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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 20, 2017 16:40:39 GMT
Parsley has told us previously that he invested in 42nd Street. He persists in petty praising of 42nd Street and petty slagging-off of An American in Paris because he sees the two shows as in direct competition.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 20, 2017 16:35:30 GMT
In the 1980s, many people always carried a printed card: IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY, NOT TO BE VISITED BY MARGARET THATCHER.
There's little point in bothering with an equivalent card today, with Theresa May.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 20, 2017 12:23:52 GMT
Hi all. I'm looking at an offer from Londontheatre.co.uk for a Thursday matinee and it's offering me tickets in stalls row G. However, having checked with Delfont Mackintosh it doesn't show the row as existing at all. Do you think it's safe to go ahead and purchase or avoid? I don't know whether you're looking at a legitimate agent but the Delfont Mackintosh website is selling row G stalls as the front row of regular seating, behind the table seating. For some reason, there isn't any label on the row but you can see it's row G by clicking on any seat for sale. (Or you could guess that it's G as it's in front of H).
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 20, 2017 12:07:29 GMT
You can't say nitpicking anymore. Look it up You can't say "Look it up" anymore. All posts should be totally comprehensible at first reading. (See the Common thread).
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 20, 2017 11:26:31 GMT
Alas, I'm too old to start again in London. (I'm not built for living like a student at 33.... or 2 hour commutes, my time in the 'provinces' has ruined me) I announced, at the age of 33 years and four months, that I was middle-aged, on the arithmetical basis that I would live to a hundred and that my youth, middle age and old age would be of equal length. Now, at 55, I've realised that 33 was probably too young to start saying I was too old for this or that. As is 55.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 20, 2017 9:30:17 GMT
Duke of York's, London from 13 Jan to 31 Mar Theatre Royal Bath from 4 to 14 April Lowry, Salford from 17 to 21 April Cambridge Arts Theatre from 23 to 28 April Scotland neglected
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 20, 2017 9:19:14 GMT
How will you cope with the tension?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 20, 2017 8:43:25 GMT
The Globe will be a much drabber space when she's gone. But at least we won't see it drab because we won't go there when she's gone. Our memories will be unsullied.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 12:29:25 GMT
And All My Sons and Fool for Love, both also NT. And the Everyman company in Liverpool. And Educating Rita (RSC).
Yes, much!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 11:43:46 GMT
Gary Oldman and Tilda Swinton.
But they were both terrific when they did!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 11:40:32 GMT
(due to the upper gallery basically being a complete write-off, visibility-wise) But you can hear the music and smell the chocolate.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 11:37:05 GMT
Calling card for Shakespeare's Globe artistic directorship? Lucy Bailey to rename it Christie's Globe and the Jane Marple Playhouse?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 8:54:14 GMT
I feel that, when the Doctor next regenerates, they should no longer be Scottish.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 8:50:35 GMT
I went to WOMAD in Reading in a heatwave year, in the days pre-Health & Safety when everyone parked next to their tent. As you drove in, the signs said Right for Day ticketholders and Left for Weekend. So I turned left, being slightly bemused to be handed a bin-liner through my car window by a steward who checked: "Are you here for the weekend?" I was directed to a field with everyone parked beside their tents, all tightly situated together. The parking steward asked me how big a space was required for my tent, so he could tightly position the next car, and I breezily replied that I didn't have a tent and was staying in a B&B. He gave me a look of incredulity and said that I wouldn't be permitted to drive off the field until the end of the festival three days later. So, I did a LOT of walking across Reading that weekend.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 8:38:22 GMT
When he was much younger, Alan Cumming starred in Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Brecon Guildhall. (For one night only)> I was there.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 8:30:53 GMT
I spent yesterday in a TENT. A bloody TENT with plastic chairs seeing comedians. Glastonbury is just days away. Anyone going? I've only been once, in 1994, but it's permanently fixed in the memory. EDIT: just remembered that I stayed in a local bed and breakfast, not a tent - the only festival I've attended but never in my tent.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 19, 2017 7:57:39 GMT
The time I remember getting most dirty looks was The City Madam at the RSC Swan when, mid-second-half I realised that I had no idea who anyone was or what the plot was or what the hell they were saying in their archaic language, and I just could not stand to endure it any longer so I just got up, in the middle of the row, and quietly barged out.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 18, 2017 19:20:13 GMT
And some to neither.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 18, 2017 11:48:34 GMT
Why should you enjoy it? Isn't it intended for children?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 18, 2017 11:34:45 GMT
There are theatres in LA, you know. New York is where the attention is, though, isn't it? Btw, I suppose you could add to this thread actors who don't do the 'regions' unless it's a co-production ending up in a London theatre. Well, why not start a new thread to discuss those topics?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 18, 2017 8:46:49 GMT
Next thing you hear is that they have to stay in LA because their kids are at school and happy. There are theatres in LA, you know.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 17, 2017 21:21:49 GMT
- Hopkins said he has no interest in doing stage productions these days as he gets bored with having to perform the same lines day in day out. Some older people don't feel like that. Perhaps a stage career might suit Theresa May after she's dumped by the Tories.
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 17, 2017 13:01:50 GMT
Got myself a second row stalls ticket for this through Lovetheatre for £29.50 this morning, more for the appearance of F. Murray Abraham in the cast than anything (or anyone else in the cast). The top price in Bath was £19.50 plus a booking fee of £2.50 per transaction (not per ticket). This is why I resent West End theatre ticket prices!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 17, 2017 12:30:10 GMT
A Chipping Norton production!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jun 17, 2017 12:27:50 GMT
Artistic directors and their literary teams read many many plays, to decide which to stage. They don't say: Oh I've never seen this one performed so I'll dismiss it.
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