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Post by HereForTheatre on Nov 20, 2020 6:55:41 GMT
The show does not appeal but I'll go to see her, so it's having the desired effect on me.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Nov 20, 2020 0:40:26 GMT
March previews, with an April opening!! 🤞🤞 Here’s hoping that’s true, and realistic! It doesn't seem it, does it?
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Post by HereForTheatre on Nov 19, 2020 7:46:02 GMT
Curve did a good production of it 5 or 6 years ago and Cameron lent most of his go to creatives to them for it, the set was very good in particular by Matt Kinley (Miss Saigon, Les Mis) so I always half expected that to make it to town but it never did.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 30, 2020 8:24:03 GMT
What a waste. A new West End theatre and it'd filled with a return of Jersey Boys? *shakes head*
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 26, 2020 8:02:28 GMT
Fantastic to see Cassidy Jansen win, I was hoping she would. Best character/actress in the show. I don't know about Miriam winning, she is the 'star' of that show and has a star quality for sure, i did think she was great in it, but best actress? I really think all the others embodied a character more and had more challenging roles. Sam Tutty was always going to win and that was deserved.
I couldn't get too excited about this years ceremony honestly between it being so long since the nominations came out, some of these shows now being so old and of course not actually having any theatre for 7 months, so hopefully next year it can go back to the full spectacle it normally is and the big build up it normally gets too.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 25, 2020 13:09:52 GMT
I'm sure it will pick up and do well enough to go ahead. London things always sell better than regional things like this and for some reason I feel like Curve things don't generate the same buzz or interest as even some other regional theatres, which has always bugged and surprised me because I just don't know why when they do such great work. If this exact same programme was announced for the RX or Sheffield or somewhere it would have been sold out, so there seems a bit of a strange disparity.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 21, 2020 16:30:18 GMT
Just looked up how far away Leicester is and not sure I can justify a £100 train journey for this. Good luck to everyone trying for tickets, it looks well organised. How about bus for one leg to get the cost down a bit? I know national express go to Leicester from most major cities. Depending on where you are though the journey might be very long so not an otion.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 16, 2020 7:19:40 GMT
I don't love that way of staging things either but to be fair in this case you understand why they need to do it, they have to maximise the number of tickets they can sell and folks that can see it and luckily they have a building that enables them to maximise capacity in this way.
I have been to a performance where they used this seating plan, their birthday concert, and actually it was fine, even when I was stuck right at the side. Of course you get them turning their backs to the other sides but it didn't bother me too much and the stage space looks very open.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 16, 2020 7:00:54 GMT
Looks like the same set up they used for the Curve at 10 show Yeh it's the same. I'd be quite interested in sitting on the stage but I'm not quite convinced that will be a great viewing angle, even with the revolve, but it would be interesting to be that close and amongst it.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 15, 2020 12:45:58 GMT
Ria again though..ld have gone in a different direction this time I think. Well I think the point is that the season is Curve favourites and reuniting their original casts (as much as poss). It's not about making them fresh.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 14, 2020 13:58:52 GMT
Curve Leicester is re-opening from Mid November with runs of Concert versions of The Color Purple and Sunset Boulevard between then and the new year and then play Memoirs of an Asian Football Casual in Jan.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 14, 2020 13:54:58 GMT
Concert version of Sunset will be part of the programme of newly re-opened Curve over Christmas.
Featuring Ria and Danny (rest of cast TBA) and 16 Piece Orchestra. Presented in the round with 553 capacity and featuring a revolve.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 14, 2020 13:51:22 GMT
Curve is reopening with a run of a concert version of The Color Purple 23rd Nov - 5th Dec.
T'shan and Danielle return with the remaining cast to be announced.
553 capacity in the round (basically both spaces open) and featuring a revolve.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 13, 2020 8:44:14 GMT
Don't see an issue. They are being asked to acknowledge the funding and welcome it and put out a press release, well why wouldn't they. Those are all standard things. If any organisation has a problem doing that (or wasn't already going to) after receiving a gift of hundreds of thousands of pounds then that is quite something.
Just like Fatima another story is being made out of nothing here as a beating stick.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 9, 2020 18:02:34 GMT
Curve have released a digital concert of The Color Purple (it's great)
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 9, 2020 18:00:49 GMT
That was absolutely wonderful.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 6, 2020 8:03:05 GMT
Just out of interest, has anyone else worked out what they have saved by not having access to theatre and culture over the past 7 months? I mean we would all rather it was there, for many reasons, but I was working it out yesterday and I think that by the time theatre resumes in any way normally, which I imagine will be spring (and I'm not risking it on the whole before then) , I think I will have saved upwards of 4 thousand pounds on tickets, travel, accommodation, food, drinks and merch ect.
It's actually scary to me that's how much I spend. I never even batted an eyelid about the costs of going to the theatre/events until I worked this out.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Oct 4, 2020 20:10:43 GMT
Unless anything is put on at my local, and I think they will do something, then I think I've pretty much cancelled theatre for myself for the rest of the year. I just don't feel comfortable travelling to London or other large cities for shows, even though theatre is starting up again. My local theatre is my limit and some of that is down to me wanting to support them if they put something on rather than being completely comfortable with it.
I have to say I've enjoyed the amount of money that I'm saving, because it really does run into the several thousands all things considered such as travel and accommodation over a year, which I imagine it will be before I start going properly again.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 13, 2020 10:46:11 GMT
That's actually really beautiful, you can imagine that break with the full orchestrations. The two songs I've heard so far from this show I've enjoyed.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 7, 2020 19:12:42 GMT
Unfortunately the talk about allowing full audiences again coincides with signs that cases are increasing significantly again, so I wouldn't be surprised to see this knocked on the head for a little while longer.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 7, 2020 18:30:30 GMT
It opens in May at the Adelphi. Baz has just announced it.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 6, 2020 11:50:40 GMT
It was too early to be able to do this before now, it's a simple as that. I'm sorry that many panto and musical productions had to be cancelled already but they were clearly not in a position to be able to move forward with these plans before now. It's unfortunate but that's just how it happened.
Many theatres and producers should be in a position to still put something on over the festive period if this plan proves accurate and so it is better than nothing. It might not be the full scale pantomimes and musicals they were planning but we could see perhaps old ready to go productions revived or Christmas concerts and the like, which would be very beneficial to everyone involved.
I know my local theatre had things ready to go at short notice even in the summer if they theatres could suddenly re-open so i'm pretty sure that theatres and producers are equally prepared for the festive period. It was already announced that social distancing in theatres was going to be reviewed in November so any producer or theatre worth their salt should already have a plan up their sleeve for November and December at least.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Aug 29, 2020 17:13:38 GMT
Excited to be able to see this again. I've since familiarised myself with the film a bit more and so it will be interesting to see this again having now watched bits of the film.
Though having seen that I instantly know the play was far more chaste than the film, which was a surprise to me.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Aug 28, 2020 19:26:49 GMT
I went to see Little Shop at a Matinee and I did leave wishing I could have gone for an evening show to take in the lighting and effects. The issue for me is, and this might seem silly, I managed to get lost in the park in broad daylight so I don't really want to end up lost in a park in the dark at night time.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Aug 24, 2020 7:02:30 GMT
That was a TV Episode in which not everyone, certainly not international audiences, would have seen or been interested to see. Very different from a major motion picture starring Hollywood actors.
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