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Post by anthony on Dec 21, 2021 16:52:39 GMT
"Sadly this is the right thing to do"... and yet for his other shows, it isn't the "right thing to do". Wonder if we're going to see more rewrites...
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Post by anthony on Dec 21, 2021 12:11:45 GMT
How is a nearly 70% percent increase in cases compared to last Monday a stabilising of cases? I genuinely hope you're right and numbers won't go crazy in hospitals, though it sounds like numbers in London are definitely increasing quite a bit, but so far I have seen nothing but exponential growth in case numbers over the last week or so. And that won't show in hospitals for at least another week and in deaths not til Jan. The numbers in London are terrifying. I live just outside of London in Herts, and I genuinely don't know anyone who lives within London who currently is not either infected themselves or lives with someone who has tested positive. I guess for some context: I'm a secondary teacher, so a lot of my friends were in schools up until last Friday, so my perception is probably slightly skewed due to that. However, you only need to look at the state of theatre at the moment. Although I think if we're all honest, theatres were never truly all that safe anyway... use of masks was never really enforced at any point since reopening. It's just too easy to say that you're exempt. What worries me most is the nonchalantness of MPs in government. On LBC a few days back, an MP was boasting that the "worst case scenario" shows approximately 3,000 hospitalisations a day and that we are only at 900, so it's likely we will be better than the worst case scenario... The first omicron case was only 3 weeks ago and it's already the most dominant variant. Imperial College London research, published 3 days ago, which has been somewhat largely ignored shows that "the omicron variant largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses". In fact, the research found that with 2 vaccines, you're only protected by between 0%-20%... and even with the booster, you're more at 55%, rather than the 80% we are being told. I just can't help but wonder how different of a situation we would be in, if we had a somewhat competent government. I know Omicron would have spread regardless, but how can it be, that even with our "world-beating vaccination programme", the UK has the largest percentage of covid cases per 100k in the whole world in the last month? How can it be that we have the highest amount of confirmed omicron cases in the world? Surely things could have been so, so different... And now we're all lambs to the slaughter...
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Post by anthony on Dec 17, 2021 14:38:53 GMT
Tonight's performance cancelled. Did have tickets for tonight too (other half has been desperate to see it for ages!) From the official website, although we've had no email or anything: MAMMA MIA! LONDON Consequently, tonight’s performance on Friday 17th December 2021 at the Novello Theatre, London will be cancelled.
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Post by anthony on Dec 15, 2021 18:48:04 GMT
Concert performance again tonight due to company illness absences. Concert performance subsequently cancelled also.
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Post by anthony on Dec 11, 2021 9:31:56 GMT
Can’t wait to see this on Sunday. Any advice how to avoid watching the Elgort parts? Those allegations made me want them to reshoot the film, but, of course, it would have been impossible. Keyword being allegations.
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Post by anthony on Dec 5, 2021 11:19:23 GMT
Can't lie... I'm a bit disappointed by the line-up, but I guess it makes sense, given the Covid restrictions in place and potential for them to get worse. I would have still bought tickets, regardless. Genuinely think that Wildhorn is the most underrated composer of musicals ever. He deserves so much more success in the English-speaking world.
I'm assuming this means JoJ is about to lead up some Wildhorn project, I guess J&H? Otherwise it's such a bizarre choice, given he has no real connections to Wildhorn.
What was the track list like in Manchester? I'm really hoping it contains a selection from musicals which have never had an English-language version, such as Rudolf (which is soooo underrated!!) and Artus.
Edit: I do wonder why Wildhorn hasn't try to break into the UK more. I genuinely think his newer version of Dracula could find an audience here, especially in a mid-sized theatre. It's ran almost continuously since 2014 in South Korea. It's also just had a restaged version in Germany, which looks wonderful:
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Post by anthony on Nov 15, 2021 19:03:04 GMT
I am honestly so excited for Much Ado. I don't like the sound of it being set in a futuristic world, but I'll take any version of Much Ado, actually.
To the person who said that they've turned too school focused, I disagree. As an English teacher, in terms of physical productions, they've went back a fair bit. They'd make a killing if they did with R&J and Macbeth what PW Productions do with An Inspector Calls. We've struggled to find high-quality productions of Macbeth and R&J this year (R&J at the Globe didn't fit timing wise in terms of when we teach it)
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Post by anthony on Nov 14, 2021 1:44:46 GMT
Given the success of the latest album it would be foolish (would it not) to include of the newer songs in the latest film when its made? Pretty sure Cramer confirmed this would be the case mere months after the release of the 2nd movie. I'm assuming she hadn't heard the songs at that point, so I wonder how development may have changed as a result...
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Post by anthony on Nov 14, 2021 1:41:38 GMT
Has anyone came across any decent deals for this yet? 9 days to the first of the two performances and not even 50% sold yet... inevitably will be deals at some point...
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Post by anthony on Nov 7, 2021 19:31:28 GMT
I also would probably stop using TodayTix without the seat number.
I've never had a bad seat with Rush Tickets before, but I have been offered some dodgy seats before.
I wonder why they've felt the need to do this... tickets for most shows sell out within minutes on a weekday and seconds on weekends...
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Post by anthony on Nov 7, 2021 10:45:16 GMT
Something about this whole thing just doesn't ring wholly true about this whole scenario.
I do wonder how many of these comments from ALW were aimed at Fletcher. I mean, we all know she isn't the best actress and regularly berates members of the public who comment on this with "BUT I AIN'T EVEN PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED XOXO". From the pettiness of her comments on social media, I'm assuming quite a lot?
I also really don't like this trend among "fan girl favourites" of shaming people who are upset their favourite actor/actress is on holiday (whilst also tweeting "omg, you NEED to see this person in this role!!!"). Fletcher seems to be the head "fan girl favourite" with others, such as Jordan Luke Gage, joining in with the arsey comments. You can't use your internet fame as an alternate way into the industry and then complain when people have paid £100+ for a ticket to see the stunt in action. They all come across as deeply unpleasant people.
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Post by anthony on Nov 4, 2021 23:23:34 GMT
OK - so no one knows what ALW said that was "broadcast over speakers?" I'm assuming it must be comments aimed at specific people and their costumes? I can't see anything else that could be complained about that could cause upset that could be changed with staging adjustments?
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Post by anthony on Nov 1, 2021 16:48:57 GMT
Someone has uploaded the new PONR in full: From about 4:50, Christine is aware it's the Phantom and then decides to... toy with him? The more I think about it, the weirder the staging becomes. The title song and MOTN has been uploaded in full by the same person... the moving candelabras ! They genuinely do add so much to the scene... Oh yes let’s condone sitting in the front rows and filming a show. Jesus. I never said I condone it. Although, if someone does it and posts it, I'm not going to not watch/discuss it...........
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Post by anthony on Oct 30, 2021 19:14:57 GMT
Have we got any news who the friends might be?
Honestly, I *NEED* Borchert.
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Post by anthony on Oct 29, 2021 15:29:01 GMT
I may be blind, but where do you use the code? No space on the main site? Ooh , that's a concern, I clicked a Book Now button from the email with the offer. Try going through the booking process and see if a box for a code appears when you view the basket. The email reads " Use promo code RETURN2EGYPT at checkout after selecting your seat(s) " Ah, seems it can't be used without the link. Although, not sure it matters - there are still Rush tickets available for this evening. Row G in the stalls, even.
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Post by anthony on Oct 29, 2021 14:52:03 GMT
Promo code RETURN2EGYPT for £25 pricing, all performances Monday to Thursday until Thursday 16 December, price levels 1-4, current prices up to £75. Must be booked by Monday 14 November 10am. I received this as a previous attender, but the code was accepted before I logged in so I don't think it's exclusive or limited to rebookings. I may be blind, but where do you use the code? No space on the main site?
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2021 23:07:00 GMT
Someone has uploaded the new PONR in full: From about 4:50, Christine is aware it's the Phantom and then decides to... toy with him? The more I think about it, the weirder the staging becomes. The title song and MOTN has been uploaded in full by the same person... the moving candelabras ! They genuinely do add so much to the scene...
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2021 19:49:06 GMT
Twitter going berserk, it's trending in the UK. Half the people have no picture, the other half have no picture or sound. What an absolute nightmare. Glad I didn’t rush back from the matinee I saw today. Just saw on Twitter that my local cinema has sound, but no picture. No doubt it will end up on YouTube in full anyway…
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2021 19:37:35 GMT
People on Facebook seem angry - it still hasn't started? Link please? Believe it was on the MTAS page.
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2021 19:28:41 GMT
People on Facebook seem angry - it still hasn't started?
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2021 19:24:13 GMT
I hope to see The Drifters' Girl with my local U3A group. I'm old enough to remember their songs and they were very good. I would like to see a James Brown jukebox musical. The film biography" Get on Down"? was very good but then I am a fan of the Godfather of Soul. I am no fan of jukebox musicals and didn't really know much about The Drifters but I went along to see it in Newcastle out of curiosity and loved it. So much so I went back three more times! The performances from the cast are just incredible. To be fair, jukebox musicals are something that I naturally dislike, but I'm also not entirely sure why: I've never seen a jukebox musical I've disliked! My favourite being The Buddy Holly Story!
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2021 19:14:26 GMT
I think we should be grateful that any shows are on when the time comes. At least we don’t have Thriller hanging on anymore. True, but it's still sad that Thriller closed without a proper closing night performance. As much as people like to rail on it, it does have a place in West End history. I guess MJ the Musical if (or when) it makes its way over here will take its place...
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2021 19:05:41 GMT
Great first posts @srdan welcome to posting! probably a stupid question but are all the shows you mentioned in Spanish? I know, why wouldn’t they be in Spanish but I ask because Funny Girl in Paris was in English with French surtitles. Also is there a good website for theatre listings in Madrid? Yes, any websites would be great! I think we take advantage in the UK how many websites there are for theatre tickets that put everything in one place. It's the first thing I Google whenever I go on holiday anywhere, and it's always quite hard to find answers about what's on and the best (or cheapest!!!) place to get tickets. Maybe a master thread could be a good thing for the international section?!
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Post by anthony on Oct 28, 2021 18:48:34 GMT
Saw it today and I really, really enjoyed it! Cast were great, albeit with some dodgy accents. Didn't see the end coming (and is much more shocking than The Mousetrap, which I thought was somewhat predictable!)
I imagine audiences in the 1950s would have loved this. The last 5 minutes is just wonderful kitsch. I can hear the gasps from a 1950s audience! Venue is beautiful.
I'm somewhat tempted to go and see it again, just so I can be in the jury!
Although I think it's maybe become a bit of a tourist attraction... 5 phones in the first 10 minutes going off and then an alarm in the last 5 minutes of act 1. Show also had to be stopped 5 minutes in as the trap door wouldn't close. The cast is huge, with the majority not even having a line to speak...
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Post by anthony on Oct 27, 2021 22:42:23 GMT
I hope it's the phantoms they get new people in for. This is an amazing opportunity for the understudies and I hope they get that chance to shine.
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