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Post by singularsensation10 on Jun 16, 2017 17:16:24 GMT
Meh. Anyone else struggling to muster up any enthusiasm for 'Hamilton' at the moment? There'd better be a tap routine in it to make it worth watching. Yeah - haven't got a ticket, haven't tried, won't until the initial rush is over or if I win the lottery (if they're doing that here?). On the casting note. If you say to someone 'I'm going to see X musical' - most responses are the same. I would love to change the culture in which we live where the first response from most members of the public is 'who's in it?'
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Post by Steffi on Jun 16, 2017 17:20:37 GMT
Before I saw Hamilton on Broadway I was almost certain it wouldn't live up to the hype. But for me it did and I absolutely adored it. The staging, the score, the choreography - I remember my friend and me looking at each other in the interval just going "Wow".
So count me into the "I'm excited" group. :-)
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 16, 2017 17:56:07 GMT
I also don't see why for most people (frequent theatregoers, anyway), a show NEEDS to live up to hype. You can accept that you may enjoy a show less than someone else, that it may not change your life like it did your friend's, and still decide to go see it and have a good time.
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Post by ali973 on Jun 16, 2017 18:32:17 GMT
I was totally competitive about buying a ticket to the London premiere, but since then I sort of settled down. I've also seen the show once on Broadway and five times in Chicago, and many other great shows since, so I think I've gotten it out of my system. But I'm sure once I'm there on the first preview I'd be excited, because I'm sure the atmosphere will be amazing.
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Post by d'James on Jun 16, 2017 19:10:18 GMT
I also don't see why for most people (frequent theatregoers, anyway), a show NEEDS to live up to hype. You can accept that you may enjoy a show less than someone else, that it may not change your life like it did your friend's, and still decide to go see it and have a good time. That's not the point really. Of course opinions over a show differ all the time and that's fine but I try to avoid the hype (and spoilers/cast recordings) so I can go in fresh. When shows get past that level though and the hype is everywhere I think it forces me to lower my expectations, which I don't like to have about shows at all in advance, if that makes sense.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 21:30:36 GMT
Honestly coming from an unbiased perspective, I don't think I've come across something that lives up to the hype for as many people as Hamilton does. I mean if we think back to last year and just how intense the American media coverage of that show was, the fact people paid $10,000 to see the last performance with the original cast etc., there was barely any backlash whatsoever. Which is super rare for something that gets that popular.
Book of Mormon had considerably less hype yet didn't live upto it for me (even though I like the show!) Hamilton honestly exceeded my expectations somehow. Of course, the quality of the cast may alter things.
But In the Heights isn't on the same level as this show. I like both, but I find it hard to believe they're written by the same person. His songwriting got so much better in the space of a few years.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 21:51:15 GMT
Only just noticed that Gregory Haney is transferring from Broadway.
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Post by steve10086 on Jun 16, 2017 21:52:33 GMT
I am worried that I've been looking forward to Hamilton for so long, have read the biography, am reading the "Hamiltome", and have listened to the OBCR and Mixtape so many times that the show itself can only be a disappointment! Really hope not.
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Post by theunderstudy on Jun 16, 2017 22:03:21 GMT
Good to see that it was the Daily Fail which got to announce the cast. Remember a few of its headlines in support of the benefits of immigration?
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Post by nash16 on Jun 16, 2017 23:50:45 GMT
According to whatsonstage.com he's never done any professional acting... He hasn't been at the Royal Court, or played at Sam Wanamaker... How stupid can they be?! Not as much as someone assuming they know more than the professionals? True dat! Got a lovely email from whatsonstage apologising and citing "admin error". Jamael was brilliant in Torn. Can't wait for him in this.
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Post by dazzerlump on Jun 17, 2017 0:30:58 GMT
does anyone happen to have a link to the seating plan for Hamilton at the victoria palace as the current plan for the theatre doesnt even show my seat as actually existing?
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 17, 2017 0:53:38 GMT
does anyone happen to have a link to the seating plan for Hamilton at the victoria palace as the current plan for the theatre doesnt even show my seat as actually existing? Don't quote me on this, but I don't think an official current seating plan has been published at the moment, as renovations are still taking place at the Victoria Palace! But I imagine it must have to be finalised pretty soon-ish. Having said that - you could see a full seating plan when you chose your own seats when originally buying tickets (before they took that option away!) so it obviously must exist in some form, if not completely 100% accurate yet.
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Post by danb on Jun 17, 2017 4:16:24 GMT
....I'm banking on it being wildly innaccurate so that I can try & get my son a seat for the same performance I'm going to when the 'remainder' go on sale.
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Post by dazzerlump on Jun 17, 2017 17:58:22 GMT
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Post by dazzerlump on Jun 17, 2017 18:03:27 GMT
So it looks as if they've taken out the aisle on the front few rows and the first seat starts at a higher number
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Post by danb on Jun 17, 2017 18:09:53 GMT
Very happy with B20 in the Upper. Aisleseatsrus
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 22, 2017 22:11:21 GMT
Still talking about Hamilton!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2017 22:12:58 GMT
Still talking about Hamilton! Why is Baz reporting this as news, it has been reported for literally a year that he will come in for a limited run, but won't be the original. Urgh, anything to get new followers I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2017 22:14:03 GMT
I guess he's confirming that it's still probably happening at some point?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2017 22:46:28 GMT
Yeah looks like it's still the plan:
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 22, 2017 23:14:14 GMT
Baz sure loves licking this shows bu*hole doesn't he? He's said this 100 times already. Any excuse to mention Hamilton week after week.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 3:58:28 GMT
Baz:
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Post by viserys on Jun 23, 2017 17:15:59 GMT
LMM is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Pleased for him!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2017 7:44:35 GMT
Its completely ridiculous but i guess Disney have bought it for him. Long gone are the days they are given on merit.
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Post by Stasia on Jun 24, 2017 8:16:10 GMT
Its completely ridiculous but i guess Disney have bought it for him. Long gone are the days they are given on merit. It is completely ridiculous to think he doesn't deserve it already
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