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Post by jamb0r on Nov 24, 2017 11:10:27 GMT
Finally managed to get through and book a couple of shows. One of them gave me an error after I clicked Pay, but ended up getting a confirmation email a few minutes later anyway
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 24, 2017 10:33:56 GMT
Finally managed to get the list of shows up by restarting my phone. But now every one I click gives a gateway error
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 24, 2017 10:17:25 GMT
What a mess - still just stuck in a loop. It’s not like this is the first time this sale has happened! Glad I’m not the only one
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 24, 2017 10:05:58 GMT
Has anyone managed to get through yet on the Mastercard presale? Im getting a mixture of gateway errors, and getting stuck in an endless loop between the official London theatre website telling me to go to priceless.com, which then directs you back to the official London theatre website telling you to go to priceless.com!
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 22, 2017 12:03:44 GMT
I asked the nice folks at Moneysavingexpert if they could provide a full list including prices and they did. Here's what's on sale this year:
42nd Street - £20 and £40 tickets Disney's Aladdin - £10, £20, £30 and £40 tickets An American in Paris - £20, £30 and £40 tickets Annie - £20, £30 and £40 tickets The Birthday Party - £20, £30 and £40 tickets A Christmas Carol - £20 and £40 tickets Matthew Bourne's Cinderella - £20 and £40 tickets The Comedy About a Bank Robbery - £30 and £40 Dad's Army Radio Hour - £10 and £20 tickets Dreamgirls - £20 and £40 tickets Eugenius - £10, £20 and £30 tickets Everybody's Talking About Jamie - £20, £30 and £40 tickets The Exorcist - £20, £30 and £40 tickets The Ferryman - £10, £30 and £40 tickets Five Guys Named Moe - £10, £20, £30 and £40 tickets Girl From The North Country - £30 and £40 tickets The Grinning Man - £30 and £40 tickets The Gruffalo's Child - £10 tickets Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle - £10, £20 and £30 tickets Jack and the Beanstalk - £20 tickets Le Jeune Homme et la Mort / La Sylphide - £20, £30 and £40 tickets Kinky Boots - £20, £30 and £40 tickets Lady Windermere's Fan - £20, £30 and £40 tickets The Lion King - £30 and £40 tickets Long Day's Journey into Night - £30 and £40 tickets Mamma Mia! - £30 and £40 tickets Mary Stuart - £20, £30 and £40 tickets Matilda - £30 and £40 tickets Mischief Movie Night - £10 tickets Les Misérables - £10, £20, £30 and £40 tickets Motown The Musical - £30 and £40 tickets Nutcracker - £10, £20 and £30 tickets La Petite Soirée - £10 and £20 tickets The Phantom of the Opera - £10, £20, £30 and £40 tickets The Play That Goes Wrong - £30 and £40 tickets The Rat Pack - £10, £20, £30 and £40 tickets School of Rock - £20, £30 and £40 tickets Showstopper! The Improvised Musical - £10, £20 and £30 tickets Slava's Snowshow - £10, £20, £30 and £40 tickets The Snow Queen - £10 tickets La Soirée - £10, £20, £30 and £40 tickets Song of the Earth - £20, £30 and £40 tickets Strangers in Between - £10 and £20 tickets Things I Know To Be True - £20 tickets Thriller Live - £20, £30 and £40 tickets The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show - £10 tickets Wicked - £20, £30 and £40 tickets Witness for the Prosecution - £20 and £40 tickets The Woman in Black - £20 and £30 tickets Young Frankenstein - £30 and £40 tickets
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 21, 2017 15:16:40 GMT
Opening night tomorrow night was previously showing as sold out, but now looks like they've put a batch of upper circle tickets on sale
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 21, 2017 11:54:32 GMT
Don't suppose anyone has a John Lewis/Waitrose Partnership Card and has access to the presale today and can tell us all what shows are included in the sale? I can see mention of Les Misérables, Aladdin and The Play That Goes Wrong on the website but nothing else. Have set multiple alarms to remind me to book at 10am on Friday when the MasterCard presale opens!
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 13, 2017 23:13:30 GMT
Really loved this tonight! Wasn’t expecting it to be so hilarious, the songs were catchy and the cast were great. Seeing pictures of the stage I wasn’t expecting much from the set, but thought it worked really well.
My only criticism would be that it’s far from polished just yet - there were a lot of stumbles with set pieces crashing into each other, flashing lighting that shouldn’t be flashing, desks round the wrong way etc. The ending could also pack more of a punch, I felt it was a bit flat until the curtain call. (Maybe I’m just finding an excuse to go back again later in the run 😀)
Even loved the contemporary dance that everyone else seems to hate!
In the pecking order of drag themed shows I’d put this above Priscilla but below Kinky Boots
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 9, 2017 12:59:59 GMT
Lastminute.com are currently offering preview performances row AA for £15 with no other fees. There are some row AA available on ATG, though regular customers will have to pay the transaction fee on top of that, so lastminute.com looks like a winner.
Also noticed talk earlier in the thread about this being an open ended run, but on the show website it definitely says it's a limited season.
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 8, 2017 16:53:39 GMT
The proscenium mean that the seats more at the sides of the rows have a side on/restricted view? I'm looking one a seat now but it's only the 5th seat in the row and i don't want to miss anything. I was sat 3rd seat from the end of row C and didn't miss a thing. When I saw the proscenium arch they've put in I was worried, but everything happens in front of it and not behind.
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 8, 2017 13:07:18 GMT
Plus the ending of Act One was a complete restaging of the ending end of Act Two of The Girls just substituting daffodils for sunflowers. I thought that too, however if you search on youtube you can find footage of the Broadway production (which was pre-The Girls) and this scene was pretty similar to how they've done it at The Other Palace, so it was definitely Big Fish's idea 'first' 😀
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 8, 2017 12:49:26 GMT
It doesn't look like there's any discounts around at the moment - in fact tickets have been removed from sale completely from a lot of places that were advertising them previously (TodayTix for example)
One thing that is annoying me about this production is that they've posted competitions to win tickets on their Facebook and Twitter pages on numerous occasions, and every time they don't post any terms and conditions, no closing date, and they never announce a winner (this is dating back as far as August). I messaged them on Facebook, DMd and tweeted them - I can see they're reading the messages (and responding to other people) but just ignoring me when I'm calling them out on it - at one point they tweeted saying they would announce a winner the following day, but they never did then deleted the tweet saying they were going to do an announcement.
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 3, 2017 14:34:09 GMT
If anyone is still trying to get tickets, using Firefox (I tried it on a Mac, not sure about Windows) enables the seat map, which seems to be switched off for everyone else. Just had a look through a lot of dates and there's only really £200 premiums left or a handful of £100 boxes and a couple of restricted view rear stalls.
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 2, 2017 12:30:51 GMT
I saw it last night and loved it. It was great fun and for me one of the big surprises of this year. The cast is top notch and they had me smiling all the way through. Beautifully staged with a lovely score. Will try to catch it again before it closes. Thank you to everyone one who recommended this. I would have missed it otherwise. And thank you for mentioning the code also. Got great seats in the Pit for £20. You guys are the best! I was going to post pretty much exactly the same! I was there last night too, and wouldn't have been there had it not been for this board. I absolutely adored it - loved all the little touches before the show started and during the interval (thanks to the tip from the earlier poster about being in the lower gallery foyer during the interval). It was my first time in the playhouse (it's stunning!), and even though my seat had a 'back' in row C of the lower gallery I was still very sore at the end - definitely take a jacket to roll up behind you. I still left with a huge grin on my face though! Will definitely be going back again before it finishes.
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Post by jamb0r on Nov 1, 2017 10:58:56 GMT
I paid $180 for row E of the mezz for a Bette performance. See my post a few above this one on how I got the ticket a few weeks before the show 😀
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Post by jamb0r on Oct 30, 2017 14:02:15 GMT
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the advice on this thread - booked row C of the lower gallery using the discount code for Wednesday this week. The reviews have come out this morning and they're all pretty great.
Broadway World ***** The Upcoming ***** The Stage **** TimeOut **** The Times **** Telegraph **** Evening Standard ***
This isn't something that would have been on my radar if it wasn't for this board, and now I'm really looking forward to it.
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Post by jamb0r on Oct 27, 2017 12:17:52 GMT
The projectile vomit was there - just done to the side, not out front. The only thing I could see was a slightly damp wall after it had actually happened - one of the priests was standing in the way (considering I was right in the middle of the stalls I would have thought I would have been able to see the iconic scenes) I guess I was expecting a bit more from it rather than just a quick squirt onto a wall - I wanted to see the priests get drenched!
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Post by jamb0r on Oct 27, 2017 12:06:16 GMT
I was there last night too and wasn't quite so impressed. I was in the middle of row A so I might have been exposed to the flaws a bit more than the rest of the audience, but some of the things that bugged me: The backstage guys were making so much noise during the scene changes - there could be a tense conversation happening on one side of the stage, but I was completely distracted by the banging and clanking coming from the other side of the stage. They had also tried really hard to be able to do all the scene changes in the dark or behind a screen, but then at one point towards the end 2 guys just walk on with a bench and plonk it on the stage - not sure if this was intentional? Ian McKellen overall I thought was great, but some of it was SO camp I was really giggling when at parts that were supposed to be scary One of the iconic scenes in the bed was fairly well done, but I had to laugh when her wig was suddenly 3 times as big as it was previously just for a couple of scenes, then went back to normal size again Im not sure I would have said the theatre was packed to the rafters - in my row there were at least 5 empty seats, and row AA had some empty too. I know it's still technically in previews so still time to smooth things out, but some of the effects/magic were just a little too obvious for my liking: {Spoiler - click to view} Before biting off the guys ear she obviously put something in her mouth then spoke the next few lines with a mouthful. Having to fumble around under the duvet to put her feet in the mechanism which would then raise her up etc. I could barely see the vomit at all - Im not sure if there is a way this could have been done better, but it didn't really get any reaction at all and it's one of the most iconic moments from the movie. None of the 'illusions' were really as jaw dropping as I would have hoped. There was also one character at the curtain call that I think I only saw for a few seconds standing at the top of the stairs? Who was she supposed to be? I'm glad I only paid £15 and thought it was OK for that price - I would have been very disappointed if I'd paid more.
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Post by jamb0r on Oct 25, 2017 18:01:29 GMT
I booked row A for £15 when they first went on sale and presumed that was the front row, as AA was not available. It now looks like AA are being sold as day seats? Is that right?
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Post by jamb0r on Oct 15, 2017 21:39:34 GMT
Bumped into Nathan Lane outside the Shubert Theatre on Friday night. Tried to tell him how much I enjoyed his performance in Angels in London but just ended up dribbling. Smooth.
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Post by jamb0r on Oct 15, 2017 21:29:13 GMT
If anyone is looking at going to this but only finding premium seats available I’d recommend checking Telecharge regularly for returns. I checked probably 3 times per day for about 3 weeks and eventually saw a more reasonable (in comparison) side mezzanine seat appear and snapped it up immediately
Saw the show on Friday night - this really is the epitome of Broadway, and Bette was even more incredible than I was expecting. I thought I was going to lose a contact lens during the dinner scene!
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Post by jamb0r on Oct 13, 2017 11:05:42 GMT
According to Baz this week they still plan on bringing it back but first they want to work on it If they cut Playing Nancy I'm going to take a groundhog hostage until it's reinstated
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Post by jamb0r on Sept 29, 2017 8:59:15 GMT
Went to the first preview of this at the Arts last night and thought it was absolutely fantastic. I missed it at Southwark, but the guy sat next to me said it was completely different to how he remembered it at Southwark, in a good way. Sat the other side of me was the full creative team, so it was fascinating to hear them talk about the show also, they were commenting how the 'grungey' feel of the Arts suited the show. There was one 5 minute stop only a few minutes in where someone knocked the power to the sound board out, but the cast handled it brilliantly and other than that it felt really smooth for a first preview. I did hear the creative team saying that the 'LED Mapping' that is in the floor and the walls of the stage hasn't been switched on yet, but should be ready by next Monday and will be pretty impressive in the big numbers. It really reminded me of Urinetown (which I thought was genius) and loved how they even hold up a Urinetown t-shirt at one point.
It says in the programme that it was the professional debut of the guy playing 'White Dude' and he was the stand out star for me - I'm sure we'll be seeing more of him.
Will definitely be going back before the run ends!
(Definitely avoid the front row if you're not a fan of audience participation!)
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Post by jamb0r on Sept 10, 2017 17:34:48 GMT
If anyone has been waiting to see if any offers appear at the end of the run like I have, just had an email from Official London Theatre - £10 off band A, B & C tickets for all performances except Fri & Sat if you put in the code 'OLT' when booking through the Open Air Theatre website. Forecast looks dry from Tuesday onwards this week!
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Post by jamb0r on Aug 15, 2017 22:41:43 GMT
Saw this last week and really enjoyed it - a nice family show. Reminded me very much of The 39 Steps crossed with a bit of The Play That Goes Wrong with some panto thrown in. The place was pretty empty - was surprised to not see more deals around for this but managed to get the Facebook page to give me a discount code by asking nicely 😀
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