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Post by jamb0r on Mar 11, 2019 12:21:27 GMT
Well I was number 285 and got put through to the website at 12:18 and made my purchase. My queue number didn't change the whole time, but the queue is definitely moving.
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Post by Steve on Mar 11, 2019 12:21:43 GMT
QueueIt changed their system. Your Queue joining number doesn't change any more, but your time remaining estimate shows how you are advancing in the queue.
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Post by jamb0r on Mar 11, 2019 12:23:15 GMT
Well the £10 preview queues for this are pretty bonkers today! Tried on two devices, got number 285 on one and 3289 on the other! I've had the queue open since before 12 in two different tabs...3547 in both and neither have moved in 15 mins! I believe if you enter the queue in different tabs in the same browser you still have the same Queue ID, so you'll get the same queue number in both. You need to enter on different devices or different browsers if you want to have 2 different places in the queue. I used my laptop and phone (luckily the laptop had the lowest number, as navigating the Old Vics seating plans on a phone is a nightmare)
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Post by peggs on Mar 11, 2019 12:25:05 GMT
Glad it's not just me staring at screen thinking well someone in the queue in front of me must have left by now. Does this system a really work? The other week I had 2 browsers open, one went into the queue a minute before the other but somehow still ended up further back? And surely on the same machine it's the same clock? They're got us now though, can't move just in case somehow are nearer front of queue than it seems.
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Post by ftfadia on Mar 11, 2019 12:25:12 GMT
Well I was number 285 and got put through to the website at 12:18 and made my purchase. My queue number didn't change the whole time, but the queue is definitely moving. That's good to know, thanks! Hopefully there will still be some tickets when my little walking man makes it to the front
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Post by harlow on Mar 11, 2019 12:27:31 GMT
QueueIt changed their system. Your Queue joining number doesn't change any more, but your time remaining estimate shows how you are advancing in the queue. Thank you!
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Post by peggs on Mar 11, 2019 12:29:08 GMT
Thanks Steve in that case I could go for a long walk then since my time to wait has been going up rather than down, it's only one no ure less than half an hour ago
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Post by Steve on Mar 11, 2019 12:31:38 GMT
Glad it's not just me staring at screen thinking well someone in the queue in front of me must have left by now. Does this system a really work? The other week I had 2 browsers open, one went into the queue a minute before the other but somehow still ended up further back? And surely on the same machine it's the same clock? They're got us now though, can't move just in case somehow are nearer front of queue than it seems. At Noon, a randomiser gives you a random queue number no matter when you joined. As long as you get in before noon, even by one minute, you'll get a fair shot. This saves wasting time joining the queue earlier.
I have a 22 minute wait left. I like this system. Its fair, it works, it doesn't require you to keep checking your email box for a priority email that never arrives (a la the Evan Hansen debacle), you know approximately when you'll get there, so you can do other stuff while you wait. lol.
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Post by ftfadia on Mar 11, 2019 12:47:30 GMT
For what it's worth to anyone still queueing, there are good seats still available on all nights in all 3 seating sections. I got in at 12.39 as number 654.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 11, 2019 13:39:51 GMT
For what it's worth to anyone still queueing, there are good seats still available on all nights in all 3 seating sections. I got in at 12.39 as number 654. For the PWC promo there isn't ... Saturday 13th Lilian Baylis Circle X 11 is the "best available seat" option.
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Post by leanne23 on Mar 11, 2019 14:09:08 GMT
Waited until 1.54 to be let onto the site. Unsurprisingly, only a few restricted view seats left. I'd rather see it at the cinema than be stuck behind a pillar!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 14:25:57 GMT
Waited until 1.54 to be let onto the site. Unsurprisingly, only a few restricted view seats left. I'd rather see it at the cinema than be stuck behind a pillar! There were non-restricted seats when I just looked at the site, or are you talking just about £10 PWC seats?
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Post by ftfadia on Mar 11, 2019 14:30:26 GMT
Weirdly the 'restricted view' had a label saying it was restricted for The American Clock only...I took a chance on one of those and hope it won't be too restricted for this show.
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Post by leanne23 on Mar 11, 2019 14:45:37 GMT
Waited until 1.54 to be let onto the site. Unsurprisingly, only a few restricted view seats left. I'd rather see it at the cinema than be stuck behind a pillar! There were non-restricted seats when I just looked at the site, or are you talking just about £10 PWC seats? Just PWC. No way would I have waited nearly two hours in a queue to purchase full price tickets I could have bought at any other time
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Post by peggs on Mar 11, 2019 16:32:54 GMT
Good to know monkey, I will attribute all my in the thousands high queue numbers as just random bad luck then.
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Post by noboiscout on Mar 11, 2019 20:28:35 GMT
For what it's worth to anyone still queueing, there are good seats still available on all nights in all 3 seating sections. I got in at 12.39 as number 654. For the PWC promo there isn't ... Saturday 13th Lilian Baylis Circle X 11 is the "best available seat" option. I clicked on Best Available Seat on the PWC promo and was offered the same seat X11. But if you clicked on the seat plan you were offered a full range of seats to choose from. I got 2 in Dress Circle row E for £10 each - regular price £55 when the show opens after previews.
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 11, 2019 23:06:29 GMT
I was in the 2300s. Took 89 minutes to get to the front of the queue but happy enough
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Post by Rory on Mar 27, 2019 19:04:34 GMT
Like, seriously, who is in charge of the Old Vic's marketing? I have zero artistic talent and I could knock up something better than this.
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Post by learfan on Mar 27, 2019 20:44:02 GMT
Like, seriously, who is in charge of the Old Vic's marketing? I have zero artistic talent and I could knock up something better than this. All the money has gone on the loos refurbishment!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 21:00:04 GMT
Looks like Sally and Bill got lost looking for the toilets.
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Post by peggs on Mar 27, 2019 21:57:02 GMT
Do you think they'll release it in poster format?
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Post by justfran on Apr 3, 2019 20:43:42 GMT
Sally Field and Bill Pullman will be guests on the Graham Norton Show on Friday.
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Post by londonpostie on Apr 3, 2019 20:50:45 GMT
That's your marketing right there.
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Post by sparky5000 on Apr 5, 2019 14:45:20 GMT
I kinda have a love hate relationship with Arthur Miller these days because I studied his plays for my A Level English Lit, and struggle to watch his plays now without over-analysing everything lol. My dissertation was “Arthur Miller’s treatment of women in his plays. Discuss” 😄
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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 6, 2019 22:03:02 GMT
Do you think they'll release it in poster format? What a waste of paper if they do
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Post by peggs on Apr 6, 2019 22:50:12 GMT
I don't really get the trailer either, but then trailers do quite often seem to make things look utterly unappealing, on the rare occasion I go to the cinema I enjoy watching the trailers and thinking 'thank goodness i'm not here to see that'.
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Post by nash16 on Apr 13, 2019 8:52:58 GMT
Today Tix Front Row Lottery £25
First preview tonight.
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Post by Steve on Apr 13, 2019 22:32:10 GMT
At the first preview, as you'd expect, some performances were still limbering up, but overall, this is coming along very nicely. Some spoilers follow. . . While the only direct topical reference is a screen at the beginning, playing news stories, one of which references the deadly deregulated construction of the Boeing 737 Max aeroplane, there is a huge topical resonance informing the performances that follow. Only 9 years ago, the David Suchet production was permeated by an overwhelming sense of guilt bordering on the religious. But here, the shamelessness of the Trump era predominates, where values are meaningless, as long as personal and family survival can be maintained. The two most perfectly formed performances, at this early stage, are those of Sally Field's magnificently deceitful and decomposing matriarch and Oliver Johnstone's tearing-up valiantly crusading outsider. But it is through Bill Pullman's oily patriarch and through Colin Morgan's war damaged son that this production carves out it's own topical space. Where Suchet's Joe Keller was heaviness, Pullman's is comparably light, a conscience free snake oil salesman greasing the wheels. He exudes forced charm in that uber masculine, one-eye-half-closed cud-chewing de Niro-esque way, but his soul is evidently as empty as Hamlet's King Claudius, or America's King Trump. If he can preserve his family, and his freedom, his conscience will not trouble him. . . Morgan's Chris Keller is also singular. Unlike 9 years ago, where Stephen Campbell Moore's Chris was a force of intelligent truth-seeking, Morgan plays Chris like a war-damaged Forest Gump, complete with eye twitches and amiable glazed eyes. For me, his character is that of every innocent dupe who has ever truly believed in the words of a Trump or Boris or Nigel. So in these two characters interpretations, we see how easily and how readily and how eloquently Miller speaks to the now. Jenna Coleman's deceptively one note indignantly "nice" characterisation becomes much more complex and rounded through the course of the play, in concert with events. This show will grow and grow and become great, and while there was no standing ovation today, there may be tomorrow. I already had a ticket when I secured an extra PWC ticket for tonight, so I'll be checking in with this again.
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Post by theatreliker on Apr 14, 2019 16:47:32 GMT
Great review Steve from first preview. ONe of my favourite play and the Howard Davies West End revival was such a pinnacle part of my early 'serious-theatre-going' days. Hugely looking forward to seeing it.
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Post by sf on Apr 14, 2019 16:57:03 GMT
Looks like Sally and Bill got lost looking for the toilets.
To be fair, at the moment they're quite a trek from the auditorium, particularly if you're sitting upstairs.
(Note to self: before you see this next week, drink an espresso, not an Americano.)
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