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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 15, 2023 19:25:31 GMT
Why does the media still always present possible hot weather as a good thing? I'm sure I'm not the only person who has been very relieved by a not too hot July & whose heart sinks at the prospect of hotter weather in the next couple of weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/66508760
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 15, 2023 17:48:01 GMT
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 14, 2023 14:37:35 GMT
I'm very pleased to see there aren't any actors I particularly like in the cast, in fact there are only a few actors I've even heard of, so I can happily not go & see this.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 10, 2023 17:05:08 GMT
Was he tall? As "lanky" is also a term for someone tall and thin. We certainly use that term in Cornwall and say someone is as lanky as a yard of p**s.
He's reasonably tall but not especially so & not especially thin either so I personally wouldn't describe him as lanky, but maybe that is what they're thinking of.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 10, 2023 17:00:59 GMT
Also good to see both Will Callan and Katie Hall 'promoted' from the recent UK tour to the London production (although not sure if Katie's done West End before?). She did Cosette in the WE for a few months in 2009 before moving to the then-new tour production. I'm not sure whether or not she's done Fantine though, as I haven't followed the WE casts changes in detail in the last few years.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 10, 2023 12:19:06 GMT
Seeing this thread bumpred reminds me of something I've been puzzling over off & on since I saw the show last week. Why in this production is Lank Hawkins called Lank? In the Regent's Park production the character had longish, straggly hair, so clearly he'd been nicknamed Lank because his hair was lank. However in this production the character has a standard short-back-and-sides haircut, so why had he been nicknamed Lank? (From an in-universe prespective that is, not "Because that's his name in the script".)
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 9, 2023 21:27:11 GMT
Many consider it to be Sondheim's greatest masterpiece, so I can see why some might be nervous speaking out against it, particularly among Sondheim fans. If the subject matter doesn't work for you, the incredible craft of the book, music and lyrics, and typical staging don't make up for it. Even if it had the greatest music, lyrics & staging ever known to mankind that still could not make a musical involving cannibalism anything other than abhorrent for me.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 9, 2023 18:44:19 GMT
Fortunately the only 3 musicals I've seen that I really hated, Too Close To The Sun, The Light Princess & Quadrophenia, have not yet shown any signs of being revived. Long may it not happen!
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 9, 2023 17:17:24 GMT
I can't say why it is.... but... I don't much care for Sweeney, Phew, I've been working upto saying this here for some time and that's a real weight off me. Is not liking Sweeney Todd considered a controversial opinon? Personally I think it is an utterly vile piece in terms of plot and I would never go and see it. There are some good songs but I will only ever hear them in concert.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 9, 2023 17:09:04 GMT
Regents Opera are buildng thier Ring. I was very impressed with Rheingold last year and will sign up for the full Cycle when its avaible. The orchestration is just enough and works in the smaller space for an authentic experience. Prices 'realistic'. I'm afraid the reviews & production pictures I saw of it last year didn't make me want to see it. really do want to see a traditional horned helmets and armour ring cycle version Yes, that's what I want. Sadly I don't think I'm ever going to get it.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 6, 2023 20:37:21 GMT
I think a concert presentation helps with that as you can trim the dialogue/replace with narration to suit the form I would definitely want the dialogue, not narration.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 6, 2023 17:16:56 GMT
Instead of these recent concerts of shows that are still very much part of the current repertoire, I would love a return of the Lost Musicals events. I'd be interested in that. I only found out about the original concerts near the end of their life so I only saw a couple but I enjoyed those I did see. However if more were done I'd want them to be the originals, not totally rewritten for "modern sensibilities".
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 3, 2023 21:18:35 GMT
I guess I'll be accessing Twitter via the website then, like I do on my laptop, and ignoring the annoying "Twitter is better on the app" messages. I am not going to be forced into getting rid of an otherwise perfectly fine phone!
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 3, 2023 20:28:28 GMT
TBF 7 years with the same phone is a bit longer than the average support cycle for apps and phone updates which is 3-5 years. But why should the support cycle only be 3-5 years? If there is nothing wrong with a phone, and I have had no problems with mine apart from the recent Twitter one, then it should still be supported. Given the resources, especially minerals, needed to manufacture mobile phones people should be able to use them for as long as possible.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 3, 2023 20:19:04 GMT
How depressing. I certainly can't afford to buy a new phone at the moment, quite apart from not wanting to do so on general principal while mine still works. I am on only my second ever smartphone & I only bought the second one, at the end of 2016, when the first one, from 2011, died suddenly & unrepairably. Given we are supposed to be trying to be a less throw-away society to save the planet, I find it disgusting when companies try to to force people into buying new products.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 3, 2023 20:11:58 GMT
I noticed yesterday afternoon that the no phones signs the ushers were holding up beforehand & in the interval had a line in smaller print that said something like "If you snap our cast they will snap at you" so evidently Charlie Stemp is living up to the threat!
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 3, 2023 20:00:20 GMT
Can we try leasing the railways on strike days for a giant mainline production of Starlight?... Now that I would go to! Well, except that with a train strike I wouldn't be able to get to it...
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 3, 2023 19:27:59 GMT
Has the app name changed to X-something? When I searched it came up showing the new X logo, it just wouldn't let me download it.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 2, 2023 19:23:14 GMT
If The Nose had had an interval I would have left in it! Since then I've avoided Kosky. I didn't see the last Ring either. In fact I've never seen a live Ring & doubt I will unless I can find a time machine!
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 2, 2023 18:03:51 GMT
Further to the comments upthread, does it count as immersive if your seat kept shaking during I Got Rhythem? I was sat front row so I assume that doesn't happen when sat further from the stage.
I enjoyed the production but I didn't love it as I did the Regent's Park production. Charlie Stemp is certainly the stand out. It's a pity he wasn't born a few decades earlier, when there were far more shows around suited to his talents.
I remember the Fodors being somewhat annoying but not nearly as annoying as in this production, where I found them almost unbearable. They also seem to have changed from being siblings to a married couple.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 2, 2023 17:53:45 GMT
When I saw the prices I was very thankful that the presence of Kosky had stopped me wanting to see it even before seeing them!
Don Q is at least cheaper than some of the other "tutu" ballets such as Sleeping Beauty & Cinderella last season.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 2, 2023 17:02:34 GMT
The Twitter app on my phone (Samsung Galaxy), having been playing up for a couple of months, today decided to refuse to send any tweets full stop. I decided to uninstall & reinstall it, which I've done with apps before when they've played up. However having uninstalled it the Google Play app store is informing me I cannot redownload it. Has anyone else had this problem?
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 31, 2023 14:51:52 GMT
Mon - Crazy For You Thu - The Australian Ballet: Jewels at ROH I'm seeing the same shows but both on Wednesday, then Australian Ballet's gala on Sunday.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 31, 2023 14:49:55 GMT
People drink at similar events, as long as they aren't disruptive I don't understand the pearl clutching about doing it at the theatre. Personally I really dislike the smell of beer and red wine so it's not much fun for me at a performance if I'm stuck next to someone whose drink is giving off an odour which is making me feel somewhat nauseous.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 29, 2023 21:48:14 GMT
david That sounds almost the same as the concert I saw last June, except that was the CBSO rather than the Halle and Gina Beck rather than Lucy May Barker. I guess the performances last year, in Birmingham & Saffron Walden (I was at the latter), were popular enough that they decided to bring it to further venues. For me the South Pacific section was a preview, as I didn't see the Chichester production until it was at Sadler's Wells a couple of months later.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 29, 2023 21:11:34 GMT
sell hot dogs at the interval That would have reduced their ticket sales by one, as I wouldn't have booked for next week if they were selling hot dogs in the auditorium. I don't want to sit through a show with the smell of fast food, which I find unpleasant, in the air. And no, I'm not over 65, I'm 38.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 29, 2023 21:04:54 GMT
I only seem to get tweets from past years when I click that. I'm on twitter so don't know if that's why. Sorry it's not working. I've done a screenshot for those who it's not showing up for.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 29, 2023 21:01:49 GMT
Having a look at the ATG website, it's showing every Monday bar one during the November-February extension as already sold out. If that's true, and not that they're holding back tickets for some reason, then that means anyone who wants to see the show during that period who hasn't been able to already book - 4+ months in advance - is going to have to pay a minimum of £49.50. That counts me out for one. I had been going to try to find out if a couple of the understudies had any dates scheduled later in the run but I guess there's no point asking now that I won't be able to afford a ticket anyway.
ETA Sorry alece10, my comment is a cross post & isn't meant to be a reply to yours.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 29, 2023 20:47:45 GMT
Their choice, but never understood actors who follow this. Why deny yourself some great roles? Even Elaine Paige knew what an opportunity Norma Desmond was, and it finally took her to Broadway. Evidently someone has shown this discussion to Emma Williams, or she reads the site herself, because she's replied on Twitter (click on the tweet because her reply includes 2 subsequent tweets).
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Post by Dawnstar on Jul 28, 2023 12:49:55 GMT
Why is it whenever someone's phone goes off during a performance it's always at the worst possible time? I only enjoyed about half the pieces performed in Carlos [Acosta] At 50 last night so of course it happened during one of the ones I enjoyed, the Swan Lake Act II pas de deux, rather than any of the modern pieces I disliked!
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