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Post by danb on Apr 28, 2024 16:13:45 GMT
As someone who was neutral about this show, from a decent side stalls seat, I would say that the sound design was very good. The assorted accents didn’t jar exactly but stopped the piece feeling like a cohesive whole as it felt like everyone was doing their own show. I’ve said already that I thought Hermes the strongest, due in the main to her inhabiting her character fully, including the patois accent. The show felt on its solidest ground when she was leading it.
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Post by danb on Apr 27, 2024 21:38:47 GMT
Is it a ‘first Friday in the month’ type affair?
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Post by danb on Apr 27, 2024 20:17:22 GMT
The ‘Raise Your Glass/Shut Ip & Dance’ mash up from ‘Moulin Rouge’ and selections from ‘2 Strangers Carry a Cake Across NewYork’.
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Post by danb on Apr 27, 2024 20:03:27 GMT
Its really tacky, and a terrible look for ATG; especially given their track record with flogging as much booze as they can to their customers. To then act surprised when audience behaviour is poor, is another mickey take.
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Post by danb on Apr 27, 2024 18:51:17 GMT
I hope you rang and spoke to someone!? That’s so out of order.
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Post by danb on Apr 27, 2024 15:51:17 GMT
It just looks really soapy and Top Gun ‘sweaty-men-esque’, only with geeky looking skinny boys instead of buff navy guys. Hard pass from me.
I have, today, watched the last hour of Avengers:Endgame for the eight hundredth time, a perfectly passable Kutcher/Wetherspoon rom com on Netflix (turns out I’d seen it) and am mid way through the post John Hurt hour of ‘Alien’.
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Post by danb on Apr 27, 2024 13:04:57 GMT
I’d considered bobbing over to Oxford this afternoon to see this but its practically sold out, and whats left were all about £70 for not great views. Really pleased its doing so well. Guess I’ll just have to wait for Bristol in August.
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Post by danb on Apr 26, 2024 7:32:06 GMT
That’s a lot of quality bangers to fit into scenes 1 & 2!!! Have a feeling that spoiler only covers act two. No doubt whatever disastrous event closes act 1 will be labelled a ‘Tragedy’.
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Post by danb on Apr 25, 2024 18:45:50 GMT
That’s a lot of quality bangers to fit into scenes 1 & 2!!!
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Post by danb on Apr 25, 2024 15:24:55 GMT
There are a few singles dotted around the upper showing on delfont mackintosh?
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Post by danb on Apr 25, 2024 5:21:34 GMT
Has he got a deep, soul voice? Not unless his hair transplant did something strange to his voicebox.
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Post by danb on Apr 24, 2024 20:28:42 GMT
I can’t find my programme but remember that there were lots of different names though, including Tom Hanks & Rita Wilsons ‘Playtone’ and the Old Vic.
Edit: Longshot films, Antic productions, The Old Vic & Playtone.
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Post by danb on Apr 24, 2024 18:55:22 GMT
Someone mentioned on here before about the email that Bristol Old Vic had sent out and now the Harold Pinter is free.. I know that Sonia Friedman is attached to this project, as are ATG producers so would this be something to go into the HP? I mentioned this on another thread to see what other people thought but I don’t think anybody was that familiar with the musical to help out this idea? Not sure if it can be disproved as I’ve also heard of Ride going into this venue as well as In Clay or Bronco Billy? Another Bristol Old Vic production backed by Sonia Friedman went to the Harold Pinter: the play 'Dr Semmelweis'. Not really an indicator of anything, but....factual. lol Also ‘The Grinning Man’ a few years ago.
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Post by danb on Apr 24, 2024 16:51:03 GMT
A composer, high on MDMA, reads a chapter of Tolstoy's War & Peace, tells everyone "Hold my beer" and comes up with a crazy electropop adaptation that fuses synthizers with Russian folk music and the audience gets to eat Russian dumplings. Oh you are good! You should write the blurb on dvd cases (twenty years ago 😂).
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Post by danb on Apr 24, 2024 12:29:34 GMT
Wait for the usual suspects to tease this on the socials in 3…2…1… 3….2….1….weeks maybe 😂
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Post by danb on Apr 23, 2024 12:52:18 GMT
A lot of musicals haven't aged well like Flower Drum Song for example but some shows don't lend themselves to reinvention. But stuff like Chichesters ‘South Pacific’ dealt with its modernity problems by just telling the story clearly, and showing us all sides of the race issue (and by that frankly phenomenal cast acting the sh!t out of it).
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Post by danb on Apr 23, 2024 12:23:52 GMT
Drives me nuts. Who’s to say that it wasn’t the done thing to knock your woman about a bit in 1909 Maine to disguise your own failings and insecurities? Or more to the point what can we learn from a demonstration of this behaviour today as part of that story?
But if it doesn’t fit somebody’s narrow prescriptive version of what they think society should be like today, without acknowledging the rest of history before, they show themself as rather dim. We know what’s right & wrong, thanks. It doesn’t stop horror films or thrillers being entertaining, or people watching boxing etc.
Just re-read this and it sounds harsher than the point I’m trying to make. It isn’t ok to knock anyone about…
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Post by danb on Apr 23, 2024 7:20:51 GMT
The movement in ‘Tommy’ is something to behold. Its worth seeing just for the choreo, which is a bizarre thing to say about a rock musical.
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Post by danb on Apr 22, 2024 21:06:30 GMT
Ordered! ☕️
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Post by danb on Apr 22, 2024 16:28:23 GMT
Oh wowsers! Shaun Tossel just revealed that this is doing an international tour starting in the UK!!! If only we’d known this a week or so ago. 😂 It’s like being gaslit by the internet. Was it 'BREAKING NEWS'? No, just plain old (yesterdays) NEWS.
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Post by danb on Apr 21, 2024 17:56:51 GMT
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Post by danb on Apr 21, 2024 15:54:06 GMT
What is the music like, in this musical? With ‘2 Strangers’ showing how relatively strong a new score can be I think that that these other quirky, smaller shows will need to raise their game. A high concept or existing IP is one thing, but they’re nothing without at least a couple of strong original songs.
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Post by danb on Apr 21, 2024 14:19:25 GMT
If my memory of ‘Les Liasons Dangereuse’ serve me well neither Valmont nor Merteuil have happy endings? He dies and she gets smallpox!
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Post by danb on Apr 21, 2024 12:39:16 GMT
Shows about people behaving normally and nicely to each other, without conflict, are really interesting. 🙄 If there are visible consequences for wrong doing I can’t really see the problem.
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Post by danb on Apr 21, 2024 7:29:36 GMT
Oh wowsers! Shaun Tossel just revealed that this is doing an international tour starting in the UK!!! If only we’d known this a week or so ago. 😂 It’s like being gaslit by the internet.
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Post by danb on Apr 20, 2024 20:13:44 GMT
Looks like a deep fake edit of the original trailer. There has been no talk of this being made. He’s got his armour on from the Henry Vth thing he did, and they are assorted Zendaya images from across her career. Edit: it was a superbowl ad from this year. I hope you're right- because the original should not be touched! Just out of curiosity, an add for what? I don’t know. I just you tubed ‘Edward Scissorhands’ 2025 and the superbowl ad came up.
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Post by danb on Apr 20, 2024 18:40:20 GMT
Looks like a deep fake edit of the original trailer. There has been no talk of this being made. He’s got his armour on from the Henry Vth thing he did, and they are assorted Zendaya images from across her career.
Edit: it was a superbowl ad from this year.
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Post by danb on Apr 20, 2024 13:38:00 GMT
Not that I have seen but it is always on the ‘Get into London’ theatre thing.
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Post by danb on Apr 19, 2024 17:42:58 GMT
Exactly. We can bemoan things that we like not finding an audience, or compare them to their replacements, but the numbers don’t lie. Our critical minds mean nothing if nobody is interested in the product. Big names guarantee nothing; Michaels Ball & Crawford have both had Shaftesbury Avenue flops recently and now Sheridan.
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Post by danb on Apr 19, 2024 14:53:03 GMT
I’m just pleased that the 101D tour is bypassing Bristol so we aren’t clogged up with another week of tat!
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