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Post by richey on Aug 14, 2021 9:26:30 GMT
Manchester Pride has been controversial for blatantly misrepresenting the facts when it comes to charging people a fee to walk along the public streets of Manchester in the Village area despite the Department for Transport explicitly ruling in 2013 that this was unlawful. The whole thing is rotten to the core and should be stopped in it’s current form. www.factsmcr.com/This year will be the first time in nearly twenty years that I won't be going. In the past I have been happy to pay for a ticket into the Gay Village under the impression that, after paying for security etc the remainder would go to charity. However after everything that has to come to light this week I realise this isn't the case and have had my ticket refunded. I'd love to go and support the bars and businesses that have struggled over the last 18 months but to an extent they are complicit with Manchester Pride as many won't serve people without a wristband.
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Post by richey on Aug 13, 2021 17:31:49 GMT
UK Tour performances in Leeds cancelled this Friday and Saturday due to positive COVID tests in the company. Liverpool performances postponed for next week too /
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Post by richey on Aug 13, 2021 17:30:46 GMT
Apparently it will only apply to new isolations from the 16th - anyone who has already been asked to isolate has to serve out their ten days. That would make sense (sort of) then as I've just seen the Heathers tour is suspended from 17th too
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Post by richey on Aug 13, 2021 11:58:49 GMT
I thought with the rule change on the 16th then they wouldn't have to isolate further. This doesn't bode well for future cases of this happening /?substory_index=0
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Post by richey on Aug 11, 2021 7:00:25 GMT
Well I've never really ever fancied a production of Carousel before, but the reviews of this have got me intrigued enough to get a cheap ticket to check it out. It's during the last week of the run so fingers crossed the weather holds out.
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Post by richey on Aug 10, 2021 18:31:18 GMT
The main Brighton Pride event was cancelled. Manchester Pride is going ahead this month without its parade, but the organisers have got a lot of flak for what they have arranged and their perceived lack of support for LGBT+ charities and businesses, and their CEO has resigned. The CEO has not resigned. There is a petition calling for it but so far he has steadfastly avoided any interaction with the public, including locking his Twitter account and dropping out of an interview on Gaydio this morning. It is more than a "percieved" lack of support- after 27 years Manchester Pride has dropped funding for a free safe sex pack that they produced in conjunction with a local charity amongst other things. Yes the parade was cancelled, supposedly for safety reasons, yet all of the money making parts of the weeknd including the music festival, are still going ahead.
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Post by richey on Aug 9, 2021 21:17:13 GMT
Half price Hairspray tickets and a prize draw for Back to The Future opening night on there now
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Post by richey on Aug 9, 2021 12:43:48 GMT
Cancelled all week /?substory_index=0
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Post by richey on Aug 9, 2021 9:30:00 GMT
Just seen on facebook the show has shut due to covid - so I won't be going this week after all. See previous posts. It's been shut this week due to one cast member testing positive. It's reopening next week
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Post by richey on Aug 8, 2021 13:11:17 GMT
If anyone wants to get an idea of Linzi's performance, there is a (unofficial so no link posted here) video up on YouTube, filmed from the front row of her leading one of the megamixes.
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Post by richey on Aug 8, 2021 11:28:49 GMT
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Post by richey on Aug 8, 2021 10:52:26 GMT
Nothing on the official Joseph social media pages though!
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Post by richey on Aug 7, 2021 18:34:12 GMT
I'm with you Dawnstar. Too much talking for me too
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Post by richey on Aug 6, 2021 21:00:14 GMT
Cancellation extended to all this weekend's performances.
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Post by richey on Aug 6, 2021 20:27:48 GMT
Confusing. I contacted Hope Mill because I never got an email about the cancellation and it turns out my booking is with Home at HOMEground. Seems that the shows that are cancelled are those running at the Hope Mill up until 8th August (I didn’t even know that was happening). The shows at Homeground are going ahead… apparently? They’re still on sale on the Home website anyway. Yeah they're two different sites. Homeground is on the bit of wasteland just down the road from Home by the Mancunian Way (very classy) and the Hope Mill has the HopeFest site in a circus tent near the New Islington tram stop.
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Post by richey on Aug 6, 2021 18:16:02 GMT
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Post by richey on Aug 6, 2021 5:59:52 GMT
At risk of starting a frenzied campaign - I looked up Linzi Hately's age, and all I'll say is: "Nothing's wrong with being Fifty"... Next role, Norma? 😉
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Post by richey on Aug 3, 2021 19:43:40 GMT
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Post by richey on Aug 3, 2021 12:36:31 GMT
Linzi has just put on Insta that she is on tonight. She seems to be doing a lot of unscheduled cover for Alexandra!
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Post by richey on Aug 3, 2021 7:25:42 GMT
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Post by richey on Jul 31, 2021 9:31:48 GMT
I don't know how AB plays it but I thought Linzi found just the right level a few weeks ago. I had been a little apprehensive about booking after hearing how Sheridan had overdone it but I think Linzi managed to tone it down so that the humour was apparent but not OTT (one exception being when she sang the jailer's lines in Go Go Go Joseph, she sounded too much like Mrs Overall to me)
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Post by richey on Jul 30, 2021 18:16:03 GMT
Holly-Anne Hull is on tonight as Christine. Will be interested to hear reviews if anyone is in? She plays every Friday, according to her Twitter, so that's the new alternate's show day. yep it's on their Instagram page too http://instagram.com/p/CR9K5FGLEkh
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Post by richey on Jul 29, 2021 17:41:54 GMT
I saw him in Annie Get Your Gun opposite Emma Williams. “Anything You Can Do” had an unintended irony when it came to sparring over their singing skills. I thought he was rubbish in Priscilla too. Sorry. I really liked Duncan James in that. Lovely bloke too. yep Duncan was far superior in Priscilla. I'll never forget seeing JD in the Rocky Horror show when he was so bad that the audience interaction was actually them shouting his lines to him as he couldn't remember them.
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Post by richey on Jul 28, 2021 8:05:39 GMT
And as could have been predicted ALW has already come out with his "better than ever" statement Also does anyone else find that picture with Lucy vaguely creepy or is it just me?
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Post by richey on Jul 27, 2021 22:00:04 GMT
Was the 25th anniversary the run at the Duke of Yorks with Jonathan Morris & Diane from Eastenders? I think when I say the 21st anniversary production it was with Jonathon Morris Actually just looked back through my programmes and Jonathan Wilkes was the 30th anniversary tour and Jason Donovan 25th anniversary.
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