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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 14:35:42 GMT
End of the year, time to get some adding going. How many new musicals have you seen this year? How many new plays? How many return visits? Top 10 best shows you have seen? Me... New Musicals: 25 New Plays: 12 (13 if you count Potter as two plays) Return Visits: 17 Total Trips: 54 (or 55 haha) Top 10 (in no particular order) 01. 42nd Street 02. Rent 03. Big Fish 04. Yank 05. The Color Purple 06. An American in Paris 07. Apologia 08. Honeymoon in Vegas 09. Young Frankenstein 10. Lady Day at Emmersons Bar & Grill
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Post by n1david on Dec 21, 2017 15:47:16 GMT
97 visits, of which 64 plays, 15 musicals, 9 concerts, 4 operas, 4 dance productions and 1 revue... Only two revisits.
My top 10, in the order I saw them...
Hamlet (Almeida) Limehouse (Donmar) Angels in America (NT) 42nd Street (TR Drury Lane) Play Something (Stagewrite at the Fringe) Gypsy Queen (Kings Head) Follies (Olivier) Beginning (NT) Labour of Love (Noel Coward) Quiz (Chichester)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 16:43:31 GMT
24 shows( probably a small comparison compared to a other people) 17 plays, 7 musicals and hopefully girl from the north country on New Year's Eve. Top 10 but not really in an order as I enjoyed them all for different reasons
Angels in America-National Fiddler on the Roof -Chichester Romantics Anonymous- Sam Wanamaker Hamlet- Almeida/West End Mary Stuart-Alemkda( saw it this year so am counting it) Pinocchio - National 42nd Street- Dury Lane Lady day- Wyndams Five Guys named moe- Marble Arch La Strada- Other palace
Also my first year going to the Edinburgh fringe and saw 14 shows which was very good and will definitely go back.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 21, 2017 17:11:30 GMT
201 shows seen this year. Shows below taken from my Word document.
5 Star
1. Rent***** £32 2. Dreamgirls***** £20 3. Dead Funny***** £27 4. School of Rock***** £27 5. The Book of Mormon***** £20 6. The House of Barnarda Alba***** £30 (Royal Exchange, Manchester) 7. An Inspector Calls***** £20 8. Filthy Business***** £30 9. East Is East***** £20 (Northern Stage, Newcastle) 10. Billy Elliot***** £35 (Hippodrome, Birmingham) 11. The Curious Incident of the Dog***** £25 (Bord Gais, Dublin) 12. Abigail’s Party***** £12 (Richmond Theatre) 13. Angels In America (Part 1)***** £60 14. The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia***** £5 15. Angels in America (Part 1)***** £65 16. Angels in America (Part 2)***** £65 17. Tommy***** £10 (Theatre East, Stratford) 18. La Strada***** £20 19. Dreamgirls***** £20 20. Ink***** £20 21. The Ferryman***** £68 22. Half A Sixpence***** £25 23. Angels in America (Part 2)***** £65 24. School of Rock***** £45 25. Follies***** £38 26. Jesus Christ Superstar***** £36 27. Kinky Boots***** £29 28. Glengarry Glen Ross***** £20 29. People, Places, Things***** £39 (Cambridge Arts) 30. Hello Dolly***** $243 (New York) 31. Come From Away***** $300 (New York) 32. Kinky Boots***** $90 (New York) 33. Book of Mormon***** $68 (New York) 34. Miss Saigon***** $40 (New York) 35. Waitress***** $110(New York) 36. Bright Star***** $90 (San Francisco)
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Post by Jon on Dec 22, 2017 0:30:28 GMT
End of the year, time to get some adding going. How many new musicals have you seen this year? How many new plays? How many return visits? Top 10 best shows you have seen? Me... New Musicals: 25 New Plays: 12 (13 if you count Potter as two plays) Return Visits: 17 Total Trips: 54 (or 55 haha) Top 10 (in no particular order) 01. 42nd Street 02. Rent 03. Big Fish 04. Yank 05. The Color Purple 06. An American in Paris 07. Apologia 08. Honeymoon in Vegas 09. Young Frankenstein 10. Lady Day at Emersons Bar & Grill I'm quite pleased you managed to quadruple the numbers of plays you saw this year compared to last year. It was a lean year for me, saw 24 productions which consisted of 5 musicals and 19 plays.
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Post by stevej678 on Dec 22, 2017 14:08:43 GMT
70 shows in the North West or London for me, plus 100 more at the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
My top ten:
1) The Nature of Forgetting (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe) 2) Romantics Anonymous (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) 3) Little Women (Hope Mill Theatre) 4) The Terrible Infants (Wilton’s Music Hall) 5) All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe) 6) La Strada (The Lowry) 7) On The Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) 8) I Capture The Castle (Octagon Theatre, Bolton) 9) Glasgow Girls (Liverpool Playhouse) 10) Paper Hearts (Upstairs At The Gatehouse)
Other standout productions included 42nd Street, An American In Paris, Hair, Daisy Pulls It Off and The Grinning Man.
My highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe, in addition to the two shows in my top ten, were When We Ran (Patch of Blue), Laugh Actually (Durham Revue), Atlantic: A Scottish Story and Into The Woods (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Transit (Flip Fabrique), Edges: A Song Cycle (Durham University Light Opera Group), Education Education Education (The Wardrobe Ensemble), This Really Is Too Much (Gracefool Collective), Company (Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group), Little Bitch (Becky Lucas), The Starship Osiris (Willis & Vere), SiX (Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society), Buried (Colla Voce Theatre) and Godspell (University of Manchester Musical Theatre Society).
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Post by ensembleswings on Dec 23, 2017 22:20:08 GMT
Total performances - 100 New Musicals - 29 New Plays - 7
Favourites (in no order) - 42nd Street War Horse The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Legally Blonde Kinky Boots
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Post by NeilVHughes on Dec 23, 2017 23:01:37 GMT
Total so far 230
Another 3 to go, culminating with New Year in Stratford Upon Avon to see Imperium.
Will give a complete Summary next week.
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Post by daniel on Dec 29, 2017 17:07:02 GMT
So 2017 has been by far my busiest ever year of theatregoing, with 139 performances.
I've been at 103 performances of 60 different musicals, of which 35 were new musicals for me.
I've been at 27 performances of 20 plays, of which 16 were new plays for me.
Most return visits this year:
Dreamgirls - 7 visits in total 42nd Street/Half A Sixpence/School of Rock - 5 visits Billy Elliot/Wicked - 4 visits Annie/The Comedy About A Bank Robbery/The Girls/The Toxic Avenger/Kinky Boots/Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour - 3 visits
Top 3 new musicals:
42nd Street Dreamgirls The Toxic Avenger
Bottom 3 new musicals:
Lizzie Flashdance (UK Tour) Joseph
Top 3 new plays:
The Ferryman Labour of Love Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
Bottom 3 new plays:
The Miser Don Juan in Soho The Exorcist
Roll on 2018!!
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Post by Mark on Dec 30, 2017 22:58:19 GMT
79 theatre visits in total with 66 different shows (Yes I'm counting Angels/Potter as two separate shows each, since I had to buy two tickets!) My visit to the Blood Brothers UK tour makes it my 13th time seeing the show.
New Musicals (20 shows) (Broadway): War Paint, Come From Away, Anastasia, Hello Dolly! Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (London): An American in Paris, Yank! The Girls (x5), The Wild Party Committee…, Everybody's Talking About Jamie (x2), Follies, Big Fish, Working, The Life, The Woman in White, The Grinning Man (UK Tour): Thoroughly Modern Millie, Nativity! (Sydney): My Fair Lady,
Repeat Viewings (23 shows) (Broadway): Phantom of the Opera, Groundhog Day, Dear Evan Hansen, Waitress, (London): 42nd Street (x3), Young Frankenstein, The Toxic Avenger, Wicked, School of Rock (x2), The Book of Mormon, Promises, Promises, Les Miserables, Dreamgirls (x3), Half a Sixpence (x2), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Kinky Boots, Hamilton (UK Tour): Wonderland, The Addams Family, Mamma Mia! La Cage Aux Folles, Blood Brothers (Johannesburg): Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Panto (1!) Dick Whittington
New Plays (20 shows) Apologia, The Ferryman (x2), Beginning, The Boys in the Band, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (x2), Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Rotterdam, The Glass Menagerie, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? The Play That Goes Wrong, This House, Ugly Lies the Bone, Labour of Love, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Limehouse, Angels in America Part 1 - Millenium Approaches, Angels in America Part 2 - Perestroika, Don Juan in Soho, Ink, Oslo
Repeat Plays (2) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Part 1, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Part 2
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2017 10:07:21 GMT
83 shows seen - 69 plays, 10 musicals, 4 operas. Average ticket price £18.77 (yes I do have a spreadsheet)
One repeat visit (Andrew Scott Hamlet)
Top 10 shows (in no particular order) - Hamlet, Gloria, Angels in America, Roman Tragedies, Follies, 42nd Street, The Cardinal (Southwark), Dido Queen of Carthage (RSC), The Rover (RSC), Macbeth (Ninagawa at the Barbican)
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 31, 2017 10:51:51 GMT
Right, 2017 shows concluded. 224 seen. Some highlights for me:
Best plays: Hamlet (Almeida), An Octoroon (Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington DC – I didn’t see the Orange Tree production, but the WMT production was outstanding), Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road.
Best musicals: 42nd Street, American in Paris, Rent, On the Town.
Funniest opera: Red Mary (National Theatre, Prague), followed by Barber of Seville (ENO)
Most enjoyable opera: Mitridate, re di Ponto (ROH)
Best dance: Untouchable (Royal Ballet), followed by Trois Grandes Fugues (Lille Opera House)
Most delightful unexpected surprises: Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road (again) and La Boheme (coincidentally both at Trafalgar Studios 2)
Most thought provoking: Groomed (Bloomsbury Studio Theatre – a one man show by a survivor of child abuse), followed by An Octoroon.
What shows made me rebook them (a rare thing for me) – only 3: 42nd Street, Hamlet, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet)
Peculiarity of the year: The Frogs (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Wish I had kept my eyes closed: Rigoletto (Copenhagen OH), Madame Butterfly (La Monnaie, Brussels) (both great singing, but appalling staging choices)
Wish I had seen: Sovremennik Theatre’s Three Comrades at the Piccadilly Theatre (having caught Three Sisters later)
Why did I go?: Salome (NT) (but I loved Knives in Hens!)
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 31, 2017 11:21:58 GMT
69 plays, 1 musical (Follies).
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Post by michalnowicki on Dec 31, 2017 12:40:05 GMT
15 musicals, 9 plays, 5 NT Live screenings and 3 concerts (Cynthia, Audra and Rachel Tucker)
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Post by NeilVHughes on Dec 31, 2017 14:51:10 GMT
Visits: 234
Plays: 232 Musicals: 2
Highlights: (chronological) - Hedda Gabler - This House - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - The Crucible - The Ferryman - Barber Shop Chronicles - Anatomy of a Suicide - Follies - Oslo - Albion - Norman Conquests - Network - Mother Courage and her Children - Imperium I & II
Venues:
Park: 23 Globe: 18 National: 17 Royal Court: 15 Hampstead: 13 Almeida: 12 Southwark: 10
Shakespeare:
Performances: 50 Plays: 20
Highlights: (chronological) - Hamlet (Almeida) - Roman Tragedies (Barbican) - Richard III (Hull Truck) - Othello (Wilton’s Music Hall) - King Lear (Chichester) - Macbeth (Barbican)
Also got to see the little performed Henry VIII in York, not a highlight but there aren’t many years when I get to see a Shakespeare play for the first time.
Events:
- McKellen at the Park Theatre - Mark Rylance at the Park Theatre
An extremely busy year, began to get Theatre fatigue during December, 2018 looks to be less busy but who knows as still a lot of Theatre to be announced.
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Post by Michael on Jan 1, 2018 9:20:49 GMT
Theatre-wise, last year wasn't a particularly good year with only 39 visits, an all-time low compared to 70 in 2016 and even 107 in 2014.
Of these 39 visits, 22 were in the UK, 12 in the US and 4 in Germany (in my defence, two of those were the International tours of Evita and Billy Elliot).
New shows were Love Story, In Transit, Lizzie, Schikaneder, Wedding Singer, Evita, Band Stand, Come From Away, Bat Out Of Hell, Big Fish and Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
Shows I didn't like and wish I had left at the interval were Love Story and Lizzie (at least I finally got to see Eden Espinosa on stage), and the highlights were In Transit, Band Stand, Bat Out Of Hell and A Bronx Tale.
2018 seems to become even less busy with theatre going. I've only booked two trips to London so far (one in March and one in June - in the good old times it was at least one trip per month) and yet I don't know how to fill them, as there are almost no shows that interest me. Even my usual longrunners have put me off with their unoriginal casting decisions. I do hope that Bat Out Of Hell extends, though, and that the rumours of a new Rock of Ages tour are true.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 16:01:03 GMT
My New Year Resolution is to be more organised about recording my theatre visits.
THEATRE The Ferryman (twice), B; Goats; Manwatching; Road; Killology, Nuclear War, A Profoundly Affectionate etc; The Kid Stays in the Picture; Escaped Alone; Wish List; Grimly Handsome; Common; St George and the Dragon; Jane Eyre; Consent; Barbershop Chronicles; Ugly lies the Bone; The Flick; Angels in America; Follies; Hedda Gabler; Oslo; Yellowman; Gallileo Gallilei; Yerma; See Me Now; The Jungle; The New Nigerians; The Plague; Loot; Daisy Pulls it Off; The Convert; Assata Taught Me; The Firm; The Mentor; Andrew Scott’s Hamlet; Albion; Venus in Fur; An Octoroon; Of Kith and Kin; Parliament Square; Guards at the Taj; Lions and Tigers; My Brilliant Friend (Rose Theatre adaptation of Ferrante novels); Glengarry Glen Ross; Albion; Jane Eyre; Jam (Finborough); Three Sisters; The Tempest (Doran/Imaginarium/Barbican) Jesus Christ Superstar. (52 shows) DANCE: Trajal Harrell; Michael Clarke Company (Both at the Barbican)
The plays/productions that stayed with me (in no particular order):- - Wish List (RC) - Barbershop Chronicles (Dorfman) - Escaped Alone (RC) - Hamlet (Almeida) - The Convert (Gate) - Assata Taught me (Gate) - The Tempest (Barbican - Doran/Imaginarium) - The Jungle (YV) - Oslo (NT/Pinter) - Loot (Park)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 16:08:45 GMT
56 is the "grand total" for me. About average for the last few years. Skewed slightly by the "Angels Factor" meaning I was erm distracted for a big chunk of the year.
Running total since 2004 now stands at 536. I appreciate that's what some of y'all see in a year and probably sounds a bit pathetic, but we can't all be the 'big men' of theatre who go every other day....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 17:20:18 GMT
I saw a total of 45 shows in 2017. 31 of those were musicals and 11 plays. 2 others were booked but subsequently cancelled (Tarzan & Bring it On) and one which I only mustered one half of (Spamalot).
8 of those visits were repeat trips, with The Girls taking up half of those. My 150th show ever was this year, 42nd Street.
Highs: Angels in America The Girls Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (again) Hamilton 42nd Street Dreamgirls (Amber’s last) Dear Evan Hansen Come From Away
Lows: War Paint (Drying) Death takes a Holiday The Mousetrap An American in Paris
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 18:53:54 GMT
56 is the "grand total" for me. About average for the last few years. Skewed slightly by the "Angels Factor" meaning I was erm distracted for a big chunk of the year. Running total since 2004 now stands at 536. I appreciate that's what some of y'all see in a year and probably sounds a bit pathetic, but we can't all be the 'big men' of theatre who go every other day.... I'd love to go to the theatre a couple of times a week, but I can't afford it. I almost bankrupted myself seeing all the shows I saw this year. As a rule I don't attend musicals, but I imagine that they are even more expensive. Seriously, how do people manage it?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2018 19:10:52 GMT
56 is the "grand total" for me. About average for the last few years. Skewed slightly by the "Angels Factor" meaning I was erm distracted for a big chunk of the year. Running total since 2004 now stands at 536. I appreciate that's what some of y'all see in a year and probably sounds a bit pathetic, but we can't all be the 'big men' of theatre who go every other day.... I'd love to go to the theatre a couple of times a week, but I can't afford it. I almost bankrupted myself seeing all the shows I saw this year. As a rule I don't attend musicals, but I imagine that they are even more expensive. Seriously, how do people manage it? I don't know and the general teasing/sarcasm of my original comment aside, it's not just about money but the value of time...Like most of us I'm juggling 1001 things at a given time and the older I get the more I'm choosy about how I spend that time. So I'm disinclined to go and see EVERYTHING just because it's there, because law of averages says some of that will be a waste of valuable time. So I've become more choosy about my theatre outings. Obviously this particularly applies to London theatre for me as the time/travel/money investment is greater. But I also don't see everything locally just because any more either, because I have other things I need to do- even if sometimes those other things are sitting on my arse at home. No judgement to anyone who takes the ALL THE THINGS approach (except when they judge those of us who don't of course ) to each their own etc.
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