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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 29, 2016 16:14:53 GMT
You join the rear of a queue for unreserved seating, to be told by the person in front (A), "I'm saving a place for B..." OK, fair enough. Then 'B' arrives, and in turn informs me "I'm saving a place for C... and D..." You end up being shoved backwards, and find out that A, B, C and D are not sitting together after all.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 27, 2016 22:34:16 GMT
Heard from a friend who is there tonight that the cameras were out in force, filming everyone, the queues, interviewing audience members about how many times they had seen the show etc.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 25, 2016 21:31:38 GMT
Ashamed to admit I have nodded off twice during shows - once in front of a recent performance of Shakespeare by a peer of the realm. My husband once slept through an Eric Clapton concert.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 17, 2016 19:23:05 GMT
The classic case is Les Mis. Panned by the critics all those years ago, yet still going strong.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 15, 2016 20:31:39 GMT
Intrigued as to what has happened to all the resident Phantoms? I mean, Ben's only been in it for 5 minutes, and off already? And where are Scott Davis and Kieran Brown?
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 15, 2016 19:57:02 GMT
The way I saw it, simply, was a very rude comment about a BAFTA winner (who, let's be honest, was not exactly dressed for the occasion, either by accident or design, who knows?). I would guess that 99.99% of viewers were not in on the fact that Stephen Fry and Jenny Beavan were good friends and it was an 'in joke', so he can hardly have been surprised when Twitter took off. He responded with an expletive ridden rant, before flouncing off Twitter yet again. I don't see that mental health is an issue here - just another Luvvie throwing a strop.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 15, 2016 18:00:24 GMT
I think some of you are being a little hard on Carrie. I've met her a couple of times at the stage door after midweek matinees. I wasn't waiting specifically for her, I hasten to add, but she came out while I was waiting to speak to someone else. On each occasion there was only a handful of people waiting for her, and she was absolutely charming with everyone - even an old codger like me. I've seen Les Mis countless times, and hadn't a clue who she was before she started in it, but she rapidly became one of my favourite Eponines.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 14, 2016 15:13:06 GMT
Reminds me of a few years ago, at the Trafalgar Studios watching Lenny Henry as Othello. The interval had ended and the actors were back on stage, when the woman a few seats along from me got out her phone to call her missing companions, loudly saying, "Where are you? It's started!"
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 13, 2016 17:45:55 GMT
Seeing it in Wimbledon in a couple of weeks. Slightly concerned now .....
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 3, 2016 23:43:53 GMT
As I said somewhere before, if I can't have an allocated seat, then I'm not going. Too old to mess about with this seating farce.
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 28, 2016 23:17:28 GMT
I came to the forum late in its life (just before they closed the doors, I think). As I am "long in the tooth" compared with most forum members, I would imagine, I'm keeping this name! I'm semi-retired and take in mostly matinees, with the odd evening show thrown in for good measure. Near London.
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 28, 2016 23:12:13 GMT
I wasn't there, but from comments on Twitter I gather a drunken woman, glass still in hand, tried to get on stage at Kinky Boots this evening! Perhaps someone was in the audience who could fill us in?
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 26, 2016 22:18:30 GMT
Phew! Made it. Hadn't a clue what I was doing but followed it through, then found I could log in even when it said I couldn't!
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