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Post by HereForTheatre on May 26, 2020 16:16:44 GMT
Something I've been wondering a lot is when normal colds start becoming common again in the winter months, how are you supposed to tell the difference between having just a regular cold and Covid? What are you supposed to do? Just isolate and wait for a test even if you end up just having a regular cold? What about the time off work that would require? Also will it be made absolutely clear that people with any cold symptoms need to get tested and isolate until they know? Because if not then you potentially have thousands of people walking around with what they think is just a cough or cold, don't think they need to get tested, and so passing this on to others which would surely then generate another spike?
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 25, 2020 16:43:59 GMT
On camera he has said he went to see his wife who had symptoms then went back to work. On. Camera. If he is still here by the end of the week there will be riots I reckon. Not that it makes much difference because the whole thing was rather unfortunate this afternoon but didn't he say she had sickness and a headache? So not the main symptoms of the virus.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 22, 2020 16:30:01 GMT
One theatre not re-opening will be the Haymarket Leicester. Just announced it's gone into liquidation. This is a venue that only just re-opened a few years ago and hasn't built a big enough reserve or audience to survive this. Such a shame. It was great for Leicester to have two major theatres. I'm hoping it can be saved.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 22, 2020 16:22:58 GMT
I'm quiet early into the season so i don;t know how it gets later on but strangely the one thing that i don't like is the biggest thing most people seem to like...the choreography. I find it all very cringey.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 19, 2020 11:09:32 GMT
You know London is a domestic tourism destination as well?
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 17, 2020 12:04:49 GMT
I hope this happens, I love this film! Imelda is much more suited to this than Dolly... Imelda's waaaay too old for Miss Price! Lansbury was in her forties when she played her, but even then I always assumed she was playing younger - she's a trainee witch, and is basically (spoiler alert) starting a family at the end of the movie. She's not a grandmother by any stretch, and I think Imelda would be terrible casting. It needs someone younger who can play quirky comedy, but also channel the motherly/caring moments. Laura Pitt-Pulford would be top of my list. I was gonna say. Imelda is way too old for the role. You need someone in their mid to late 30's.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 16, 2020 17:25:46 GMT
What's with the creative team though? Who has heard of any of those? It seems a far cry from the big name directors, writers and composers Disney usually pull together for their shows. It makes me a little nervous. But of course we have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 16, 2020 15:18:06 GMT
Is the problem not just that Frozens popularity is waning? Disney shows are sold on name, not whether it's a great theatrical piece. Mums taking their 12 year olds to the show aren't going to be looking up reviews and deciding not to go because the ice castle scenes might not be as good as some people wanted.
Look at The Lion King, how many theatre types think that's an amazing piece? Yet it's still massively popular and playing many years later. With Disney i think it's about the staying power of the title rather than whether the show is technically excellent.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 16, 2020 11:26:52 GMT
When comparing the UK and Germany can we just acknowledge the fact that Germany is a much bigger and more spread out country than the UK, it's therefor also much less dense, which will have a big impact on infection rates and then deaths.
I have family there, i have been there, and so i have no problem working out why it would be harder for the virus to grow as quickly as in the UK. I really feel like even if they took the same steps at the same time as we did, they would still be recording much lower figures than us. I might also add that they record differently than us, or they did, because a lot of deaths early on were not recorded as Covid deaths if they had serious underlying conditions that could potentially have been the cause of death instead where as Covid has always been recorded here no matter the patients history.
I can tell you it's a myth if people believe that Germany have gotten everything right and that everyone there thinks the government are doing a great job and people feel safe. They haven't and they don't.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 15, 2020 9:10:45 GMT
Disney are putting their revival of Beauty and the Beast in there. When it became clear Frozen wasn’t going to run for as long as anticipated, they started planning it to go there afterwards. But that isn't opening until 2022. Thomas Schumacher, President of The Disney Theatrical Group - "… A new production of Beauty and the Beast, with the same creative team that worked on the 1994 original, is slated to open overseas next spring and in the United States in 2022…” I imagine the "overseas" is here? Given there were already rumours about it?
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 13, 2020 9:52:00 GMT
I'm not destined to go. Several years ago myself and a friend booked to go to New York, it would have been my first time, however in the run up to the trip I had a (very random) health complication that made it impossible for me to go. Since then finances have never been in the right place for me to try again until this year, when at the start of the year i was actively starting to plan a trip for the summer/autumn but yet again, the plans have been scuppered! Maybe it's a sign.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 12, 2020 13:36:48 GMT
Has anyone been watching the celebrity version? I say celebrity loosely because i've only known about two people so far but it's kinda been fun. I quite enjoy seeing the straight boys be so open minded and enjoying the experience.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 11, 2020 8:27:53 GMT
No, because the stay at home message is no longer active. Which is the point of this very thread actually. Not sure where you get that from given the message clearly is still to stay at home as much as possible, given people are being asked still to work at home and not meet anyone outside their household. Stay at home in substance, if not name. That isn't a lifting of the stay at home restrictions, in fact absolutely nothing has changed at all for the vast majority of people who live alone as there was never a limit on only going out once per day anyway... While everyone else gets to have picnics and play sports with people from their household, we get continued solitary confinement, except maybe unless we get a sunny day where we can sit in a park and yell at a friend from over 2m away. Not much comfort at all, that. If we still have to stay isolated then how is it safe to lift any restrictions? I meant it was no longer the message on the slogan. We are still of course being asked to stay at home apart for the reasons outlined. As i said though, given we are now being given more opportunities to go out, then i think it is right the stay at home slogan is no longer the visible and active government communication line. It would be contradictory.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 10, 2020 18:51:45 GMT
Boris said a lot of words for a very little update really. R is going to go up, isn’t it? Yes, which would happen whenever and however we tried to start coming out of lockdown. The alternative is to stay in full lockdown until a vaccine is produced, which is clearly untenable, especially given there is no guarantee one will ever be found. These easings are so small i cannot believe they are causing this much controversy.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 10, 2020 18:30:33 GMT
So stay at home but go out for unlimited picnics but don't go near each other. Get to work unless you can't drive in which case learn to get there by magic. Stay alert in case the virus sneaks up on you. Clear as mud. No, because the stay at home message is no longer active. Which is the point of this very thread actually. Regarding the actual measures. Well it seems clear enough to me. You can go out for outdoor activity with your household more and use parks whilst maintaining our current social distancing and gathering measures that are standard for us all. You should go to work if that is possible and not use public transport if you have an alternative. Quite simple. These are minute changes and indeed, what a lot of people were already doing or starting to do anyway. I note nothing was mentioned about garden centres, which was thought to be a potential change, so he's actually done less than even predicted. Yet we still get all this faux outrage from people.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 10, 2020 17:09:46 GMT
"Go out as much as you like for exercise, pop into your local garden centre for a browse on your way back from your newly re opened workplace and don't forget....stay at home!"
That doesn't quite work does it?
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 10, 2020 14:55:39 GMT
If you are giving more opportunities for people to leave the house and go outside, dropping the stay at home slogan is absolutely the right choice. I do not understand the criticism. It isn't rocket science to see how those two things clash and don't make sense. People talk about the new slogan being confusing but i fail to see how it's more confusing than being told not to do something at the same time as now being allowed to do it.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 9, 2020 14:28:06 GMT
It will allow people such as overseas students to return. This is very important for the education sector where universities and even schools could go under without that income. It’s quite possible that the numbers will be badly reduced anyway, though, as students stay home. Will international students really want to arrive two weeks early and pay for two weeks of extra accommodation though? Or will they be deemed to be self-isolating at school even if they mix with day scholars. I can't see how that is going to work except for schools which have 100% international pupils, all of whom board. As for theatre, it is a complete and utter disaster given how much it will discourage tourism further, never mind restrict foreign performers from coming here. I expect any show due to open before September at least (if not January 2021) that hasn't already cancelled will now do so. Any West End show, you mean. Regional theatres and even the fringe London venues don't rely on tourism. The lack of tourism won't have much impact on them at all and that's where we could see theatre still run.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 7, 2020 9:57:00 GMT
I bought a mug. I don't really do stagey clothing.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 7, 2020 9:21:23 GMT
I know we talk about theatre surviving but i think especially for regional theatres, even if they do, their programmes and work are going to be impacted for several years to come. If they survive they will still go a large chunk of the year, maybe the rest of it, with little to no income and that is what most small or regional theatres rely on and usually that will then be put back into their shows, projects and maintaining their buildings. If they aren't generating this income are they going to be able to put on shows they planned for next year? Or at least to the scale they were planning to? If not then that equals less income which puts them in dire straights again. It's a viscous circle. What about the work that these theatres do in their community or in arts education? Will there be the funds now to continue this at a time where it's already squeezed.
I understand the focus point being on the West End but those are the theatres that can survive when they have multi millionaire owners and producers and will still be able to put on shows at scale, less so for small or regional theatres across the country. I'm personally doing everything i can to support my local theatre because it's vital that not only does it survive, but that it can continue to do all the work that it normally would. Most of these venues only break even as it is. We've already seen one regional theatre go under this week.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 6, 2020 9:26:12 GMT
I enjoyed this, but I’m not sure it really knew what it was. It jumps all over the place, and after seeing the trailer the prostitution storyline that dominated the first few episodes was not what I expected! The ending was a little too neat too, which makes me wonder where they can take it next. The cast were fantastic though, especially the guys that played Jack and Rock. Patti was brilliant too, possibly the standout performance for me - more than once she stole a scene. I think the only casting misstep was Queen Latifah as Hattie McDaniel but it was only a tiny part really. I read an interview with a couple of the actors yesterday where they said that the original scripts were absolutely explicit in terms of sex scenes and there were originally a lot of full frontal nudity scenes, in which the actors had to go to prosthetic fittings for! So clearly a lot of stuff was cut from the scripts by the time they actually filmed the show. I don't know if this extended to any gay scenes.
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 4, 2020 17:24:34 GMT
What The Butler Saw - Curve TheatreA simple one camera recording but the play was a joy, Orton has a way with the ridiculous phrase which is pure genius and haven’t laughed so much in ages. The only previous knowledge of Orton was Loot at the Park Theatre a few years ago which was equally ridiculous. At its core institutions are primarily farcical therefore using farce to subvert institutions is inspired, a writer who I’d dismissed as the expectation and reality of his work in my mind were completely at odds. After another weekend of confinement this was just the pick me up I needed. I loved it. Infact i found myself watching it for the 2nd time the other day. I had zero interest in this when it was actually on at my local, Curve, plays weren't my thing and it wasn't a play that looked like the ones i would give a chance on, but given it was now streamed free and i had nothing better to do, plus the fact it was a way to support my local, i decided to tune in and ended up being so surprised at how much i enjoyed it. I've found that to be the case a lot with these various show streams actually. It was such a pick me up, as you say, so funny and i especially enjoyed Jasper Britton. I'm rather kicking myself now for not seeing it live in person, it would have been so easy, but i can't have known and i rarely take chances when i have to buy the ticket!
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 4, 2020 12:08:48 GMT
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 3, 2020 20:01:47 GMT
I finished the season tonight. Is it a bit absurd? But i bloody loved it. Fave series for a while, it really takes something to hook me into a series, i rarely can get into them. TV isn't that big of a draw for me anymore and i have a short attention span but i finished this tonight completely invested and wanting the very well set up 2nd season straight away.
The only thing i'd say is that those last two episodes were a bit on the time jumpy side and resulted in a lot of things seemingly being out the blue and you didn't know how they got to that point, like there should have maybe been an extra couple of eps so they could have fleshed all that out, but that's probably just me wanting more!
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 3, 2020 13:52:49 GMT
Also there won't be mandatory social distancing on stage. It can't be justified when things like football will be back, pretty soon by the looks of it, where players are all over each other. You'll find the return of things like football will be a precedent.
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