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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 21, 2022 17:29:15 GMT
It’s our sixth birthday today. Some of us were here a little while before that, but 21st January 2016 was the day of of our launch. Hasn’t time flown?
Happy Birthday! 🎉 🎂
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Post by robertb213 on Jan 21, 2022 18:03:23 GMT
Aw happy birthday to us. We don't look a day over 5 🤣
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Post by alece10 on Jan 21, 2022 18:38:43 GMT
Seems like I joined on January 25th 2016.
So 4 days to go for me before I celebrate.
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Post by The Matthew on Jan 21, 2022 19:34:15 GMT
Twelve more years and we'll be able to buy booze in a pub.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 21, 2022 20:17:25 GMT
Seems like I joined on January 25th 2016. So 4 days to go for me before I celebrate. I apparently joined on 22nd January 2016 so I was only 1 day late! |
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Post by stevemar on Jan 21, 2022 20:18:54 GMT
Thank you to the posters (can’t remember who they were but please feel free to stand up and identify yourselves👍) who originally started TB. I remember there was quite a lot of concern and debate when the original host (Whatsonstage) terminated that forum.
Well done to those posters and thank you to everyone who posts and shares in this forum.
PS Just checked and I joined on 16 Jan 2016🥳.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 20:25:50 GMT
Happy Birthday!
I’d like to say a big thank you to our moderators. I moderated a food forum in the early 2000’s so I know what a thankless job it is ;-) No forum is perfect, but the actual only reason they last for six years is because of the mods.
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Post by Deal J on Jan 22, 2022 1:04:02 GMT
Whaaat?! Crikey, time flies. Thanks to admin and moderators for keeping the footlights glowing.
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Post by craig on Jan 22, 2022 2:58:51 GMT
Relative newbie here but happy birthday all and thanks for having me!
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Post by theatreian on Jan 22, 2022 8:39:30 GMT
Thanks to all those who help to run and moderate the site. It is much appreciated and not easy at times. Apologies to those I may have offended, but it's great to be able to go to a site where there is a common thread. Also good to hear reviews and thoughts on theatre and other stuff too! I checked when I joined too and April 2016 so not too far off the 6 years!
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Post by alece10 on Jan 22, 2022 9:27:46 GMT
And, of course, some of us oldies can go back further to the Whats On Stsge forum before we moved onto this one and before that the Dress Circle one which was Lord knows how many years ago!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jan 22, 2022 9:38:03 GMT
Yayyyy!! Congrats mods and thanks! A pleasure being here, only if i occasionally pop in and out. Here's to the next 6  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 22, 2022 9:52:33 GMT
Of course, like the Queen we have two birthdays. The other one is 12th Feb which is when the press releases went out and we went “public”.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2022 20:12:45 GMT
And i registered on 22nd Jan 2016, so that makes today my 6th birthday!
Thank you mods for your efforts to keep this board going.
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Post by ncbears on Jan 22, 2022 20:43:45 GMT
I appear to have joined 15 Jan 2016 (from the States) - don't know how I was in early! COVID has prevented any trips to London and environs, so I don't peruse these boards as often - but this site was invaluable in discovery streaming shows (because the UK was so far ahead of the US on that front) both live and recorded. (Although I was only able to watch the first act of the musical version of Wuthering Heights....) perhaps, appropriately, there is this defense of message boards which references Theatreboard, but identifies only two posters by name both from BroadwayWorld - Defense of Theatre Message Boards
(hmm, my user name seems to have changed - it was ggersten) |
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Post by kathryn on Jan 23, 2022 0:05:07 GMT
Seems like I joined on January 25th 2016. So 4 days to go for me before I celebrate. I apparently joined on 22nd January 2016 so I was only 1 day late! Me too. If I recall correctly I was watching the RSC Richard II-Henry V history cycle over the weekend at the Barbican when the decision to launch was made. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2022 0:07:22 GMT
And, of course, some of us oldies can go back further to the Whats On Stsge forum before we moved onto this one and before that the Dress Circle one which was Lord knows how many years ago! I was an OG Dress Circle poster, along with 1 or 2 others on here, and that makes me feel very old lol |
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Post by Peter on Jan 23, 2022 10:37:09 GMT
And, of course, some of us oldies can go back further to the Whats On Stsge forum before we moved onto this one and before that the Dress Circle one which was Lord knows how many years ago! I was an OG Dress Circle poster, along with 1 or 2 others on here, and that makes me feel very old lol It really does - I remember posting on Dress Circle from early 2000, so 22 years ago… Watching the Notre Dame de Paris flame wars, picking up the backstage gossip leaking from Witches of Eastwick, the random musings from ‘Queen Kate’… Happy birthday Theatreboard - I don’t get to see anywhere as much theatre as I used to, but love keeping up with the latest vicariously through the postings here  |
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Post by partytentdown on Jan 23, 2022 10:40:06 GMT
I was an OG Dress Circle poster, along with 1 or 2 others on here, and that makes me feel very old lol It really does - I remember posting on Dress Circle from early 2000, so 22 years ago… Watching the Notre Dame de Paris flame wars, picking up the backstage gossip leaking from Witches of Eastwick, the random musings from ‘Queen Kate’… Happy birthday Theatreboard - I don’t get to see anywhere as much theatre as I used to, but love keeping up with the latest vicariously through the postings here I want to hear about the flame wars and the Eastwick gossip!! |
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Post by glossie on Jan 23, 2022 11:20:16 GMT
And, of course, some of us oldies can go back further to the Whats On Stsge forum before we moved onto this one and before that the Dress Circle one which was Lord knows how many years ago! I was an OG Dress Circle poster, along with 1 or 2 others on here, and that makes me feel very old lol Yep, me too! 'Annie.R' on Dress Circle and WOS. Joined Theatreboard on 19 Jan 2016. Unfortunately, circumstances mean I haven't been a theatregoer for some time but still like to keep up to date with what's happening through the board.   |
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Post by The Matthew on Jan 23, 2022 11:21:03 GMT
The second WhatsOnStage forum was set up fifteen years ago; they had another forum before that but I can't remember when that one started. Before that for me it was rec.arts.theatre.musicals.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2022 13:18:08 GMT
It really does - I remember posting on Dress Circle from early 2000, so 22 years ago… Watching the Notre Dame de Paris flame wars, picking up the backstage gossip leaking from Witches of Eastwick, the random musings from ‘Queen Kate’… Happy birthday Theatreboard - I don’t get to see anywhere as much theatre as I used to, but love keeping up with the latest vicariously through the postings here I want to hear about the flame wars and the Eastwick gossip!! The one piece of Eastwick gossip I'll always remember was that a certain producer slapped a certain actress! I believe it was someone who worked on the show who would occasionally post the most fascinating stuff. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 23, 2022 16:03:17 GMT
I apparently joined on 22nd January 2016 so I was only 1 day late! Me too. If I recall correctly I was watching the RSC Richard II-Henry V history cycle over the weekend at the Barbican when the decision to launch was made. I don't appear to have been doing anything theatre-wise on 21st January 2016 so I don't have that excuse for being late. It was probably just because I'm always a late adopter of new technologies! |
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Post by Jan on Jan 24, 2022 11:50:27 GMT
Jan 20th 2016 I saw The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios with Ron Cook, John Simm, Keith Allen, Gemma Chan and Gary Kemp. I don't remember a single thing about it.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jan 24, 2022 12:00:44 GMT
Jan 20th 2016 I saw The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios with Ron Cook, John Simm, Keith Allen, Gemma Chan and Gary Kemp. I don't remember a single thing about it. Yeah me also. I remember it didn't have any of electricity of the version I saw a few years prior at the RSC |
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Post by PhantomNcl on Jan 24, 2022 13:30:25 GMT
Blimey has it really been 6 years?? How the time has flown. I was one of the ones who came over from the old Dress Circle board too.
Thanks to everyone involved for the setting up and running of the Board though - it really is great to see so much love and passion out there for live theatre (and a mutual dislike of Bad Behaviour at a Show).
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Post by stevemar on Jan 24, 2022 13:40:02 GMT
Jan 20th 2016 I saw The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios with Ron Cook, John Simm, Keith Allen, Gemma Chan and Gary Kemp. I don't remember a single thing about it. I saw this too - my note simply says it was for me a familiar play (studied Pinter) jazzed up with lighting, music and particularly grotesque characters. Ron Cook must have been the father, and Gemma Chan whilst appearing compliant, got the upper hand of the otherwise all male household. Otherwise, I can only recall the terrible seats at the Trafalgar. Having checked my notes, it was a family post Christmas outing to Wicked on 16 Jan, followed by “Waste” at the National. I remembered nothing of the latter, so Google and my notes tell me it was Harley Granville Barker, a political satire, Charles Edwards/Olivia Williams but I only gave it a miserable 2 stars and called it long and dull. Interestingly the Guardian review headline is “Morals, sexual politics and hypocrisy are the big themes in this tragic psychological portrait of a man for whom ideals matter more than individuals.” Ah, how things have changed! (Though in the play was about a principled man, who makes a mistake and falls into a life of barrenness and power play. |
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Post by lynette on Jan 28, 2022 23:15:49 GMT
Warm and fuzzy reading through this thread. I came from Whatsonstage which I had found by some odd freak of internet serendipity. I was invited to be a Mod possibly because I was opinionated and it was a good way to control my offerings 😁 and I have really enjoyed being here. The other guys do most of the work, all the techie and the close examination of all our machinations. I love the revues of plays and shows and the newsy gossip. I like reading the opinions of theatre minded people on current problems. I think over the last two years this has helped to keep me from drowning in all the internet/ so called social stuff in other places; the anxiety has its own home so to speak.
Long may we continue
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