:
“Les Mis makes me cry.”
“Yeah, all musicals are depressing aren’t they?”
🤐
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 18, 2019 9:35:15 GMT
I only put two and two together quite recently on this, because I’m a bit dim. Anyway when I saw 42nd Street last year I was sat on the front row aisle right next to two FOH selling ice creams etc. One of them, a young woman was talking to her colleague about her mother getting a part in something and they were really excited about it and there was talk of putting in a special dance number or song for her or something. I couldn’t hear it all because she was speaking fairly quietly and I didn’t want to stare to do the lipreading thing. She was obviously talking about someone “known” but I couldn’t work out who it was.
Then a few weeks later Bonnie Langford was announced for 9 to 5. I think that FOH was her daughter, working on the ice creams while her mum was up on stage.
Did Bonnie get a special number written into 9 to 5?
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Post by bgarde on May 19, 2019 7:26:45 GMT
Woman approaching Row K.
"Are you K?"
"Yes I'm K"
so slight but felt like a Pinter moment.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 6:32:07 GMT
At New Adventures Swan Lake last night, heard two ice cream front of house staff discussing it at the interval...
1. Do you think... do you think maybe it's like... a METAPHOR... for HOOOOOMOSEXUALITY?
2. *thinks* nah, they peck him to death at the end don't they? I saw it last night.
(I'd have been a bit cross about the interval spoiler if I didn't already know what was going to happen.)
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Post by sparky5000 on May 24, 2019 14:53:48 GMT
Last night in the queue for the toilets at Waitress interval, a guy was chatting to a girl waiting in front of me and said “I’m so used to going to the West End and thinking bad high school musical productions have better singers than this, but these guys can actually seriously sing” 😆
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Post by longinthetooth on May 25, 2019 20:54:56 GMT
Posh elderly lady, on taking her seat: "How long is this going on for?"
Posh companion: "Not long, I shouldn't think."
This before a word had been uttered, a single note of music played, or even the sight of any cast member!
Followed by:
PEL: "Have I been here before?"
PC: "Yes, with me."
PEL: "No, I don't think so."
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Post by cheesy116 on May 25, 2019 23:25:47 GMT
At Kinky Boots UK Tour in Glasgow last week, at the interval (what I assume to be heterosexual male to heterosexual male),'The one that did the splits is better looking than most of the girls in my office!'
If only he knew.
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