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Post by frankubelik on Jun 13, 2024 9:24:20 GMT
Agreed!!!! Very disappointing not to be able to choose seats. I would have booked if able to do so even with those ridiculously high "service" charges.
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Post by pattiaudrabernadette on Jun 13, 2024 9:44:25 GMT
Tickets are VERY expensive for this! Even the Upper Circle is close to £100. The presale has loads of fees tacked on and no ability to select your own seat so I’ll be waiting for the general on sale via the Coli tomorrow, hoping the members haven’t taken all the good seats! Happy to pay £150 for this if that’s what it takes but not paying £15 in fees just to be guaranteed tickets a day earlier…
Really super expensive.
Nearly £40 in fees for two tickets that are already crazy expensive...
In the end I bit the bullet and bought them. availability via the ENO seating plan on their website looks really sparse.
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 13, 2024 12:05:25 GMT
I'm not sure what people were expecting - stuff doesn't just cost £25 to put on anymore.
She's Patti LuPone.
It's at the Coliseum.
It's gonna be classy.
I paid £60 and thought that was perfect reasonable myself 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by saral on Jun 13, 2024 12:44:23 GMT
I'm not sure what people were expecting - stuff doesn't just cost £25 to put on anymore. She's Patti LuPone. It's at the Coliseum. It's gonna be classy. I paid £60 and thought that was perfect reasonable myself 🤷🏻♂️ Agreed, paid the same, yep not the top price, but I was expecting them to be more |
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Post by fiyero on Jun 13, 2024 13:37:13 GMT
I'm not sure what people were expecting - stuff doesn't just cost £25 to put on anymore. She's Patti LuPone. It's at the Coliseum. It's gonna be classy. I paid £60 and thought that was perfect reasonable myself 🤷🏻♂️ I'm not going for this but I'd have rathered a £60 seat rather than a £50 with £10 of fees which seems to be what often happens! Just seems dishonest. And I hate not being able to pick a seat! |
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Post by pattiaudrabernadette on Jun 13, 2024 15:51:57 GMT
I'm not sure what people were expecting - stuff doesn't just cost £25 to put on anymore. She's Patti LuPone. It's at the Coliseum. It's gonna be classy. I paid £60 and thought that was perfect reasonable myself 🤷🏻♂️ I paid about 3 x that for my ticket so more fool me, but i wanted to get up close! Does anyone know if there's an orchestra or just a piano... |
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Post by saral on Jun 13, 2024 17:31:04 GMT
I'm not sure what people were expecting - stuff doesn't just cost £25 to put on anymore. She's Patti LuPone. It's at the Coliseum. It's gonna be classy. I paid £60 and thought that was perfect reasonable myself 🤷🏻♂️ I paid about 3 x that for my ticket so more fool me, but i wanted to get up close! Does anyone know if there's an orchestra or just a piano... Not a fool at all...it's up to you what to do with your money |
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 14, 2024 0:26:07 GMT
Hopefully there'll be enough tix left to let me mull it over for a few days. A lot of money!
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Post by LaLuPone on Jun 14, 2024 9:07:28 GMT
Turns out there’s £5 of fees on top of the prices via the Coliseum as well!
Ended up with Row L Stalls for nearly £160, there’s few people I’d shell out that amount for but Ms LuPone is one of them.
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Post by frankubelik on Jun 14, 2024 9:10:46 GMT
Even the Amex preferred booking doesn't let you choose seats AND the outrageous booking fees. Struggled mightily, but decided against this. Sorry Patti!!!!!!
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Post by austink on Jun 14, 2024 10:00:17 GMT
Not sure why they are making it so difficult to just pick tickets particularly with the bonkers service charge. It seems ticketmaster is the only place to find actual near front of stalls seats.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 14, 2024 10:45:45 GMT
I picked our seats via the ENO website. Not much selection left
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Post by marob on Jun 14, 2024 12:35:12 GMT
Booked shortly after 10am, only remaining seat in the stalls. Had a look now there’s more in the stalls and better than the one I got. 🙄
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Post by geraldine64 on Jun 16, 2024 12:38:57 GMT
This is a very strange process. Do we think all these tickets have actually been sold, or is this a marketing ploy to scare us?
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Post by jr on Jun 16, 2024 12:44:00 GMT
This is a very strange process. Do we think all these tickets have actually been sold, or is this a marketing ploy to scare us? I was wandering the same. Similar with Bernadette Peters' concert. Hard to believe it has sold so many tickets in such a short time. |
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 16, 2024 12:51:12 GMT
This has sold very well it's not a marketing ploy.
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Post by geraldine64 on Jun 16, 2024 16:23:20 GMT
This has sold very well it's not a marketing ploy. Thank you for the feedback, that's useful to know. I guess I'd better book now then! Ticketmaster seem to be the best option. |
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Post by apubleed on Jun 16, 2024 20:35:08 GMT
Do you think there will be a second night? This has sold very well for something so far away.
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Post by pattiaudrabernadette on Jun 17, 2024 13:06:15 GMT
Do you think there will be a second night? This has sold very well for something so far away. I imagine ‘fourth wall’ would like to but maybe it’s tricky with scheduling for the Coli which is usually programmed on Saturdays and Mondays. |
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Post by WireHangers on Jun 20, 2024 18:01:44 GMT
I bought some very top tier tickets and had to have a quiet word with myself before hand as to whether it was truly worth it or not. In the end, so what? I won’t mention how I paid less for better seats to see Cher because that’s neither here nor there.
Fun fact though, I had tickets to see Patti at the Leicester Square back in 2013 but couldn’t go so gave them to an acquaintance. Years later when she announced her new concert I got in touch with said acquaintance to ask if she was planning on attending as I see that she attends a lot of these events. We’ve now arranged to go together!
Very excited.
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Post by alece10 on Jul 20, 2024 10:02:24 GMT
Just listening to My Life In Notes album on Apple Music and I'm just happy I didn't fork out for a ticket. Probably an unpopular opinion but I really didn't like it apart from 1 or 2 tracks namely Ladies Who Lunch and I Dreamed A Dream.
Some very odd song choices and with a very small band so you can really hear her voice and realise that those who parody her are very accurate. She really does have poor diction but that's her USP I guess.
Don't get me wrong, I do love Patti and have seen her in Divas at the Donmar, Les Mis and Company and she was fab but if her concert is this album then I've saved a lot of money.
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Post by apubleed on Jul 20, 2024 10:35:03 GMT
Do we think we will get an orchestra in London? I think it would sound much better if it weren't such a small band.
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Post by cronker on Jul 21, 2024 0:46:25 GMT
I saw this production in Australia recently. Some thoughts:
The first act is quite heavy on her storytelling the early years of her life. No show tunes, a lot of fairly obscure 50’s songs.
Second act opens with Argentina, Dreamed A Dream, Ladies Who Lunch and a few other stage numbers. Then there’s a section about time - she does a lovely version of Cyndi Lauper and another two songs that round out that story. Then she does some more stuff about her family.
Then there’s a bit of a reflection about her life on stage.
She does a really really beautiful version of Stars by Janis Ian (the personal highlight for me) before rounding off the night with Beatles.
Two encores by demand.
It’s a very plain stage. Just a plain backdrop being lit up with coloured lights.
A piano stage right with a floral bouquet and a martini glass (for a song prop - you can guess which song!)
Stage left is an array of acoustic guitar, mandolin, ukulele, violin and acoustic bass.
The band obviously is just a (very talented) pianist and an even more talented multi-instrumental musician playing all the stringed instruments. Both supply minimalist support vocals.
The first act is surprisingly short - about 45 minutes.
Second act is slightly longer, but that would be mainly due to the rabid demand for the encores.
Patti’s voice was clear as a bell, powerful and the thing that I said to my husband directly after as we were leaving was that in the entire show, from beginning to end of the big encores, she hit not ONE bum note. Not one. Pitch perfect, no screaming and sure, some of her annunciation was a bit hard to understand but that’s almost a LuPone trademark.
Overall a stunning performance from a true legend and even more impressive that she still brings the energy and vocal power and precision at 75 years young.
Recommend if she is your thing.
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