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Post by ncbears on Oct 26, 2018 19:53:10 GMT
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Post by ncbears on Oct 17, 2018 18:26:04 GMT
So, does Macavity sing the song Macavity, now? Will Macavity be given any lines? Or is Mr. Elba just going to come on, look threatening, and leave? What would Luther do?
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Post by ncbears on Oct 10, 2018 22:52:06 GMT
Ramos in the Kennedy Center production:
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Post by ncbears on Oct 9, 2018 16:32:30 GMT
Downloaded the cast recording but files are in alphabetical order and not numbered. What's the correct order? 1. Ex-Wives 2. No Way 3. Don’t Lose Ur Head 4. Heart of Stone 5. Haus of Holbein 6. Get Down 7. All You Wanna Do 8. I Don’t Need Your Love 9. Six I wish they would add a recording of the megamix ending!
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Post by ncbears on Oct 9, 2018 0:24:03 GMT
Not that this would necessarily mean much to UK - but Seth Rudetsky's show on SiriusXM's (satellite radio) Broadway channel just praised Six and is hoping to start playing it on SiriusXM. So, we won't be the only ones in the US obsessing over the show.
Further aside, spouse's trip to Switzerland is 19-20 January, but she teaches late into the evening on Wednesdays -so trying to stop off in London in time to see Six and (a) get to her conference Saturday morning and get back to the States to teach the next Wednesday does not have a simple logistical solution - unless someone has a private jet (and pilot) she can use! But, she's working on it. Our next scheduled trip to the UK is late June - so if Six extends, we will have a chance then.
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Post by ncbears on Oct 8, 2018 15:49:55 GMT
Ok, so daughter thinks all the songs are shout-outs/inspired by other artists: But she can't place them all. So far, she (we) thinks: Don't Lose Ur Head - Taylor Swift Heart of Stone - Adele Get Down - Beyoncé (although I think more Janet Jackson); All You Wanna Do - Britney Spears I Don't Need Your Love - Whitney Houston Now, of course, we are coming from an American vantage point - so there may be other inspirations.
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Post by ncbears on Sept 30, 2018 19:42:31 GMT
My spouse has a mid-January trip to the Continent, and would gladly happily enthusiastically book a stop in London just to see this show. I'll just keep checking for an announcement.
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Post by ncbears on Sept 27, 2018 2:06:36 GMT
My daughter is obsessed with the cast recording and whatever snippets she can find on the internet. But, alas, we are in the States. So, getting to see a production is not going to happen in the near future. Unless, when the UK tour is done, SIX comes to tour the US.
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Post by ncbears on Sept 22, 2018 23:31:31 GMT
An interview with the cast
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Post by ncbears on Sept 14, 2018 3:54:24 GMT
Now that the cast recording is out - does anyone know where I can pick up sheet music? (meanwhile, on Spotify "Heart of Stone" is not playing for me)
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Post by ncbears on Aug 22, 2018 20:46:39 GMT
There was indeed controversy when Molina played Teyve. Has no one heard Forbidden Broadway's Fiddler With No Jew? After Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl, the world does not need a Fiddler with no Jewish leading man. Let's all stop being a bunch of Scarlet Johansson and cast consciously. Then there was this part of Avenue Jew - starting around 5:50:
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Post by ncbears on Aug 22, 2018 13:35:08 GMT
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Post by ncbears on Aug 21, 2018 19:43:55 GMT
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Post by ncbears on Aug 19, 2018 16:14:24 GMT
Thinking about it, it’s a shame that neither Paul Kaye or Simon Lipkin are old enough to play Tevye. I think both of them could master that role brilliantly if they were closer to the right age. How old do you think Tevye is? He is not an old man. He likely was married to Golde between the ages of 18-21. We know he's been married for 25 years midway through Act Two - but by that point Tzeitel has been married and has had a baby - so when the show starts, Tevye likely is between 40-43. Paul Kaye is 53. Simon Lipkin is 32. Topol was 36 when he was in the film version.
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Post by ncbears on Aug 1, 2018 4:34:12 GMT
BroadwayWorld announced discounts being offered for weekday performances through 20 December. Seat selection however may not be the greatest. Also, saw other special offers down to 15 for some seats. BroadwayWorld Discount? Price Band A tickets were £65, now £42.50, saving 35% Price Band B tickets were £45, now £32.50, saving 28% Valid Mon-Fri performances until 20 December 2018 Book by 31 August 2018
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Post by ncbears on Jul 9, 2018 1:37:21 GMT
I can't tell if we were lucky or missed out when we decided to not see it on our one Sunday in London. I'm leaning to "lucky". (We had a very nice time walking through Hyde Park, seeing the Christo "thing", perusing Harrods and dinner in Maida Vale).
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Post by ncbears on Jul 8, 2018 14:33:51 GMT
I'm now wondering if a "The Handmaid's Tale" approach might work. Imagine if all theatre performances saw the audience seated, the lights going down, the curtain rising on a hooded body on a gallows centre stage, with a phone and yesterday's newspaper in each hand. Silent contemplation for a moment, the curtain goes down, and a few minutes later the actual show starts. Perhaps with a message from Aunt Lydia during that little gap? Just a thought. Or there is this:
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Post by ncbears on Jul 7, 2018 0:57:16 GMT
So, in the end, we saw Victim at Oxford Fringe. It was quite good - although I didn't exactly get the point of the piece. We also arrived two minutes late (took a wrong turn) but since the back row was full, I managed to trip down a couple of steps. The performer was very nice about it. Victim is a one woman show where the performer basically plays (1) a female guard with marital trouble and (2) a murderess who is in jail for life. Along the way, the guard and the murderess channel other characters. The pieces intercut until they meet at the end. That was the only play we saw. Yes, after listing a bunch of plays, we ended up seeing only musicals. In London, we saw Thrill Me. And first off, don't do the gallery seats in the studio. yes, they are comfortable, but the glass railing has a metal railing on top which blocks the view. Thrill Me is about the Leopold & Loeb murder in Chicago in the 1920s - a "thrill killing" one that was done for the thrill of committing the crime. The show builds to the murder - then quickly skips over it - to Leopold and Loeb trying to evade capture and ultimately how they are captured. The music is mostly ballad after ballad - I found the actor playing Nathan Leopold better than the actor playing Richard Loeb. But, the two have been playing the roles together for a while now. I found Loeb's character to be too much of a sociopath from the start - and so he lacked the charm that drew Leopold in. Saturday afternoon, we saw Bat Out of Hell. Originally, we were going to just wait for the US Tour, but advice here seemed to suggest the staging at the Dominion would be unlikely to be the staging on the US tour. I found the show insane - I mean bonkers. I loved the music - couldn't really follow what story there was -loved the staging - loved the older audience rocking out while younger members seemed perplexed. There seem to be people who are multi-repeat attendees because there was a bit of audience talk-back/shout-outs during the show as well as singing along. Here was the major audience participation: {Audience Participation} At the end of "I Won't Do That", Strat pauses and an audience member shouted out "Say It" like it was Rocky Horror. The actor paused, laughed, and then sang "But, I won't do that" Saturday night was Tina! - We ended up with two singles in the stalls. Spouse got Row D, Center. I was back and to the side. Spouse really loved the show. I really liked it. I found myself comparing the stage show to the film What's Love Got To Do With It - and frankly, I found the film superior, for one primary reason. In the film, Ike Turner has a charm to him - you can see why people adore and follow him while disliking him. The Ike Turner in this show is just a mean vile SOB from the first sequence. And I don't know what accent the actor was using - but it was a one note affected accent and really distracting. My favorite moment is the staging of the final concert - I found it imaginative and breath-taking. For the most part, the audience obeyed the admonition pre-show to not sing along until the end of the show. BTW, Adrienne Warren had a knee brace. The instant standing ovation made me think I was back in the US. I found Tina! to be a pretty standard bio-musical, although it used the songs for plot points rather than "And then I recorded this..and then I recorded this" as in Beautiful (which was in the same theatre). And, then it was on to Iceland. We didn't attend any theatre in Iceland.
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Post by ncbears on Jul 4, 2018 14:08:56 GMT
I thought some site used to publish a guess at attendance using a survey of some sort. It was not scientific but interesting.
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Post by ncbears on Jul 1, 2018 7:51:13 GMT
We were at the Saturday matinee. Stalls seemed full. Except for J, K and L. We were in G. Did buy at box office that morning. No day seats were offerred. I thought the show was bonkers and loud and we had great time. Audience seems to hdve repeatt attendees who cheer loudly during show. Hannah Ducharme was on as Sloane and was on fire. We thought she was best prrformer. Interesting slightly older crowd who grew up on the album. Some younger adults seemed perplexed.
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Post by ncbears on Jun 30, 2018 23:15:37 GMT
Saw this 30 June Evening. Warren is a powerhouse - but she is sporting a knee brace. It did impair her performance - but I do wonder how tender the knee is.
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Post by ncbears on Jun 16, 2018 17:52:43 GMT
Ok. With the ticket offers, I think we are going to try to see this on our late June UK trip instead of(or in addition to) seeing it on the US tour.
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Post by ncbears on Jun 16, 2018 17:44:54 GMT
This did not sell me on getting tickets...sigh. I so wanted to love this. As an aside, it looked, to me, like the dancers were having to hold back due to the quality of the stage - probably not a lot of give?
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Post by ncbears on Jun 16, 2018 17:30:45 GMT
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Post by ncbears on May 6, 2018 22:09:36 GMT
Finally getting back to the UK after a couple of years. Will be staying in Oxford 24 June through 30 June and maybe a couple days after that in London. So, I have my Theatreboard button - but what should I try to see?
Will probably day seat or discount booth most shows, but if there's something I should book for from the States, please let me know! (besides Harry Potter)
Spouse is conferencing, so I have freedom to come to London on my own on occassion. We've seen in one place or another nearly every musical on the West End that's been running longer than six months - so except for curiosity to see original staging of Phantom of the Opera, I think those are pretty much out. We saw Pressure in Edinburgh back in 2014. Bat out of Hell is having a US tour with a stop in February near us, so unlikely to try for that.
I will be booking Thrill Me (written by a friend of a friend) Tina seems to be getting nice comments. Oxford is having their OffBeat Festival - (Hamlet Super 64 looks fun)
Curious about:
Julie at the National Translations at The National Fun Home at the Young Vic Strictly Ballroom (love the movie - comments on Musicals board are discouraging) Trioperas at Peacock Lieutenant of Inishmore (am I supposed to take spouse to see Aidan Turner?) Genesis Inc and Death of John Doe, both at Hampstead Jungle (can't really tell from comments on the Plays board) Consent (comments are mixed on the Plays board)
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