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Post by paplazaroo on Oct 11, 2017 19:02:33 GMT
The Mischief guys used to do Lights Camera Improv, where they improvised movies. It was very funny, like showstopper but with films. I wouldn't be surprised if they were reviving that format for a couple of months.
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Post by paplazaroo on Oct 6, 2017 19:10:38 GMT
This definitely wasn't my cup of tea. Mercifully short at 55 minutes but boy did it feel longer! 2 characters act out an average night at home while delivering intercut separate monologues to the audience. Still not exactly sure what they were about, Jonjo's I believe was about shooting a protester and I think Sharon's might have been about having a brain haemorrhage but both were so wordy, overwritten and pretentious that I kept zoning out.
If I sit and think really hard maybe there's an abstract point about cognitive dissonance. I'm not sure. Can't imagine it being a smash unless I've missed the point massively. Shame because I loved Confirmation and the cast are both highly competent.
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Post by paplazaroo on Oct 6, 2017 15:51:32 GMT
Twitter seems very positive about this! Sounds like a lot of fun, looking forward to reading reports
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Post by paplazaroo on Oct 2, 2017 18:48:02 GMT
It's on Spotify guys! Great recording I can only find a collection of the original songs by Dylan et al. Do you have a link to the cast recording on Spotify? Here you go -
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 29, 2017 11:03:39 GMT
It's on Spotify guys! Great recording
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 29, 2017 6:40:38 GMT
Oh dear! That's a big challenge for him, the tightrope is the least of his problems if his Oklahoma performance is anything to go by!
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 27, 2017 12:22:40 GMT
Sounds like the excellent 'you once said yes' that was on at the fringe a while ago, sad not to have a ticket!
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 24, 2017 7:08:03 GMT
5.Despite some good numbers, and an excellent Michael Ball, I was also disappointed with the Chichester production and the one that worked best for me was the scaled down version with Janie Dee and David Soul although that was hardly the show as Jerry Hermann must have conceived it. 6. I'd agree with that for sure and add that the closest I've ever seen the show get to working was at Southwark Playhouse with Norman Bowman as Mack, that was brilliant!
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 23, 2017 21:36:20 GMT
This was sensational! Such a pure shot of musical theatre joy! Natasha J Barnes acted everyone off the stage, she was superlative! Bedella hadn't done as much homework as the rest of them but when he was in it he was great and Natasha was just so good it's hard not to be upstaged. Would watch this again right now if I could
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 22, 2017 10:38:57 GMT
Please tell me this is a joke- Jane McDonald has just tweeted that she'll soon be making her West End debut alongside one of Broadway's biggest leading ladies! I mean, they wouldn't, would they??? haha that would be funny! Didn't she make her west end debut in the Romeo and Juliet musical that flopped?
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 21, 2017 12:21:49 GMT
I think Life With Father is their longest ever running play at over 7 years. They presumably mean they're the longest running play currently on at the mo
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 20, 2017 11:06:40 GMT
Bump! Excited for this this weekend, hoping the orchestra is as good as the John Wilson guys but I have no idea
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Post by paplazaroo on Sept 16, 2017 22:55:37 GMT
Surprised nobody has mentioned ACE funding, that's the bit that I don't like about this. If you get 250k a year despite having plenty other revenue streams, you owe it to the public to do a show they can access more than once or twice a decade. Yeah I know they do outreach and community stuff but that all seems so out of reach for your average theatregoer
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 22, 2017 14:58:46 GMT
In the royal court playwriting podcast Simon Stephens says that this is his favourite play so I am keen to see what makes it so good but not encouraged by WOM here
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 18, 2017 13:03:08 GMT
I have a list of links to most of them (even The Magistrate) but I guess I can't share it on here as it's a bit illegal which is a shame really. The way I look at it is these plays aren't on anymore and there's no other way of watching them so why shouldn't we share art with the people who are so dedicated to it that they spend their spare times on forums like this! I know lawyers have a different take
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 15, 2017 13:31:50 GMT
Play is utter tripe. Whishaw gets his kit off. That's it. Oooh, every cloud . . . I guess someone has to ask, where does mr Whishaw fall on the O'Connell to Mckellen scale? Or does he not get that much kit off?
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 12, 2017 11:26:11 GMT
Got myself a £15 front stalls ticket for the Friday of the weekend prior to Halloween - thought it was a quite a bargain until I read the comments above about vomit No mention of the cast - do we think it's likely to be Bowles and Seagrove again, or maybe someone a bit higher profile (nothing against Peter Bowles, I met him after a NT Platform a few years ago and found him to be thoroughly decent chap, while I know next to nothing about Jenny Seagrove beyond her being Michael Winners, ahem, friend for years)? A friend just worked with Bowles and said he is going to be in this
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 11, 2017 11:19:27 GMT
This is the Live Theatre Newcastle production which was re-worked slightly to make it more Northern. I didn't see it because it annoyed me that a theatre that's supposed to be producing new local writing is just re-mounting work that was on the previous year in London but it did sell out and get decent reviews.
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 10, 2017 13:20:47 GMT
October - March at the Pheonix Theatre. A transfer of the Birmingham Rep version, anyone see it in Birmingham last year? Could be quite fun!
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Post by paplazaroo on Aug 2, 2017 16:59:44 GMT
Bottleneck by Luke Barnes, Silk Road by Alex Oates (not published but I got a copy by tweeting the writer), blush by Charlotte Josephine is a duologue about revenge porn and a bit like fleabag
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Post by paplazaroo on Jul 21, 2017 10:22:40 GMT
Is it not time for Thorne to have a rest, the poor guy looks like hasn't slept in years and his plays are starting to feel a bit thrown together
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Post by paplazaroo on May 8, 2017 18:30:18 GMT
lol I used the word 'new' anyway. I'm chuffed a homegrown show from a regional theatre can make it to London, might encourage the rest of them to be braver. It got 4 stars in The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph so I'm definitely checking it out.
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Post by paplazaroo on May 8, 2017 11:45:23 GMT
Everyone complains that us Brits cant produce a good original musical compared with the Americans, then when a show is developed and worked on we all complain? Well for a start it isn't an original musical if it's based on a book. Oh let's not start this again, Miss Saigon, Hamilton, les mis, sweeney Todd, west side story, hairspray, all based on something else, its harder to think of a fully original successful musical
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Post by paplazaroo on May 8, 2017 9:03:09 GMT
Adrian Mole is a modern classic! I'm excited! Heard really good feedback from when it was in Leicester. Everyone moans that there's not enough investment in new musicals so we should be supportive and optimistic when theatres like the Menier give it a bash
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Post by paplazaroo on Apr 28, 2017 6:07:21 GMT
The other revolves around Ravens wealthy parents who are getting old and really do not like getting old. (In one scene, the middle-aged couple also go dogging. Really, this groundbreaking show is the first ever to feature a dogging scene). I love that you've interpreted this scene as dogging! I thought it was a flashback to their first date at a drive in movie and a comment about how young lust turned into a loveless marriage. "I remember every little thing as of it happened only yesterday..." etc etc. I think I prefer the dogging reading though. Doesn't sound like they've made the big plot changes they needed to when I saw it a few months ago which is a missed opportunity
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Post by paplazaroo on Apr 4, 2017 8:22:14 GMT
Thought I'd bump this as it's a very short run starting this weekend I nearly missed it
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Post by paplazaroo on Apr 1, 2017 18:28:09 GMT
Yeah I agree with the above, of course I wouldn't expect someone to drop in and learn the full version but even if you had said performer at the side of the stage reading from the script it would be better than nothing.
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Post by paplazaroo on Apr 1, 2017 14:35:58 GMT
Got this email - Dear Valued Customer, We apologise that today’s performance of The Wild Party was cancelled due to cast illness.
We have been informed that tonight's show is going ahead. Due to the limited number of seats available for tonight's performance we are holding a queue outside the theatre from 6pm and will be selling tickets on a first come first served basis. Please note that you are welcome to begin queuing outside the theatre before but sales will begin at 6pm
- way to make me feel valued, offering me the chance to queue for a potential ticket to the show you cancelled. I think I'll give it a miss
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Post by paplazaroo on Apr 1, 2017 14:07:16 GMT
Yeah I guess I'm in a bad mood as I feel like they've wasted my afternoon but I don't understand why in a town like London chocked full of talent it could ever be neccesary to send a good 150 audience members home disgruntled. The amount of MT grads who'd give a limb to step into a role last minute and may already know the piece.
It's just unimaginative producing, fair enough if a few of the cast are off you can't do the full show but at least give us a concert or Q and A or something.
lol I'll cool down now and let it go :-p
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Post by paplazaroo on Apr 1, 2017 13:21:08 GMT
Matinee cancelled, they're offering free drinks in the bar to soften the blow which is nice but still it's a bit annoying they can't even try and fudge something together with the remaining healthy cast members
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