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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 18, 2023 16:03:22 GMT
I HATED this at the Barbican... I was like The Voice BattleRound the Musical. Everyone trying to outsing each other without a single thought for actually portraying characters or telling a story. Mess... I found it one of the most moving experiences I've ever had in a theatre. I had to sit outside the Barbican for twenty minutes afterwards to compose myself. But that's the beauty of theatre, it would be boring if we all enjoyed the same things Have to admit I didn't care for the Barbican version either. At one point I was really angry and for all the wrong reasons. I do agree about emotional involvement though. The first time I saw West Side Story on stage, I couldn't even applaud, while the rest of the audience were leaping to their feet and cheering. I was still in the moment, and awash with tears.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 16, 2023 16:57:52 GMT
I love Gina Beck. I really must find my way to Chichester!
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 14, 2023 23:27:17 GMT
From Lucinda Coyle on Twitter:
"Please please respect the theatre!! Another stalls fight leading to a show stop at @moulinmusicaluk - @atgtickets staff were incredible but full applause must go to the cast who mid scene simply made the choice to walk off stage and not be shouted over."
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 13, 2023 20:50:04 GMT
It feels like he's been in it for about 25 years ... although only appearing in approximately 4-5 performances a week ... His bio on Twitter describes him as "Full-time Dad, Part-time Actor" - he must have meant it literally!
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 13, 2023 0:02:40 GMT
Best takeover in a role - Lucie Jones in Wicked. She's hardly ever there!
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 11, 2023 15:57:05 GMT
I'm reminded of the Palladium's Pantoland (aka the Donny Osmond Show). When Donny entered and sang his first number, a woman in the front row defied all the efforts of the FOH staff to stop filming. As Donny worked his way across the stage, he saw her, stopped in front of her, waved and said 'hi there' - thus condoning her filming and giving her a virtually personalised video. What can you do?
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 8, 2023 16:27:00 GMT
I'm getting fed up with these ludicrous prices. Again, will wait in hope for offers.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 4, 2023 16:28:07 GMT
I actually rang the box office of my local theatre when the seating plan refused to let me leave a single seat. The guy on the end of the phone was equally adamant that a single seat could not remain. He refused to entertain the idea that someone might wish to go alone!
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 2, 2023 23:34:38 GMT
Never seen Aspects of Love. Unless some decent offers come up nearer the time, with these prices it will stay that way!
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 26, 2023 19:02:15 GMT
So for all the venues that Gareth Gates is missing, do we think they will be announcing another actor, or will the understudy take over the role?
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 24, 2023 15:33:03 GMT
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 23, 2023 19:36:56 GMT
Is he not already in it as the spivvy fitness blokes mate? They shared steroid needles and now have HIV? He has a man bun and looks a bit like Bradley Jaden. I know who you mean (I had to double check) - the character called Brett. Apparently he's played by Fabrizio Santino, who used to be in Hollyoaks. There is a likeness.
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 23, 2023 18:17:17 GMT
Will he be keeping the bun? Interesting - there are already two characters, both dark haired, with man buns.
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 22, 2023 20:34:10 GMT
It seems she's taking herself off Twitter for a while.
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 18, 2023 11:43:25 GMT
Seems like Phantoms and Valjeans are all interchangeable!
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 14, 2023 23:30:46 GMT
Maybe they reversed their usual sitting positions and she automatically nudged where he usually sits? Or perhaps, like me, she had learnt the word throuple this week I've just Googled it!
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 12, 2023 10:47:05 GMT
I’m not sure Paul could have done what he did to child 4 if he was a random kid from the audience! That's what I thought at the time!
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 11, 2023 23:54:29 GMT
At the show I went to Paul said at the end of the sketch "Don't worry, he's part of the show!", after he ran back on at the end. Ah! Paul did say something which I didn't catch, and the little boy did come back on stage.
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 11, 2023 23:44:18 GMT
I don't know what's wrong with me. Ever since I returned to theatregoing post-Covid I haven't loved a single show or wanted to go back. I was at the Palladium this afternoon, and this was no different. The beanstalk was spectacular, you could see where the money had gone, but I was really disappointed with the panto as a whole. It was just the same old, same old - amusing but that's all. I have been to every Palladium panto since 2016, so maybe I'm getting bored with them, I don't know. I thought the cast seemed a bit bored with the whole thing too. I hadn't seen Louis Gaunt before and was quite impressed with him, though, and Paul Zerdin's sketch with the kids was hysterical (I presume Child 4 was a set-up?), so it wasn't all bad! I need to get my theatre mojo back! Did Child 4 say that he lives in South Kensington? Yes he did.
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 11, 2023 23:19:53 GMT
Palladium panto this afternoon. Lady next to me keeps nudging me and exclaiming. I would sort of have understood it if she'd been on her own, but she was with her husband. Why pick on me and not him?
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 11, 2023 23:16:19 GMT
I don't know what's wrong with me. Ever since I returned to theatregoing post-Covid I haven't loved a single show or wanted to go back. I was at the Palladium this afternoon, and this was no different. The beanstalk was spectacular, you could see where the money had gone, but I was really disappointed with the panto as a whole. It was just the same old, same old - amusing but that's all. I have been to every Palladium panto since 2016, so maybe I'm getting bored with them, I don't know. I thought the cast seemed a bit bored with the whole thing too. I hadn't seen Louis Gaunt before and was quite impressed with him, though, and Paul Zerdin's sketch with the kids was hysterical (I presume Child 4 was a set-up?), so it wasn't all bad! I need to get my theatre mojo back!
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 2, 2023 13:52:24 GMT
With a bit of strategic planning you can avoid the adverts. I record it, and start watching when the actual programme is about half way through. By the time I've caught up and fast forwarded through all the ads, I'm virtually at the reveal before it gets announced on social media.
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Post by longinthetooth on Jan 2, 2023 13:48:22 GMT
First five or six rows from the front, without a doubt (I draw the line at premium). Obviously, though, these seats are frequently expensive and I often do sit elsewhere, to the sides or further back - and therein lies my problem. Thinking of the shows I haven't particularly enjoyed, it's always been because I haven't been up close to enjoy the action. I get very easily distracted by anything going on around me, so stages in the round are a no no. For example, at From Here To Eternity recently, I spent half my time glancing at the audience directly opposite or on the slip seats up the side.
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 23, 2022 17:25:53 GMT
Talking about the light-up wands that kids wave around at pantomimes reminds me of the time when two little darlings decided to stage a sword fight with them in the Dress Circle aisle. No one attempted to stop them, and then the mother made a loud phone call to make arrangements for their lift home - before the curtain call had even started.
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 18, 2022 18:20:55 GMT
People do realise this is bad behaviour at a show and not being a miserable sod at a show. I suspect some people would ban laughter at a comedy gig if they had their way. You say that. but I actually did get told off once for laughing too much at a comedy!
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 13, 2022 23:27:49 GMT
They have tickets available in the OLT sale, from January onwards. I haven't looked too closely, but the tickets they are asking £50 for are usually £89.50 on the LW site.
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 9, 2022 19:41:08 GMT
I was about to say, who on earth (or Oz!) is Miss Coddle?
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 6, 2022 17:39:43 GMT
I must be missing something here. I was at screaming point with frustration watching the film, leaving me with no wish whatsoever to see the show, but everybody's raving about it!
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 2, 2022 20:45:45 GMT
Wow that opening was not good at all. I thought it was dreadful. As an avid musicals lover, I began to question whether I even liked them!
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Post by longinthetooth on Nov 28, 2022 22:09:03 GMT
I see. This also brought up a few photos of the Wicked scene in question showing four of these characters on stage, when I saw it recently there were only two. Is this a change that has been made or was it just a shortage of cast? I think it was always 3 in London and 2 on tour but when I saw the show in September it was also just 2 then. I assumed it was cast illness rather than cutting it down for good but not sure now? Yes, exactly this. There used to be three of them (I always called them the Tweedle Dums and Tweedle Dees!), but a couple of weeks ago there were only two, and I also wondered if it was down to lack of cast through sickness.
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