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Post by shady23 on May 10, 2022 21:32:55 GMT
Yes she is on holiday this week.
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Post by shady23 on May 10, 2022 10:26:11 GMT
They probably think all publicity is good publicity
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Post by shady23 on May 7, 2022 17:38:30 GMT
How depressing that this even needs to be said...
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Post by shady23 on May 6, 2022 18:49:44 GMT
Beverley was a guest on the radio two breakfast show today and said they are releasing Harlem Child as a single. They played that and also the opening medley.
Incredible to hear those on the radio.
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Post by shady23 on May 6, 2022 18:24:51 GMT
I have booked Newcastle.
Really looking forward to this.
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Post by shady23 on May 4, 2022 21:44:58 GMT
A lot of people joke about their OCD if they are tidying up when they do not have OCD diagnosed. I would say that is no different.
Nobody knows what went on behind the scenes at this show but lots has been hinted at. It does not seem to have been the best experience. Yet if some people do not speak out will such things ever change in this industry? I suspect not.
We really need to move on from the "you should be happy to have a job because someone else would love to do it" thing in every single industry; not just this one.
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Post by shady23 on May 3, 2022 13:49:47 GMT
We need to have boots on the ground to see what’s going on. Whether all the Twitter outrage has actually turned into numbers showing to protest or whether it’ll all wither on the vine. Unfortunately these things are always announced too late for most people to turn up.
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 23:28:22 GMT
It really doesn't matter at this point if some forum members didn't like the show.
It doesn't really matter either if sales were slow.
What does matter is if a decision is made to close a show to give those who work it some respect. That has not happened in this case. Nobody should have to learn on social media that they do not have a job anymore.
That really is diabolical.
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 21:39:49 GMT
Carrie didn’t even find out from the production. She wasn’t on today and was only informed by other cast members and crew. No one from the production contacted her before the info was put online. Really really shocking stuff. If we believe her. And I am not exactly certain that I do Oh come on. You really expect she got any more courtesy than anyone else? They did wig fittings with the new cast last Thursday. Last Thursday. Why waste everyone's time like this? You can't tell me they didn't know.
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 21:31:09 GMT
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 18:46:38 GMT
John Whaite was going to be Prince Charming. He's posted he is heartbroken.
What a way for the cast to find out.
Theatre... do better!
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 16:51:46 GMT
I’m more interested in who the new cast actually are!!! 😳 I just hope Ailsa stays, the main reason I'm going tonight is to see her Veronica again, just in case she leaves! Hang on. It's cast change today and they haven't said who are staying and who are going? This show just gets stranger and stranger.
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 16:32:42 GMT
I took my Mum to see it today. She is a fan but I've never watched it but I did enjoy it. It looks beautiful and there are some funny moments too.
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 16:30:08 GMT
When does Beverley leave the show?
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 14:17:35 GMT
I have my 6th visit booked for May so I might miss him, but hopefully many more visits to come. He really is outstanding.
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Post by shady23 on May 1, 2022 7:03:11 GMT
Honestly give the girl a break.
She could have been ill or anything. It could be absolutely nothing to do with the workshop. Every performer has off days.
For someone you all claim not to care about you seem to discuss her very often.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 30, 2022 22:55:47 GMT
The vast majority of the audience near me were fine. It was just a few people.
The problem is it only needs a few people to turn a lovely afternoon into a not so lovely one.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 30, 2022 21:26:06 GMT
I saw this today.
I am not a Cher fan particularly and know nothing about her story. I am not sure I know that much more about her story now but I really did enjoy the show.
I thought Debbie and Danielle were particularly good as well as Jake Mitchell who plays Bob.
I liked the set and the staging and the megamix at the end as great fun.
I did zone out in places but I think that was more to do with some of the audience behaviour (see the bad behaviour thread) but apart from that I had an enjoyable afternoon.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 30, 2022 19:47:35 GMT
I have been reading with interest all the talk about bad audiences and luckily I have not really experienced this myself. Until this afternoon....
The Cher Show at Sunderland Empire.
We were sat at the end of the row. A few rows in front someone was slumped in their seat asleep. I hadn't seen them come in but someone told me later that they had staggered in very drunk indeed. They woke up half way through the first act and must have realised they were feeling pretty unwell. They told their friend who was then rummaging around in her handbag for a carrier bag for them. Yes you guessed it.... she then started being sick into the bag. This carried on. At a point you'd probably think, or a friend would say, let's just leave or go to the toilets at least. No the sickness continued... It got to the point some people around complained. No wonder. I can only imagine the noise and the smell. They were eventually asked to leave and the friend did so loudly calling those those who had been complaining.
A front of house came to assess the damage and they'd left their bag of sick behind and it was all over the floor too. Lovely. Now I am not blaming the front of house team, they had to clear it up before the interval so people didn't step in it but it's pretty hard to lose yourself into the magic of a performance when in your eyeline someone is cleaning up sick!
In the interval when the lights went on they realised it was all on the seats in front too.
Then more fun. Front of stalls was a hen party. They were about ten rows in front of me and I heard them occasionally and saw them being shushed alot in the first act but it didn't really impact me too much as I was many rows away (I'm sure those around would say differently). In the interval half left to the pub as they were sick of being told to be quiet and were loudly saying that everyone in the theatre was boring and didn't want to have a good time. The other half of the group had even more to drink.
Second act all the woo-ing, clapping and calling out random things started which we could all hear loudly.
I don't envy front of house but a handful of people should not be allowed to disrupt a performance for everyone else.
A few people told me this was their first show back after lockdown and after seeing all this they weren't going to come back. Tours are struggling enough right now.
This was a matinee performance. I dread to think what it would have been like if I'd gone tonight.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 28, 2022 21:13:24 GMT
When Bonnie did 42nd Street she did loads of great promo for that. They performed for This Morning by the river, they performed outside BBC television centre, I remember a one show appearance where they filmed her running out afterwards to the car to whizz across London to the theatre plus there was another This Morning appearance where Bonnie and the ensemble girls tapped all corridors to the studio. All were memorable and lots of fun. No reason they can't do similar for Anything Goes.
The ensemble boys could be tapping around the Albert Dock, at the top of the Radio City Tower etc. It shows everyone what the show is about and is far more memorable than "I am in a show come along and see it". Especially when someone watching could think that looks good I will book to see it tomorrow. It isn't on tomorrow.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 28, 2022 18:45:38 GMT
I must get 10 emails a week with offers for venues in Greater Manchester. £10 off Strictly Come Dancing at The Lowry, 25% off Beryl at Oldham Coliseum, just £7 for the BBC Philharmonic at Bridgewater Hall and £22 for Singin' in the Rain. If I lived on the wrong side of the Pennines I'd be out every night! Even Alan Partridge is struggling. With tickets now discounted to £15, it would seem that Steve Coogan isn't as popular in MCR as he once was. That is part of the problem though. Everyone knows there will be offers so who is going to pay sixty quid now when you know nearer the time you could be paying much less.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 28, 2022 13:18:21 GMT
Saw some comments now on Liverpool Empire's Facebook - people had booked for Friday, but have been offered tomorrow or Saturday, Manchester or a refund. So it must not have sold enough tickets for tomorrow to warrant even opening the doors. I think shows aiming at an older audience away from London need to perhaps put in more midweek matinées instead of evening shows.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 27, 2022 17:03:50 GMT
People paying 10/20/30 pound isn't going to keep these shows running though.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 27, 2022 2:29:04 GMT
I think they have spoilt themselves by showing it on TV at Christmas.
Plus, let's be honest, we are in a cost of living crisis and bills are going through the roof. A lot less people are going to have that spare fifty or sixty pound they once did. The ticket prices are high!
Looking online Manchester is having the same issue as Liverpool.
Older people certainly are still going to the theatre. I was at the Beautiful matinee in Newcastle last week and I was the youngest there by a long way. That was very full.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 26, 2022 14:15:11 GMT
Sadly Belfast this week is the last stop of the tour. I really hope it finds a London home. Has anyone heard anything? I ended up seeing it four times in Sunderland last week so you could say I quite like it
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