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Post by Being Alive on Apr 30, 2024 12:42:14 GMT
oh Mason Alexander Park was there - fits the description
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 29, 2024 22:10:32 GMT
This was way better than I'd expected it to be!
Few early sound issues, and it still wasn't super when everyone (choir, orchestra and soloists) sang all together, but on the whole it was actually very good.
Alex Newell sings up a storm and has such magnetic stage energy. Yarrow is a bit wet but it sort of works. Zizi gives her aunt Bonnie a run for her money with her splits and kicks.
Found Patricia Hodge to be unbelievably moving though if I'm honest. Original London Catherine back as Berthe and totally stealing the show - what an icon.
Highly recommend this if you can pick up one of the few remaining tickets for tomorrow (I'd go again if I was free put it that way)
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 29, 2024 10:41:26 GMT
Yeah with that cast you'd assume this'll NT Live
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 28, 2024 23:14:17 GMT
Sharon D Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner to lead a new revival in the Lyttleton from November, directed by Max Webster.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 28, 2024 13:06:30 GMT
Oh let it have somewhere nice than the Peacock please!
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 28, 2024 10:46:33 GMT
If it's doing as well as it is, I can see it just starting another loop in a years time tbh
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2024 22:20:34 GMT
£65 (IMO) is not expensive for shows of the quality produced at the Donmar. They could (and I say should) charge more than they currently do at top price. There's also always seats at ~£20 for every show and standing at £15.
The Donmar id actually argue is one of the most accessible venues in terms of ticket prices.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2024 18:18:29 GMT
Last night at one point the screen stopped working and she said "I've broken the internet!" and someone rushed on with a new phone/camera... Is that always in? Nope !
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2024 14:21:39 GMT
Would imagine there'll be something.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2024 12:26:24 GMT
I was just browsing listings on different sites planning my theatre visits for later in the year, and was surprised there was a “buy tickets” button for R&J on the WOS site..….so I clicked and there are quite a few tickets available for EVERY performance it seems……for TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE QUID!!!!! £275!!!!!!!! 😱 “Sold out” my bottom. Well yes, these will have been premium producers holds that get released when they know what they do and don't need. This happens on every show - Prima Facie etc
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2024 9:42:17 GMT
Imagine Freddie Fox Emcee and Patsy Ferran as Sally. It will be perfection. This would be spectacular but don't get your hopes up
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2024 8:32:00 GMT
If you go back to my review of the show (at the top of this page!), you'll find there's a lot about the show I liked, and I wanted bits of it to be better because it's got bags of potential so I don't know where you've come up with the idea that I'm anti-Witches TBF. I'm just trying to explain that this show is enormous (the NT themselves literally acknowledged they made a show that can only fit into Drury Lane) and the Gillian Lynne does not have the capability to house it... Something else is filling at least some of that 7 months to be announced shortly. I see a social media rumour that The Lehman Trilogy may be coming back to the Lynne. It's a good show but it's been done to death, if true. At least it's good though! Assume that set is in storage somewhere and can easily be put in. Quite the show to rehearse for what will end up being 12 weeks max but weirder things have happened.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 25, 2024 12:58:35 GMT
Loving the fact she evidently had a week free so she's on every TV and radio they could find this week plugging away
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 25, 2024 12:20:10 GMT
I'm really interested to see how this does - Oliver does well with family audiences but this has no stars in it, so it's a very different offering to the last time it was in London.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 25, 2024 9:32:25 GMT
Hope you can hear him too!
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 21:27:06 GMT
Perfect possible it'll go out on a delayed release like Dear England did - it was certainly captured!
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 20:53:12 GMT
It is quite likely to reappear at the NT in the next 2 years I would imagine Indhu has her own plans for the future that don't include a return of a show from a few years back tbh - i think it was probably this Christmas or bust, but they're doing Ballet Shoes instead. People (outside of very regular theatregoers) will largely have forgotten about this musical in a years time I'd wager.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 19:51:38 GMT
It’s been pointed out on here in the past that it’s pretty much standard practice for Paul Taylor Mills’ productions to only bother to announce the cast a few days before they open. Mainly because they've usually not cast them til the day before rehearsals start 👀
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 18:49:10 GMT
Could shove Mel from Mel and Sue out on the telly promoting it too which might help over the summer I guess.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 17:35:29 GMT
I had totally forgotten this was happening until today and now I'm so excited all over again 😂
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 17:26:01 GMT
It also financially makes no sense to fill a maximum three months gap with a complete redesign which will cost tens upon tens of thousands to build when there's no time to make any of the money back, along with the whole scale thing.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 17:15:23 GMT
Consider me...shocked.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 17:07:21 GMT
Probably worth highlighting (as it was mentioned that two Olivier productions transferred to the Gillian Lynne):
Standing At The Sky's Edge was originally a crucible production so was scaled up slightly for the Olivier. There was always a smaller version of it and it is one static set.
War Horse did not use the full Olivier stage, so was able to fairly easily fit into the New London as it didn't require the full vastness of the Olivier and had one set with minimal additions.
The Witches used the FULL Olivier stage (with multiple sets), it's revolve, and a fair chunk of it's massive wing space, so the scale of it is WAY grander than either of the two shows used as examples of shows that moved to the GL. You can't scale this show down to fit into the GL - it would require a full redesign, and that is not happening.
I'm not being obtuse for the sake of it here. The Witches, as far as I'm aware from people at the NT, is not looking to return.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 16:36:21 GMT
Angela Lansbury did a cracking job of it in Blithe Spirit 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 15:24:25 GMT
I can't stop laughing. What a wig! That hair transplant did wonders Also, no Elaine Paige? She probably saw the production and went...I'm alright ta I'll stay retired.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 14:34:54 GMT
This literally was on filler for every single show of it's run and got terrible reviews - surely not 😂
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 12:24:49 GMT
Is this Sheader's first show or Longhurst's final show? Sheader. Longhurst final was Human Body.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 12:24:36 GMT
Good scoop!
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 11:53:00 GMT
Yes I think that's true, but it was still a substantial amount in the budget I imagine.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 11:49:27 GMT
Surely Matilda being an RSC production would have replaced the Les Mis royalties? Well it was an additional to the Les Mis royalties as the original production ran until 2019, now they just have Matilda, and Totoro tops them back up.
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