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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 24, 2018 17:55:17 GMT
The author wrote that he will refund any ticket. Must be a very rich man! He's probably doing fine; he's seemingly constantly working and is currently in SpongeBob and has already been announced for Beetlejuice. (Why is this gaining traction again since it happened three years ago?)
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 24, 2018 17:52:35 GMT
There are plenty of things that entertain people without being needed.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 22, 2018 15:56:59 GMT
Why go to a sporting event if you can go to a bar?
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 22, 2018 15:19:55 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 22, 2018 14:47:57 GMT
Has anyone else read the book? I found it to be a pretentious pile of tosh with big words and literary references scattered throughout which makes you feel the author is showing off. I love the book. I did find the followup, Are You My Mother? to be a bit too wordy and pretentious, though.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 22, 2018 14:33:01 GMT
I won’t be going to this (especially not for £100 or whatever) but I can see that it will be great for theatre fans young and old to be able to meet like-minded people and have discussions about their passions and maybe even make friends. It’s not like you can really do this at the theatre because most of the audience probably aren’t really theatre “fans”, just casual theatregoers. For example let’s say I was at Legally Blonde and turned to the person next door and said “I can’t wait to see Lucie Jones in this, she was so good in Rent”, 9 times out of 10 they’d say “Who? What’s Rent? I’m here cos I’d heard of the movie”. I’m going off on a tangent here but what i mean is that if nothing else this is a great (expensive) way for hardcore theatre fans to meet each other. This is exactly what was legitimately so heartwarming about BroadwayCon. Some aspects were definitely not for me (I'm old enough to be the young mother of most of the Gen Z attendees), but when you're surrounded by people in your everyday life who say soundtrack instead of cast recording or maybe saw one musical before and it was Evita in the '80s and they fell asleep, being surrounded by your peers, bonded by a form of entertainment that's ephemeral, is intangible and in a way invaluable.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 22, 2018 14:30:01 GMT
I love this thread, it's extraordinarily easy to see who has and who hasn't been to a fan convention before. No. Kidding.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 21, 2018 19:05:59 GMT
Yep. Sometimes you just want something you can look back on rather than an autograph, or in addition to it.
And as has been said before, you don't have to opt-in to this or any one activity at any Con.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 21, 2018 18:23:22 GMT
Mark Shenton is tweeting that this is going to transfer.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 21, 2018 17:12:15 GMT
I don't really understand the obsession with being photographed next to a celebrity. Is it to say "Look, I met so and so (for ten seconds)" or is it "See what a dutiful fan I am"? It feels like one of the most superficial forms of showing off. It's a moment in time capturing a fragment of a conversation. It can also be seen as a trophy, for better or for worse. tl;dr People also just like different things.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 20, 2018 14:28:40 GMT
The 2010 workshop of the show is now on youtube. It's pro shot. Its really interesting to see what they changed before opening the show under a year later. That had been floating around Google Drive for a bit and I'm surprised it's lasted this long on YouTube! Josh Gad tweeted a gif from it a couple of months ago but I guess BoM made him take it down. Ha.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 16, 2018 15:11:19 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 15, 2018 17:15:16 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 15, 2018 14:53:16 GMT
maybe but everytime i read "sold out" already on some venues i think, thanks for not telling who will play, if it is someone interesting to me i don't need tickets anyway - bad for someone who has a plane, hotel and trains to book to book on short notice in case - they could announce all that they have atm, would be at least something As has been the case for years, most people aren't going to see this show because of the people in it. The ones who are aren't the ones who are going to make or break whether this production recoups or not. Think of the people in your life who see maybe 2 or 3 musicals a year. If there were no non-theatre names in them, could they tell you who they even saw, regardless of how much they enjoyed the show? Probably not.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 14, 2018 14:58:51 GMT
Can't believe none of us spotted a chasm in the list until now... NO STRALLEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not one!!!!!!!!!!!!! But you've got to have a Strallen! How can they possibly have a musical-themed...well...anything!....without a Strallen?! Give it a month!
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 14, 2018 14:22:45 GMT
But most likely. Why would whoever organises this want to drop the price as something gets more successful? It flies in the face of the entertainment industry. And given that what they are essentially doing here is selling performers, I’m not getting warm feelings about altruism. BroadwayCon did this. The second and third year, it was on GoldStar closer to the event. (I forget if there was anything beyond an "early bird" pricing the first year.) The first one of these is always going to be a little bit rocky. If you can afford it, I'd say at least go for a day, and then you can give them honest feedback on the experience. I truly think BroadwayCon took a lot of their post-con feedback seriously and it was much better after the first one. But it needed those with more disposable incomes to try it out first.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 13, 2018 19:00:35 GMT
This sounds tragic ! Can’t imagine who would go to this- apart from the strange Carrie Hope Fletcher stalkers. See?
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 13, 2018 18:23:20 GMT
I think perhaps you are taking what for the most part are tongue in cheek comments about the convention scene in general far too seriously. I've just read the whole thread and see nothing that I would consider unwelcoming It's that and the snobbery and gatekeeping I've already seen with BroadwayCon — fans and actors assuming it's an entire day or two or three of the stage door experience when it's not really like that. Enthusiasm? OK! We were all nerds once. I didn't get into theatre until I was 16 and even then the internet wasn't that easily accessed, so I didn't know what I was missing. These kids are missing something and need validation as far as their relatively niche interests. The thing about StageCon is that because the UK is that much smaller, I imagine it's not as huge a deal to go to London from some parts as it would be to go to NYC from many parts of the US.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 13, 2018 17:38:17 GMT
Man, you guys are so welcoming to future theatregoers.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 13, 2018 17:29:24 GMT
£85 sounds cheap compared to the sci-fi model - though I guess that autographs and photo sessions are extra? Mind it does depend what you get for the money. Had a great time at a couple of sci-fi cons that included a BRIAN BLESSED Q&A and a masked/cos-play ball in the ticket price, where the tv guests ended up hanging out in the bar area with the plebs. Will never forget the time the guy in the Pac-Man costume and his friends the ghosts decided to start a conga line, and the whole dance floor went for it - superheroes, Daleks. Weeping Angels, Stormtroopers, and all. It was joyous. That's it — much of the experience is intangible. My impression of three years of BroadwayCon is that it is not QUITE for my demographic (someone well into adulthood who lives in NYC and while not rich, doesn't struggle to see shows I want), but more for the more isolated, younger person far from New York City who has no one to talk to in real life about something they love very much and that is an ephemeral art form.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 13, 2018 17:27:56 GMT
It does sound very interesting and fun and right up my street but as much as I would like to go to it does sound like , as the name suggests, a bit of a con. You know "con" is short for "convention," right?
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 13, 2018 16:31:44 GMT
49thand8th you make a good point there. Maybe it's worth a shot. My only worry is that I'm a bit more old school with my taste in musicals especially. I would rather go to a panel discussion at the Nash than one with two young writers of a pop musical. Saying that, if Anthony Rapp goes then I'm there! I should hope that StageCon will have as many non-mainstage events as BroadwayCon does, and that they've learned from BroadwayCon's mistakes or missteps. The first year of BC was bumpier (as you can expect), but the second and third definitely had more thoughtful programming and the small panels I attended were excellent.
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 13, 2018 15:29:31 GMT
The performances and panels would have to be very good for me to put up with what I imagine will be the sort of crowd that waits at stage doors for Carrie Hope Fletcher screaming... If too many people have this mentality, then the only people who show up will be the ones you're trying to avoid. As a three-time BroadwayCon attendee, my advice is to be the change. (Or at least the difference.) Related thread: theatreboard.co.uk/thread/4582/west-end-version-broadway-con
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 10, 2018 19:27:08 GMT
Here's one that happened this week on Broadway: Kate Bornstein's response:
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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 9, 2018 22:22:14 GMT
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