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Post by Marwood on May 16, 2024 8:04:50 GMT
When I checked out and got a cab from The Mirage and asked about the planned work, I was told they’re not expecting any ‘major work’ to be carried out before 2027 so I think Love might run for a long time yet. Confirmed that the Mirage will cease operations on July 24th, paying 80 milllion dollars in severance packages to its employees: a shame as I really enjoyed my stay there last year but nothing in Vegas lasts too long 😥
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Post by Marwood on May 13, 2024 17:21:51 GMT
Following Robert Downey Jr. announcing a run on Broadway later this year, Playbill has announced that George Clooney has signed up for a run of Goodnight, and Good Luck on Broadway next year (theatre unconfirmed but apparently it’s a Schubert Theatre)
I’ve seen the film when it was released and from what I can remember I liked it rather than loved it so I will see who is in this before getting too excited about booking something a year in advance, good to see the return of some proper big names on Broadway though.
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Post by Marwood on May 12, 2024 14:02:01 GMT
Long Days Journey Into Night on Saturday
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Post by Marwood on May 11, 2024 17:17:53 GMT
Saw Challengers this afternoon: I liked it rather than loved it, and liked the soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross a lot (although it seemed there wasn’t much material that was stretched out over the running time), I also thought it was too long (the end of that challengers match was dragged out for a ridiculously long time), and not sure if it was necessary to have so many shots with the camera attached to tennis ballls and racquets and while I think I got where that final shot was coming from and it’s intentions, I don’t think anyone that had paid to watch that match would be whooping and hollering. 7 out of 10 from me.
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Post by Marwood on May 9, 2024 20:04:55 GMT
I think it’s more likely that actors of a certain level that let’s say, want to work outside of their usual comfort zone will go to a director like him hoping it will attract artistic respect: not sure if the likes of Bobcat Goldthwaite, Steve Guttenberg and Paulie Shore will be knocking on his door (and him answering)
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Post by Marwood on May 9, 2024 11:29:30 GMT
Robert Downey Jr. making his Broadway debut in this, written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher, starting September 5th. Tickets on sale from May 21st, let’s see if he can outdo Tom Holland for online queues and ticket sales 🤣 All my overseas holidays are spoken for this year so I won’t be investigating but good luck to anybody on here who goes for it.
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Post by Marwood on May 5, 2024 16:49:56 GMT
Staying in Dublin from last Thursday, going back tomorrow and wanting something other to do on a Saturday afternoon that didn’t involve a bar, I finally did the ‘May the 4th Be With You’ thing yesterday and went to see Star Wars Episode 1 yesterday at the Savoy on O’Connell Street. I’ve seen it a few times before and don’t understand some of the hatred that’s been poured towards it and George Lucas, it’s by no means great and a lot of it is clunky, in particular Jar Jar Binks and Jake Lloyd but it has some good moments and doesn’t drag. My main gripe was an old bastard sitting in the row behind me that spent about 90 minutes of its running time arsing about with plastic packets and what sounded like a zip: a few loads ffs from me had no effect, hope he detested every second he was in the, the fucjer.
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Post by Marwood on May 5, 2024 14:27:24 GMT
I’m going to the Wide Awake Festival in Brockwell Park on that date so I can’t make it but hope everyone has a great time: I’d check what’s on at the QEH that night or space might be at a minimum.
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Post by Marwood on May 4, 2024 16:22:25 GMT
I saw the version at the Young Vic (with Julian Barratt) and also thought it was 🫤, will be passing on this.
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Post by Marwood on May 3, 2024 22:31:17 GMT
Well I had booked a front row seat for this to see it next month (mainly for the presence of Nina Hoss in the cast) but have been emailed today to tell me that I will no longer be in the front tie but will be in BB instead with ‘an unrestricted view’ and with a free programme but to tell the truth, I might just say I want a credit after reading the less than glowing reviews on here, but I haven’t seen anything at the Donmar since Saint Joan in 2016 (🫤, had to Google when it was): will it be another 7 years before they put anything on to use a credit against?
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Post by Marwood on Apr 28, 2024 15:27:03 GMT
Brian Cox is doing an audience event at the Leicester Square Theatre on the afternoon of June 2nd including a meet and greet (that I have booked for): I’ve booked a front row seat to see this mid-May so I can meet him knowing he won’t shout out ‘f*** OFF!’ if he asks me if I’ve seen it and I respond in the negative(he might just do that anyway though 🤣)
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Post by Marwood on Apr 28, 2024 12:57:08 GMT
The Black Keys at 3Arena on Friday and Orbital at Vicar Street on Sunday, both in Dublin.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 21, 2024 12:03:41 GMT
Phil Wang at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on Friday.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 13, 2024 21:45:17 GMT
Finally got round to seeing Everyone Says I Love You (mainly because I was going to Paris this weekend): it’s all a bit erm, easy to see why the likes of Edward Norton and Julia Robert’s aren’t renowned for doing musicals (Woody Allen just mumbles and hopes he’s got away with it): when Tim Roth and Paulie from the Sopranos rocked up, that was it for me: I’ll be generous and say five out of ten for the shots of Paris and Venice
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Post by Marwood on Apr 13, 2024 21:39:34 GMT
Ulster American, not been too impressed with anything else.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 13, 2024 17:10:20 GMT
The Jesus and Mary Chain at Elysee Montmartre in Paris tonight.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 11, 2024 15:59:10 GMT
I’m not sure how much of an expert Keith McNally (owner of Balthazar and Minetta Tavern in NYC, amongst others) can lay claim to be, but on his Instagram page today, he says he has seen many productions of Uncle Vanya, and while loved the Donmar version with Simon Russell Beale, Helen McCrory and Mark Strong, this is the best version he’s seen so I guess it’s one of those subjective things.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 6, 2024 22:07:16 GMT
A big kerfuffle kicked off a couple of times in the second act of Standing At The Sky’s Edge tonight, sounded like people coming back from the bar, talking bollocks and their neighbours shushing them and then telling them to shut the funk up: must remember to try not to see musicals in the West End on Saturday nights, the culprits had probably been caning it all day.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 6, 2024 21:55:19 GMT
Saw this tonight from row D of the stalls for £50 that I had booked a few weeks ago(no £20 seats on offer anywhere near where I was sitting when I looked yesterday, the seats next to mine were £90 so if anything was on offer at £20 it was possibly the seats upstairs and round the back where I doubt you could see which years the action was taking place in).
I’ve appreciated the work of Richard Hawley that he has done with the likes of Pulp and the Manic Street Preachers over the years rather than his own work (I saw him supporting Pulp in Dublin last year), I liked the first act but the second went on for far too long, and thought there was no need for a show like this to go on for three hours : refreshing to see a musical that isn’t just a jukebox for a couple of hours but I didn’t think it was that great.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 31, 2024 12:37:53 GMT
Ricky Gervais at the Leicester Square Theatre on Tuesday, Reginald D Hunter at the same place on Friday and Standing At The Skys Edge on Saturday.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 27, 2024 12:55:16 GMT
It’s transferred to the Belasco from now until June, prices have gone up a lot since I saw it but it’s worth seeing if you can.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 24, 2024 16:31:10 GMT
Saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire this afternoon and wasn’t impressed: it was good to see them in NYC but it just carries on for the best part of two hours and then ends without any excitement or real reason to exist (Paul Rudd is given next to nothing to do and apart from Dan Aykroyd, the other original ‘Busters were hardly in it): it opens with a produced by Ghost Corps credit but I don’t think there’s much life left in this franchise: 5 out of 10 from me
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Post by Marwood on Mar 19, 2024 19:20:55 GMT
Friday - David Baddiel: My Family, Not The Sitcom Saturday - The Chemical Brothers at the Royal Albert Hall Sunday - Air at the Coliseum
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Post by Marwood on Mar 18, 2024 18:36:54 GMT
Copied from WOS: Robert Sheehan as Withnail, Adonis Siddique as Marwood. Uncle Monty is Malcolm Sinclar I won’t be able to watch Pie In The Sky again with Uncle Monty in it 🤣 I’ll see if it ends up in London but I’ll probably stick to the film.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 16, 2024 15:29:59 GMT
Micky Flanagan at the Leicester Square Theatre this afternoon.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 15, 2024 20:40:02 GMT
Saw Raising Arizona tonight for the first time since it came out: with the exception of The Big Lebowski I’m not keen on the Coen brothers comedies and didn’t think it was that great, a lot of slapstick and shouting but I wasn’t engaged by what’s happening: I had been pondering seeing Drive-Away Dolls tomorrow afternoon but I’m thinking it might just be more of this (it’s better than Burn After Reading though, I thought that was dreadful)
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Post by Marwood on Mar 14, 2024 21:12:23 GMT
A less than glorious two star review in tonight’s Evening Standard: I’m still thinking American audiences might have been more impressed by the terrible accents (although the more I think back, that is part of the point of this) but overall it just seemed humdrum.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 12, 2024 11:45:46 GMT
I didn’t know the Oscars were being shown on ITV until midnight on Sunday so missed the first few awards (thankfully it was being a lot earlier than I remember them being in at in previous years, and I was surprised ITV showed the whole thing straight through without any ad breaks, although the ‘experts’ they had commenting with Jonathan Ross were all C grade)
I enjoyed Jimmy Kimmels compering, much better than the dross served by at the BAFTAs in recent years and of all the guests announcing the awards, enjoyed Schwarzenegger and De Vito (with a cameo from Michael Keaton) the most, with regards to Pacino at the end, the nominees for Best Picture had already been announced throughout the night, he could have maybe ‘WOOHA!’d it up a little bit when he said Oppenheimer but I think the organisers had told him to make it brief (I notice Bob De Niro didn’t look too impressed when he walked out on stage🤣)
As for the awards themselves, no real surprises but I’m not sure Cillian Murphy gave an amazing performance in Oppenheimer, I would have said Paul Giamatti should have won for The Holdovers but I’m glad that Da’Vine Joy Randolph won for best supporting actress, I thought she thoroughly deserved to win that.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 21:53:16 GMT
The Smile at Hammersmith Apollo tomorrow.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 21:30:00 GMT
Thought it was…ok: glad I didn’t pay too much for a front row seat and there was no lurking at the back of the stage from Billy Crudup. It was about ten minutes late starting but still finished at 9 on the dot, advertised as 80 minutes straight through but it seemed to be a lot longer: Crudups Cockney accent had outrun its welcome well before the ending.
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