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Post by damaskanddark on Feb 29, 2024 8:53:58 GMT
My favourite period of the NT was the 1990s into the early 2000s, with all those gloriously staged classic musicals. Carousel, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Oklhahoma!, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Anything Goes. I wish they would do a series of classic musicals again exploring The Sound of Music, The Most Happy Fella, Gypsy, etc
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Post by zahidf on Feb 29, 2024 9:14:38 GMT
My usual theatre going chum is in hospital so I had tickets for Nye and Dear Octopus that I could not use. Previously I have offered tickets to neighbours for free but it's hard work to persuade people to go. I phoned the NT box office and was dealt with by a really helpful American woman who has credited me with the cost of the tickets. It was just so easy. Well done NT. Worth noting for the future, you can do this all online in your account section without phoning up, and its all very quick
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Post by mkb on Feb 29, 2024 9:32:25 GMT
My usual theatre going chum is in hospital so I had tickets for Nye and Dear Octopus that I could not use. Previously I have offered tickets to neighbours for free but it's hard work to persuade people to go. I phoned the NT box office and was dealt with by a really helpful American woman who has credited me with the cost of the tickets. It was just so easy. Well done NT. Worth noting for the future, you can do this all online in your account section without phoning up, and its all very quick That's useful to know. How close to performance time is this possible?
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Post by kit66 on Feb 29, 2024 9:55:00 GMT
Worth noting for the future, you can do this all online in your account section without phoning up, and its all very quick That's useful to know. How close to performance time is this possible? They need at least 24 hours notice before the start of the show for this service (48 hours notice for Standing at the Sky’s Edge, 7 days for group bookings).
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Post by zahidf on Feb 29, 2024 10:22:35 GMT
Worth noting for the future, you can do this all online in your account section without phoning up, and its all very quick That's useful to know. How close to performance time is this possible? Also worth noting that theyll process it during box office times, so itll be better to it then rather than outside of those times if close to the performance time
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Post by bigredapple on Mar 3, 2024 23:16:59 GMT
Had a lovely tour of the NT last week, and our guide was telling us how the stages are capable of holding an entire different show’s set in the wings/flys, and pre Covid each stage would run two shows a week
This seems wild to me as someone who only moved to the uk recently! Does anyone have any examples of this? Were there common themes between the two shows? Would they divide the week in half, or do each show on every second day?
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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 3, 2024 23:56:41 GMT
Had a lovely tour of the NT last week, and our guide was telling us how the stages are capable of holding an entire different show’s set in the wings/flys, and pre Covid each stage would run two shows a week This seems wild to me as someone who only moved to the uk recently! Does anyone have any examples of this? Were there common themes between the two shows? Would they divide the week in half, or do each show on every second day? It's part of its history as a repertory company, I didn't realize they weren't doing it anymore post-covid. I remember seeing My Brilliant Friend and Translations in the same week at the Olivier in Autumn 2019. But no, the plays didn't have common themes running through them, the multiple shows being performed were not intended to be companion pieces. As for the schedule it really depends, it was never a 50-50 situation. Sometimes one of the plays would do just two or three performances a week or even disappear for a little while. Some times a show started out doing all the performances of the week and then fizzled down to a few for part of its run. For the middle part of the run Follies shared the Olivier Theatre stage in repertory with the play St. George and the Dragon during 2017
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Post by Jon on Mar 4, 2024 0:55:59 GMT
It's likely a cost thing to not have shows in rep.
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Post by mrnutz on Mar 4, 2024 8:44:33 GMT
It's likely a cost thing to not have shows in rep. This was what they said when I did a tour there a couple of weeks ago - they just can't afford to stage that many shows simultaneously at present.
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Post by Jan on Mar 4, 2024 9:05:18 GMT
Some of the leading actors liked the rep system there because it gave them lots of time to do other work at the same time, they might be only doing two or three performances per week, or even no performances some weeks, so they could do TV/Film at the same time. I guess like at the RSC it was also good for the tourist audience who could see multiple plays in a week in their various auditoria.
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Post by lynette on Mar 4, 2024 14:42:49 GMT
For the RSC the actors didn’t like the rep system keeping them out of London for longer. That’s what I think happened, not completely sure. So now short runs of one play seem to be the thing. i used to love the rep system there, seeing three plays in a weekend. And at the NT. Makes for a buzz, mix of FOH people and media attention.
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Post by foxa on Mar 4, 2024 15:49:29 GMT
The RSC became known as the 'divorce-maker' because actors would commit to two years in Stratford while their families often remained at home (particularly if there were children in school,etc.) so lots of time separated and ripe for mischief.
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Post by takeabow on Mar 6, 2024 13:11:57 GMT
£26million announced in the budget to renovate the stages at the National. Wonder what this will be?
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Post by ceebee on Mar 6, 2024 13:13:25 GMT
£26million announced in the budget to renovate the stages at the National. Wonder what this will be? The drum revolve...
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Post by lynette on Mar 6, 2024 13:38:27 GMT
I hope for more than that. If they need that much for the revolve they will be using it all the time..sigh.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 6, 2024 15:53:20 GMT
It will mean a series of rolling closures. I hope they find other spaces to keep the number of productions/performances in line with normal.
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Post by jek on Mar 6, 2024 15:59:28 GMT
A national theatre skills centre sounds good. I guess this may be akin to the sort of thing that the Royal Opera House have out at Thurrock. Doubling the number of apprenticeships can only be a good thing - they seem harder to get on to than prestigious university courses.
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Post by n1david on Mar 6, 2024 16:05:40 GMT
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Post by aspieandy on Mar 7, 2024 1:33:59 GMT
Obv. not a capital project but I was thinking only a week or so ago how very tired the stair carpet to the Olivier was looking. Bare in places.
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Post by Jan on Mar 7, 2024 7:47:14 GMT
How much have they spent over the years trying to get that drum revolve to work properly ? There have been problems with it since the place opened in 1976 and numerous attempts to fix it. "Innovative solutions" sounds like they still don't know what to do with it. Maybe time just to remove it and put in something more conventional - I can only think of a few productions over the years that used its full capabilities anyway.
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Post by aspieandy on Mar 7, 2024 15:03:22 GMT
It's the creaking that does for me. Bloody thing is 50-years old. Put it on a barge and sink it in the estuary.
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Post by andrew on Mar 7, 2024 15:16:34 GMT
Members and associate members of ODRAS (Olivier Drum Revolve Appreciation Society) are up in arms about some of these comments, let me tell you. Finally the taxpayer is recognising the importance of big bits of scenery emerging from the depths of the Southbank whilst also spinning.
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Post by ceebee on Mar 7, 2024 16:45:59 GMT
Members and associate members of ODRAS (Olivier Drum Revolve Appreciation Society) are up in arms about some of these comments, let me tell you. Finally the taxpayer is recognising the importance of big bits of scenery emerging from the depths of the Southbank whilst also spinning. Apparently RASTA (Revolve Appreciation Society Theatrical Affiliates) are spliffing feathers over these comments too.
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Post by lynette on Mar 7, 2024 18:11:10 GMT
Developing skills a good thing. RSC doing a developing directors thing. Without these initiatives the theatre will die out. Plenty of actors of course……
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Post by mkb on Apr 6, 2024 10:50:12 GMT
I learnt last night that the 10% discount on programmes when paying with an Amex card is no more.
The guy in the bookshop said the 10% bar discount had ended too, but that was news to the bar staff who were still offering it.
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Post by n1david on Apr 6, 2024 11:10:09 GMT
I learnt last night that the 10% discount on programmes when paying with an Amex card is no more. The guy in the bookshop said the 10% bar discount had ended too, but that was news to the bar staff who were still offering it. The website still shows the bar discount but not the bookshop discount. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/amex/
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