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Post by Being Alive on Sept 28, 2023 13:20:10 GMT
I mean...did anyone ask for this?
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 28, 2023 12:21:37 GMT
Fair enough - I nearly went home in the interval when I saw her so you evidently saw a good day.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 28, 2023 12:17:19 GMT
That very much is not a thing going forward (I imagine ALW/Lloyd went....no)
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 28, 2023 11:37:43 GMT
Is the plan for this to just keep running it until it runs out of patrons? Or is February a hard exit? The original plan was two years and it's still selling so I would imagine it'll extend again.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 28, 2023 11:37:01 GMT
Bring back Laura Harrison, she never let the team down! Going on reliably and being any good are two different things (IMO)...
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 27, 2023 19:17:32 GMT
It's not - someone's made a guess based on a teaser and got it wrong.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 27, 2023 12:24:08 GMT
I think she will be nominated and I think she is incredible in the show but I just can't get over Caissie's performance in Next To Normal... Oh sure, my heart is with Levy for personal reasons with that show and she is utterly remarkable in it - I can just see Nicole being given it due to the amount of promotors and investors involved in a production on the scale of Sunset, as opposed to a producing house like the Donmar. Awards are all political anyway - they're largely meaningless these days...
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 27, 2023 12:00:44 GMT
I second the poster above - I don't understand how anyone can watch the last 10 minutes (at the very least) and not be sure that's a (deserved) Olivier nom lock.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 27, 2023 10:40:12 GMT
But where do we think the reviews will land on this? Personally, if we're looking at a possible comparison, I don't think this is quite as smart or thorough as Fish's Oklahoma, nor has the same consideration for characters that that had. 5s or 2s. No middle ground.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 27, 2023 9:22:39 GMT
Caissie Levy has some competition for the Olivier Award! I hope this isn't the case, Caissie deserves that hands down.... This has more producers and investors behind it than Next To Normal does, so I would imagine Scherzinger has absolutely knackered the Olivier up for Caissie Levy (on an awards political thing rather than actually "who is the best")
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 26, 2023 23:26:02 GMT
It could go either way but if Tucker tries to do what Scherzinger is doing it's going to go horribly wrong - I think she needs to make some different choices (which I think there's actually quite easily scope for)
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 26, 2023 21:21:17 GMT
It just didn't feel like it had anything to say, other than a provocative title.
And I really don't get the Mei Mac hype - I found her incredible tedious in Totoro, and fairly annoying here
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 26, 2023 20:54:08 GMT
Went to see it. Found it pretty tedious. There was about 10 good minutes about 2/3 of the way through. If there'd been an interval I'd have left.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 26, 2023 11:20:28 GMT
He isn't, she is at the very end.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 26, 2023 8:25:22 GMT
Front of house staff are usually the last people to learn about anything in theatre so to be honest, that isn't much of a Barometer on whether it's happening or not.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 25, 2023 22:49:55 GMT
I'm gonna have to sit on this overnight, but as someone who hates Jamie Lloyd shows and has never managed to win me over ever, he did it tonight.
This is utterly thrilling, and Scherzinger is a sensation.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 24, 2023 13:41:41 GMT
I mean, I can't stand Play That Goes wrong or any of that mischief stuff but thought this was witty and intelligent and fun 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 24, 2023 0:26:07 GMT
She hadn't started coming down the stairs yet, she literally got to the end of the first line and he ran off once he'd got the towels in the bag.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 23, 2023 23:16:05 GMT
Something weird happened this evening too - Jamie was still clearing up when the music started for Didn't I See This Movie and didn't run off until Caissie had actually started singing and he's usually gone way earlier than that
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 22, 2023 18:25:41 GMT
I think all the cover run actually highlighted to me is just how spectacularly cast the 'main' actors are in their roles.
I enjoyed Carolyn and she's evidently done a LOT of work off her own back with this and it shows as she was by a country mile the most confident performance on show.
Like the poster above, best to not be negative especially as it was a cover run. It was nice to see other interpretations of the roles though!
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 23:36:06 GMT
Bernadette - Mazeppa Clare Burt - Electra Jo Riding - Tessie
Jo did Getting Married Today and NAILED it.
Bonnie's I'm Still Here got me really emotional as it did feel a bit like 'This Is Your Life' with some slightly altered lyrics (which I actually didn't mind).
This show really belonged to Lea Salonga though - we've got one hell of a Rose coming from her in the very near future.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 23:33:40 GMT
Did the standing for A Little Life - I don't remember the numbered spot, I think it's like the Donmar where you just pick a spot on arrival. Won't be buying a standing until we know how long it is though! You stood for 4 hours?!!!! Bravo to you for that It was £15 and I wasn't sure I'd manage the whole thing as it's intense so I went for it....it's a slog but worth it for the price
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 22:46:39 GMT
Does Lea do the Mrs Lovett material? She does - that whole section is MUCH better than it was with Ball and Freidman
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 22:46:12 GMT
Hello Little Girl was...a lot let's put it that way.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 22:18:21 GMT
Who's doing Loving You and Could I Leave You now Michael's gone? Lea Salonga and Gavin Lee respectively (and the choice of having Gavin do it works REALLY well)
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 22:07:29 GMT
Is there a copy of the full setlist in the programme? It's exactly the same set list as the gala
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 22:07:17 GMT
Is it as good as before? Of course not.
Is it still lovely? Absolutely.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 16:31:01 GMT
We'll get Jack and Trevor as Henry and the Doctors, with the other 4 playing the family.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 16:30:24 GMT
if I'm being honest, it’s one of the most beautiful and incredible moments and I’d actually hate for it to be spoiled on a poster. Well it's been spoilt in a production photo so I struggle to see the difference now...
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 21, 2023 15:08:45 GMT
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