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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 7, 2019 14:42:11 GMT
Ah yes, stage dooring. I've already said my piece on the subject really. I'm pro-SD, as long as participants behave with proper decorum. I've found all actors I've stage-doored don't mind it, and some even bask in it.
As I've gotten older (and hopefully wiser) however, yeah, I'm might step back from it a bit.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 4, 2019 15:48:46 GMT
~appears~
The Jackson 5 were pretty bad. Idk why but their songs just grate on me, maybe due to Michael's jarring child voice. Thankfully his solo work is a different story, but his early stuff was... eww. So I can't wait to sit in Motown the Musical and have to suffer through five of their songs.
~disappears back into the void, avoiding the oncoming barrage of tomatoes~
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 20, 2018 18:54:21 GMT
Quality Street, because even though Cadbury > Nestle for the most part, their strawberry and orange cremes taste miles better imo. And mildly exciting fact: the Quality Street factory is a 15 minute drive away from me
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 2, 2018 19:42:36 GMT
It was a very dull part one to the final Dalton didn't sing well in his duet - but I still expect him to win The XF final used to be a huge event. My mum used to be an avid viewer, but now even she's stopped watching. It's all a bit low rent, now. Exactly the same with my mum. She's had enough of it now, and has been converted to the Strictly side. (EDIT: oh for heaven's sake, I've messed this thread up, haven't I? Sorry, I shouldn't be allowed access to the internet)
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 2, 2018 19:41:34 GMT
My mum used to be an avid viewer, but now even she's stopped watching. It's all a bit low rent, now. Exactly the same with my mum. She's had enough of it now, and has been converted to the Strictly side.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 2, 2018 19:39:25 GMT
I wasn't watching last night but I heard something about Simon slagging off Fleur East? Like he was praising the Scarlett girl and didn't want her to end up drinking worm juice in the jungle?
Funny coming from him who put Fleur onto his record label then failed to make her a global megastar. Also he's probably jelly about IACGMOOH's ratings compared to his now train wreck of a programme.
Can't believe at one time in my life I used to like this git.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 2, 2018 19:30:39 GMT
Doctor Who series 11 has not been very enjoyable.
Nothing to do with the acting (except Yaz's actress isn't great), and nothing to do with the fact the doctor is now a woman (I like Jodie!), but it's just... meh. I feel the stories have been bland, uninspired, and Chris Chibnall needs to be sacked as head writer. I reach around 10 minutes before switching off some of the episodes cos it's just blah blah blah too much chatter, not enough action, and this seems to be a common theme throughout the series, to me anyway. Also not enough aliens.
Out of the eps I've seen, only 2 I've found watchable so far (The Woman Who Flew To Earth and Kerblam!)
I feel a bit safer admitting this on here rather than the cesspool that is Twitter, because dare say you don't like DW because of this and that and you'll be ripped to pieces.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Nov 17, 2018 21:37:25 GMT
I found the ad quite tolerable, at least in visual terms. Nicely executed. Not the best JL ad ever in existence, though, but not the worst thing I've ever seen.
It made my mother cry, but mainly because Your Song was the track used at her brother's funeral and it struck her hard.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Oct 24, 2018 17:49:59 GMT
I did find the tone just a little too preachy in Ep 3. It needed a stronger plot than random racist alien to actually make it more than a history lesson. Glad I wasn't the only one who thought that. I don't mind the history lesson eps when they are executed well (eg. that ep with Vincent Van Gogh), but this? Meh. The bad guy was awful, the storyline was just lazy, and yeah, I was beginning to get earache from the preachy-ness and rambling, especially from Yaz and the Doctor to an extent. I appreciate they want to get a message across, but I wouldn't have done it like that. Plus the absolute tat of a song they put on at the end of the episode after the pivotal moment on the bus was a very bad idea. OK, there was some redeeming qualities: Rosa Parks' actress wasn't half bad at all, and Bradley Walsh in anything is never not a good thing, imo.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Oct 13, 2018 11:04:05 GMT
Best: Richard II at the Globe, if my avatar hasn't made that blatantly obvious. First play to make me properly well up and cry. (Found a couple critics were a bit ageist saying Charles Edwards was too old to play Richard II, even though David Tennant is only a couple years younger than CE when he reprised the role a year later, and nobody batted an eyelid.) Honourable mentions: Curious Incident. Struck a cord with me and was just spectacular, plus I was sitting in one of the special prime numbered seats and got a free badge Comedy About A Bank Robbery. Fantastic, and arguably better than its sister play down the road. Also the first play to make me cry with laughter. Worst: Never seen an absolutely dire production (yet), but I'd say it's a tie between Waste at the National and Showstoppers at the Apollo. Waste because most of it went over my head and it draaaaaaaaaaged on, and Showstoppers because I had a rubbish audience who shouted out the worst ideas for a musical (it turned into some musical set in Wales with this rugby team and idk...).The improv was good and inventive, but I found it not very funny and mostly vulgar. I'm sure the show is great every other night, but the one I went to was underwhelming. (Bear in mind I don't visit London often as I live so far away so I haven't seen a lot of shows, even the popular ones, but yeah.)
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Oct 4, 2018 21:00:19 GMT
{Spoiler - click to view} Glad fish lips went, couldn't stand her.
But then, I can't stand any of them, so... Also I cringed so hard when the boys tried to ask about the "octopus" with a 40" hose that my face nearly caved in.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Sept 19, 2018 18:11:32 GMT
DICK VAN DYKE RETURNS AND I AM ALL FOR IT. And did somebody say something about ANGELA LANSBURY BEING IN THIS? Oh my HEART!
But as gracious and humble as Dame Julie was about not appearing in it to give Emily all the glory, uuuuuuuuuuuuugh just to see the tiniest wee glimpse of her somewhere or just to hear her voice for a second would be the cherry on top.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Sept 19, 2018 17:54:15 GMT
I've dived quite late into this show, and honestly, having seen s1 and half of s2, it's proving to be a very fun ride. I like being entertained and educated all at once. I'm definitely not a royalist, but this is very enjoyable. Whatever people's view on it, it cannot be argued that the acting is some of the finest ever put to screen. Seriously! Claire deserved that award, her Liz was exceptional. While I'm excited to see how the older royals will fair, I'm keen to see older/recast Martin Charteris. Why? Well a) this will be the season when {Spoiler - click to view} he finally becomes the queen's private secretary (in 1972, after nearly two decades serving as assistant private sec under Michael Adeane) and b) his new actor is a dish... and I'll leave it at that.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Sept 12, 2018 6:23:05 GMT
So I saw this last week and have to say I was pleasantly surprised by how good it actually is. Granted, seeing it twice helped a lot (and skimming thru YT videos on Uranium 235 and 238) but yeah it was like half drama, half science lesson.
Everybody was fantastic, no fluffed lines or anything. The Minerva is one of those rare theatres where there are technically no bad seats/restricted view, so the actors felt very close. It was very dramatic and moving in places (and even funny, partly thanks to Patricia Hodge), especially at the end when Charlie Edwards recounted his return to war-torn Berlin and having to walk past starving children etc and his voice begins to break.
I also attended the Q&A later, which was highly fascinating, and at one point Patricia described Michael Blakemore as the human form of Eeyore, which got a tremendous laugh from the audience.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Sept 6, 2018 10:30:52 GMT
Usually Travelodge here (but they can be depressing). Has anyone here used hostels ? Stayed in hostels twice now, once in a shared room, the other I got a private ensuite. I will stay on a hostel again but only if there's a private room. Sharing a room with strangers, for me at least, was awful. There were only 6 of us all together, but the issue was 5 of them were all part of the same group, and I was this Billy No Mates who'd just invaded their space. I felt so alone, and it was rather embarrassing. I had little to no privacy. I always pay extra for my own space now.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Sept 5, 2018 5:51:03 GMT
Last night at Copenhagen at the Minerva. So this play does require a lot of concentration from the audience in order to keep up with it all (if you're just the average Joe like me anyway). Apart from the odd cough, it was deathly silent.
Part way through Act Two, a guy decides it was a good idea to open a pack of sweets. In a normal theatre this would get the odd side glance, but because of how intimate this theatre was, and the fact that everybody was in deep concentration, it made the rustling sound more jarring, and the man got several looks and very annoyed glares from the audience, inc myself. The rustling soon disappeared and never cropped up again 😅
Must have been awful for Paul Jesson to get through his lines without being distracted by the sweetie man sat about a couple or so metres behind him. It didn't seem to phase him though.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Aug 8, 2018 18:41:11 GMT
Had a wonderful phone conversation with a customer at work the other day. Funny lady from Wales who owned three dogs that kept attacking her as she was trying to order things from a catalogue. We had such a laugh.
We are told at work that if a customer wants to ramble, we let them. Obviously at some point we have to tell them we have other customers to attend to, but as most of them are elderly, they may be lonely or may not have chatted to anybody for days, so we let them have a good natter.
Well, I spent HALF AN HOUR on the phone to her, and as pleasant and wonderful and uplifting as it was, I'd hate to see her face when she opens the phone bill.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Aug 8, 2018 18:31:07 GMT
Bumping this as previews start in just over a week's time. Was taken aback rather by how well this is selling despite the apparent lack of publicity. Seats seem scarce. True, the Minerva looks to be an intimate venue, with 310 seats at full capacity, but it helps Copenhagen is an established, multi award-winning play, and having it be directed by Blakemore again is a bonus. Oh and the cast too. They're all right, I guess
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Aug 3, 2018 19:18:40 GMT
Mine is the same as here, basi1faw1ty. Will mainly tweet stuff and nonsense, don’t expect a load of theatre stuff. I follow a few comedians and joke accounts and do like to RT humourous videos and anecdotes and the like, just stuff that gets me through my mundane life 😅 My art sometimes crops up on there too. I already follow a couple of you lot from before I joined this place, and I always have room for a few more 😁
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jul 28, 2018 18:22:33 GMT
OK, right, this Carrie person. I've seen her come up numerous times and still I've never heard of her. Ever. What does she do? Why is she a famous? Me no comprende.
Do I want to know why? Not really. But I love a good gos and want to know why she's always talked about when it comes to stage door.
Will I likely not make it out alive if I dive into the CHF thread(s)?
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jul 28, 2018 18:08:48 GMT
Talked to one of the actors of Titanic the Musical today at the Alhambra, Bradford. He informed me it was the first theatre of the whole tour so far to have actual functioning air conditioning. I wondered maybe the air cons of the previous theatres were just broken but he goes, "Nope. They just didn't have them."
So they have been to *takes breath* Bromley, Blackpool, Nottingham, Northampton, Plymouth, Edinburgh, Birmingham Hippodrome, Glasgow, Sheffield, Dublin, Southampton Mayflower, Belfast, Cardiff Millennium Centre, and Manchester Lowry, yet NONE of these places had air con?? Surely not?!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jul 28, 2018 17:38:43 GMT
Matinee of Titanic the Musical at the Alhambra. Had a phone go off playing the BBC News alert jingle/noise at the start of act 2, due to a man not being quick enough turning his phone off. His wife/sister/carer/whoever it was snatched it from him looking very irate. All was fine from then on... But then a child of about 9 or 10 sat next to me began drinking very loudly. And when there was nothing left in her cup, she kept sucking on her straw, and all you could hear was this horrid gurgling noise. How can you make sucking on a straw sound so jarring? There must've been something wrong with the mother cos it took her 10 minutes to tell her to shut up. If she had continued for a second longer, I would've had to resort to using the Death StareTM. Fortunately it never got to that.
NB: Good behaviour alert! At the interval, a child on the front row started clearing up bits of paper from the floor that the actors had thrown into the audience in act 1.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jul 1, 2018 9:44:56 GMT
Pineapple on pizza. Whoever decided to make it a thing needs to be hung, drawn and quartered.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jul 1, 2018 9:37:15 GMT
I’d like to get some of you guys’ opinion on autograph hunters, if you do have any to share. I was on the fence about them up until I was in London last month, and now I don’t like them. (I nearly made a new thread but decided to just bump another.)
Long ramble ahead, you have been warned:
So there I was at the Nash with 5 blokes split into two groups; 3 to the left of me, 2 to the right. One out of the trio, who was bearded and of a large build, showed off this huge book/binder filled with actors’ headshots to his companions. I overheard them seeming to give each other tips on the best times to stage door for the best chance of catching a certain actor etc. I approached them and enquired who they were after. Beardy pointed to four people: Charles Edwards, John Sackville and Jonathan Slinger of Absolute Hell, and then a woman from either Nine Night or The Scottish Play. Alarm bells should’ve gone off that they hadn’t even set foot inside the Nash as Slinger had been indisposed for weeks. But still, the stupid naive child that I am, asked them if they’d seen the show, and ofc they all go “no”.
After I’d stumbled into a couple more people, inc Anne Marie Duff of The Scottish Play and another cast member from AH, Charles came out. He seemed to ignore the trio and head straight for me, maybe cos I was stood in the right place and just happened to be the first face to greet him or he’d recognised me, whatever. So we say hi and exchange pleasantries and all that lovely stuff. (I didn’t want anything off him btw, I just fancied a chat.) Over his shoulder, I could see the trio looking like a pack of hyenas ready to pounce on him at any given second, so I sort of said, “Oh sorry, I’ll let you let sign for these guys first” motioning towards the men, so I could get rid of them quicker.
And then when CE had dealt with them, he turned back to me and I was about to resume our conversation when a 6th man (who was old and looked like a tramp, with an unsettling aura about him) came out of nowhere and sort of pushed in front of me, wielding a pile of maybe 7 or 8 DVD covers, and the poor bloke had to sign them all. Without a word of thanks or even an acknowledgement of appreciation, the old dude walked away. Well that was just splendid.
So do these people expect actors to come and give them their time when they themselves haven’t put the effort in to go see the show (the Nash is not expensive, in general) they’ve put their blood, sweat and tears into? Then they just pop these scribbles inside a drawer to gather dust or flog it on eBay for a quick buck? Yes, call me naive, but that’s just plain wrong. No wonder actors avoid the stage door or flat out refuse to sign stuff when you have gits like these swanning about, leaving genuine fans in the dust.
TL;DR: autograph hunters are, if these people are anything to go by, self-entitled, rude, and as tight as a duck’s backside who aren’t genuine fans and just expect actors to give up their time when they cba to give up their’s.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jun 16, 2018 20:24:28 GMT
Random day stint to London today.
Bumped into The Man, The Legend at the Nash. We exchanged pleasantries and hugs. Two of them. (Hugs that is.) He's off filming for The Crown next month with Olivia Colman and co. He was slightly hesitant to tell me in case he wasn't supposed to spill the beans but then was like "Oh, to hell with it" and told me anyway.
Then Anne Marie Duff showed up with some sushi after suffering through-- I mean acting in The Scottish Play.
But my bumping into him made me miss my pre booked train back home and now I'm on a later one sharing a carriage with slightly drunk Love Island fans who keep shouting "GOT A TEEEEEXT!" and making random animal-like noises.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Jun 10, 2018 18:49:01 GMT
It's actually close to, or indeed is, criminally actionable behaviour, in fact. I’ve heard of crazier fan behaviour than that - there’s a Cumberbatch fan who got a copy of his son’s birth certificate, I believe in some attempt to ‘prove’ her conspiracy theory was correct, and a bunch of connected fans who have outright libelled his wife and tried to get hold of her university records. Cumberbitches are among the very very very worst people on this planet.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on May 25, 2018 5:37:45 GMT
Of course I'm not speaking for every actor out there, mine's just an example. Maybe a rare example of an actor who loves the stage door, but alas.
If he can't stop to chat, which he has done from time to time and is very polite about it, I will let him go. He and any other actor is not obliged to do anything out of work hours.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on May 24, 2018 16:51:08 GMT
Just had a read back through this thread, what an insight. I go to stage door if I have a particular favourite in the show (and ignore the rest of the cast!) but I do always worry if I'm bothering them or what they really think of me. I can't be as bad a some though based on this thread, I rarely ask for anything, occasionally a photo, and I always let them go when they want to leave or are in a hurry. And I never buy gifts! I have a certain fave in a certain show at the moment but when I see his beautiful face the ability to speak becomes a real struggle. I try to believe he thinks it's endearing rather than "Omg her again." I have the exact same reservations, you're not alone. I've done it quite a bit and still now, every single time I've felt like when they see me they'll remember me then will be all like "Dammit, not you again" and try to get away. But then I remember a moment that happened a few years ago that helps reassure me a lot: At the end of a show at the NT, I went to round to the SD for one particular actor (mentioning no names but I don't really need to cos I think most of you can probably guess who). When he came out and saw me, he was like "Oh hello you! Lovely to see you again!" but he could tell I was very embarrassed about the fact I had come to see him for like the 500th time and to stage door him again, and I was thinking he didn't want me there bombarding him with my ugly presence every chance I got (even though he gave me such a kind welcome), and I even said something like "Oh hey, I'm sorry, it's me again," and I kept on apologising and laughing awkwardly. So after we talked (technically I stammered) for a couple minutes, he got hold of my programme and signed "Always great to see you", and I burst into (happy, relieved) tears on the train home. NB: TM, you can add my mysterious NT actor to your list if you wish (PS. I started with no gifts, but then gradually I started giving out fan art and truffles as presents *blushes* Handmade stuff goes down really well, I've found.)
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Post by basi1faw1ty on May 24, 2018 12:14:37 GMT
basi1faw1ty I’m glad you enjoyed this. It makes me a bit sad when a good night for the performance is when only 5 people leave at the interval. However I like your review which makes it sound interesting enough for me to want to see it. Oh no I hope you aren't going solely based on my awful review 😅😅 I'd only go if there's affordable tix going (which I believe there is, I've seen £15 seats flying about). It's good but not worth top tier at £60...even if it is 3 hours mainly watching Charles mope about and get drunk and cry, but being very good at it.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on May 24, 2018 9:57:58 GMT
The repeat viewing on Saturday was worth it cus it was actually better second time round, even though I was sat further back than on Thursday.
Charles was better in Saturday, too, distractingly so in fact. His sad moments were a lot sadder and-- I'd better stop myself before I get carried away.
Also Black's Club? Haha well I've never been personally, but from the pics I've seen it is very reminiscent of the set, even down to the colour scheme. Speedy told me the cast went to the club for "research" purposes at the start of rehearsals. (I knew Charles was already a member and it's a members only private club, so maybe he had a hand in getting them all in?)
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