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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 9, 2018 13:52:39 GMT
Boris is definitely a Marmite politician.
Can he be elected to run the country - possibly.
BUT within the Conservative Party he has a lot of support and I can't see him ever being deselected, even if the occupant of No 10 called for it.
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 8, 2018 13:32:22 GMT
Seriously? Corbyn was consistent in his views on Europe. For 35 years he was consistent in speaking for Brexit. But give him a whiff of power and his position keeps changing to whatever option is most difficult for the government that day. He is the very definition of a popularist politician. I don’t think, for one minute, that Corbyn has changed his mind on Europe and all his words and actions point to that. Given his party’s almost complete opposition to Brexit he has therefore kept a lid on it. i don’t sense that Johnson believes anything, so anything he says is on shifting sands. Populists have no ideology, just kneejerk reactions, that fits Johnson not Corbyn and JRM. Apparently you're right, he hasn't changed his position at all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/14/jeremy-corbyn-wants-hard-brexit-labourBut then why do so many of his supporters think he's opposed to Brexit? Will the real Mr Corbyn please stand up. PS At least we agree on Boris.
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 8, 2018 13:04:14 GMT
With figures liks Mogg and Corbyn, they may be on the fringes of their parties but at least they are not populists and are consistent in their views. You can deal with that. Seriously? Corbyn was consistent in his views on Europe. For 35 years he was consistent in speaking for Brexit. But give him a whiff of power and his position keeps changing to whatever option is most difficult for the government that day. He is the very definition of a popularist politician. I'll say it again, history has warned us to be very careful when the extremes take hold. Yeats wrote this in the aftermath of the first world War. Politics in Europe during the uncertain years that followed were a battle ground between rival ideologies and we know what that led to. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Resist the popularists with their passionate intensity, blame, hate and fear.
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 8, 2018 12:50:01 GMT
Bit puzzled, as there are seats at all performances from 26th September onwards on the delmac site. If you mean discounted previews, then no, they were not discounting for that at all. Thank you. So 26th is the official opening night? (AS if by magic, we can now go then)
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 8, 2018 11:47:48 GMT
Our political classes are increasingly polarising the choices the electorate have. Given a choice between the "alt-right" and "Momentum", I'm prepared to take a chance on the later. Appealing to all, reject extremism whatever its colour. Do not give in. The gap is widening, and the choices are increasingly sickening. Very worrying. Unlike others I fear Boris CAN get elected. He was voted in as Mayor of London and despite doing sweet FA for anyone but himself, came out with his support intact. He recently said "F+++ Business" thus turning his back on the traditional Conservative support. What a time to be creating havoc! May could control him when in the Cabinet but now he's just after the popular vote.
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 8, 2018 10:52:04 GMT
A really good show last night. There seemed to be some sort of mother and daughter group in, although the daughters were generally of the age 6 or 7 range and many looked bored. But I managed to stop their fidgeting from spoiling my enjoyment. How many did you you have to cull? Well done.
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 7, 2018 19:56:49 GMT
Can't find any previews on Delfont Makintosh Theatre website, Sold out?
Can't make opening night so thought this would be a good alternative. ANywhere else to look?
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 7, 2018 19:53:07 GMT
I agree. I'm so disappointed in Kelli. What happened to doing all of your shows? Especially for a limited engagement that she traveled especially for to repeat her Tony winning performance. Take an extended break after the run is over if you want to, but people are spending money to see you. Do your shows. Think about it - what if I said to you that you have to work nearly 4 months straight without a single day off. Would you like it? I doubt it. She's basically entitled to almost a third of the annual leave of someone on a year long contract, so she has to take it at some point, especially given employment laws are more generous here than in the US. When the exact dates get finalised is up to her and the producers, and probably also in this instance takes account of Ruthie's situation, so it may not have been possible to sort out until now. It's not the Kelli O'Hara show, it's not advertised as the Kelli O'Hara show, she's entitled to time off same as the next person - that doesn't change just because she has a Tony Award. And presumably everyone who's moaning because she's dared to have a very few days off and let her standby go on would be the same people complaining if she burned herself out or wrecked her voice and couldn't do the entire last month of the run because she didn't have time off... I really don't get the issue here - everyone's entitled to be disappointed if they don't see her, we've all missed stars before due to holidays or illness, but blaming her for daring to have a day off goes too far in my book. People take last-minute holidays all the time for all sorts of reasons, and the ones she has announced aren't even really last minute at all! I agree with all you say.......if ............the Theatre email all those who've bought tickets and offer them an exchange. And yes I know an exchange may be of no use at all to someone who's paid for tranport and lodgings but nothings perfect. So much better than calling in a "sickie" (Which is very difficult for a famous person to do), my personal peeve in ANY situation.
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 2, 2018 9:09:27 GMT
Off the back of that, and possibly off-topic but frankly as I'm not sure what the topic is even intended to be at the moment I'm sure you'll forgive me, does anyone know why London has decided to try rebranding the Strand area as the "Northbank"? You don't *have* to have a north version just because there's a south version (otherwise surely there'd be a Nussex to go with Sussex, Essex, and Wessex), so I just get a lot of second-hand embarrassment when I walk along this reasonably-iconic-in-its-own-right road in the winter and see all the "THIS IS THE NORTHBANK " decorations. Love your idea. Have adopted this in my Avatar, and will make this my county of choice when web forms demand I have one!
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 31, 2018 21:07:52 GMT
First time at the fringe - really looking forward to it as will be staying for a week! Have already booked the following with plenty of space left to catch other things on the day itself! Bare the Musical 13 Ninas got new by Frank Skinner Spring Awakening Drowsy Chaperone Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Canterville Ghosts Showstoppers! Improvised Musical Ed Gamble: Blizzard Harpy My Left / Right Foot: The Musical One Life Stand Michael Murpurgos: Kensukes Kingdom Vanishing Man You're a Good man Charlie Brown After the Cuts Stick & Stones Underground Railway Game Meek Midsummer Two of my friends are in 13. I wanted to do it too but nobody told me when or where the auditions happened. Shouldn't that read EX-friends?
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 30, 2018 12:03:41 GMT
Last Friday night, how appropriate that a silent bomb was detonated in Row M of the stalls during The Lieutenant of Innishmore. The carnage and smell were awful. Mrs Snow said I hadn’t been paying attention and it was just the remains of a Pret Broccoli Cheese (and wrapping) consumed just before curtain up. But she’s wrong, two people just couldn’t create that amount of mess.
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 30, 2018 11:53:20 GMT
I also enjoyed this production very much. I think that behind the satire on terrorism, there is something more universal and quite topical: the sinister problem of fanaticism, when someone’s mind is completely taken over and controlled by an unrelenting set of ideas or beliefs, and everything else - including common-sense and humaneness - gets thrown out of the window. If you look around, fanaticism is disturbingly all around us. The whole madness of the play rang quite true too me. The acting was great throughout, especially from the Inishmore characters (more especially Chris Walley and Denis Conway). I had no inkling Aidan Turner could do comedy so well. Nice post and although I didn't like it quite as much as you did, it pretty much sums up my feelings. PLUS the arguments put forward by them are all pretty much based on a sentimental view of something that's either never really existed, or at least they haven't experienced for themselves. One might see Padraig's affection for THAT cat, in the same light.
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 30, 2018 10:17:10 GMT
There were sets......
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 30, 2018 5:36:20 GMT
Have you just slipped in some news that mean Congratulations are in order? If so Congratulations!
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 29, 2018 15:05:11 GMT
I thought it was one of the loveliest things I have seen this year. Oh but Ryan, have you looked in the mirror lately? I
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 27, 2018 7:32:28 GMT
God. I absolutely adored this. Every second. It is divine. Kelli is divine. I am inclined to think Ken is divine. I love me some Rodger & Hammerstein and this absolutely fit the bill. I would beg, steal and borrow a ticket - it is that good. Might see you in clink then. If it comes to it, I'm prepared to murder for another ticket. I'll listen out for you, Whistling a happy tune....
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 26, 2018 13:48:00 GMT
I actually wrote my OP whilst rewatching Chicago last night. One Nil to the Theatre! B Bear. OG 1st minute.
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 26, 2018 8:06:49 GMT
And as such are destined to disappoint any discerning theatregoer when seen live. Cabaret. West Side Story. Chicago. Sound of Music Oliver! Stay home and put on the dvd. Right? Sorry I have stumbled by mistake into a Film Forum? The very idea that a DVD can be better than any possible live version is ….suspect. What is it about those versions that you find so admirable? The performances? Well we’ll have to see who emerges to better them The rewriting of the way it plays out? Again, not all stage productions follow the same script. And then there’s the magic that happens on a certain night in a certain theatre… As to the films you’ve chosen Cabaret. I can remember my reaction the first time I saw it, but it is less with each repeat. Something that isn’t true in the theatre. Was really moved by the Donmar production. Yes it’s a great film, but better than a really good live production? (Happily we can have both). WSS. May have a point as the live productions have to follow a template and that’s a buzz killer. Does anyone know when it’s out of copywright? Overdue for a reinvention me thinks. TSOM. Too long. JA too Old. Should have a Government Health Warning as Medical evidence exists linking frequent watching to the onset of Diabetes. Never liked the piece until I saw the Regents Park version a couple of summers ago. It was a real drama. Chicago. Much as I admire the film, live it’s just so much more ….sexy (can I say that these days?) and seductive. As an audience member you are meant to realise you’ve been taken in by the razzle dazzle. Maybe the current tired stage version is not the best argument for this, but it has legs!!!!!!! Oliver. Film best watched in bits as its rather long. As for Shani Wallis, well at least she’s the exception in a marvellous cast. PS I do realise you don’t really mean it, just having a little fun. I mean you can’t really mean it? ??
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 25, 2018 5:27:59 GMT
Just a quick note. Saw the Sasha Regan all male version at Greenwich last night.
It don't have a clue how, but it really works. At ENO there was the suspicion they thought it was all a bit of silly fun so lets amp that that bit up. Here despite bookending it (noo spoiler alert) they really believe in it as a piece and out of that it was great fun.
Top marks to Richard Russell Edwards Fairy Queen who with half frame glasses on the end of his nose, resemebled a young Larry Grayson. But the temptation to camp it ALL up was firmly resisted.
Reccomended as a piece of theatre and also to seee a huge contrast to the ENO version.
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 24, 2018 12:47:47 GMT
At last a decent summer.
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 21, 2018 13:58:44 GMT
Phew I was worried I wouldn't be able to get tickets, but if everyone on here is giving it a miss, I stand a chance.
Thank you Mr Barnaby for sharing this wonderful news.
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 21, 2018 8:46:17 GMT
Ir does seem to be that certain nights the audience catches fire. Early in this thread I wrote about our experience during a preview. It seemed like the balconies were full of dance fans. Everytime a new number started a huge roar of approval went out, as if we were in a stadium and the home team were scoring goal after goal. In 45+ years of theatregoing I've never experienced usch electircity going out.
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 21, 2018 8:41:28 GMT
I went to today's matinee revival of this and a fairly average affair it was. I knew the cast was a bit 'B team-ish' compared to the debut singers but I didn't expect the dull, merely competent run-through it received this afternoon. Atalla Ayan as Rudolfo was underpowered and impoverished of tone, Ekaterina Siurina as Mimi had way too much vibrato and, crucially, didn't emotionally engage - there was almost no frisson between the two of them. Best of all was the least experienced singer, Vlada Borovko as Musetta. I still liked the production though, even though I greatly miss the old Copley one it replaced. We returned as enfants du paradis, i.e. the slips, and Ms Siurina's voice was simply huge. Gave a thrill but perhaps not best suited to a dying consumptive. Agree balance between two leading parts far form ideal.
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 19, 2018 12:25:33 GMT
Yes the final performance is expensive, but I doubt I'll see a show that delights me as much as this one for a long time, so I've splashed out for front row Stalls at the final show. I'm sure there'll be quite a few Theatreboard-ers there! The show's twitter has also confirmed that the renovations of TRDL will begin after closing: Don’t want to be a party pooper and I would love to be at the last night but….they have extended the booking periods before. It does seem the right time of year to close and the refurbishment has been widely trailed but “Final extension.” , sounds a bit like “Farewell Tour”. Anyone know anymore that confirms this is really the last chance to see it?
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Post by Mr Snow on Jul 19, 2018 5:44:21 GMT
Fun story from Starlight Express yesterday about What Not To Wear To The Theatre: Before the show started I noticed a little girl wearing those cheesy sneakers that have lights in their soles, flashing green, blue, etc while she walks. She must have taken them off Thats the point where all trainers become 'cheesy'.
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