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Post by paulbrownsey on Apr 11, 2019 11:21:57 GMT
For the record, -isms are based in historical power imbalances so although it's possible to be prejudiced against white people, it's not possible to be racist against white people, in the UK and US and similar at least (obviously things get a bit more complicated when you head out to places like Finland). "Reverse racism" just ain't a thing. I know that that's the dogma that people in committees come up with, but actually it's not true.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Mar 29, 2019 16:38:55 GMT
The audience I had at Ghost in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago. During a short period of technical difficulty, we got told over the tannoy to stay seated. Despite this, people went out to the bars. Then all through the song “With You” which came immediately as the curtain rose again, all you could hear was people opening cans and rustling bags of crisps. UGH. I felt bad for the actors too. They did a brilliant job, and it was a tough audience, ie if I hadn’t started clapping after With You, nobody would have. Then in the bows, not a single person stood. I wanted to, but I didn’t want to be the only person, as it was clear that nobody else was going to. Perhaps the audience was full of considerate people who realised how inconsiderate it is to stand and so block the view of the finale/bows of the people behind.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Mar 29, 2019 16:37:25 GMT
I don't think it could be considered "bad behavior" if the audience didn't enjoy it enough to erupt in a standing ovation at the curtain call... Whereas a standing ovation IS bad behaviour because it forces the people behind to stand if they want to see the finale/bows.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Mar 29, 2019 16:35:15 GMT
you should have read the 'I am too wonderful to term my phone off during a show camp' 'I just leave it on silent camp' . on the abc (australia) facebook forums. I wonder if they are attacking Hannah because she is LGBTQI? a women or both. Which makes me wonder if we have all become more dumb then ever. I've never seen the I on the end of LGB etc before, only recently saw about the Q being added. It will be the whole Alphabet soon. I always just used LBB and now stretch to LGBT but beyond that I think it is getting to long. I read somewhere there were 40 odd gender definitions. "LGBT" is in any case an artificial confection, lumping together as it does two entirely different sorts of people. Gay people do not think of themselves as belonging to the other sex. Being gay is not a staging-post en route to being trans. It makes as much sense to lump LGB and T together as it would top declare that all single parents and all sex workers make up "the SPSW community".
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Post by paulbrownsey on Mar 13, 2019 12:56:37 GMT
Odd one on the front row of "Follies" today. Young woman, first 20 minutes crinkling a bag of sweets, tucks them away, leans forward to rest herself on the stage, sits back again. Takes any moment she isn't interested in to re-arrange her bag / coat / foodstuffs etc. BUT her face was a wonderment at the big numbers, and she was clearly not a regular theatregoer and not bright enough to realise she was disturbing anyone around her. Almost inclined to dish out a suspended sentence on this one. Amusingly, at the end, I moved into the aisle to give a standing ovation. Another youngster in the row behind saw me... and followed my example. They can be taught . Ah, a *civilised* standing-ovationer, someone who is aware that there are people behind whose view they will be blocking if they stand in their seat-space. You get a knighthood.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Mar 1, 2019 13:47:52 GMT
By the way the only slight oddity last night was the audience who seemed not to get the show, at least not entirely, and the standing ovation at the end was not total. Perhaps the audience included some considerate people who did not want to block the view of people behind.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Feb 23, 2019 12:09:42 GMT
Felicity Lott is unwell and will not be performing the role of Heidi Schiller at opening night tonight. Replacement TBC. Isn't it odd that the theatre says "TBC", not "TBA"? To confirm something is to make more certain something that has already been provisionally announced, but there has been no provisional announcement of the replacement ...
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Post by paulbrownsey on Jan 24, 2019 15:01:19 GMT
It annoys me that some people seem to think you're going to the toilet at an inconvenient time just to spite them. "Didn't you think to go earlier?" "No. You're right. That never occurred to me. I've never been in this position before. I've been holding it all in since the day I was born and somehow imagined that I could keep doing so forever. I had no idea that I might ever need to urinate or defecate, but now it's happening I've decided to do it right now just to piss you off." What no-one says: "But, yes, I admit, I was in the bar guzzling liquid before the show. Maybe I shouldn't have done that."
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Post by paulbrownsey on Jan 24, 2019 14:50:14 GMT
"To top it all, they jumped to their feet at the end and I couldn’t see the curtain call." Yes, standing ovations are bad behaviour, though most people on this board seem to think you're horrible if you don't like being made to miss the finale/curtain calls because other people stand up in front of you.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Jan 3, 2019 21:38:53 GMT
"with a standing ovation occuring after the staircase from several being the only extreme but throughy deserved. "
Very selfishly blocking the view of the people behind.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Dec 13, 2018 21:44:43 GMT
"What if you're the person who stays sitting in order not to upset the ones behind you, then can't see because everyone in front is up - you then stand, and sure enough get it in the ear from the one behind? Asking for a friend ....." Well, the people to blame are the ones who start it, the selfish so-and-sos who get up and dance and cause these problems for the people behind.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Dec 13, 2018 21:42:21 GMT
Witnessed at a Counterfiet Stones tribute concert (great band, really got the place rocking). Last song of the night, lots of people up out of their seats and dancing, band encouraging it, a great atmosphere. Bloke two rows in front of me, middle of a row, stands up to dance. Very stern older lady directly behind him screeched 'SIT DOWN! I CAN'T SEE THE STAGE!'. What a killjoy! Personally I'd have told her where to go but this bloke sheepishly sat down. Hallelujah for her! Why do you not call HIM a killjoy for preventing her from enjoying the show she'd paid to see? Some theatregoers are so inconsiderate of others--and in this case, SHE was not being inconsiderate; he was.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Dec 13, 2018 21:33:03 GMT
It annoys me that some people seem to think you're going to the toilet at an inconvenient time just to spite them. "Didn't you think to go earlier?" "No. You're right. That never occurred to me. I've never been in this position before. I've been holding it all in since the day I was born and somehow imagined that I could keep doing so forever. I had no idea that I might ever need to urinate or defecate, but now it's happening I've decided to do it right now just to piss you off." But it's possible to think ahead and not take in so much liquid so you don't need to go out during the show ...
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Post by paulbrownsey on Nov 29, 2018 20:54:45 GMT
Just to confirm, I'm not the one woman standing ovation. She looked like a regular, was really into the show, chatted with Jae etc. I think she was just trying to get something special going for the recording. (she was almost in front of me, I was Row A, mistyped it earlier) God put my mind in touch with hers, via the astral plane, and she told me, "I stood up because I have this huge need to be seen applauding and I don't care if I block the view of the person behind because I am special, with lots of self-worth, so I don't have to be considerate of others."
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Post by paulbrownsey on Oct 1, 2018 11:29:14 GMT
That was you being considerate for once. Oh please. Don't be rude. It was a freakin' reaction to your initial overreaction. You can't be rude to someone and not expect it back. What's rude about congratulating you on being considerate of others, not leaping to your feet and selfishly blocking the view of people behind you?
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 30, 2018 20:10:33 GMT
OH MY GOD!! That's so freaking epic!! Standing ovation in front of my laptop! paulbrownsey wasn't behind me, I checked. That was you being considerate for once.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 23, 2018 19:02:51 GMT
What a lot of selfish people on here who need to stand to applaud!
"Standing ovations are a time-honoured tradition" (a) Doesn't mean they're not selfish, 'cos time-honoured traditions can be immoral, wicked, sexist, oppressive ... and selfish ("I'm taking your virginity, young lady", says the lord of the manor; "It's a time-honoured tradition"); (b) they've grown in recent years because of those wretched TV talent shows, which encourage audiences to rise to their feet.
"And if you have mobility issues then presumably you've had the good sense to book an aisle seat anyway"
How nimbly and thoughtlessly people seek to justify their selfishness.
"Then get a front row ticket, that way you can guarantee you are not disturbed at curtain call. Bye. "
i.e. "Get out of my way, I wanna stand and I'm not going to be considerate of people behind; that's not who I am!!!"
"You can stand up if you want to see, no-one's stopping you."
Decency stops me, because I think it wrong to force the people behind me to stand to see the bows/finale. I do have this consideration for others that you lot lack.
"if I want to show appreciation to the hard-working cast for the entertainment I've paid my good money for then I will, and nothing's going to stop me."
What about the hard-earned money paid by the people behind you, who are left to applaud your backside? But then, considerateness won't stop people like you.
"Look at me applauding, look at me applauding" is what standing ovations say.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 23, 2018 15:12:46 GMT
I would love to know in the however-many posts you've made on this board, how many of them are basically this exact post which you seem to rehash over and over and over again! Sometimes what's right needs to be said over and over again. You don't cease to be selfish just because I've told you you're selfish more than once. How can you justify blocking the view of those behind you?
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 23, 2018 15:10:06 GMT
"I have the right to do so if in my opinion an actor or a production deserve it."
Ooh, you and your 'rights'! What about the rights of those who have paid a lot of money for the seat behind you and whose view is impeded because you want to clap on your feet? Sit down and don't be so selfish!
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 23, 2018 14:48:27 GMT
I think that's so rude. I have stood from the Ensemble bowing. If anyone told me to sit down, I'd just keep on standing and clapping and cheering even louder. And I'd make a point of making it bigger... hands in the air cheering. How rude, how dare they. At any show, not just this one. If someone enjoyed it and wants to be appreciative toward the cast, clap and stand away! I do that too! 😂 The rudeness lies entirely in those who stand to applaud and thus make those behind stand too if they want to see the cast taking their bows. What an appallingly inconsiderate lot you are. Perhaps it derives from all that self-esteem they teach in schools these days.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 23, 2018 14:45:55 GMT
The poor girl next to me got told to sit down by the people behind when she stood up to give an ovation to Ashley Day. Good for them. How selfish she was, denying them the sight of the cast taking their bows so she could do her "Look at me applauding" thing. Standing ovations are pure selfishness.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 23, 2018 14:39:59 GMT
"There is no prejudice accepted here, no hatred and no blame. Just love, acceptance and friendship"
Sounds a lovely place, but in my experience the places that advertised themselves like that weren't quite like that.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 6, 2018 14:22:31 GMT
Don't they know Lionel Bart wrote a musical with the same name?
Coming next: someone writes a musical to be called "South Pacific".
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Post by paulbrownsey on Sept 3, 2018 20:36:00 GMT
Bonnie Langford is one of the original triple threats in the UK. She started off her career very young, and was known a precocious child because of the role she played in Just William, she was very much a stage school kid. She did Doctor Who, was in the original London cast of Cats and has worked constantly throughout the years. She was fantastic in Eastenders, showing what an amazing actress she is. She really can do it all. I've booked for 18th Sept, Row G of the stalls. A bargain! I cant wait to see Bonnie in it. Now if they could find a way for her to tap in the finale.... She played Peggy in a UK tour of 42nd Street, oh, about 25 years ago.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Aug 22, 2018 20:06:33 GMT
One fears they will drop the line about how someone can hit you and you don't feel it because you love them.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Jul 27, 2018 14:59:06 GMT
"Few people stood up at the end"
Only a few? Good. That means most people weren't so selfish as force the people behind to stand if they want to see the cast taking their bows.
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Post by paulbrownsey on May 15, 2018 13:18:00 GMT
Now you've lost the plot. To the best of my knowledge Weinstein was sex if you want the contract. Joey and Mrs Simposn were an item i.e. they both enjoyed the situation. The 'contract' was because she was trying to maintain the situation when his head got turned by the new kid in town. Not the same at all. As I said, perhaps the time is not right for this material. We live in a time of headlines and such subtleties would get lost. Not lost the plot. Just pointing out that a rich woman using her money and another's ambitions to get the sex she wants isn't beyond coming out badly under moral scrutiny. Oh, and I've always wondered whether her name was an allusion to Edward VIII's bride. I have read the O'Hara original and I don't think the name "Simpson" figures.
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Post by paulbrownsey on May 14, 2018 19:09:10 GMT
I think you are blinded by "Me Too" to what's going on in Pal Joey. Mrs Simpson is a rich predatory woman who makes Joey sleep with her before she will fund his night club. Or is it all right if a woman does it? Possibly but I think he was attracted by another feminine conquest as much as her wealth, and the financial deal was her way of keeping him interested. She's quite the sophisticated lady and she's fully aware, where as Joey is just a man thinking with his "little brain". "Lost my heart but what of it? My mistake, I agree He's a laugh, but I love it Because the laugh's on me" A similar case in point was the recent An American in Paris. Several on here said they felt uneasy about the 4 guys chasing the uninterested girl. No one commented on the older lady who was clearly modelled on, but not nearly as deeply drawn, as Mrs. Simpson. I felt she was as predatory as the men. I was being *slightly* mischievous. But as for "the financial deal was her way of keeping him interested". Weinstein might have said the same; and he might have been "aware", too. Read more: theatreboard.co.uk/thread/4807/when-book-work?page=2#ixzz5FVLoMYwM
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Post by paulbrownsey on May 13, 2018 11:40:53 GMT
It’s been a loooong time since Dennis Lawson and Sian Philips hooked me into musical comedy with a WE revival of Pal Joey. I thought is so good I went about 5 times in one summer. It doesn’t get revived despite some of the best songs ever, Bewitched, I could write a book (Lady is a Tramp in the film version) etc. I read an interview where Hytner said he wanted to do it but couldn’t work out a ‘fix’ the second half. I’ve never quite understood that. I’m sure just one more Rogers & Hart song added after the interval is needed. Also when it was first produced they were wary of the fact the main character is something of a ‘heel’. Today we are used to plots featuring this and an ending showing Joey, down on his luck until some new woman has the misfortune to meet his considerable charm could show the cyclical behaviour of such characters and end on a bittersweet upnote. (Although in the age of “Me Too” the timing might not be right for a musical about a “loveable rogue”. There’s no suggestion of coercion, but a womaniser he remains.) I think you are blinded by "Me Too" to what's going on in Pal Joey. Mrs Simpson is a rich predatory woman who makes Joey sleep with her before she will fund his night club. Or is it all right if a woman does it?
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Post by paulbrownsey on Apr 2, 2018 15:13:30 GMT
But when will we get a tour with a decently-sized chorus?
Chorus size has dwindled over the years. It's not uncommon to see a total of 17 or 18 performers for something that requires a big chorus. Do we really want to see, say, South Pacific with four nurses and five sailors?
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