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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 4, 2017 15:36:35 GMT
I've got my fingers crossed for an opening with a Brexit-relevant reinterpreted stage version of Carry On Abroad.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 3, 2017 22:32:29 GMT
You've said this before, and you still seem to be forgetting the size of the Dominion compared to a lot of other West End theatres... Which begs the question Why programme this show in such a large theatre? If they never intended to fill it? It's for those who like wide open spaces and room to breathe 😊
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 3, 2017 18:45:06 GMT
My neighbour claims that Benedict Cumberbatch has moved into the house opposite. Either my neighbour has been at the vodka or fame doesn't buy you a nice private mansion anymore.... He can't have moved in, as I've got him locked up in my cellar.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 3, 2017 18:13:31 GMT
It's "All or nothing: Small Faces Musical ...." about half way down musicals page 13
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 3, 2017 15:48:43 GMT
Some people on this board love repeated visits to shows. I'm not usually so inclined - there's so much on offer I like to try new shows. Occasionally I may make a return visit after some time has elapsed or I have a visitor to entertain. I have never been to a show, liked it and then immediately bought a ticket to see it again. Until now. I saw this on Friday and bought my return for next month over the weekend. I think I quite like it!
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 3, 2017 7:54:54 GMT
True, true. I might just a) regulate my liquid intake more carefully b) use the loo at a nearby Stabucks*
*other coffee giants are available.
The pub just opposite is also a solid option! I believe it is also possible to void liquid there as well. I've already got my coat...
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 20:29:56 GMT
On opera of course there is the very recent The Winter's Tale by Wigglesworth. And it was also adapted to a ballet by Wheeldon. In the past nine months I've caught both of these and two different productions of the play.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 17:22:05 GMT
Where the hell have I been? Ya'll are giving this positive reviews, and I have never heard of this show, didn't even know it was happening or what it was or even looked at this thread, all I saw was the name The Frogs, and it sounds ridiculous so I just thought "why bother" and scrolled down! But you guys are giving positive reviews. If you ignore things on this board that look ridiculous it would become a bit limiting - at least half my posts for a start!
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 12:04:01 GMT
Yeah TKTS isn't an obnoxious using of initals, it's just the name of it, has been for however long. As long as that?!
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 11:59:49 GMT
I'll wait until it's at TKTS...What's that? Not that I particularly care, but the amount of people who put initials on here (sorry, I've picked on you SageStageMgr) and I haven't a clue what they're on about! Apologies. Rant over. The TKTS booth is the Society of London Theatre discount ticket booth in Leicester Square. More here: www.tkts.co.uk/
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 9:20:07 GMT
There is already a thread on this under musicals (page 13) so presumably they should merge.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 8:44:48 GMT
No news on the £30 seats. In my earlier post I said the bottom price was £15 for previews. Sorry, this is for after opening. It is £10 for previews.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 2, 2017 5:39:47 GMT
How much are the tickets going for? Seem to range from £15 (balcony) & £20 in stalls up to £95 for premium tickets for previews & £5 more for each category once it has opened. On the ATG site booking is working normally for members & most of the seats are on sale. The exception is the first few rows (possibly cos stage might extend? Day seats? Lottery?, etc).
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 20:01:10 GMT
I set a Chinese whispers game of Andrew Scott is ill and the understudy is performing today round the stalls of the Almeida matinee performance. To test the extent of your powers of persuasion you should have suggested that the understudy is Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 19:16:05 GMT
I unleashed the wrath of academics on twitter today before 9am. I'm kind of impressed with myself. Academics should not publish on twitter - it has not been subject to peer review.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 19:09:00 GMT
You could buy a lock up in Walthamstow for that price. So who would you lock up?
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 18:27:22 GMT
On advertising, 42nd Street had a huge billboard at Charing Cross but it has already gone - slightly odd given it has not got to opening night yet. [noting that at Embankment there was a huge one for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels that stayed up for well over a year after it closed!]
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 18:11:51 GMT
They'll probably translate it from Latin and it'll turn out to be pages and pages of comments along the lines of: "OMG! That was amazing! Best! Cast! Ever! LOL!" Or full of complaints about staging in contemporary costume.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 17:55:11 GMT
Or have I fallen for a April fool?!!
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 17:49:42 GMT
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 10:42:42 GMT
I suspect while they've got the water in, they'll run it in rep with a full scale production of Moby Dick!
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 8:25:15 GMT
Went last night. Thanks Parsley for the early enthusiasm. That made me check for seats and got the central row AA seats which as everyone says are brilliant.
One thing I find with this board is when everyone praises a show it never quite lives up to what has been created in my mind (also in reverse when shows get criticised). In this case every praise is so justified. I was blown away. Just brilliant. When can I go again?
Early in this thread I asked about how this compares to Paris. Well the Paris production was good but this production is off the scale. I preferred Alexander Hanson's voice as Marsh in Paris, but that's about it. I think the Drury Lane production demonstrates the difference between putting on a show and putting on a SHOW!
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 1, 2017 7:47:44 GMT
Yes. The information page on the ballot on the NT site says if you don't hear you haven't won, so only winners are notified.
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Post by bellboard27 on Mar 30, 2017 12:36:05 GMT
I enjoyed the RSC LLL & MAAN book ending WW1. Also productions are not just limited to the present and a choice of historical periods. I went to a Hamlet set in some sort of sci-fiction future!
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Post by bellboard27 on Mar 29, 2017 18:09:48 GMT
I'm going tonight. As I'm there anyway, I thought I'd also go beforehand to a talk on 25 years of the Cottesloe/Dorfman chaired by Michael Billington. The talk was fun - old codgers amusing tales. Of course it is 40 years, not 25 (can't remember where I got that from). Interestingly no one said the word 'Dorfman', just how great the Cottesloe is. Now for Consent.
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