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Post by danb on May 5, 2024 7:43:44 GMT
Hope you made it home in one piece. I quite enjoy that feeling on having put a lot of effort into seeing something, even if it’s not a guaranteed ‘enjoy’. I remember driving the three hours back from Chichester in torrential rain after ‘South Pacific’ not caring a bit because I’d just seen something so good, whereas I really resented driving home from ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ 20-odd miles away cos I could have been sat at home watching ‘Corrie’ at the end of a busy work week.
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Post by danb on May 4, 2024 8:50:42 GMT
I was interested as a potential for our NYC visit, but the more clips I watched, coupled with hearing that it wouldn’t be long til its London bow (back in late March) made us rethink. It looks like a cool way to spend 90 minutes if enough alcohol has been consumed and theres nothing better to see. Its still just another tribute show, albeit with interesting stuff going on in the foreground.
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Post by danb on May 3, 2024 19:11:28 GMT
Lock it in the Roundhouse for the rest of time…I don’t go on the Northern Line if I can help it so it’ll never bother me. But realistically, this has Drury Lane all over it if the Palladium is clogged up with Dolly. It would sit well in the Dominion too. Hello? Did you not read the bit where I said it was a custom built venue? This isn’t going to a THEATRE. “Doh! Yes purpose built does kind of insinuate that. 😂” can you not read?
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Post by danb on May 3, 2024 17:18:19 GMT
Doh! Yes purpose built does kind of insinuate that. 😂
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Post by danb on May 3, 2024 16:13:00 GMT
Lock it in the Roundhouse for the rest of time…I don’t go on the Northern Line if I can help it so it’ll never bother me.
But realistically, this has Drury Lane all over it if the Palladium is clogged up with Dolly. It would sit well in the Dominion too.
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Post by danb on May 3, 2024 9:22:47 GMT
Are we going to end up with a Venn Diagram instead of a list view to show where they overlap? It would be prettier at least? ☺️
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Post by danb on May 3, 2024 6:28:12 GMT
Isn’t it Disney who are doing it? If so I’d be expecting very high quality. You saw Aladdin right? …and the ‘Beauty & The Beast’ tour plywood set?
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Post by danb on May 2, 2024 20:31:08 GMT
Or one of the cheap as chips circus tents sat empty somewhere? Would make sense.
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Post by danb on May 2, 2024 20:24:10 GMT
I’m sure audience behaviour will be exemplary.
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Post by danb on May 2, 2024 18:36:01 GMT
The lead character is called Andy (Andrea).
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Post by danb on May 2, 2024 16:08:16 GMT
I would pay up to 50 British pounds Stirling to see this in an intimate London setting with Cinzano Bianco… Can you still get Cinzano? It's very 70s. Yes, she was in the Wizard of Oz with Al Martini. (Any Vermouth was my tipple of choice at home as a student…I think that fortified wines are quite big with the alcoholic community).
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Post by danb on May 2, 2024 15:40:06 GMT
Are my phone speakers ok? 😕 I hope she hasn’t damaged them.
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Post by danb on May 2, 2024 15:37:56 GMT
I would pay up to 50 British pounds Stirling to see this in an intimate London setting with Cinzano Bianco…
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Post by danb on May 2, 2024 13:45:34 GMT
She was a ‘discovery’ for Eponine in the first tour of Les Mis that opened in Manchester. She has done West End stuff too.
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Post by danb on May 2, 2024 11:02:59 GMT
Was that Gemma Wardle as Steve Macs tinder date in last nights Corrie? Forgot to watch the credits.
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Post by danb on May 1, 2024 13:54:12 GMT
Ok.
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Post by danb on May 1, 2024 6:24:11 GMT
But despite its ‘modern tendencies’, I didn’t see an awful lot of obvious symbolism in Lloyds ‘Sunset’, more just a different way of telling the story. I’m sorry if you read it as sneering; it’s more just continued frustration at people bashing it for the sake of it not being what they wanted. Or the flipside, people seeing it as a bit of an emperors new clothes situation. But let's face it there are two shows there is no point critiquing on this forum, the Cabaret and sunset revivals. The gate keeping is insane on both. Anyway looking forward to reports on this sunset. The set and styling certainly looks on point. Sarah is my big question mark I can’t believe the staircase is on the right #notmysunset 😂😂😂 But seriously, I totally respect peoples opinion & ‘right’ not to like it. What raised my hackles was Max thinking they’d hit upon the defining point of proof that they were right, like Poirot or something because a line of dialogue had been kept in that was not physically represented. The whole show was bonkers so looking for linear thinking was a none starter to me…is all. ❤️
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Post by danb on Apr 30, 2024 18:20:18 GMT
But despite its ‘modern tendencies’, I didn’t see an awful lot of obvious symbolism in Lloyds ‘Sunset’, more just a different way of telling the story. I’m sorry if you read it as sneering; it’s more just continued frustration at people bashing it for the sake of it not being what they wanted.
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Post by danb on Apr 30, 2024 16:58:02 GMT
For me, a large part of Sunsets magic is it's setting and style which adds so much to the piece and the atmosphere and this so far looks so spot on. Especially after the disappointing UK tour and the Savoy production Agree with this, though I'd talked myself around to liking the sound of a radical version. My problem with Lloyd's vision is that it felt so badly worked out. I know I'm massively in the minority here, but the text simply didn't work - despite the cuts made. On another thread nobody has yet helped me out with my question about one line of dialogue: Do we ever hear the organ sound at the mansion, or was that cut? As there are almost no props, does the actor playing Max mime the organ, or is it cut entirely. I just can't remember. But I wonder about this line, and the meaning it's left with if we don't see or hear it: "The house was always so quiet, just me and Max and that organ". I mean.... As I recall you were given several variations of ‘it’s his interpretation, just go with it’ at the time. Unless every piece of theatre you have watched has been a documentary I fail to see how you haven’t experienced this concept before. Regardless, it has proven itself enough so I doubt Lloyd will be losing much sleep.
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Post by danb on Apr 30, 2024 16:31:16 GMT
Hamilton tour on Monday.
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Post by danb on Apr 30, 2024 13:40:06 GMT
At least it’d be ‘from a trusted source’. 😂
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Post by danb on Apr 30, 2024 13:14:37 GMT
FFS. Has he no shame?
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Post by danb on Apr 30, 2024 9:57:36 GMT
Yes. Someone take charge. Make a proposal. If people can, they can. x
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Post by danb on Apr 29, 2024 17:35:05 GMT
Or just let individual performers decide if it is something they want to do, almost as if they are sentient, adult humans!? Formalising it to the point of a ‘meet & greet’ gives me the creeps, like they are an exhibit in a zoo or something.
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Post by danb on Apr 29, 2024 8:55:47 GMT
I’m not sure I’d want it back in that state tbh. I know money etc, but it was not much better than one of the Steve Steinman efforts touring the country, by the end. It was created as a massive spectacular. Just sing it as a concert if you can’t afford to maintain the spectacle, and charge accordingly.
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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 Up & 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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