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Post by xanady on Dec 15, 2019 20:58:34 GMT
^It is a phenomenal show.So glad it is such a massive smash-hit.
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Post by ahaz on Dec 21, 2019 16:38:17 GMT
Just seen on Twitter that someone pushed a gift on stage just before the megasix?! Can not believe people feel that is acceptable to do. It was a big gift bag and was given to Athena (parr) could see it shocked the cast and ruined the flow a little...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2019 16:47:17 GMT
That did happen. I saw a clip of it and it looked really uncomfortable.
The culprit then put a statement out on the Six Facebook group saying that as it was a matinee they couldn’t give it to them at stage door.
...The stage door is open to the public, they can just.. y’know, go in and hand whatever they want to give in to the receptionist with a note.
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Post by sophizoey on Dec 21, 2019 18:27:27 GMT
That was my clip! And it completely broke the flow of the megasix for me. It was very jarring not to mention completely unnecessary, the Stage Door at the Lowry is lovely. A friend and I went in there to drop off a gift for the same people, who we were seeing at the same show. The stage door handler was kind enough to let us take our time and check everything was there and write a note. Not to mention it was handed to the correct people almost immediately.
Except for that, the tour is in BRILLIANT hands. Those girls have developed so much since the beginning and the alternates are incredibly strong as well. You cannot go wrong seeing this cast close to you. Think I prefer these Queens to the London Queens.
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Post by undeuxtrois on Dec 22, 2019 17:01:07 GMT
Trying to book a ticket for Salford and it keeps saying I can't leave an individual seat for purchase, despite it being the only seat available and all other surrounding seats are unavailable?
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Post by intoanewlife on Dec 22, 2019 17:56:01 GMT
Trying to book a ticket for Salford and it keeps saying I can't leave an individual seat for purchase, despite it being the only seat available and all other surrounding seats are unavailable? Phone them, they will book it over the phone.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 13:38:09 GMT
This whole giving gifts to working actors reminds me of the cupcake incident at Heathers last year.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 11, 2020 22:18:23 GMT
15 minute show stop during Jodie Steele’s number at the Lowry tonight.
Oh well, it broke up the monotony 🙂
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 22:58:52 GMT
15 minute show stop during Jodie Steele’s number at the Lowry tonight. Oh well, it broke up the monotony 🙂 Ooh, what happened? I was there this afternoon, no problems. My first time seeing the tour cast, and I thought they were excellent. I loved Lauren Drew and Shaka especially, but they were all excellent. And it was nice to see such a big theatre completely packed.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 11, 2020 23:30:34 GMT
15 minute show stop during Jodie Steele’s number at the Lowry tonight. Oh well, it broke up the monotony 🙂 Ooh, what happened? I was there this afternoon, no problems. My first time seeing the tour cast, and I thought they were excellent. I loved Lauren Drew and Shaka especially, but they were all excellent. And it was nice to see such a big theatre completely packed. There was nothing obvious, the stage manager just walked on and stopped the number. Told us there was a tech problem and that they’d resume ASAP. As for the show, I’m probs the last person on here to see Six. I didn’t hate it, I give it 3 stars but I found it a bit samey, and there’s only really one killer song in it (Jane Seymour’s). I appreciated the energy of the girls, it’s quite a full-on performance, but I’m afraid too much of it descended into shrieking (I’m looking at one queen in particular) However I’m very clearly in the minority because every seat in the huge Lowry Lyric was sold out tonight and the rest of the audience seemed to like it very much. I might have said that I wasn’t the target demographic for this but the audience was actually very mixed age wise. I think it’s great that what started as a tiny Edinburgh Festival show is filling massive theatres and transferring to Broadway but it wasn’t really my thing.
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Post by Seriously on Jan 12, 2020 1:52:38 GMT
That was my clip! And it completely broke the flow of the megasix for me. It was very jarring not to mention completely unnecessary, the Stage Door at the Lowry is lovely. A friend and I went in there to drop off a gift for the same people, who we were seeing at the same show. The stage door handler was kind enough to let us take our time and check everything was there and write a note. Not to mention it was handed to the correct people almost immediately. Except for that, the tour is in BRILLIANT hands. Those girls have developed so much since the beginning and the alternates are incredibly strong as well. You cannot go wrong seeing this cast close to you. Think I prefer these Queens to the London Queens. Are they ok with people filming them?
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Post by sophizoey on Jan 12, 2020 8:20:16 GMT
That was my clip! And it completely broke the flow of the megasix for me. It was very jarring not to mention completely unnecessary, the Stage Door at the Lowry is lovely. A friend and I went in there to drop off a gift for the same people, who we were seeing at the same show. The stage door handler was kind enough to let us take our time and check everything was there and write a note. Not to mention it was handed to the correct people almost immediately. Except for that, the tour is in BRILLIANT hands. Those girls have developed so much since the beginning and the alternates are incredibly strong as well. You cannot go wrong seeing this cast close to you. Think I prefer these Queens to the London Queens. Are they ok with people filming them? You're allowed to film the end of the show! After the Queens bow after "Six" I've found to be the time to start and literally two seconds after this bow before the megasix/encore Cleves tells you to "get your phones out, you're gonna wanna film this". Filming during the main show is prohibited though.
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Post by undeuxtrois on Jan 12, 2020 9:50:12 GMT
Is it okay to film with the phone flash? I don't want to incase it goes in their eyes, but without flash my camera is horrible
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Post by meister on Jan 12, 2020 11:14:22 GMT
Are they ok with people filming them? You're allowed to film the end of the show! After the Queens bow after "Six" I've found to be the time to start and literally two seconds after this bow before the megasix/encore Cleves tells you to "get your phones out, you're gonna wanna film this". Filming during the main show is prohibited though. Not sure what I think about a show actively encouraging phone use during a show (it is actually in the script)...tend toward thinking it encourages bad behaviour but can see that in this digital age it gets the ‘word of mouth’ out there....what do others think? 🤔
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 11:17:02 GMT
I found pinky K Howard rather shrieky and shrill when she wasn't singing, and she was my least favourite yesterday. She still made me laugh, and I found her song more disturbingly creepy than Aimie Atkinson's version, which I suppose is a good thing. But yeah, preferred the other ladies. Overall, I think I enjoyed yesterday more than I enjoyed the west end cast (although I haven't seen the new cast there) - the dancing was a bit tighter, and it felt a bit funnier overall.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 11:37:51 GMT
I wasn’t keen on Jodie but I’m not sure why. She was vocally amazing but I just didn’t connect to her acting as much.
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Post by richey on Jan 12, 2020 11:50:29 GMT
You're allowed to film the end of the show! After the Queens bow after "Six" I've found to be the time to start and literally two seconds after this bow before the megasix/encore Cleves tells you to "get your phones out, you're gonna wanna film this". Filming during the main show is prohibited though. Not sure what I think about a show actively encouraging phone use during a show (it is actually in the script)...tend toward thinking it encourages bad behaviour but can see that in this digital age it gets the ‘word of mouth’ out there....what do others think? 🤔 It's just for a two minute encore section. During the main show phones use is discouraged
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Post by greeny11 on Jan 12, 2020 11:54:37 GMT
You're allowed to film the end of the show! After the Queens bow after "Six" I've found to be the time to start and literally two seconds after this bow before the megasix/encore Cleves tells you to "get your phones out, you're gonna wanna film this". Filming during the main show is prohibited though. Not sure what I think about a show actively encouraging phone use during a show (it is actually in the script)...tend toward thinking it encourages bad behaviour but can see that in this digital age it gets the ‘word of mouth’ out there....what do others think? 🤔 School of Rock encouraged the taking of photos in the finale and encore before Six was around. A couple of shows - like Waitress - also encourage filming during the bows and encore. As long as they are not encouraging use of phones during the show, I really do not mind it during the finale. I tend to think that Six may not have got so popular if the Megasix was not filmed by audiences, as people inevitably put their videos on social media, so plenty more people get exposed to the show and will buy tickets if they like what they see.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 12, 2020 12:01:10 GMT
You're allowed to film the end of the show! After the Queens bow after "Six" I've found to be the time to start and literally two seconds after this bow before the megasix/encore Cleves tells you to "get your phones out, you're gonna wanna film this". Filming during the main show is prohibited though. Not sure what I think about a show actively encouraging phone use during a show (it is actually in the script)...tend toward thinking it encourages bad behaviour but can see that in this digital age it gets the ‘word of mouth’ out there....what do others think? 🤔 I wouldn’t describe this as a show really. It’s a concert with some scripted dialogue.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 12, 2020 12:04:32 GMT
I found pinky K Howard rather shrieky and shrill when she wasn't singing, and she was my least favourite yesterday. She still made me laugh, and I found her song more disturbingly creepy than Aimie Atkinson's version, which I suppose is a good thing. But yeah, preferred the other ladies. Overall, I think I enjoyed yesterday more than I enjoyed the west end cast (although I haven't seen the new cast there) - the dancing was a bit tighter, and it felt a bit funnier overall. Yes, that’s the one I was referring to. I didn’t like her very much in Heathers either. I thought Katherine Parr was a bit weak too. The others were ok but Jane Seymour was the stand out for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 12:05:42 GMT
I wasn’t keen on Jodie but I’m not sure why. She was vocally amazing but I just didn’t connect to her acting as much.
She came across a bit more... showy-offy perhaps than the others, to me. Maybe that's just the character, but I didn't feel that about Aimie Atkinson as K Howard.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 12:08:05 GMT
I found pinky K Howard rather shrieky and shrill when she wasn't singing, and she was my least favourite yesterday. She still made me laugh, and I found her song more disturbingly creepy than Aimie Atkinson's version, which I suppose is a good thing. But yeah, preferred the other ladies. Overall, I think I enjoyed yesterday more than I enjoyed the west end cast (although I haven't seen the new cast there) - the dancing was a bit tighter, and it felt a bit funnier overall. Yes, that’s the one I was referring to. I didn’t like her very much in Heathers either. I thought Katherine Parr was a bit weak too. The others were ok but Jane Seymour was the stand out for me.
I think Catherine Parr is the weakest part - she isn't very funny, especially compared to the others. She kinds of disappears a bit compared to the others.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 12:33:33 GMT
I wasn’t keen on Jodie but I’m not sure why. She was vocally amazing but I just didn’t connect to her acting as much.
She came across a bit more... showy-offy perhaps than the others, to me. Maybe that's just the character, but I didn't feel that about Aimie Atkinson as K Howard.
I felt the same - I saw Aimie twice on the 2018 tour and I didn’t come away with the same feelings as I did with the 2019 tour.
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Post by intoanewlife on Jan 12, 2020 18:04:56 GMT
I always thought Aimee made the character quite show-offy but certainly not to the point of disliking her. Her intro has some of the best laughs of the whole show and needs to be delivered with a bit of sark for it to work properly.
I do however like Vicki's interpretation better as she kind of plays her very Marilynish ie the clever dumb blonde.
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Post by xanady on Jan 12, 2020 21:33:58 GMT
Booked for Wolverhampton in March and have picked up two good seats.Nearly half the price of London tickets which surprised me.
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Post by eliza on Jan 18, 2020 20:19:34 GMT
Caught this in Chichester today. I enjoyed this and thought the cast was strong but think it lost something with the size of the theatre. I'm seeing the tour again in Brighton's Theatre Royal in March which feels smaller so would be interesting to see the cast again there.
Lots of uber fans in the audience. Really frustrating girl next to me kept singing along Luckily she wasn't too loud but I did find it particularly distracting during the finale when she decided to join in with the dancing too.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 22:05:24 GMT
I saw some pictures of the stage in Chichester and I don’t feel like it works at all in the Festival. The set for Six is very small, and there is a big gap between the front of the set floor, and the actual front of the stage, as the Festival theatre was designed for thrust staging rather than proscenium/end-on which is what the Six set is like. It just feels rather disconnecting, especially compared to the intimacy of the Arts theatre and other venues on tour.
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Post by intoanewlife on Jan 19, 2020 15:00:08 GMT
I saw some pictures of the stage in Chichester and I don’t feel like it works at all in the Festival. The set for Six is very small, and there is a big gap between the front of the set floor, and the actual front of the stage, as the Festival theatre was designed for thrust staging rather than proscenium/end-on which is what the Six set is like. It just feels rather disconnecting, especially compared to the intimacy of the Arts theatre and other venues on tour. So it looked like Hadestown at the National?
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Post by Kim on Jan 20, 2020 17:43:42 GMT
I was at the q&a on thurs night in chi, and they said they had to completely reblock the show because of the side seats. I sat both sides for the show and I'm glad as each side was restricted so could see different bits both times
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