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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 29, 2018 23:54:57 GMT
Thought this was great fun. So much energy from the cast. As long as you are in the mood for something silly, it’s a laugh.
I’ve decided the next time I’m in a club, I’m doing the dance of the fish people. Of course, only after a few stiff drinks.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 25, 2018 8:53:19 GMT
Yes, how many great new plays are there out there that don't already find a berth and that can fill an 800-seat theatre for over two months? My main problem with it is the location. I love the location. Good transport 5 mins away (train, tube, boat), very nice area. Before or after have a nice walk by the river. Good facilities in the area. For me the location is far better than many other London theatres
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 24, 2018 7:10:57 GMT
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is up for sale (well a less than 70 year lease of a crown property).
Place your bids please!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 23, 2018 14:08:51 GMT
Points to consider:
The West End Theatres with the highest number of shows per year are the ROH and Coliseum - 60-70 in a year combined?
Assuming London is Greater London, there are a large number of venues. A list I have is incomplete and is over 300.
Some shows are not in standard venues in any case (a church, hall, outside, etc.)
Apart from the Vaults Festival, numbers are pumped up by other Festivals: Camden, Incoming, LIFT, Streatham, Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, etc. All of these have considerable lists.
Finally, what is a "show"? I wouldn't attempt to answer that!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 22, 2018 23:27:55 GMT
I forgot to ask others who have been in the front row. In the party scene copious amounts of whisky are consumed. Obviously this is not real. However, I got a very distinct whisky aroma for some time. Anyone else? I have not rejected the possibility that it was simply my mind playing tricks!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 22, 2018 22:25:50 GMT
Thought this was excellent, especially the main leads. Also great to see imaginative use of the flexible staging. Was impressed on the amount of action in, through, around and over the groundlings that all seemed to go really smoothly.
Band beforehand give a stunning rendition of Seven Nation Army!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 20, 2018 17:44:43 GMT
If there are seven sequel books, maybe each could be a different musical style if the next is rap. I suggest: rap, ska, punk, country, disco, techno and finally ending with mime.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 19, 2018 17:04:56 GMT
There is sometimes some odd behaviour in a theatre! Last night I went to the Roundhouse to see Ulysses. Behind me was a relatively empty row of seats. A woman approached with her ticket for seat 2 in that row. She looked at the numbers starting at about 15 and moved her way along looking at the numbers as she went. In seats 3 and 4 a couple were sitting. Rather than extrapolate the sequence she had been following to the empty seats beyond this couple, she gave up, came back, searched elsewhere in that row and finally had to ask an usher. Strange!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 19, 2018 14:55:31 GMT
I suppose if I had met my maker during Mr Burns I could have asked him/her what the f*ck that was all about.
It's a bit late to haunt a theatre - I already haunt this board........
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 19, 2018 10:58:54 GMT
Just a note to say I went back to catch Le Jeune Homme et la Mort this week. I thought this piece, only 20 minutes long, was simply stunning. Ivan Vasiliev as the young man gave a wonderful virtuoso performance with Tamara Rojo whose ever changing styles of dance cruelly taunted him until he hangs himself. I wondered if it was worth heading back just for this - well I was so pleased I did!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 19, 2018 10:52:16 GMT
to cover herself up because she's basically being assaulted by her husband Ah, I took it another way, that the door was being broken down out of concern for her welfare, and that his handling of her should have involved wrapping her in something to keep her warm as he rescued her. Hence she should have left the bathroom wrapped in a towel at the least. I pondered this for a while and agree with Monkey. While the nudity is perfectly in keeping with the story, if he had emerged from the bathroom carrying her in a towel it would also be consistent and have had no impact on the story. I sat centre of front row of the circle and got a very clear view! Pleasant enough though that was, I wondered if it was necessary.
As an aside, I saw this right at the start of previews and given that the issue of nudity had not been raised in this thread until very recently (yet Norton's shirt coming off had!), I had begun to wonder if the production had changed. Cleary not!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 15, 2018 14:17:11 GMT
It's great this is being revived. I saw it at the end of 2015 and was pleased it won the Olivier Award in 2016. I'm not sure I'll catch this production again due to available dates for me, although I might catch the production of the two operas at La Monnaie in Brussels which is on in March.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 14, 2018 17:19:36 GMT
I just changed to a mastercard so i might try to get tickets this year. I think they go on sale next week. Out of interest, if anyones been, what's it like? Are you smuggled in by a side entrance as the great unwashed or do you do the whole red carpet walk even though you are a nobody? They put a blanket over your head, smuggle you in via the basement, take you to the Rausing Circle, where before entering you are sprayed in disinfectant. Don’t forget dress is formal, so black tie, underwear made from ermine and all body piercings to be replaced with diamond encrusted pins. It’s magical!
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 12, 2018 11:58:37 GMT
I wonder if anyone working at a theatre has ever submitted a new play entitled "My Artistic Director's a Tw*t"?
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 12, 2018 11:51:19 GMT
You probably just got an unsold seat bellboard27 . Interesting it happened, though. This is possible. I tried to get a rush seat just after 10am, but all were in other users baskets. I kept refreshing as I know from previous experience that this works and after a few minutes a seat came up. It might have been an unsold dayseat, but that would have been quite a quick reallocation.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 12, 2018 11:38:12 GMT
While I generally agree about nudity on stage, I think for this production it makes sense. The opening scene presents the debauchery of the Duke and his court and the more obvious this is, the better as far as I can see as this is the starting point of the story. Further, the main nudity was Monterone's daughter and a man who was being forced to lie on her. Again, this adds to the depiction of the debasement of the daughter and, therefore, the disgust of Monterone is enhanced as is all that follows from this. So, while nudity is sometimes a side show and sometimes totally inexplicable, in this case it did seem to fit the story rather well. I do understand what you mean about the scene being a relevant setting to have this nudity on stage. However, for me the same effect would be reached by allowing members of the chorus to keep their clothes on. I guess I am just a bit of a prude... I do understand that. Sometimes it is hard to see why there is nudity and how it fits with the story at all. At least on this occasion it is at least consistent with the story. A couple of recent cases in plays:
{Spoiler - click to view} In Belleview Imogen Poots is fully naked as she is carried from the bathroom and set down on a sofa. I felt that the story would not have been impacted if she had been wrapped in a towel.
In RSCs Ant & Cleo, at the end Cleo takes off her wig to reveal a bald head and then disrobes completely. I know she is divesting herself of her position in preparation for suicide, but it is not absolutely necessary to be naked (unless she was trying to prove the rest of her had as little hair as her head!).
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 12, 2018 10:39:30 GMT
Just a note on TodayTix rush seats which I had yesterday. I notice on the site of @theatremonkey.com that the nine central front row seats are TodayTix rush seats and the outer ten seats of the front row are for day seat callers at the theatre. However, my seat was in the middle of those marked for day seaters, so I am not sure what the total TodayTix rush seat allocation is.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 12, 2018 0:13:49 GMT
Went this evening. What dave72 wrote is spot on. Really enjoyed it from the front row. Run time: 1st part 45 mins. 15 min interval. 2nd part 1h 12 mins. Curtain down at 9.42
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 11, 2018 9:22:02 GMT
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 10, 2018 23:59:12 GMT
My first return visit since the press night ages ago. I enjoyed it more this time and I preferred Meera to Miranda.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 10, 2018 23:51:09 GMT
Perhaps if I saw The Mikado naked then I might tut loudly. It is always good to get your Pish Tush out.... The list might not be the only thing that’s little.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 10, 2018 10:28:53 GMT
While I generally agree about nudity on stage, I think for this production it makes sense. The opening scene presents the debauchery of the Duke and his court and the more obvious this is, the better as far as I can see as this is the starting point of the story. Further, the main nudity was Monterone's daughter and a man who was being forced to lie on her. Again, this adds to the depiction of the debasement of the daughter and, therefore, the disgust of Monterone is enhanced as is all that follows from this. So, while nudity is sometimes a side show and sometimes totally inexplicable, in this case it did seem to fit the story rather well.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 10, 2018 10:19:47 GMT
I was there last night and I think what tonyloco has said is spot on about the performances. I was down in the stalls, so did not see how full the upper levels were. I do wonder about the ENB's programming for January. To have two double bills, but the second half of the two bills being the same ballet risks people who might want to see both Song of the Earth and Le Jeune Homme et la Mort not bothering. I suspect there is a limit to what they can put on at the same time, but it will be interesting to see how the approach goes.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 9, 2018 23:09:26 GMT
At opening night of ENB’s Song of the Earth/ La Sylphide at the Coliseum a mixed bunch! Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Paul O’Grady, Iain Glen, Fiona Bruce, Alistair Petrie and Angela Ripon.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jan 9, 2018 10:17:44 GMT
^My mental image of you has now changed totally bellboard27 . I may need to go offline for a bit to recover. As long as I am lodged in your head somehow....
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