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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 18, 2017 9:16:54 GMT
In tonights Evening Standard, Miranda is quoted as saying he will appear as Hamilton in some of the UK performances. I've looked at ES online, and there's nothing that says that (where's the article?) - is this hearsay, or an actual Miranda quote?
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 17, 2017 13:26:07 GMT
The strongest rumours for the remaining contestants are about Brian Conley, Johnnie Peacock, Alexandra Burke, Anne Robinson, Angela Scanlon and Michelle Ackerly (also of The One Show). I reckon 2 or 3 of those named are in, but, other than Brian Conley - who was being listed as already in by the Sun! - I wouldn't like to say who else gets the final few spots - only that I'm relatively sure one presenter from The One Show will be in the line up this year! I think there's still some real surprises left to reveal, that no one's managed to put on the 'suspected' list!
As for the weekend reveal, it looks like their hands were forced, due to the tabloids breaking embargoes on releasing certain names. I think we would have got reveals for the past couple of days, if that hadn't happened. There's been no solid spoilers in the tabloids in the past couple of days, so it seems the lid's back on the reveals.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 11, 2017 12:52:12 GMT
Without being party to his panto contract, which I believe are usually multi-year, I assume there is an expectation, barring a very serious illness, that he will be on stage in MK on opening night, which happens to be a Saturday. Incidentally, do we know that it looks like the season finale will be on 16 December, looking at Craig's panto schedule? Craig has specific contracts during his panto run, which mean he's not appearing in Saturday performances. I'm pretty sure Lesley Joseph also had a similar requirement for her to be exempted from performing if her run in Strictly clashed with her panto dates. IIRC, she was eliminated before it became an issue - and the producers (of both shows) may have calculated the chances of Conley making it to December are fairly slim. The non-contenders are usually gone by Blackpool or very shortly after (mid November), so most years, the risk pays off!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 11, 2017 12:48:12 GMT
The Mirror had Conley as a done deal on the first day of reveals (see up-thread - they have him pictured in front of a glitterball - can't imagine they'd photoshop that would they?) Joan Collins? Oh perleeeze no. Ghastly woman. We still need sports people, politician and somebody's mother/father. I suspect the sportsperson will get announced some time towards the end of the World Championships - there are some strong rumours about Jonnie Peacock. Given the BBC is pretty beholden to onscreen diversity, he certainly fits into a particular group that hasn't been represented previously and fulfills the sportsperson quota. BTW, I'm wondering if having a vicar adequately replaces the need for a politician?! He's certainly a vast preference to Nigel Farage - who's name has been mentioned in the run-up to the show, but I choose not to even entertain the prospect! Too awful to think how he'd ruin my Saturday night TV!!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 11, 2017 11:56:33 GMT
Love the Reverend and Ruth. If the Brian Conley rumour turns out true, it'll be shaping up to be another cracking series! The Sun are reporting Conley as a done deal - and they're rarely wrong this late in the day. Some of their 'rumours' are very definitely wrong - Joan Collins ain't doing it, this year, next year or ever!! Others are a bit - Ross Kemp? Really?!!!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 11, 2017 10:56:22 GMT
Mothers eh? Particularly harsh given Michaelmas is the end of September, and the first live performance show isn't until 23rd Sept! I'd bet a LOT of money on the fact that Richard won't be first out (I reserve the right to withdraw this statement, in the event that the next 10 people announced are all dirty, rotten ringahs!!!) But I'm sure there'll be some nondescript actor or TV personality, who fails to win over the audience, and/or plods around the floor looking like they hate the whole world!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 11, 2017 8:49:52 GMT
I Just Want to Let You Know it's the vicar Communard! Good one! (See what I did there?) Well, I just got my new favourite for this year's Strictly! He's hilarious, intelligent, and comes across as a lovely man. He might be the terrible/amazing contestant that everyone loves/hates to watch (prediction - the new Ed Balls, and he outlasts an awful lot of the other contestants)! His samba and rumba will certainly be sights to behold!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 10, 2017 11:00:45 GMT
Exactly! Has she done anything besides being in a soap? I'm a Celeb, Celebrity Masterchef, Soapstar Superstar, Celebrity Family Fortunes - you may be seeing a pattern here! She's a VERY keen reality show participant - hence my disappointment that the BBC couldn't find an entire line-up who've not previously been cast on numerous reality shows.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 9, 2017 17:34:37 GMT
Ah yes, apologies, it's definitely a U.S announcement, or at least an announcement being made by the U.S team - the UK twitter handle is @hamiltonwestend, but seeing as this is the only thread for Hamilton that began before the London production was formally announced and it seems to encompass discussion about both, I figured this was the best place to put it! Thanks, I hadn't noticed it wasn't the London specific twitter handle, and posting it on here seemed to indicate it was about the UK production. Never mind, so I guess, no new info for the London show recently?
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 9, 2017 17:19:57 GMT
Why are they stating the date in the US format, if this is about the UK show? Surely, for a UK audience (and if the tweet was being written by the UK production team), they would use 11/08/2017? That's the thing that's throwing me - a UK specific announcement, made by the UK crew, wouldn't have the date listed that way. Very odd! I think it's a US announcement if I'm not mistaken? That would make sense - I highly doubt it's related to the UK production. And yes, the LA show is the likeliest possibility - that date is the first day of previews there, isn't it?
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 9, 2017 17:16:13 GMT
Why are they stating the date in the US format, if this is about the UK show? Surely, for a UK audience (and if the tweet was being written by the UK production team), they would use 11/08/2017? That's the thing that's throwing me - a UK specific announcement, made by the UK crew, wouldn't have the date listed that way. Very odd!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 9, 2017 15:17:36 GMT
Ruth is well known and will have a big fanbase - Loose Women, This Morning before you factor in Eamonn etc - so she is a good addition as a contestant. As said above Anton seems a likely partner, personally I think Kevin is due to get an "older" female and might be a good fit for her. She will give it a go, I don't know how comfortable she'll be with the outfits- she wasn't in the Loose Women body confidence photo but I wouldn't expect a 57 year old to squeeze into the outfits a younger female celeb may do. I agree that Rylan would be good too, he'd really go OTT in the latin and his height and attitude would be good in the ballroom plus he'd give as good as he got from Craig. I don't know about Gino, he'd just perhaps be in banter with Bruno. Honestly, I'd rather she was paired with Aljaz or Pasha, just to give Eamonn a serious inferiority complex! I think her hiring will end up just as much about his reactions to Ruth's dancing, as it will be about her dancing itself! Kevin and Anton are 'safe' options, both deeply unoffensive and without any sense that they might 'Pr**k' Eamonn's sense of worth as a husband!!! Much more fun to watch him have to watch her with a young, gorgeous dancer! Rylan may well be a future pick, perhaps next year. Ruth is unusual, as a current ITV employee - given the number of years any ITV stars have essentially been banned from Strictly, so I don't see more than one celeb from the ITV stable this time round.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 4, 2017 13:08:44 GMT
I can't imagine it will be more than a month until they release the next lot of tickets - I'm certain that they were holding onto some tickets, when the original allocation was released. A lot of those tickets were probably prime ones, priced accordingly, but I think they'll release them in the next month or so, and they'll still sell out (of course)!
Opening night is only 4 months away, with previews even sooner. The theatre refurbishment must be at the stage where they know exactly what seating is going to be there. I know there's occasionally a few changes, especially with regards to disabled access seating, when these interior changes take place - so it may well be that certain accessible seats could change (more likely, some seats that weren't originally designated as accessible become such when the layout is tested, and they are placed on sale for that express purpose).
Anyone planning on taking their chances on the next allocation will have to be damn quick though - I expect the second wave release to have far fewer tickets available, and any there to be snapped up very, very quickly. The better chance will be to look for seats released for the post May 2018 period - advance booking for that period will surely be coming up very soon, but it'll be interesting to see the price structure for the new batch of seats.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 1, 2017 13:06:59 GMT
Ditto on the buying tickets for a plus-one. I've done it before with either theatreboard friends or like minded twitter friends. I figure if it all goes wrong I can usually find another plus one or do a return! Can you do a return for 'half' a booking? If you bought 2 tickets, and can only use one? The wording on Ticketmaster isn't specific, but it seems to refer to the booking, as a whole, rather than the individual tickets, that could be returned.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 1, 2017 9:10:46 GMT
dizzieblonde I won't be able to have friend's card with me as she lives 700 km away from my home town (getting it and returning would be a bit tricky), but this may be a helpful option for anyone who will have the same problem, but with tickets booked for a family member or smth like that. Btw, just asking: would any of theatreboard members buy a ticket from someone to go as their plus one? Or would you consider that too risky? As this is what I may have to do with my friend's ticket I booked for her - taking someone else with me instead of her (for the date when I booked 2 tix) and returning her money afterwards... Personally speaking, I think I actually would, and I'd expect others likely would too! Whilst we don't *know* each other, I think the interactions on a message board, specifically for theatre buffs, is sort of a security feature. I've certainly bought tickets from theatreboard members - and in fact, in one case, from the friend of a theatreboard member. We exchanged emails and twitter handles, and communicated before I transferred the money (via Paypal, so another level of security within the transaction). I wasn't going *with* them, but I can't see that that is a dealbreaker - that you have to sit next to another forum member for the duration of a performance! Worth browsing on the 'Bad Behaviour in the Theatre' thread, just to check that they're not one of those people, though! I bought a single ticket for Hamilton, for a late December matinee performance, in addition to the ones I bought for next year - simply because I was browsing on Ticketmaster, and this one ticket (in the entire theatre!) somehow popped up as available and I grabbed it. Had it been a pair, I'd have probably gotten them, and then found someone to go with me. I may well have offered it to others here, at face value, if I'd had it going spare. I'm not interested in scalping, or making money from theatre tickets. Shame about the long distance friend - as you say, the idea may serve the purpose of someone else in a similar position, who can use another's credit card for just one evening, and then return it safely to their friend. I guess you have to be fairly good friends, to do that though! Also, to know that your friends aren't the dippy kind who'll lose your credit card! I have a friend who seems to make a regular habit of leaving her phone on trains, in restaurants, and she can never find anything in her own house. I'd think twice about entrusting her with my card!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Aug 1, 2017 8:32:39 GMT
firefingers nope I haven't yet, the situation is a fresh one,. It would be her "duty" to call them, I guess, not mine. As for now there is a vague chance she'll be able to make the trip, I guess, but I'll ask her to call later in the autumn if/when she know for sure she has to miss it. As for now I'm not happily anticipating but anxiously struggling I'm sure there will be people with other reasonable matters who would like to transfer their tix to other names. I wonder if Ticketmaster will somehow manage that, at least like Harry Potter does with its "gift certificates"... Given the FAQs on the website, it wouldn't appear that Ticketmaster has any flexibility in officially transferring tickets, in any way (it's definitely not like the Harry Potter system). Either the cardholder owns the tickets, or it's a refund. The one thing I did wonder is how strictly the government photo ID requirement will be enforced - and checked? After all, if the usher has to check the email print-out, swipe the card etc, do they also check the ID every single time, or is that the 'insurance' option, if any of the other two things don't line up? Has anyone experienced ticketless booking systems like this? If not, I suppose we'll have to wait and see what the early performances throw up, in terms of queues, entrance time delays and efficiency of the front-of-house staff. The only thing I was thinking is that Stasia might be able to borrow her friend's card for the duration of her trip (if that's even feasible), so that she has the correct card, and the email, to get into the theatre - and perhaps the ID part of it all might be waived for most theatre patrons? For me, someone who's bought the tickets in good faith, and isn't planning to financially profit from the change in circumstances - but rather prevent the loss of the theatre ticket for the person they were going with - isn't in the same league as the scalpers who the system has been designed to thwart. Therefore, if there is a very slight dishonesty in presenting a friend's credit card, in her absence, I'm for it! I'm certain others will have opposing views of this circumstance, but I think there ought to be a way to retain the tickets for the person the purchase was partially intended for. I just don't know what the actual solution is!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jul 25, 2017 14:18:52 GMT
I wonder if it's because so much is written & broadcast about them & their mother it's their chance to tell the story from their perspective. I'd imagine so. And I also get a sense now that they're both in their 30s there's a sense of taking 'ownership' of the 'next generation' of Royals and doing things on their own terms a bit more. Also that it's probably only now they feel able to speak of it in any detail- Harry has certainly talked about how he avoided dealing with it for so long, so perhaps now they both feel a bit more in control of their own feelings it's time for them to set things straight and continue to move on. Talking about their ages, it's a bit of a shock to me that Will is only a year younger than his mother was when she died (he's 35 now, Diana was 36 when she died)! That's how much time has passed, and they feel comfortable talking about her life and death. It was a rather well-made program though. As to the difference in the Queen's death, well, it's the difference between mourning a long life, well-lived, of a woman who's own children are in their 60's and 70's, and the response to a sudden, shocking death of the most famous woman in the world, with dependent children. The Queen's death is long anticipated - even if she lives another 5-10 years, like her mother before her - and I'm certain the raw grief on display at Diana's funeral won't be evident at the Queen's.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jul 17, 2017 12:56:32 GMT
Did they even need a spine? Nah ...the more bendy the better!!
Favourite tweet today was the bloke who said 'Dr Who should never be wank fodder' and the woman who replied 'I've got some bad news for you...'
it really is fascinating to see the reactions - and look at it from a male v female fan perspective. Female fans are entirely used to their media being presented in a 'male' format, and having to adapt their 'fannish' behaviour to what they are presented with. So, if it's a male hero, this is being presented to the girls as 'you want to be WITH him' (even if the Doctor was - mostly - a character that didn't spend a lot of time on sexual/romantic interactions) and for the male eye 'you want to BE him'. That reversal is clearly proving very, very difficult for some fans - and I'm not saying that's the reason for everyone's reticence, it just explains quite a lot of the reactions - where men are saying it's 'ruined their childhoods' etc, because they can't reconcile the media they treated as hero worship, and the stuff they reacted to as a 'desire' thing, usually hot women in a very definite 'non-hero/damsel' role. I suspect there will be a lot of scholarly (and pop-psychology!) essays written about this, but it does appear to boil down to some version of the 'toxic masculinity' thing - that has led little (and big) boys to only accept media images that don't threaten their masculinity. So, for a young boy in the 60's, 70's and clearly even today, he is taught that it's 'OK' to like Doctor Who, because he's an acceptable hero for men (especially the nerdier ones!). Now though, girls of all ages have actual heroes, who are the same gender as them, and gives them those greater aspirations. Can boys like that female hero for exactly the same reasons as the girls will? - of course, but there's a whole section of society who will ridicule them for it. That's why you end up with massive backlashes against all-female Ghostbusters, and all of the recent movies and TV that have female heroes, without the need to reduce them into the romantic role. Is this kind of affirmative action the way to go? - plenty of opinions, but you'd have to convince me that the quality of the media being produced is specifically reduced, purely because of a female hero. Because, that's the argument here isn't it? People are threatening to switch off because 'it won't be as good as before'. So, I guess the proof is in the pudding! We just have to wait - and endure the battling different sides of the fandom until then!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jul 17, 2017 8:20:12 GMT
I'm absolutely overjoyed that they have chosen Jodie Whitaker for the role! I've lost track of the sheer number of years people have pleaded for TPTB to make the braver choice, when replacing the previous Doctors. Given the character is a (practically) immortal, shape-shifting alien, with an infinite range of faces and bodies to choose from when regenerating, the shift to a female form should be the least weird choice for The Doctor to make! I'm so looking forward to the new series, in a way that even the great castings of Tennant, Smith and Capaldi failed to ignite in me. All of them were great replacements, and I liked each of them enough as actors outside of their new role, that I knew the show would continue to be watchable. However, I had reasonable certainty, with each one, that the role wasn't ever going to move radically away from the 'norm' - especially with regards to the relationships the Doctor had with the assistants and people he met. This time,, after more than 50 years of this show, there are suddenly brand new possibilities, that were never there before. In a show that's run this long, surely that's a really good thing?! Honestly, the only thing that bothers me about Jodie (or, at least, from the promo they ran yesterday) is that the new Doctor's form somehow includes very obviously dyed blonde hair! I didn't know that was a possibility in a regeneration!!! After all, if the doctor can dye his form's natural hair colour during a regeneration, why has he not been ginger every time?!!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jul 14, 2017 11:10:02 GMT
There's a Flickr account that's been documenting little bits of the refurbishment, and the latest photo shows some really beautifully restored cornicing and insanely detailed plasterwork. www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/35640626141/in/photostream/That was 3 weeks ago, and the guy has commented that it's a 'top down' approach for the finishing off, so ceiling first and then going down layer by layer. Tragically (for danb anyway!) the pictures of the utterly stripped out circle bar likely mean that stalls bar carpet is long gone! They may have retained much of the lovely old woodwork, to be reinstated further down the line, but I expect everything else to be brand spanking new. I've tagged this guy's flickr feed, because I'm now really looking forward to seeing the theatre reemerge from it's cocoon, over the next few months! It does seem on target, IMO, for a handover back to the theatre company in around Oct. I expect first rehearsals to happen away from the theatre in September and the move-in date to be around 8 weeks before opening night. Anyone got any thoughts on this timeline?
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jul 7, 2017 14:42:39 GMT
The programme at Hamilton in Chicago was eye-wateringly expensive so interested to see what the prices are like in London Ditto in San Francisco. The "Hamiltome" can be had at a discount and is much more for the money. What sort of price difference are we talking? I expect the London programme to break the local market record, simply because the audience will probably pay top price for it, but I'll be gutted to see it go much beyond what is accepted as a price point these days.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jun 29, 2017 11:52:07 GMT
What bothers me is that nowhere in my booking does it even hint at which card I used to book. I have three possibilities, so I'm either going to have to go through my online banking nearer the time to pin down which one made a large payment to Ticketmaster, or I'm going to have to turn up with all three cards and hope they won't view it as suspicious if the first card I pull out of my purse isn't the one. Go into your Ticketmaster account, and click on the booking reference link in your order history. It will take you to the booking page and, at the bottom, the billing information will give the last 4 digits of the card used to pay for the ticket. My order reference now includes both the 4-digit reference of the original card, and the reference of the card I gave to the helpline number (labelled as 'PID' whatever that means, with a £0 charge against it). That's the only way you will know which one you used - it won't take anyone much time at all to do that check, before setting off for the theatre! I'm guessing that not including those credit card details on the email print-off is a security measure - they are relying on you to check all of your details and make sure you have the relevant information to bring with you. This is what secure, paperless ticket booking looks like - I don't mind a bit, even though it's been a slight pain having to register my new card against the booking in such a restricted time period. My guess is, if I'd been on holiday, and called next week, they wouldn't say 'nope, out of time' - they just want you to do it early enough that they have time to deal with any genuine issues, way ahead of the show's opening (or whenever the rush for the next booking period starts).
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jun 29, 2017 9:42:38 GMT
My credit card has expired since I bought my Hamilton ticket. I knew I didn't need to worry as the FAQ said that I would be contacted in advance to register my new details. However I decided I would contact them first as I like things to go smoothly. Tried a few times but always got held in a queue for ages and gave up. I've just had a mail from Ticketmaster to say I have to call them to register new details and a number to call between 9-5 and they have given me 2 days to do it!!!!! That's really bad especially as I can't phone from work and don't get home till after 5 and only 2 days to do it. It doesnt say what will happen if I can't contact them. Anyone had the same problem? Can't you just update your card on Ticketmaster online. I have done that. Apparently not, I had the utter nightmare scenario of my card expiring just 6 weeks after I booked my first set of tickets (during advance booking), but I'd not yet received my replacement. I went ahead and booked on the old (then current) card, and just a few days later (of course!) received my replacement. In the general booking period, I then used my new card to book another ticket - so I'd already registered the newer card on the Ticketmaster system itself. That's NOT enough - I think people need to understand this ASAP! It turns out, you can't actually change the information of the card used to book for Hamilton, without going through this phone line - just having the newer card registered on Ticketmaster's website isn't enough, it would seem. However, when I called, the guy was very helpful and efficient. He could see that I had a second booking, and could see that particular booking had a current card registered against it. Please, PLEASE make sure that you've called Ticketmaster, if your original booking was done with a now-expired card. You have to get them to change the card number to your current one, against the actual booking information. Actually, when my card expired, I didn't cut it up - but tucked it away, with a few calendar alerts on my phone, computer etc, to remind me to get that old card out before going to see Hamilton. I still don't quite trust the transfer process, so I will have the original card, just in case the new card number fails to register against the booking details. I'm also printing off the confirmation email to take with me - paperless, hell no, not quite for me!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jun 16, 2017 13:20:06 GMT
So it's hugely rare for a show to come round like this with so much buzz even before all the tickets have gone on sale - so a perfect opportunity not to stunt cast, and to give some unknowns an opportunity to smash it. Love it. it just demonstrates just how much new shows usually risk when they are casting - and don't have the built in teflon of a surefire Broadway hit. The sole reason for names performances is box office draws, and I don't begrudge a single new show for casting with both eyes on the box office. Unless the show is a hit out of the gate, they simply don't get enough of a grace period to establish their own reputation, and they're closed before anyone can go 'hey that was a great show, what the hell?'! Selling tickets before a single cast member was named was a risk - and it might not have paid off, but Hamilton was (and is) so, so buzzy that they could have sold tickets before a theatre was announced! I'm relatively sure they could have at least half-sold their box office that way, and only the more cautious would have held out for a few basic details. It's great news about the unknown castings - and most of the cast are pretty much unknown, outside of dedicated theatre types. The casual West End tourist will have no 'name draw' to the show - they'll be watching it for the show itself. That's got to be pretty rare these days, at least for initial castings of shows! I've got my ticket for late December, and another for next May. I'm now really looking forward to seeing if a) I get the same performer for Hamilton and b) if so, how they change or improve in the role. I know the alternate casting was announced, but does anyone have any idea of the 'standard' number of performance switches shows are going for these days, and which days are most common (e.g. matinees, Mondays etc)?
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Post by dizzieblonde on May 31, 2017 12:34:15 GMT
Manchester was my home once. Have really wanted to get back since last week. I went to the Great Manchester Run at the weekend - my nephew was taking part in the 'mini run' part of the day - and we all went to St Ann's Square afterwards. Very moving and actually, unexpectedly, healing. I thought it would all just be too sad (and it was) but also incredibly uplifting to see Manchester at its best, at the same time.
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Post by dizzieblonde on May 31, 2017 12:31:24 GMT
I'm afraid it makes me more than a little uncomfortable that some of the victims' families aren't on board with the idea of this concert. Surely allowing a little time to pass and giving people space to grieve would have shown more sensitivity? A benefit concert could have been held 6 months to a year down the line, no? I have to say I agree with this - a concert taking place, when most of the funerals haven't even happened, that just feels like the wrong way round to me. Yes, of course, let's celebrate the resilience of Manchester, and the fans of Ariana etc, but allow just a little more passage of time than not even 2 weeks after 22 people died. The fact is, the police are in the middle of a fully active investigation, with multiple suspects still in custody, and we're asking GMP to deploy significant resources to police a concert at the same time. This isn't like the Great Manchester Run, which was always scheduled to happen, and did - just with a higher security presence. This is a brand new event, requiring new resources to enable it to happen. The fact that there are families who don't want this to happen speaks volumes for the fact that this is just too soon. I have friends and acquaintances who were either at the gig, or were involved in the aftermath. I know already that the young girls in my family, who attended the original gig, are not going back to the benefit concert, despite being offered free tickets. For a couple of them, they are too shaken to consider dealing with a 50,000 capacity crowd, as well as the heightened emotions of the event - my goddaughter especially is having a terrible time - in the midst of what should be her AS level exams (one godsend is that the government fiddling with A-levels means that none of her marks will contribute to her A-level exams next year). For one very young girl I know, who's a close friend of my young nephew, her family will not even consider allowing her to go to another concert - she is 9 years old and was taken to the Ariana concert, as her very first gig experience, by her teenage brother, and they just can't cope with the idea of her (or him) returning to a concert environment right now. For all that it's a very noble idea and cause, I can't help but wonder about the potentially slightly cynical nature of a concert promoter who may be thinking they need to 'capitalise' on the recentness of the incident, before it fades from people's memories and becomes a less 'immediate' venture. 3-6 months may have been an appropriate time length for there to have been immediate healing, before celebrating the spirit of resilience, but would there have been as much public appetite for the gig - or the willingness of major stars to take part? I'm just feeling cynical, and sad, right now.
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Post by dizzieblonde on May 15, 2017 18:29:31 GMT
Holy smokes, "Listen" on The One Show was pretty phenomenal! Both girls in great voice - got tickets for when I'm in London in August, cannot wait now!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Apr 20, 2017 17:27:10 GMT
When do you guys think they're telling us who is playing Ham? I think they'll wait until summer tbh... Just a little contributor to my theory that Riz Ahmed is the one - he's just been chosen as Time's 100 most influential people, and has made the cover of Time. That, in of itself doesn't lend much credence, except.......... Lin Manuel Miranda is the celebrity they asked to write the article about Riz! This is what he said: time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4742708/riz-ahmed/Might all be a giant coincidence, but I'm inclined to think he's got to be heading towards a Lin Manuel Miranda project, in a fairly big way - Hamilton just makes sense. There's no way Lin writes something like this, for the TIME cover boy no less, just because Riz did a track on the Mix Tape!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Apr 13, 2017 8:22:55 GMT
Has Finding Neverland been blighted by the fact that Gary Barlow has a whole bunch of new musicals in the pipeline? I wonder what the financial structure of that show is (with Harvey Weinstein holding the purse strings) compared to the most recent Barlow efforts? I wouldn't be surprised to find the money thing being a significant barrier to getting the show to the UK. It's touring in the US, so clearly still in production and making some money there.
I'd LOVE for Waitress and Evan Hansen to open in the WE. Not sure of the likelihood of either happening anytime soon though!
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Post by dizzieblonde on Apr 12, 2017 11:58:03 GMT
Does anyone know when the booking period, post Oct 2017, will open? It seems like it might be good time to extend the booking period, given the renewed media interest in the show, in light of the Oliviers.
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