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Post by Jon on Nov 30, 2023 21:01:40 GMT
I thought they'd be some recasting but thought it would be Daryl McCormick not Alex Lawther,
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Post by Rory on Nov 30, 2023 21:49:21 GMT
I thought they'd be some recasting but thought it would be Daryl McCormick not Alex Lawther, Why so?
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Post by Jon on Nov 30, 2023 23:53:05 GMT
I thought they'd be some recasting but thought it would be Daryl McCormack not Alex Lawther, Why so? Daryl McCormack was filming Twisters during the summer but it was paused by the SAG strike so I thought he might have to withdraw from Long Day's Journey into Night if that clashed with filming of that.
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Post by teenangel on Dec 1, 2023 9:16:21 GMT
Anthony Boyle changes my opinion on this completely. He’s fantastic. I’ll be booking when I get a chance!
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Post by marob on Jan 3, 2024 21:24:22 GMT
Have had an email asking me to complete a questionnaire, presumably in error, that starts with “ahead of your visit to Wyndham’s Theatre…” Pretty sure I haven’t booked for this though.
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Post by david on Jan 3, 2024 23:00:12 GMT
Have had an email asking me to complete a questionnaire, presumably in error, that starts with “ahead of your visit to Wyndham’s Theatre…” Pretty sure I haven’t booked for this though. Same here marob and I definitely haven’t booked it. The email got deleted as I assumed it was an IT glitch from DMT.
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Post by marob on Jan 3, 2024 23:27:47 GMT
Have had an email asking me to complete a questionnaire, presumably in error, that starts with “ahead of your visit to Wyndham’s Theatre…” Pretty sure I haven’t booked for this though. Same here marob and I definitely haven’t booked it. The email got deleted as I assumed it was an IT glitch from DMT. Good. It made me question for a moment whether I had actually booked it. Great cast, but once was enough with this show.
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Post by ruperto on Jan 23, 2024 18:39:39 GMT
Front two rows of the stalls (A and B) are now on sale on the Delfont Mackintosh website, for those who've been holding out. £60 for the front row and £80 for the row behind for the dates I looked at.
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Post by frauleinsallybowles on Jan 23, 2024 20:48:02 GMT
Has anyone sat first or second row at Wyndhams and could recommend which to book? Want to nab one of these tickets at a better price
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Post by pauln on Jan 23, 2024 23:36:54 GMT
Front two rows of the stalls (A and B) are now on sale on the Delfont Mackintosh website, for those who've been holding out. £60 for the front row and £80 for the row behind for the dates I looked at. Thank you for letting us know. I just exchanged my ticket from the back row of the royal circle to the second row of the stalls.
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 8, 2024 14:30:42 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 8, 2024 14:38:35 GMT
Oh my god they keep recasting that role
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Post by Jon on Feb 8, 2024 14:44:55 GMT
Oh my god they keep recasting that role Different reasons though. I bet the marketing department aren't pleased.
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Post by Rory on Feb 8, 2024 15:32:52 GMT
Have to say that Anthony Boyle finally pushed me to book it.
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Post by teamyali on Feb 8, 2024 18:37:55 GMT
Masters of the Air is currently getting raves from critics and audiences alike, and Anthony Boyle is booked and busy (he has an upcoming Disney+ series and another series in the works for FX). The show has a roster of rising stars, and esteemed ones - from Oscar nominees Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan, to young actors Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle, etc.)
The role of Edmund has become a “cursed role” to date! Can anyone recall last-minute casting replacements for major West End productions in recent years?
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Post by nash16 on Feb 8, 2024 23:26:18 GMT
Oh my god they keep recasting that role Different reasons though. I bet the marketing department aren't pleased. Luckily the advertising poster for it has been Kenwright quality from the off and they’ve photoshopped every Edmund in and out 😂
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Post by theoracle on Feb 8, 2024 23:57:53 GMT
I’m going to say I’m actually really pleased by this. I was so excited by the prospect of seeing Alex Lawther and was very disappointed to read he’d pulled out. I was optimistic looking at this thread about Anthony Boyle as I wasn’t familiar with his work. But Laurie Kynaston is excellent news in my eyes and I’m now so glad I got a ticket. Love all 4 actors again
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Post by Dave B on Mar 19, 2024 12:40:36 GMT
Anyone in tonight for an early report?
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Post by solotheatregoer on Mar 19, 2024 17:05:08 GMT
I’m in tonight, completely forgot it was the first show. Will report back.
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Post by jampot on Mar 19, 2024 20:45:15 GMT
I’m in tonight, completely forgot it was the first show. Will report back. Can you let us know what time it finishes..think its a 7pm start?
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Post by wannabedirector on Mar 19, 2024 23:07:29 GMT
I was in for the first preview tonight, finished at 10:30 (give or take a couple of minutes), so running 3:30 at the moment, with the 7pm start.
This might be potentially a little too long for a work night, but nonetheless a play worthy of the “classic” status it has been given, with performances to boot. All 5 cast members made me completely forget tonight was the first preview.
It is long, but I’m glad I’ve ticked it off my list (although the casting would have to be very starry for me to see this again any time soon). Probably a star for every hour (and the half) if I had to rate it.
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Post by solotheatregoer on Mar 19, 2024 23:21:55 GMT
Thank goodness the seats at Wyndham’s have good legroom as this play is 30 mins too long in my opinion. Having said that, this is one of the best ensemble casts I have seen in a long time. Outstanding performances from all and everyone more than pulls their weight so it does keep you engaged.
Nice seeing Patricia Clarkson back on stage. The last time I saw her was in The Elephant Man. I am in awe of both her and Cox. Both are similar ages to my grandparents and the amount of dialogue they have the remember and deliver is amazing. Very sharp and you would never have known this was a first preview. It feels very polished already.
Set is very minimal with just a few tables and chairs. A very hesitant standing ovation at the end.
Worth it just for the acting alone but once is fine.
4 stars.
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Post by jm25 on Mar 19, 2024 23:27:11 GMT
Brian Cox was on the radio this morning promoting this and it's convinced me to buy a ticket, even if the run time is a bit daunting! Tempted by the front row seats - to those who were there tonight, does the stage look particularly high?
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Post by solotheatregoer on Mar 19, 2024 23:30:42 GMT
Brian Cox was on the radio this morning promoting this and it's convinced me to buy a ticket, even if the run time is a bit daunting! Tempted by the front row seats - to those who were there tonight, does the stage look particularly high? I was in row D and I did find the stage a little high. Any further forward would be a struggle in my opinion especially with this run time. The cast are pretty close to the front throughout though so you may be ok.
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Post by jm25 on Mar 19, 2024 23:39:12 GMT
Brian Cox was on the radio this morning promoting this and it's convinced me to buy a ticket, even if the run time is a bit daunting! Tempted by the front row seats - to those who were there tonight, does the stage look particularly high? I was in row D and I did find the stage a little high. Any further forward would be a struggle in my opinion especially with this run time. The cast are pretty close to the front throughout though so you may be ok. Good to know! The run time is what concerns me. Might hold off booking for now and see if their day seats are an option. If not, might have to just risk front row anyway! Thank you.
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Post by MrBunbury on Mar 21, 2024 10:15:41 GMT
I was there last night and I thought both Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson (in a more naturalistic take than what I remember was Leslie Manville's one years ago) were excellent. It did not feel like three hours and a half although I was getting a bit restless in the scene at the end where the brothers talk after the night out. Strangely, a very hesitant clapping and sparse standing ovation this time too.
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Post by proudmammoth on Mar 23, 2024 18:30:15 GMT
If anyone has a programme could you post who the understudies are.
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Post by alexandra on Mar 27, 2024 19:41:04 GMT
Wonderful. Gruelling, as it should be, but with an absolutely outstanding performance from Patricia Clarkson. Everyone else was pretty good too - particularly the quiet, watchful suffering of Daryl McCormack as the elder son who knows his mother is substance-abusing despite her pretence, so familiar to anyone with addiction in the family and especially of course to Eugene O’Neill, whose family this is. But it’s Clarkson’s show.
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Post by Steve on Mar 28, 2024 0:19:23 GMT
Saw it tonight, and thought it was great. Patricia Clarkson is an astonishing actress, and central to everything and everyone, but all the superb actors get their moments. The show finished at 10:25pm, so the running time is a long 3 hours and 25 minutes, including an interval, but it didn't feel like it because the play becomes exponentially more involving as time progresses. Some spoilers follow. . . With Patricia Clarkson in the play, and her role so pivotal, it really is like she is the sun and the other actors are in orbit around her. I didn't find the play quite so Mary-centric when I've seen it before (with Lesley Manville and Laurie Metcalf). The play is so well named, taking place over one long day, starting in the morning and ending in the night, and since night is when inhibitions are generally at their lowest, it is in the second half that the play really soars. Similarly, a great irony of the play is that the more drinks the characters have, the more entertaining the play, because it opens them all up, even though drink is one of the things destroying them. Even Cathleen, the family maid, played by Louisa Harland (so brilliant in "Ulster American") gets a great scene with the demon drink (the only one with a significant amount of humour, rare and welcome in this dark play). Laurie Kynaston, playing the unwell younger son, smouldered like Montgomery Clift, a living ghost existing in a state of heightened awareness and perpetual distress. As the older son, Daryl McCormack is like embers, generally subdued but constantly threatening to come alive when the dramatic wind blows, and when it does, he's fire. As the patriarch of the family, something about Brian Cox's dreamy storytelling in "The Weir" at the Donmar remains, but now the dreams are no longer wonders but obfuscations, and as his assertive exterior deflates over the course of the play, he movingly comes more and more to resemble Munch's "The Scream," open-mouthed despair personified. But it is Clarkson's moment-to-moment aliveness, and emotional quality of unstable-ness, like a nuclear reaction, veering from smiling resting face to determined plotter to living in the past (like Blanche Dubois) to genuine expressions of love to disingenuousness to despair to cruelty to self-hatred, all turning on a dime, one emotion flowing into the next, that is so involving and so brilliant. From a start that was a little cold for me, I found myself heated up to a full 4 and a half stars of rapt involvement by play's end.
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Post by bgarde on Mar 28, 2024 10:47:10 GMT
After reading these reviews and thoroughly enjoying Clarkson's bonkers Gray series on Netflix - have had to book for this and pleasantly surprised to see prices that aren't grotesquely exorbitant.
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