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Post by dontdreamit on Mar 4, 2019 20:28:25 GMT
I’ve seen every theatre production and tour that JD has done in the UK since the first tour in 1990. As have a number of friends who I’ve known for that long.
Apart from that, I completely get what you’re all saying, and it’s making me want to look over nearly 30 years worth of tickets to see which west end houses I’m missing!
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Post by harrietcraig on Mar 4, 2019 20:59:49 GMT
My Audra McDonald collection would be complete if her understudy hadn't gone on the night I saw Master Class. Does this mean I don't have to see her in the upcoming Broadway production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 21:02:10 GMT
As with martello736 and Dawnstar, I also have Aspergers which kind of owes itself to my obsessive nature when it comes to theatre. When Kinky Boots was in my city, Callum Francis was departing the production after one week. I went on opening night, and he wasn’t on. I was extremely desperate to see him, so I revisited the show on the Saturday (his last day) which luckily he was on for. I’m also a fan of Six and it was my objective to see both Natalie May Paris (I hadn’t seen her on my first trip) and Grace Mouat (I’d seen her on my first visit as Seymour) in the same performance, which also I luckily did in Glasgow. I also keep every single programme and ticket from every show I see, in pristine condition too. |
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Post by robertb213 on Mar 5, 2019 0:00:29 GMT
The more I see, the more I realise it is turning into collection, and every time a new production is announced there is an element of 'ooh I can tick that off next'!. There is stuff coming up that I wouldn't say I was massively excited about but I'll still book to see it to add it to my collection, and others that I can't wait to see purely for the enjoyment of that particular show. I also have a base of 20-ish performers who I'll see whatever they're performing in, and I love finding new talents. I'm not one for seeing the same show oodles of times though, I'd prefer to have a collection of more titles in my memory bank 😀
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Post by shady23 on Mar 5, 2019 6:40:00 GMT
It's more common than you think.
So many try to tick off matches at all the different football grounds, for instance.
It becomes a very competitive thing.
Like a game of bingo.
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Post by ftfadia on Mar 6, 2019 11:13:53 GMT
Hello all, first time poster (and long time lurker) here! This is an interesting topic, I have been collecting theatre too and love it. I'm curious though, how do people collect covers and swings playing in different roles? Do they announce that somewhere in advance or do you just have to get lucky? And pretty sure I'll now be starting my collection of theatres as well as shows, that is genius  |
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Post by schuttep on Mar 6, 2019 13:52:59 GMT
I've only recently started collecting - when I realised I only had a few Shakespeare's to go. Then I collected them all and aimed for all of them done by the RSC. I only have Pericles to go.
I have all the Sondheims except You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (a compilation show).
I've also seen the few plays Oscar Wilde wrote plus a few adaptations of novels.
I saw lots of Agatha Christie's plays when Bill Kenwright was doing The AC Collection so I've carried on with them (and am seeing The Mirror Crack'd tomorrow in Salisbury).
I's like to see all Ibsens, Chekhovs, Tennessee Williams, Rattigans and Cowards (although the latter is unlikely as he wrote so many!)
I collected all the West End/central London theatres by accident simply by dint of going to see lots of shows.
Now I just need to collect more money to continue...
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 6, 2019 14:43:45 GMT
Hello all, first time poster (and long time lurker) here! This is an interesting topic, I have been collecting theatre too and love it. I'm curious though, how do people collect covers and swings playing in different roles? Do they announce that somewhere in advance or do you just have to get lucky? And pretty sure I'll now be starting my collection of theatres as well as shows, that is genius I *think* twitter is a good source although I'm not a collector and am, after typing this post, going to have to sit on my hands because otherwise I'm going to be googling Theatres on Google and crossing off the ones I've been to and then looking at ones I haven't been to in order to book stuff and BAM there goes the afternoon / day / week .... |
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Post by ensembleswings on Mar 6, 2019 15:07:48 GMT
I’m slowly working my way through trying to visit all the West End theatres, it’s a slow process but I’ve got years to achieve it and I think I’m over halfway already (in 2.5 years)
I did try (and succeed) to catch a couple of swings in all of their tracks within a show before. But that only came about because I loved the show, was seeing it regularly anyway and then realised I only needed to see one actress in one track and the other in two tracks to complete that little goal.
For me it does tend to be a case of wanting to see all the cast members including the swings/standbys above anything else.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 6, 2019 18:28:34 GMT
This is an interesting topic, I have been collecting theatre too and love it. I'm curious though, how do people collect covers and swings playing in different roles? Do they announce that somewhere in advance or do you just have to get lucky? I've managed it through a mixture of checking Twitter & asking actors at the stage door, plus the occasional bit of luck. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 7, 2019 7:57:56 GMT
All the Sondhdeim's. tick
Glass - Portrait Triogoly and Cocteau Trilogy. Tick, tick.
John Adams Tick and then he wrote another bloody opera. Not tick
Four more Shakespeare's to go
More Albee plays would be nice
I'd like to see all the Kander and Ebb's
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2019 15:19:45 GMT
All the Sondheim musicals (not all the compilations and not seen "Getting Away With Murder")
All the Shakespeares. All of them more than once, other than Henry VIII
All the Marlowes other than "The Massacre at Paris"
All the Wagners that he considered canonical.
With "King Hedley II" and "Two Trains Running" this year I will be halfway through August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle of 10 plays.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2019 16:05:21 GMT
Really interesting thread Burly.
And I think to an extent I DO collect theatre. I have got better as I've got older though and concentrate more on seeing things I know I like rather than seeing everything.
I do always like to see all the open ended West End musicals eventually - the only exceptions being jukebox ones where I don't like the artist - for example Motown which I really don't like and Thriller as was never an MJ fan.
There is a problem with this though as my urge to see everything does lead me to see things that on paper I think I am not gonna like. For example currently the only open ended musical I haven't seen is Waitress. On paper (and on CD) it isn't my thing at all - but I still wanna go so I can have an opinion, join in the discussion and say I've been! Sightly bonkers when you think about it.
That said over the years there have been very few shows I didn't get at least something out of once I was there.
Not obsessive enough to wanna see every cover. But my main obsession is with ALW and certainly I will get to all his UK shows (Kenwright tours I can miss) and also Germany. Also like to be at all ALW last nights!
My CD collection is maybe more obsessional. I have all ALW official cast recordings for London, Broadway and Germany!
And of course programs (for literally everything I see) and souvenir brochures (used to get for everything, more selective now, so ALW ones, Mis/Saigon and other musicals I love).
So in summary it is a bit like collecting - but fortunately, even when seeing musicals "just for the collection" I generally still have fun!
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Post by joem on Mar 8, 2019 22:53:44 GMT
I may be a pedant here but "collecting" theatre for me would involve something like programmes or posters, a physical object. I prefer to think of going to the theatre as an experience. Within that experience I am very much a completist where I enjoy something and therefore very interested in seeing all the works of playwrights I like. I also like the idea of going to theatres. I've been to every London theatre currently operating bar the Peacock and the Shaw - which are both a bit offbeat and not sure I consider part of the West End. I am trying to go to every regular fringe venue and have done most by now but I wouldn't go to one I'm missing unless they were putting on something of interest.
There are actors and actresses I very much enjoy following but it isn't possible to commit to seeing everything they might do. Not enough theatre days in the year for me yet. Maybe when I retire.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 8, 2019 23:34:06 GMT
I'm afraid that I do refer to "collecting" understudies. I also liken it to bird watching: the rara the avis the more exciting to see!
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Post by schuttep on Mar 11, 2019 10:26:32 GMT
With "King Hedley II" and "Two Trains Running" this year I will be halfway through August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle of 10 plays. xanderl - where is Two Trains Running showing, please? I only have Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Fences, plus King Hedley II coming up at Theatre Royal Stratford East, and would love to collect more. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 10:32:33 GMT
With "King Hedley II" and "Two Trains Running" this year I will be halfway through August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle of 10 plays. xanderl - where is Two Trains Running showing, please? I only have Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Fences, plus King Hedley II coming up at Theatre Royal Stratford East, and would love to collect more. It's an English Touring Theatre production - www.ett.org.uk/what.phpDates not announced on the ETT website yet, but it's at the Oxford Playhouse in the week of 24th Sept and the Royal and Derngate Northampton from 31 Aug to 14th September |
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Post by schuttep on Mar 11, 2019 10:36:34 GMT
xanderl - many thanks for such a prompt response.
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