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Post by Rory on Aug 10, 2023 14:23:43 GMT
You're right, the artwork is cheesy looking and I'd say it certainly hasn't done the show any favours.
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Post by Rory on Aug 10, 2023 12:02:05 GMT
I'm still amazed that Spitting Image is getting to the end of its scheduled run but this isn't. Why? This finishes In a couple of weeks anyway and Aspects was scheduled to run much longer. Because there literally seems to be zero interest in Spitting Image and it will have managed its full run. Aspects has a decent cast and director and I thought in comparison it would have stood a better chance.
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Post by Rory on Aug 10, 2023 8:18:18 GMT
I'm still amazed that Spitting Image is getting to the end of its scheduled run but this isn't.
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Post by Rory on Aug 9, 2023 19:56:27 GMT
Not going to the Savoy in April. So this will probably be it then when it finishes at the Old Vic. That's a shame.
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Post by Rory on Aug 9, 2023 16:48:03 GMT
Oh the Heffernan. I’m very glad I booked this as I see everything he is in. A very good cast I think Yes, and Malcolm Sinclair and Nicholas Rowe.
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Post by Rory on Aug 9, 2023 15:45:08 GMT
Any more word on the rumoured Savoy transfer? Is it happening? No No as in it's not happening or no as in, no word yet? mrbarnaby?
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Post by Rory on Aug 9, 2023 15:39:54 GMT
Any more word on the rumoured Savoy transfer?
Is it happening?
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Post by Rory on Aug 8, 2023 17:59:50 GMT
In his BBC Breakfast interview yesterday James Graham mentioned the possibility of a play on Broadway next year. It wasn't a reference to Dear England. I wonder what it could be? Could it have been a reference to Tammy Faye (even though it's a musical)?
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Post by Rory on Aug 7, 2023 19:07:59 GMT
I had heard the show was offered the Autumn slot at the Haymarket (now filled with Noises Off) but it was rejected as they would have wanted to run longer than was being offered. To me this shows there’s definitely ambition for it to have another run in town in the future. Not doubting you at all Mark, but if that's correct it would be very odd for the Haymarket / Danny Cohen / Access Entertainment to announce a new era of plays at the theatre, post Only Fools & Horses, only to offer Heathers a slot, only one play in to the new 'vision' for the theatre.
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Post by Rory on Aug 7, 2023 8:11:50 GMT
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Post by Rory on Aug 6, 2023 21:24:11 GMT
James Graham is on BBC Breakfast tomorrow.
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Post by Rory on Aug 6, 2023 20:15:10 GMT
I get the feeling that a lot of Sonia Friedman's focus is on Broadway these days. This seems to have gone ice cold unfortunately.
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Post by Rory on Aug 6, 2023 17:53:08 GMT
He must have given ATG rent after Blood Brothers though, because he produced Evita and The Exorcist at the Phoenix subsequently.
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Post by Rory on Aug 6, 2023 14:34:43 GMT
I very much doubt Dear England will transfer to the Prince Edwards as in the theatre's history a play has never been staged there. I predict it will go back to the Olivier next year with a possible West End transfer - possibily to the Gillian Lynne - soon after once Standing on the Sky's Edge has closed. True about there never having been a play there, but I would think Dear England, which is an absolutely epic play with an epic set and buckets of commercial appeal, would have a much better chance of filling it than a musical about the Temptations. Anyway, social media handles have been created for the play and a website registered so it's transferring somewhere at some point!
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Post by Rory on Aug 6, 2023 6:09:09 GMT
James Graham is going to be on BBC Breakfast next week, I think if it transferring it'll be announced then. Yes, I saw Jon Kay's tweet and that's exactly what I thought. Unless JG has something new to announce.
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Post by Rory on Aug 5, 2023 20:35:58 GMT
Your review is spot on, AddisonMizner. I saw the matinee on Wednesday which was being filmed for NT Live and thought it was absolutely sensational. I completely agree that Joseph Fiennes embodied Southgate and the staging was breathtaking. It was State of the Nation, a play for now, with topics of relevance to everyone, whether football fans or not. I would love my teenage sons, who are football mad, to see it, to see what it has to say about sport and life, and to be thoroughly entertained. It was gratifying to see so many young folk there and I saw grandads with grandsons in raptures about it at the end. I was completely swept up in the emotion of it all. With this and The Motive and the Cue, the National has surpassed itself this year. I could see Dear England being a colossal stonking great hit at the Prince Edward in October with a bit of luck and a fair wind (or if we must, at the NT again next year with an immediate transfer to the Gillian Lynne hopefully).
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Post by Rory on Aug 5, 2023 11:08:53 GMT
He will dance well but not win over the public because of his background. Always happens Not just that. If he can't keep his ego I'm check he won't come across as very likeable I find him irritating tbh.
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Post by Rory on Aug 5, 2023 9:54:36 GMT
Patrick Duffy is doing the Twelve Angry Men tour.
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Post by Rory on Aug 4, 2023 15:45:41 GMT
Yes it's interesting. Years ago a show of his like Frank & Percy or this new play with Seagrove and Shaw would have been dead certs for Shaftesbury Avenue or the Haymarket, now both are doing Windsor and I suspect won't transfer in. His last West End run was Rob Madge at the Ambassadors but nothing before that for quite a while.
He did have a few interesting shows over the years. Plague Over England at the Duchess, On the Waterfront at the Haymarket, Let the Right One In at the Apollo stand out for me, and I did have a soft spot for The Exorcist at the Phoenix.
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Post by Rory on Aug 4, 2023 11:33:13 GMT
Such a prolific figure back in the day but he hardly does anything now in the West End.
I wonder is it just because shows are so expensive to run now in London and he just wants to recycle his tours?
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Post by Rory on Aug 4, 2023 9:55:18 GMT
Micky Flanagan now doing 2 weeks in the Lyric in October, so no 'proper' show then to replace Aspects of Love. A shame it had to close, all the more so as they obviously struggled to line something up to replace it.
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Post by Rory on Aug 1, 2023 21:27:35 GMT
Noticed there’s more seats near the front appearing on the website now (direct with ATG) - but of course as it’s them they’re at crazy prices - for the handful of dates I looked at in Sept and early Oct they’ve hiked the centre front row of the dress and some premium centre stalls to £245! Seems crazy given it’s generally not selling that well - you’d have thought the prices may start going the other way. Amazed I got centre row C For £87.50 when it went on sale and they’re now asking £175 for the ends of the row. Greedy buggers.
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Post by Rory on Aug 1, 2023 9:47:57 GMT
Does the Donmar give credit notes if you can't go? They offered me one when I couldn't go. Thanks very much for replying.
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Post by Rory on Aug 1, 2023 9:13:09 GMT
Does the Donmar give credit notes if you can't go?
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Post by Rory on Jul 30, 2023 11:14:23 GMT
Saoirse Ronan had done The Crucible on Broadway before Macbeth at the Almeida.
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Post by Rory on Jul 30, 2023 7:46:03 GMT
Rumours on another thread that this may be transferring to the Prince Edward.
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Post by Rory on Jul 30, 2023 7:14:22 GMT
You think it might be, or it is?
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Post by Rory on Jul 30, 2023 6:38:39 GMT
I now know what is going into the Prince Edward. MrBarnaby has been very wrong for once, apparently it was secured weeks ago. It's not Dear England, is it?!!
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Post by Rory on Jul 29, 2023 7:44:52 GMT
And can't resist saying **yet again** that the pricing in the West End is absolutely outrageous. I thought for a while 'well people are prepared to pay so they'll keep on doing it' but actually, I just don't think people either can afford or are routinely prepared to pay whacko prices anymore in a cost of living crisis and that is why shows are closing or struggling (I know the train service is terrible too; I'm surprised all of you who live in England (I don't) aren't out on the streets with sheer frustration and burning anger by now demanding change).
I remember booking a ticket by phone to see Buried Child at the Trafalgar Studios in 2016 and saying to the girl at ATG (where else?) that it was outrageous that best seats were £67.50. It was the first time I had ever seen such extortionate pricing, as I thought at the time. Now we're conditioned to almost view £67.50 as relatively cheap and that would probably now only get you Row Q at the Harold Pinter behind a column if you're lucky. The last 7 years of price increases have been a gradual disaster for the West End and one day someone will look back at it and wonder what the hell they were thinking.
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Post by Rory on Jul 29, 2023 7:30:54 GMT
Three shows closing early isn't a sign that there is some sort of slump IMO indeed we've had plenty of shows sellout like The Motive and the Cue, Dear England to name but two. I wonder if theatre owners especially in London are more ruthless nowadays since so many shows are wanting theatres and they're simply not available. In the case of the Lyric and Prince Edward, both Aspects of Love and ATP were limited runs rather than open ended. It is always said that there are more shows wanting theatres than there are theatres which are available to house them. I'm not so sure that is true. Two examples (1) the number of times 2:22 has had to fill in, and (2) there's was a 13 week slot at the Lyric which Nimax hasn't been able to fill that easily by the looks of it. Six performances of a concert slap bang at the end of week 3 of 13 doesn't suggest there were loads of productions able to go there for 12 or 13 weeks at short notice (and I know it takes time to mount a show but the point is that nothing seemed to be circling waiting to swoop in to the Lyric). Just a thought.
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