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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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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 11:34:47 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.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 10:47:06 GMT
Because it doesn't fit?
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 10:20:17 GMT
Good news for the fans of this show, I guess. Of which there are many, and congrats to the RSC for having a hit to replace the loss of Les Mis royalties!
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 10:07:56 GMT
Lee Mead? This is actually very funny.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 9:58:55 GMT
This isn't going to the Gillian Lynne.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 23:03:01 GMT
March 8th-November 2nd. 34 weeks.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 22:58:57 GMT
Yes they both have earpieces.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 21:49:26 GMT
Very good Sunday at Mountview.
Would have liked a slightly fuller orchestra and a couple of different directional choices but still very much enjoyed.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 16:25:49 GMT
Feb I think
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 16:24:31 GMT
I’ve still not got over the awful Regent’s Park production. Even Jo Riding didn’t save that one for me It made some interesting decisions - I didn't hate the relocation if I'm honest, but having the greatest duet in musical theatre history BELTED was quite simply offensive... Through no fault of Carly Bawden's I should add - she would make the most beautiful Julie in a traditional Carousel.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 13:13:47 GMT
2:22 as we've already highlighted is a rubbish play. It would not be running if it wasn't for celebs. Jobbing West End actresses won't get this gig because this gig doesn't exist without famous people in it...
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 12:15:29 GMT
And Cheryl wasn't trolling us?
This knows what it is (nonsense) and plays to it - if people are daft enough to give it money, good luck to them 😂
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 11:13:23 GMT
Stacey Dooley as Jenny. Get ready for lots of sympathetic nodding . No worse than some of the other people who've done it
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 23, 2024 10:35:54 GMT
The issue with the Pinter (like the Duke of Yorks) is that the restricted view seats are REALLY bad, so you end up having to pay top dollar in the hope of actually seeing anything.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 22, 2024 16:40:05 GMT
Pinter or Duke of Yorks - vaguely remember DT saying in that interview Autumn, which would suggest it might follow Romeo and Juliet into the DOY
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 22, 2024 11:42:06 GMT
Having Patricia Routledge in 2019 at Cadogan was fine as there was a reason for it, but I'd be annoyed if that happened here.
And yes, Bradley Jaden would have been much better suited to Billy.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 22, 2024 11:28:43 GMT
And in a venue which (as far as I know) these producers haven’t used before So I’d expect the sound to be even worse as they won’t have a clue what they’re at Oh I hadn't even clocked this - an excellent point, god help us.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 22, 2024 11:09:36 GMT
Head to the Bare thread for the horror stories.
They are hit and miss, as a large number of these concerts producers are (apart from Fourth Wall I'd argue), and I'm very bored of having to hedge my bets on whether they are going to be hit (Side Show and JRB) or miss (Diana and Bare being the prime examples)
They seem to be completely unable to handle sound when more than 2 people are singing at once, and this is one of the best scores ever written so...I'd like to be able to hear it - too much to ask?
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 22, 2024 8:57:25 GMT
Lambert Jackson producing Jamie Muscato, Christine Allado and Rebecca Caine as Billy, Julie and Nettie.
How depressing the greatest score of all time is in the hands of people who can't do sound for sh*t.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 21, 2024 22:08:21 GMT
Glad to be resting Wilmot, wish we were also resting Zerdin.
Very in for Clary and McDonald - what a camp riot this will be, backed by some of MTs finest young stars.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 21, 2024 13:56:21 GMT
If it is Hugh Jackman then it will probably sell out during the pre-sale. It's not.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 19, 2024 15:35:38 GMT
I think what's happened here is exactly how I feel about the state of London theatre in general. New work like Opening Night that is (in my eyes) bold and fresh can't succeed and we have to endure rubbish like 2:22 and Heathers until the end of time. Opening Night IS rubbish though. And it tortures its audience. I hated 2:22, but clearly some people like it- so would rather that does 2 months at this theatre than letting the misery of ON carry on. I would bet the cast feel the same, they must be desperate for the exit If you swapped the positioning of Opening Night and 2:22 over in your reply, youd have my exact feelings (although i didn't hate Opening Night!)
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 19, 2024 11:39:57 GMT
I have this weird conspiracy theory the whole thing is a money laundering scheme but that's for another day 😂 Just bringing this back...
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 19, 2024 11:35:48 GMT
Sounds like I could have written that article 😂
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