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Post by popcultureboy on Feb 14, 2019 8:01:03 GMT
To be honest I wouldn't care a jot if Luke Pasqualino just stood there and spoke gibberish. Preferably in something tight. Or without a shirt. My understanding of the wardrobe choices for him leads me to believe you will be satisfied on one of these fronts.....
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Post by popcultureboy on Feb 12, 2019 9:20:38 GMT
Three and a half hours on the first preview is actually a half hour shorter than I was anticipating for the first preview.
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Post by popcultureboy on Feb 11, 2019 23:47:33 GMT
Josie Walker was announced to be in this right? She's disappeared from the cast list on the website... And indeed from the cast itself.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 31, 2019 9:39:47 GMT
Looks like some £65 seats have been released on the back row of the dress circle for most dates, in case anyone's interested. £65 in previews and £85 in the main run! Dynamic pricing at its most vile. I'm sitting in the back row of the dress, I booked on day one and I paid £45 each for my tickets.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 15, 2019 23:16:42 GMT
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 13, 2019 8:36:50 GMT
Part One isn't. Part Two, somewhat randomly, is. Go figure.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 11, 2019 8:50:51 GMT
Can we just get Jason back? Only as the Pharaoh.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 5, 2019 8:00:08 GMT
Saw this last night. It has two weeks left and by now, it's pretty clear the cast are as fully over it and want it to be done. The advertised finish time is 9:50pm at the Barbican. The curtain call was over and done a bit before 9:35pm last night.
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 20, 2018 7:58:33 GMT
could see The Writer from the Almeida having a late transfer. It's on quite a few End of Year lists, as is Annie Baker's John from the National. I think transferring either of these would be commercial suicide though. And that's coming from someone who absolutely LOVED John.
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 15, 2018 7:59:41 GMT
Fortunately I don’t know any such disturbed arrogant or self indulgent people As those portrayed in this play Hello, good morning and welcome to the winner of "Least Self-Aware Post of 2018".
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 5, 2018 8:06:38 GMT
Being placed in a queue regardless of your reason for visiting the website is one of my many unresolved issues with the NT's online system, though in fairness to them, other theatres also do this when booking opens for a new season. Some people may simply wish to book tickets for a production already on sale or check other information but are unable to do anything for the duration. If phone lines can have an automated system to filter calls, surely websites can also have a simple tab system, eg "Book Tickets For New Season" or "Access Other Areas"? They have had it in the past, so it's weird they don't have it now. When Angels in America booking opened, I remember there was an option when in the queue for "not booking for AIA? Click here to visit the NT website" so it's a bit odd they haven't kept that up.
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 4, 2018 8:05:44 GMT
I guess this means that there is a danger of balloons flying into the audience? Or can an allergic reaction to latex be triggered just by looking at them rather than touching them? It's the latter. The Almeida received a complaint during the run of Hamlet from someone with an allergy to latex so severe that just seeing the balloons had triggered it. I asked at the box office about it when I saw Hamlet in its final week and the warning was up.
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 4, 2018 7:52:07 GMT
The Nash website says it’s running at 3.5 hours with interval. Is this right? Going Saturday night and am gonna need to run back to Charing Cross for the tube and won’t make it for my connection if it’s much longer than a 10.30 finish. Waterloo station is a lot nearer than Charing Cross and has the same tube lines, so that might make the rush for your connection a little less stressful?
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 3, 2018 8:02:00 GMT
Annoying that the Almeida won't give any idea of running time until after the first preview on the 10th. Even an indication such as 3 hours + or 90 mins would be helpful. Regretting booking an evening but seems little chance of being able to swap to a matinee now. I think Hill-Gibbins will be aiming for the 90 minutes end of the running time, rather than 3 hours, so if a late finish time is concerning you, you *should* be fine.
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Post by popcultureboy on Dec 2, 2018 8:21:42 GMT
I found this insufferably smug, up-itself and tedious. I stayed until the end as many have said the second half was better. Well it wasn't for me. I also thought the scenic 'reveal' at the end a complete let-down, looking like a tawdry Christmas display at my local garden centre. And this is exactly why I chose to leave at the interval, despite being told by everyone who had seen it to "stick with it". I loathed the first half so much, I spent the final ten minutes of it staring at the floor, willing it to be over. The friends who had seen it, I asked them to tell me what they thought I was missing in the second half. They told me and..... I have exactly ZERO regrets that I left. None. Not one.
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Post by popcultureboy on Nov 28, 2018 23:28:55 GMT
What's the running time for this please? Nimax website says 2 hours, including interval.
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Post by popcultureboy on Sept 23, 2018 20:34:47 GMT
Tell me there is not a live snake on the stage. I'm afraid the NT website tells you quite the opposite: Please note: This production features strobe lighting. It also contains a real snake, gunshots and scenes that some people may find distressing
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Post by popcultureboy on Sept 17, 2018 8:28:52 GMT
I bring it up every time I see someone rage about it, as it happens, since it's always mystified me. Other agents charge way more, DMT's attitude to dynamic pricing for all their venues more than outweighs a one off fee (and they're also not above charging per ticket booking fees either, as I mention above). To book directly with the theatre online for Bat Out Of Hell, they'll charge you £2.50 for box office collection or posting the tickets. LW Theatres will charge you £1.50 for that. ATG never add any charges for those options, for example. I've noticed for years now, and not just on here, that ATG's reputation for this kind of thing is horrendous, when other companies apply similar charges in slightly different ways and nobody says a peep.
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Post by popcultureboy on Sept 17, 2018 8:09:15 GMT
I don't know about discounts per se, but you can side-step ATG's ridiculous booking fees by booking through the Bush website, if you don't find anything better. "ridiculous booking fees"? It's a one off transaction fee, not a per ticket booking fee (unlike DMT's site if you want to book Height of the Storm, for example). I genuinely don't see how that can be labelled ridiculous?
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Post by popcultureboy on Sept 15, 2018 0:09:32 GMT
A friend went tonight, all excited, and was still fuming at how much he hated it several hours after curtain down. I'll give it a miss I think.
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Post by popcultureboy on Sept 15, 2018 0:08:12 GMT
Everyone saying they can't relate to the piece because they didn't dance or do sports growing up, honestly, were you paying attention to Nancy Crane? Her scene where she, as her teenage self, talks about being able to fly and float, to then deliver her monologue about how as an adult she forgot all about that? EVERYONE can relate to that sense of growing up, growing old, dreams dying and so on. No? For me, THAT is what the piece 100% nailed throughout. It used this dance troupe of 11-13 year olds to talk about the universal sadness of growing up and honestly I've not related more to a piece of theatre in years.
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Post by popcultureboy on Sept 11, 2018 7:00:54 GMT
I saw this last night and despite the reviews, I have such an allergy to adults playing young that I was expecting to hate it. I even contemplated returning my tickets. But I didn't. I went. And I was completely floored by how much I loved it. Great performances and the writing, the writing. How completely perfectly it nailed being a teenager and being an adult looking back on your crazy teenage self. The high hopes, the shattered dreams, the reality behind the facade we show the world all the time. It's only 100 minutes and it's easy to dismiss this as being slight, but it packs more in to that 100 minutes than some plays manage in twice that time. Far deeper and more moving than you expect it to be, but also hysterically funny and silly in places. Just like real life. Which is the point, no?
Oh, and this song? I can NOT get enough:
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Post by popcultureboy on Sept 1, 2018 7:32:21 GMT
Roxie was a bit of a stretch for her then, if I remember rightly.....
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Post by popcultureboy on Aug 25, 2018 21:20:11 GMT
You're probably right. Dame Ian is more famous and the Oliviers love that. Kyle Soller gives the better performance though. I don't disagree......
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Post by popcultureboy on Aug 25, 2018 7:06:44 GMT
You may find the winner is actually in the theatre next door playing his final Shakespearean role.......
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Post by popcultureboy on Aug 22, 2018 22:41:04 GMT
We know she's not doing Waitress. Yes, that's the point I was making.
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Post by popcultureboy on Aug 22, 2018 6:54:46 GMT
As long as this show keeps to a tiny theatre if and when it transfers, I'll be happy. Its extremely intimate and would be completely lost in even some of the 'small' West End theatres. The issue with that is the set is too big for a lot of the smaller houses in the West End. If it does come in, it will have to go somewhere medium sized, with the same sort of capacity, audience wise, as it had when it played Circle In The Square.
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Post by popcultureboy on Aug 22, 2018 6:47:58 GMT
She was posting on Twitter about learning lines - doubt she'd be doing that already if it is CFA given it doesn't open for ages! An early December start for CFA in Dublin is only 3 months away now. And is three months nearer than the planned start for Waitress, so it's likelier she's learning lines for CFA than Waitress, no?
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Post by popcultureboy on Aug 21, 2018 21:25:38 GMT
I’m pretty sure Rachel Tucker teased that she had news coming later this month, so could be related? That would be lovely, though I also wonder whether she's Come From Away bound?
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Post by popcultureboy on Aug 21, 2018 6:51:20 GMT
Which Strallen will get the lead role, we ask.....
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