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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 4, 2018 9:52:22 GMT
It's a massive TV audience and exposure. I suspect artists are begging to be on the show!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 30, 2018 3:23:23 GMT
As I have said many times before - it is show BUSINESS! The Palladium is huge theatre to fill and ALW owns it so it does make commercial sense to mount this as it is a family show, hugely popular and in the school holidays.
No doubt there will be endless speculation for months about the casting...…………..
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 25, 2018 17:55:44 GMT
A friend of mine did panto with him the other year and said he was delightful to work with. The whole company and crew loved him. One evening after the show he took the entire company and crew out for pizzas and drinks!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 25, 2018 17:53:24 GMT
he’d had Craig in the back a few times, and that he thought he was wonderful. OOOOH MATRON!!! LOL
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 25, 2018 1:16:39 GMT
Full marks to Bruno who stepped up to the plate and clarified the result! Shirley Ballas is useless - totally out of her depth - it's not the first time she has got the names wrong and of course spoiled any tension with the result of the lindyhoppathon nonsense by announcing the winner first instead of in reverse order! Craig thought it was hilarious and was clearly delighted at her misfortune!!
An odd show tonight - I felt they were all hung over from Blackpool! Lauren was dreadful and should have gone weeks ago - at least she received an honest score for once. But a huge amount of over marking. Charles was overmarked - his dance was dreadful and Joe's "dance" was hugely over marked - no way was that routine a 10. Craig, as ever, the only honest score!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 21, 2018 4:15:54 GMT
Booked for Hackney Empire (Aladdin) next week for Clive Rowe and then for Richmond (Peter Pan) with Robert Lindsay in December and finally the Palladium (Snow White) in January!
I love a bit of panto!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 21, 2018 4:09:27 GMT
Is this a case of Barrowman never turning down work? I mean he gets great proper acting jobs these days, why is he doing this? IAC pays very well and he's probably on the higher pay scale. Yes, a big fee for 3 weeks work and most importantly TV exposure. I noticed many months ago he wasn't doing panto this year and wondered why as he is one of the highest paid panto stars but presumably has replaced the income with this, and the TV exposure will put up his fee for panto 2019!! Apparently Noel Edmonds has been confirmed to be going into this and if the press are to be believed is being paid 600k!!! This must be for about 2 weeks work as he is not in it yet! He must have a brilliant agent! Plus he has said that if he wins he will retire from TV - is this a clever ploy for votes to win as he knows no-one wants to see him on TV ever again? He wont win - you heard it here first!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 18, 2018 9:49:51 GMT
As usual - costumes mostly dreadful and some of the dance styles almost unrecognisable.
Although the Tower Ballroom looks spectacular, the space is huge and needs to be filled, so I know why they have the extra dancers to make more of a production out of it. But, as ever I think the actual couples get a bit "lost" and the production elements too distracting from the actual dancing.
Cannot really put my finger on it but still struggling to engage with series and I'm usually totally invested.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 16, 2018 11:02:16 GMT
It's a rather significant birthday for me today and all my friends seem to be busy I think you should put an ad in the Stage saying New Friends Required! Wishing you a very Happy Birthday from your TheatreBoard friends!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 16, 2018 10:37:50 GMT
Kelsey Grammer was in Big Fish at The Other Palace - I was very underwhelmed by his performance.
The show was not a hit despite his presence and barely sold out this small theatre. Has he really big box office appeal to justify the prices? Can he sing the role?
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 15, 2018 19:24:28 GMT
It's like a real life episode of The Thick of It!!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 14, 2018 22:47:21 GMT
If you sign up for a show like this then you must accept what comes along with it I would completely agree with this but these celebs have egos and think that they will be hugely popular, win the show and be flooded with offers of lucrative work. It never occurs to them that the exposure might be negative.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 14, 2018 20:05:29 GMT
I predict fireworks as there are some "tricky" celebs in this - Barrowman, Knowles and now Edmonds for a start.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 13, 2018 10:47:44 GMT
I think the actual telephone voting (of all shows) cannot be fixed as it is independently regulated.
However, the vote can by hugely manipulated by the TV producers by editing, running order, costumes, choice of music etc etc. For example I was not surprised to see Graham in the dance off this week with those dreadful costumes - he was well and truly "stitched" up. I am amazed there are not more tantrums backstage (or perhaps there are) that we never hear about such as "I am NOT wearing THAT on national television!!" Some of the costumes this year are particularly hideous!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 12, 2018 17:38:51 GMT
He is doing 5 nights at the Theatre Royal Brighton (Mon- Fri 15th- 19th July 2019) and still tickets available especially earlier in the week. So possible to train it from London for the evening - subject to the trains running(!) should London dates be full.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 12, 2018 9:38:18 GMT
Ashley and Faye are good dancers but they definitely wont win. The professional dancers never do.
Personally I think it will be between Joe and Stacey. Both amateurs who are working their socks off and doing well and seem likeable personalities. So both tick the boxes of personality and most impressive "journey".
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 12, 2018 9:32:49 GMT
How about The Theresa May Theatre?...……...makes a very smart dash to the bullet proof getaway car!!!!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 11, 2018 20:37:59 GMT
Yes, I agreed with Craig - Danny is far the better dancer, but as others have said it isn't really a dance competition but a popularity contest and I always thought from the start that Danny was "tricky".
Amy is probably relieved she doesn't have to spend another week in the rehearsal studio with him!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 10, 2018 17:34:48 GMT
I have become fascinated regarding dynamic pricing in the West End.
Delfont Mackintosh use this system a lot on their website for their theatres.
But recently I have experienced this using Today Tix Rush tickets for Company for £25 sat in the centre of row D in the Dress - a seat usually priced at £99.50 Premium and on the Today Tix app (not rush) a discount seat for Dreamgirls Row F of the stalls for £35 - a seat usually £85 -£100. Now I'm certainly not complaining and I would recommend others to search out these deals, but I am fascinated how this works for the producers.
Obviously the situation at the last minute is that they don't want unsold seats in prime positions in the theatre and they discount to fill these, but clearly they have over estimated the demand at that price for that particular production - but could probably have sold them all for say £70 top price as opposed to £100 premium.
It clearly pays them to do this though that if they sell enough seats at the premium price and sell the last remaining few at a huge discount the revenue must be more than just having top prices?
But at Dreamgirls the other evening despite a very full mid week evening performance there were plenty of empty seats around me in the "premium" section but the back of the stalls were packed!
I wonder what the tipping point is?
Company is very undersold on the website - still at top dollar but when I have attended it seems packed - there must be some discounting going on?
It's very confusing. I think it puts off a lot of people who would like to go and see (say) Company and see the best seats are £100 - £135 and simply don't book. The rest of us seem to spend an awful lot of time fishing out bargains!!!!
It cannot make sense to sell prime seats for £25 though - is the dynamic pricing bubble bursting with a resistance to paying such prices. Personally I think producers can only get away with it if they have a HUGE hit currently Hamilton and Harry Potter, and demand FAR outstrips supply. The rest of the shows - if the prices are too high, folk either don't go or see something else.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 10, 2018 14:28:53 GMT
In another life, I was a director of a retail company that had a shop in the Manchester Arndale Centre. I will never forget the moment I was sat at my desk at head office and I answered the phone to the manager of the shop who was calling from a call box to inform me that a bomb had gone off! My blood ran cold! All the staff were safe thank god!
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 6, 2018 18:13:15 GMT
I've seen this show once in London and LOATHED it! I suppose this view should be put in the unpopular opinion thread!
I too, could not hear a single word those stage school kids were saying or singing. All that screaming and stomping around! I know why I am not a fan of kids on stage!
The prices for the tour for this are outrageously high too.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 5, 2018 23:53:35 GMT
I think that Joe is good enough to win. He is after all a none dancer and fulfills the "journey" role. His media following is HUGE and he only needs a small percentage of them to actually vote and he will be the clear winner should he be allowed to get to the final when the public have a complete say.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 4, 2018 18:20:51 GMT
At a show I attended recently a girl in front of the woman sat next to me put her hair up in top knot just before the performance started! It was tall too like a horses tail on top of her head! It did not affect me as it was to my right but if I had been the woman sat next to me on my right I would certainly have said something! Just unbelievably selfish and unaware.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 2, 2018 10:26:14 GMT
I got at Today Tix rush seat for £25 in the centre of the Circle Row D - I kept refreshing the page. The seat is a premium seat at around £100. An absolute steal!
Clearly they try their luck at top dollar prices but there are loads of availability for this - because of the prices, and then they clearly have to reduce at the last minute to fill the house! I suppose it must pay off though!
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Post by wickedgrin on Oct 30, 2018 21:29:38 GMT
The atmosphere on a cold Monday evening was better than many shows I have attended on Fri/Sat nights!
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