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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 13, 2017 9:49:52 GMT
Friday is Don Juan in Soho on Friday, then Rosencrantz & Guildenstern on Saturday (not matinee, as I thought, but evening. Just as well I checked).
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 13, 2017 9:44:48 GMT
Bob Carlton's Return To The Forbidden Planet, and lesser known From A Jack To A King were my introduction to what's now called the Jukebox Musical.
Return To The Forbidden Planet won the Olivier Award for the Best New Musical in 1989 and 1990.
I adored From A Jack To A King and saw it loads of times. Classy stuff of it's age.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 13, 2017 9:38:55 GMT
Agree with all comments above. Very funny, lots of comedy and loved how Arthur Darvill played to the audience; he was very engaging, great voice, great comic timing. Sam Barks has wonderful vocals but I felt she needed to bring an extra something to the performance. I bought my ticket because of Simon Lipkin, he's a huge presence on stage and out sang everyone else (my opinion). His flying Elvis was the stuff of legends. Rosemary Ashe was superb. Nicholas Colicos was another who engaged the audience with his performance. Big mentions to Richard James-King as the guy trying to find flights to Vegas-via-Atlanta! Maisey Bawden as Mahi and Hywel Dowsel as Teihutu, both perfomances the audience really enjoyed.
Maxwell Caulfield did pretty well. I can't remember what I saw him in previously and hated, so was dreading his performance, but he did OK.
Great evening.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 12, 2017 12:27:23 GMT
I'd wear my badge but I've a feeling it was in my purse when I tipped the contents into a homeless blokes hand. Oops.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 10, 2017 14:44:13 GMT
The Time Travellers Wife. Unless you get a fair bit of smoke and mirrors involved.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 10, 2017 11:30:50 GMT
Good-o. These days I type whatsonstage reluctantly and stick a "pah!" on the end.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 10, 2017 9:42:03 GMT
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 9, 2017 17:28:20 GMT
*Hands up for keeping it here*
Watching the cast twitter feed, sounds like the dress rehearsal (in front of School of Rock and Cats Broadway casts) went brilliantly. Broken legs to them all xxxxxxxxxx
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 9, 2017 13:11:12 GMT
Hi, everybody. I'm new. I've seen Charles Dance, sitting two rows behind me, at Romeo and Juliet at the Garrick last year. And that's all for now, but having being to the theatre only four times (in the UK) I think it's good. I saw Ruth Wilson at Romeo & Juliet last year.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 6, 2017 9:27:06 GMT
Kite Runner from The Nest on Saturday matinee. Honeymoon In Vegas at the Palladium on Sunday.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 6, 2017 9:24:15 GMT
http://instagr.am/p/BRR7PAVAXuU Best news I'm going to get today. *OMG Mods, sorry I thought it would just be the hyperlink, not the huge (but lovely) photos ... remove if necessary.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 4, 2017 23:16:22 GMT
Telling both my sisters today about Uncle Pat in his coffin wearing glasses and shoes we were trying to think if we gave the undertakers shoes for our Mum when she died ... Which led us to the conversation with the lovely undertaker as to what they would want for, er, dressing the body. My elder sister the drunk had sorted through Mums wardrobe and had an outfit for her, but had thrown all her underwear away, and had to buy new knickers for our dead Mum..
Stuff you can giggle about years later ..
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 3, 2017 23:27:07 GMT
Put a dampener on my evening at Titanic. And Romeo and Juliet a few days later might not have been the best idea.
I get a name check in The Irish Times, Wednesday 1 Feb 2017. My Irish parents would be so ... Hmm, I wonder what they'd have said.
But I did get to say "c*nt, c*nt, you f*ck*ng c*nt" in the witness box.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 3, 2017 22:07:36 GMT
Oh, dead bodies are no problem, it's the live ones that cause all the problems for me. As Dawnstar knows, it's almost 7months to the day when I witnessed my neighbour at number 9 murder the man at number 8. Old Bailey last month was an experience ...
(For the curious, google John Martin Kingsbury).
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 3, 2017 17:38:11 GMT
The Irish rellies are descending for Uncle Pat's funeral tomorrow. Today is the open coffin for people to weep over/say "doesn't he look well". Both of which happened. I was just going to pop by and see my lovely Auntie before tomorrow's shenanigans (funeral on a Saturday!) but the Aunts, cousins and Uncles were all over the place. Bet the undertakers have never seen anything like this mob. (A young man popped his head around the door to tell us that there was an old distressed man trying to find the undertakers, he'd pointed at the shop front and the old distressed man drove off the other way. Cue my adorable cousin Alan standing in the rain in the middle of the road waiting for Uncle Tim to figure out he'd got it wrong. Then cue my nutty cousin Regina saying "he'll be wanting to make a grand entrance, the fecker").
When my darling Dad died my elder-sister-the-drunk (that's how it's said, in one breath) said she wanted Dad to be wearing glasses in his coffin. Because he didn't look like Dad without his glasses. Much eye rolling from Mum, Dad wouldn't be needing to see where he was going.
Uncle Pat in his coffin, wearing his glasses. My Irish relatives could only comment on the fact he was wearing his shoes, which started a conversation about who in the family had been buried without shoes.
Oh gosh, tomorrow will be a long one...
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 3, 2017 15:10:02 GMT
I've probably mentioned on the old forum the time I saw Harry Connick Jnr at The Royal Albert Hall - 4th row centre Arena seats, a huge fiasco of the row behind having been sold twice. People with bums on seats stayed where they were, the ones that arrived later were seated elsewhere throughout the venue. Show was delayed by about 10 minutes while it got sorted.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 1, 2017 22:31:29 GMT
By comparison a good audience at Aladdin last night. I was front loge, just about all phones were off when the curtain went up, and those that were on went off quickly. Appreciative audience included a large school group. One small tantrum from a child with parents in the interval because he wasn't allowed an ice cream, so mum bought him an ice cream (making a rod for your own back there love). Person front row centre tried to film the flying carpet but the usher jumped all over her (not literally, unfortunately).
Ushers were really good. My friend is disabled and walks with a stick (the loges are great for that reason). They took great care of us, head usher got the merchandise staff to bring their tray of wares to our seats, no less. I hadn't realised there was step free exit from the dress circle either, which we and a wheelchair user were shown on exiting.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 1, 2017 22:20:15 GMT
Stalls for me.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 27, 2017 17:33:40 GMT
As a female who was once 16 (!) I spent most of that year obsessing about a boyband. Ask any 16 year old girl and they will say the same. If it isn't a boy band it's a bloke off the telly, an actor, someone down the road etc. We have all been there. I'm still chasing Donny Osmond willy nilly around the country ... and other countries, actually. I can honestly say I wouldn't have gone to New York if Donny hadn't been at BB Kings, or Las Vegas numerous times if he and that pesky sister of his weren't always there.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 27, 2017 9:24:50 GMT
I have a friend on another forum who likes to type "wallah!" .... it's "wallah!" this and "Wallah!" that. No-one wants to be the snob to tell her is Voila!....
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 27, 2017 9:21:47 GMT
Had an annoying attention seeking laugher in the front row, obviously a big fan as wearing a home made mischief t shirt, with a bag of props. If this is you, dear reader, its so obviously done to get cast attention, and it didn't work, it was just irritating. The laughter was audible from Row M so it was loud & obvious laughter. I saw someone at the stage door afterwards showing what looked like dolls of the characters at some of the cast so I guess that must have been the same person. Yup, that's her. I can forgive most things, but when you know she's seen the show before and the laughter is so obviously an attempt at "look at me, look at me" it's just sad. Two other women in the front row cornered us on the way out - this was the woman with a full beaker of red wine that "Chris" walked into and spilt some of it down her arm, he mopped her up whilst saying "surely you don't need THAT much wine ..." One of them obviously didn't get it (alcohol didn't help), she liked Book of Mormon better, saying she thought that was really funny. I said, yes, but this is a very English thing, where as BOM is American. "BOM isn't American"! she said .. yeah, we left her and her pissed mate hanging off Henry Lewis in the foyer doing selfies ..
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 26, 2017 0:58:03 GMT
Loved this tonight. Took my sons Aussie girlfriend who has seen PPGW and CAABR, she loved this, said she liked this more than the other two. It's great going with someone who hasn't seen it before, she screamed as part of the set "goes wrong". The cast are superb, it's so much fun. I hope this does well on Broadway. It really deserves to. Coming out of Joe Allens at 11.30 I spotted the cast in the bar opposite letting down their hair.
Had an annoying attention seeking laugher in the front row, obviously a big fan as wearing a home made mischief t shirt, with a bag of props. If this is you, dear reader, its so obviously done to get cast attention, and it didn't work, it was just irritating.
Dawnstar, so pleased your ticket "goes wrong" was sorted! And lovely to see you again.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 25, 2017 11:58:36 GMT
Tonight I'm back to The Play That Goes Wrong before the cast head to Broadway (New York, not Ealing, to pinch a line off one of their Tweets this week).
And Tuesday I've got a second visit to Aladdin, which thanks to my Delfont Macintosh card I've had to postpone from September, and then December!
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 23, 2017 16:35:41 GMT
Given the weather: For anyone interested in wind, check out earth.nullschool.net/. It's a zoomable and draggable globe showing air and ocean currents. There's a non-obvious menu under the "earth" label at the bottom that allows you to look at the winds at various altitudes and select various other options. (Annoyingly for the non-expert, altitudes are given in terms of air pressure, but it's still interesting.) Office are loving that website link, Mr The Matthew. Fabulous!
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 22, 2017 10:33:12 GMT
It's a "goes wrong" classic, innit. Dammit. (Edited to add, I girl-fan staged-doored and got my poster signed by all of the cast as they came out, wonder what they thought of the red eyed old bird ... Jonathan Sayer tapped me on the shoulder and said "would you like me to sign that too" ... duh).
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