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Post by partytentdown on Jan 22, 2016 13:31:59 GMT
Anyone going?
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Post by loureviews on Jan 22, 2016 13:58:15 GMT
Yes!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 14:03:28 GMT
Yes. Anyone seen a full list yet of the artists involved? When I booked I assumed there would be a large bunch of people involved, but from what I've heard so far, it seems like just a few 'names'. Which will be very nice, of course, but I suppose I was hoping to hear some of the lesser-known winners. But I may well have missed some big announcement somewhere along the line!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jan 22, 2016 14:52:16 GMT
I tried to book yesterday but it's sold out! too bad, I really wanted to go but I totally forgot about it untill yesterday.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 14:53:53 GMT
Very jealous of the ticket holders...! Would love to have attended but why are these things always on midweek evenings? Hope it's filmed so we can catch it at a later date.
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Post by Snciole on Jan 22, 2016 15:32:40 GMT
I am going, have some probably awful £12 seats at the back but should be a good night regardless!
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Post by n1david on Jan 22, 2016 15:44:09 GMT
Yes. Anyone seen a full list yet of the artists involved? When I booked I assumed there would be a large bunch of people involved, but from what I've heard so far, it seems like just a few 'names'. Which will be very nice, of course, but I suppose I was hoping to hear some of the lesser-known winners. But I may well have missed some big announcement somewhere along the line! According to the Southbank Centre website: Performers BBC Concert Orchestra Keith Lockhart conductor Elaine Paige voice Michael Ball voice Katie Brayben voice John Dagleish voice Daniel Evans performer Maria Friedman performer, director Clive Rowe actor Members of the cast of Jersey Boys Members of the cast of Matilda the Musical Note that there is also "pre-show" free entertainment in the Clore Ballroom where families will be performing "best-loved musical theatre" from 5pm-7pm.
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Post by littlesally on Jan 22, 2016 18:40:58 GMT
We are there. Hope the list gets longer before Monday...
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Post by theatremadness on Jan 22, 2016 18:47:46 GMT
Being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30pm if that's your thing!
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Post by theatremiss on Jan 22, 2016 19:15:53 GMT
I'm there. Booked when David Thaxton was performing, sad he's not but glad to see Jersey Boys cast there
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 23:00:57 GMT
Thanks n1david!
Matilda should be fun. And I like Clive Rowe!
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Post by lordwebber on Jan 25, 2016 10:34:26 GMT
Yes, I'm going. Hoping the line-up includes more than what has been announced.
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Post by Flim Flam on Jan 25, 2016 11:10:13 GMT
I have a spare ticket for tonight if anyone is interested. Side stalls.
The bad news is that I am still going and you will be sitting next to me...
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Post by londonmzfitz on Jan 25, 2016 11:12:21 GMT
I'm going too, got a ticket back in October when David Thaxton was on the list, but it's been ages since I've seen EP & Michael Ball, so looking forward to it.
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Post by loureviews on Jan 25, 2016 21:54:33 GMT
That was very good indeed. Some special moments, a fabulous choir and a Botoxed Elaine Paige. More later ...
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Post by n1david on Jan 25, 2016 21:56:52 GMT
Maria Friedman's Losing My Mind was amazing Michael Ball and Daniel Evans were great. Elaine Paige should have sung something else. But what a great night.
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Post by loureviews on Jan 25, 2016 21:59:17 GMT
Maria Friedman's Losing My Mind was amazing Michael Ball and Daniel Evans were great. Elaine Paige should have sung something else. But what a great night. Maria was incredible but I knew she would be. Michael Ball always is and I always like watching Daniel Evans. The mix of shows made the jukebox musicals look like poor relations though.
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Post by Snciole on Jan 25, 2016 22:01:13 GMT
So good, I almost leaped out of my chair when Clive Rowe started singing Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat. Loved his version since I saw it the NT 50th Anniversary.
Plus Paige in a gold dress. What more could a girl want for £12! What a well put together show. I could have stayed for hours more!
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Post by Honoured Guest on Jan 25, 2016 22:12:44 GMT
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Post by stageyninja83 on Jan 25, 2016 22:16:32 GMT
Maria Friedman was worth the ticket price alone, what can I say, the woman still has it! EP on the otherhand.....
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Post by CG on the loose on Jan 25, 2016 22:38:25 GMT
Personal highlight was Clive Rowe, but thought the whole thing was really well put together. Sound in the hall (where I was anyway) wasn't great at the start, better in the second half. Interested to hear how it comes across on the broadcast. A tad Sondheim heavy for me (ducks), but there some great individual performances and a really fabulous choir.
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Post by loureviews on Jan 25, 2016 22:50:58 GMT
Personal highlight was Clive Rowe, but thought the whole thing was really well put together. Sound in the hall (where I was anyway) wasn't great at the start, better in the second half. Interested to hear how it comes across on the broadcast. A tad Sondheim heavy for me (ducks), but there some great individual performances and a really fabulous choir. The sound was awful until the first Sondheim piece (six rows from the front).
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Post by theatremiss on Jan 25, 2016 23:00:13 GMT
Clive Rowe & Maria Friedman were so worth the ticket price. EP did a bad impression of Dame Shirley and there was a little part of me that was waiting for her to burst into Goldfinger or burst out of her dress. I think the musical director wondered what was going on with all her laboured delivery of the song. Speaking of the MD, he looked in pain with that funny odd bow of his.
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Post by theatremiss on Jan 25, 2016 23:01:28 GMT
Oh yes I have to agree about the sound, I was in F too and thought it dire at times. Wonder what it was like on the radio
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Post by CG on the loose on Jan 25, 2016 23:30:38 GMT
Yes, that bow was quite extraordinary! Another highlight - John Dalgleish and Katie Brayben's 'Me and My Girl'.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 0:06:03 GMT
I thought it was bloomin' awful. Sound atrocious for most of the first half (orchestra drowning out vocals). Also, I paid £45 for my seat and all I can say is, thank the Lord John Dagleish is 1) comparatively tall and 2) photogenic, because he was the only performer I managed to see clearly for any length of time (and then only for Waterloo Sunset). Overall I might as well have stayed at home and listened on the radio.
After some boring opening tunes delivered in the style of a Glasgow rondy (as my mum would say), and some agonisingly stilted banter (why the heck couldn't we have had classy Lesley Manville from the word go?), I honestly felt like laughing out loud when they announced, "And now for some Sondheim!" My love for Sondheim (sarky sarky) is well documented on the old site of course... Apparently it wasn't enough to have one song from Sunday in the Park with George. No, Daniel Evans came back later and sang a song about a hat. He didn't have half as much fun with his hat as JK Rowling did with hers. By the time he'd finished, I'd decided probably Saturday in the Torture Chamber with John would be a more enticing proposition. Does George EVER cheer up? Answers on a postcard please, because on this evidence there's no way I'm ever sitting through an entire production to find out.
Oh, things are looking up. Here's Michael Ball and one of the many Strallens singing a song from Phantom. Hooray! Oh no, wait, it's my least favourite song from Phantom. Sigh. Also, guys, don't crack a joke about a 20 year age difference and then have the older bloke paw the younger woman during their duet. It looks pervy.
After the interval, more Sondheim (I much prefer Rebecca Caine's quiet, genuinely regretful approach to Losing My Mind but hey ho, Friedman's blared, tortured version is the norm, I know). Then an ill-advised appearance by Elaine Paige, apparently dressed in Bacofoil (looked like the conductor was just crossing his fingers and hoping for the best as far as timing was concerned). Cue rapturous applause from the audience for someone who couldn't properly hit one of the big notes. And more Sondheim to finish! By now I've spent so much time sighing, I'm going to need artificial help to reinflate my lungs...
In fairness, I must say Clive Rowe was brilliant, and the young actress playing Matilda wiped the floor with most of the adults in terms of stage presence and acting the song, so good on her. What I could see of the Dagleish//Brayben duet looked fun, too, and Stars was unexpected.
But was it all worth 45 quid? Ask me tomorrow, I might be in a better mood.
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Post by Snciole on Jan 26, 2016 0:16:31 GMT
You should have been in the Gods with me, Jean. I saw everything but the bow tie! ? I wasn't familiar with Finishing the Hat or even much Sondheim he does seem like a whiny old man, even if he wasn't that old when writing these songs. I loved Elaine's dress but I am part magpie. I am terrified Daniel Evans Chichester reign will just be lots of duets between him and Maria! How utterly filthy was that Cole Porter song about tops and bottoms though. Talk about knowing their audience.
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Post by Polly1 on Jan 26, 2016 0:26:31 GMT
I notice that page is crediting 'Stars' to Arnold Schoenberg!!
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Post by theatremiss on Jan 26, 2016 0:29:45 GMT
I like Sondheim but I don't like Sunday in the Park with George. Stars was awful, so much echo I thought I'd fallen into a vast cavern. One woman, I assume a Ball-ette, or Ball-sie or whatever his followers are called, kept taking pictures of him from DC, the camera light was right in my eyeline and most distracting
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Post by theatremiss on Jan 26, 2016 0:33:27 GMT
Oh and did anyone see the chap in red and silver silk brocade trousers, very snazzy
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