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Post by greeny11 on Jan 24, 2021 9:08:00 GMT
Great fun watching Careless Whisper - Dave Hearn was the star for me last night. The dancing and the 'ghost' were both very funny, plus the hat throwing scene which descended into chaos. Henry Lewis had some very funny lines as always, while Mike Bodie played 2 very sympathetic characters.
Will be interesting to see if everyone gets a show off this time as some didn't last time and they're doing more shows this time. I was a bit surprised not to see Henry Shields as it was the first show.
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Post by greeny11 on Jan 21, 2021 12:07:31 GMT
Cast announced - same as the December live streamed shows with the addition of Nancy Zamit.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 31, 2020 21:31:08 GMT
Harry Kershaw, Henry Lewis and Joshua Elliot made me laugh the most through the week, but hats off to all of them - the skill it must take to come up with ideas on the spot is so impressive. Likewise, the 2 musicians who improvise the music are so talented.
If 8000 people were indeed watching this evening - they made £80000 for one showing. It is no shock that it is back for another 10 shows!
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 31, 2020 21:12:52 GMT
The website says the 11.30 show is with a view to attracting a more international audience for whom that time is more convenient. I will still book for that, the other 9 shows as they have been joyous, and just the greatest way to end a miserable year.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 30, 2020 21:29:21 GMT
Harry Kershaw steals the show every night - Giles was hilarious, especially his one man conga - and him forgetting his name again, leading to Jonathan having his rant was hilarious.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 30, 2020 19:22:11 GMT
That was the understanding in March, not now - our understanding is much improved now.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 30, 2020 19:08:43 GMT
I think it was to do with she did not want kids to be able to see into the homes of teachers, likewise I think she was concerned about what kids seeing each others houses too. I think now we have a better understanding of the different platforms, she is not worried about Teams as the teacher has control of what the kids can and cannot do.
Everyone has now had the training on Teams, but until we have done it for the first time, we are all rather anxious. I have my doubts that this will work well - we had a very poor take up on the online learning set in the first lockdown, which did include video lessons and teacher being available on school emails to help. I think a lot of kids will just not bother turning up to these lessons, in spite of us taking registers and calling home for kids who are absent.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 30, 2020 18:53:22 GMT
With regards to education, as an autistic young person (in Scots equivalent of year 13), online learning is so difficult for me as all my school does is email us powerpoints and expect us to teach ourselves everything. I need the routine and help from teachers to really do well academically. I do not have the focus to work at home where there are so many distractions. I only managed to submit a few pieces of work first time round because of this. On results day I got so lucky as my teachers realised it was unusual for me not to be engaging with work, so graded me based on my performance before the closure. That sounds extremely rubbish. Is that’s what your teachers were doing all through lockdown? I thought they were supposed to be delivering classes via Teams or Zoom? What schools are doing varies enormously - there was nothing in the guidance first time round about offering live lessons, just some sort of online learning. I work at a school and the head stopped us from using Teams or Zoom during the first lockdown because she was worried about safeguarding. We will be using Teams this time round, but this is thanks to us having lots of training on it since September - it is quite difficult to use from a teacher perspective, and for those teachers who are not so technically inclined, I can see it not being hugely effective. I know of a number of colleagues who are extremely anxious about using it.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 29, 2020 21:11:53 GMT
This evening was a fantasy horror - Flat pack Attack. This was definitely my favourite of the 4 live streamed shows so far - Henry Lewis as the mother of Helen, Joshua Elliot as HR - him trying to come up with 10 relatives names, Bryony Corrigan going off to prepare her finger, the Irish Jig to commemorate the dead, and Harry Kershaw as Delta von Tussle, who only spoke in rhyming couplets. The corpses corpsing as Delta rhymed amygdala with sphincter made it even better. I was literally crying with laughter for a large portion of that hour. Not much of a plot at times, but seriously entertaining.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 29, 2020 17:08:41 GMT
Very funny ending to Who Bunnit this afternoon - couple of cast changes this afternoon with Josh Elliot and Ellie Morris in for Henry Shields and Lauren Spearing. Harry Kershaw not finding the right camera and Henry Lewis in general, especially his final line, were great. Dave Hearn was very commited to his role as a peacock which was highly amusing.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 28, 2020 21:15:02 GMT
Harry Kershaw rather stole the show tonight - another very good show, but the funniest bits were his name amnesia, and his brutal divorce of his wife as she died and went to Blackpool.
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Post by greeny11 on Dec 27, 2020 21:13:37 GMT
I was there just as a viewer, and this was my first viewing of a Mischief Movie Night - and I loved it. My highlights were Henry Shields rapping about making love to a broom, Henry Lewis as Toxic Joe and a sloth, and Harry Kershaw speaking in alien language. I thought the whole idea was so good, and I cannot believe how good at improvising they are. Really looking forward to the rest of the shows.
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Post by greeny11 on Nov 3, 2020 17:16:43 GMT
As someone who works in an 11-16 school, I should point out that the children do not have to distance from each other, only from staff. Therefore, there are large groups of kids close together on the yard, and in the classroom, albeit in rows in the classroom. We have had a few cases, but all have come from outside - no cases as yet of it being transmitted in school, despite being in a Tier 3 area.
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Post by greeny11 on Oct 13, 2020 5:30:59 GMT
It is a valid point, but I am guessing if masks are enforced, that minimises the risk somewhat.
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Post by greeny11 on Sept 26, 2020 21:03:42 GMT
What a joy to see this performance. This is going to go down very well when the theatres reopen - just the feel good show we need.
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Post by greeny11 on Sept 20, 2020 4:19:17 GMT
The cast are on Britains Got Talent next week doing You Can’t Stop The Beat
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Post by greeny11 on Aug 8, 2020 16:16:26 GMT
Have been to London today (am at Euston now) - it was pleasant until the clouds dispersed, at which point it has become rather unpleasant. On top of that, I am now wearing a mask for the next 3 hours which is not going to help my mood.
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Post by greeny11 on Jul 16, 2020 22:44:56 GMT
Very excited to see this now with the full cast announced - so many performers who I have loved in other shows.
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Post by greeny11 on Jul 13, 2020 7:38:22 GMT
I just pray we will start to hear that decent areas of England are Covid free too soon. Excuse me - " decent areas of England"? I come from one of the towns on the list of places at risk of a local lockdown, although I no longer live there. Are you suggesting that the more-than-200,000 people there, including members of my family and most of my oldest friends, are somehow worthy of your scorn simply based on their postcode? That's a thoroughly offensive turn of phrase. Shame on you. I interpreted that comment as being decent-sized areas - as in large areas of England.
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Post by greeny11 on Jul 11, 2020 6:55:40 GMT
I too saw the TurnUp concert last night and was blown away - so well organised and some brilliant performances - too many to list here. As a big Hairspray fan, I adored the 4 Motormouths doing I Know Where Ive Been.
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Post by greeny11 on Jul 1, 2020 18:43:33 GMT
Only announcement I have seen is Cherelle Jay is Cleves for the West End cast venues.
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Post by greeny11 on Jun 29, 2020 20:44:59 GMT
Cherelle Jay will be playing Anna of Cleves for the venues that the West End cast are doing.
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Post by greeny11 on Jun 29, 2020 10:00:32 GMT
Some of the alternates have tweeted this morning about being excited for this - so I assume they will also be part of the bubble as well.
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Post by greeny11 on Jun 2, 2020 16:48:29 GMT
Hamilton is the most overrated piece of theatre I have seen - and I could not understand half the lyrics as they were rapped. The score was forgettable.
Follies is the most boring piece of theatre I have watched in a long time - the cast were good though. It is the only show I have ever fallen asleep in.
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Post by greeny11 on May 27, 2020 12:04:43 GMT
I have gone for characters in shows that I actually really enjoy.
Certain portrayals of Jamie in Everybodys Talking About Jamie Patty in School of Rock Nicola in Kinky Boots Certain portrayals of the Phantom in POTO Amber in Hairspray
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