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Post by Being Alive on Mar 7, 2024 11:32:00 GMT
Cameron evidently likes them. He bought Matt Lee over for the last UK tour so like...they're probably good. I've no doubt that they are probably good. But at least give the home-grown performers a chance first. Or even just one or the other, not both. They aren't exactly going to sell tickets based on their names so I don't see the need for it. I don't see why we need to do that but each to their own. |
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 7, 2024 11:16:45 GMT
Cameron evidently likes them.
He bought Matt Lee over for the last UK tour so like...they're probably good.
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 7, 2024 9:55:18 GMT
I do wonder if we watched different concerts because there was an array of missed sound cues (predominantly from the ensemble) and the lighting was very much an afterthought...
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 6, 2024 21:59:59 GMT
Photos, texting, children probably too young to be in theatre, people walking in and out, singing. It’s too much!!! Who could have predicted this 🙄 |
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 5, 2024 23:16:11 GMT
Of for clarity I meant Lucie 😂
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 5, 2024 22:09:24 GMT
She was never on!!! 😂😂😂
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 5, 2024 11:33:12 GMT
This is an unbelievably frustrating piece.
It's two plays at the same time, one of which is diabolical and the other which has promise but isn't able to develop far enough.
The NHS play is actually appalling, but the Brief Encounter play has potential.
Any sort of enjoyment is saved by Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport, who are both excellent with the horrible play they've been given.
Pearl Mackie good as ever, and Tom Goodman-Hill perfectly watchable.
Could not get over how awful Siobhan Redmond was though - was no one else free?
The two minutes episodic scenes are tedious after half an hour. It could easily lose ANOTHER 45 minutes and be better for it.
It's JUST 3 stars because of it's leads and how charismatic they are. But with anyone else this play is 2 stars - I think they only let it be staged in the form it's in because of who the author is personally.
I understood what Lucy Kirkwood was trying to do about 20 minutes from the end, but by that point I was so annoyed with it that I simply didn't care.
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 4, 2024 18:16:09 GMT
...the NT pays famously badly!
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 4, 2024 15:03:28 GMT
I mean the only people on that stage I'd actually want to watch in a full production of this as Tuckman and Gina Murray - I could do without both of the boys (as good as they were - Bradley sang his face off in Private Conversation but I don't think Tosh was anything to write home about personally in Contrast to the poster above)
It's financial suicide to stage a full scale production of Side Show though as has been proven in the past.
Bonnie and Clyde sold out at Drury Lane in 7 minutes and they were able to retain a lot of the cast from the concert for the production.
Side Show was not sold out, almost everyone I know was there via some form of offer (TodayTix London theatre week or similar) and you aren't gonna get Rachel and Louise to agree to do it (as we've said before with these concerts - these producers simply haven't got the money to mount full productions...)
Nice to have had it happen, but you're looking at a remount of the Southwark Playhouse production if anything if this was to have any sort of life - it ain't going to the West End.
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 4, 2024 12:09:46 GMT
That's a heck of a statement first season - very impressive.
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 4, 2024 11:23:42 GMT
Corden project still happening
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 4, 2024 10:30:51 GMT
As ever with these Lambert Jackson things, there were a LOT of missed cues on mics (particularly for ensemble) and the lighting was frequently off so people sang sections in darkness - I get that you have one day in the Palladium but top price is £120 so...being able to see and hear them is not too much to ask.
That said, voices were phenomenal.
Tosh and Bradley really worked well and Gina Murray is always great.
Seeing Tuckman back together was so special - the fact we've had to wait as long as we have is so silly...why aren't they doing Crazy Coqs together every six months? We'd sell it out easy every time!
Rachel was fab and it's always great to see her get to sing her face off.
The whole evening belonged to Louise Dearman though.
She was a marvel as Daisy at Southwark Playhouse, and she was even more so here. That voice is so utterly perfect for this material, and she just SOARS her way through the material.
Obviously the two end of act numbers went off like gangbusters (particularly I Will Never Leave You) but the wall of sound was pretty impressive all the way through.
Very much enjoyed, got emotional seeing the two women together again after all this time, but can we pull the tech up a notch please for the love of god.
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 3, 2024 10:01:25 GMT
I can't see it having a West End run considering how much it was comped for almost the entirety of it's run - a bigger house in town just seems madness.
Could see a tour though.
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 2, 2024 12:28:22 GMT
Was the last rumbling I'd heard - might have changed but certainly was when I last heard about this.
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 2, 2024 12:20:23 GMT
Not just original creative team...👀
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 1, 2024 23:35:02 GMT
He was at Priscilla The Party's invited dress tonight 😂
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Post by Being Alive on Mar 1, 2024 10:09:56 GMT
Considering video is likely to be part of this, filming is always tricky for a cinema release.
That said, there are holds in the NT Live calendar for cinemas that would date wise line up, so it's certainly possible.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 29, 2024 13:01:51 GMT
I heard The Moon Jan 2025
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 29, 2024 13:01:09 GMT
Interesting that it's so far doing just the bigger touring houses largely - I expected quite a simple set that could get into most venues but they're so far going with venues that have wing space...
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 28, 2024 16:29:40 GMT
Louis Walsh and Sharon Osborne is pretty big considering the people that ended up on CBB for the whole of it's Channel 5 run...
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 28, 2024 16:22:25 GMT
I thought it was a solid 3 at the first preview, and would probably agree with the 4s by now as they've had a bit of time to settle
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 28, 2024 16:21:36 GMT
Have heard another rumour that CM wants to take this back its’ original home, the New Theatre (aka the Noel Coward) Thought we'd already agreed this was the Gielgud... |
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 28, 2024 16:20:53 GMT
I work in town so can probably do a 7.15pm and see but thought I'd just see if anyone had had any luck that closer - thanks for your info though!
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 28, 2024 12:50:55 GMT
Has anyone had any luck trying the Box Office just before curtain up for a discounted ticket?
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 27, 2024 21:37:42 GMT
Oh no, I really didn't like it. It doesn't have any of the heart or charm of the film. Left in the interval. Didn't help a group of rowdy women behind me talked non stop. It's why I haven't been back since the first preview (the two dreadful leading performances in the first cast didn't help) Its one of my favourite films because it's so powerful - risking everything for love and the stakes are life and death. This reduces it to cheap laughs and mugging every time a new pop song comes in, which the film never did. |
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