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Post by alicechallice on Oct 25, 2017 9:02:32 GMT
Looks like The Donmar will have to get the restraining order out for Ryan as Jonathan Bailey has been in cast in The York Realist! @ryan, did you spot this too?
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 22, 2017 21:53:37 GMT
I’ve just spotted a Strictly first: I’ve noticed the odd sweaty armpit but never a sweaty crack... i noticed that!! Aljaž, right?
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 21, 2017 19:35:39 GMT
The Winslow Boy is a co-prod between Birmingham Rep & CFT and is playing there in Feb.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 20, 2017 14:43:08 GMT
It still says 2hrs on the website.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 20, 2017 12:10:46 GMT
Would Claudia Winkleman have been a safer choice?
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 16, 2017 9:25:12 GMT
Several posts which name people completely un-involved with the Weinstein case have been removed.
The thread is called 'The Weinstein effect', so not necessarily restricted to just discussing the one man but the implications of how this case will determine our responses to such behaviour from other individuals.
If I, for instance, had spoken of inappropriate behaviour directed towards myself by the person we were discussing, would the posts have been removed? There are plenty of places elsewhere online it has been discussed.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 10, 2017 11:15:24 GMT
I imagine The Weinstein Company, who are the ones that have sacked him, will still be continuing with any plans they had.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 6, 2017 22:55:09 GMT
I think I must have just been lucky... The other day I spotted Danny Boyle at Kings Cross station. I approached him with caution and told him that I thought his work on our Olympics Opening Ceremony was nothing short of a masterpiece, and I found myself getting quite emotional talking about it when I said that he made so many of us immensely proud. His smile widened and he asked my name. Taking my hand, he introduced himself (not necessary!) and he made me feel that I had made his day as well as him making mine... (I reckon that’s quite a skill...) I’ve always had really nice responses when I’ve approached “famous” people, but perhaps the ones I’ve been drawn towards have always been the nice ones. (One exception, many moons ago- Patricia Routledge. A far cry from Kitty, the Alan Bennetts and Hyacinth Bouquet... A real shock.) Oh no! What did I (she) say?
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 5, 2017 17:26:11 GMT
Does anybody want to buy my ticket for Gemini on Sunday evening at 18:00, Empire Haymarket? Happy to do mates rates.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 5, 2017 14:03:38 GMT
I think they felt it was ready. Obviously, that wasn't everybody's opinion. I suppose the actors had rehearsed it to death & they had performed to few "private" audiences and asked for feedback.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 5, 2017 12:25:14 GMT
I think DTDD would be great done like that, but would be pretty tricky. Love the idea, though. Anyone remember the NT's Great Britain? Like DTDD but with no jokes and it seemed to go on for hours I recall Hytner saying some bollocks about its urgency and so no need for previews They weren't allowed previews! They couldn't perform until the phone hacking trial was finished. I think it was on a Wed/Thu, then they suddenly announced the show was starting the following Monday. By which time it was around the time of what would have been the scheduled opening night had they been able to perform it in the original slot allotted for it. They kept the theatre dark for a few weeks in the hope that they would be suddenly able to open but couldn't do any publicity prior to that.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 3, 2017 22:40:41 GMT
She wasn't addressing us, she was pleading with Tom. Good ending I thought, interesting when you try & contextualise with just how many young people go missing all the time now.
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 1, 2017 22:55:15 GMT
Judi playing Judi again, this time in a black frock? No ta. This puts me in mind of the Donald Trump tweets about Meryl Streep!
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 1, 2017 22:29:11 GMT
... tidy my room!
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Post by alicechallice on Oct 1, 2017 22:27:10 GMT
I think the delayed start time of the actual in-hold dancing counted against her, Shirley mentioned Brian having more "dance content" in her reason for saving him. She only alluded to it last night when critiquing Davood but Joe & Chizzy's routines were also guilty of having too much "fannying about" (as Len would have put it) at the start and the new head judge is obviously from the same school of thought on this. However, I wasn't entirely convinced all of Brian's content was actually Cha Cha. Definitely the wrong choice imo.
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 29, 2017 18:50:44 GMT
I think leaving your bag on a seat and standing near it - fine Leaving your bag on a seat and going to the loo - not fine How do they know you're in the loo and haven't actually left it there and left the theatre? Yes, you're quite right. I much prefer to have my bag searched on the way in, rather than having to claim it back & having people make remarks to me as I do so. This was pre-Manchester though so they weren't really doing bag checks. And as pointed out above, if I was suicide bomber, even when I had my bag back in my possession, it wouldn't have made the rest of the audience any safer.
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 29, 2017 15:37:30 GMT
Oh and I almost went on the terrorism list too. Thank God Theresa May was out of the country or she'd have had me deported. I was at the end of the row and so I stood against the wall waiting for the show to start having a little aperitif. I'd left my bag on the (MY!) upturned seat as people kept coming back and forth along the row and with it being narrow leg room (and the audience being mostly geriatric), my bag would have tripped them up. And then the lady next to me reported my lovely bag to an usher who started speaking into her walkie-talkie. I was trying to prevent an accident and was almost accused of being a terrorist! The cheek of it. "Who leaves a bag around in London?" she cried. "Someone who is stood next to it and trying to stop you from tripping up you old heffer, that's who!" I replied. We didn't speak after that. A similar thing happened to me at Who's Afraid...? at the Harold Pinter earlier in the year. Despite the fact that a woman in my row had let me squeeze past to find my seat and leave my bag there while I went to the toilet, she didn't say anything to the fire warden who then removed said bag. When I returned to my seat, I had a very similar "you don't leave bags unattended in London comment" from her grouchy husband too. Sometimes you have to when you're using a theatre with an unbelievably small toilet cubicle! @ryan and Jonathan Bailey were already in there, no room for my fanny pack too!
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 25, 2017 16:36:39 GMT
Goodness. All this fuss and fervour over Rufus. What will you all be like when I take over the Nash? Oops. Cat out of the bag. My bad. Year-long revivals of "Naked Boys Reading" in all 3 theatres? Starring Tom Bateman, Jonathan Bailey and Marc Elliott?
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 10, 2017 22:09:35 GMT
I may be wrong but I thought the 'member of the public' in Privacy was a plant? Yes, I thought this too! I am pretty sure it was a plant! There was something else weird they did to an actual audience, I think it involved picking an envelope but I can't remember specifically. The night I went, the "victim" was @n1david. Perhaps he could jog our memories...
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 10, 2017 22:01:35 GMT
The opposite of blocking - he once held a door open for me! Get. Out. Of. Town. When he was in Father Comes Home from the Wars at the Royal Court. It was meant for the friend of his that I was walking behind but he was such a gentleman to keep it open for me. He wasn't as much of a gentleman in my dreams later that night though.
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 10, 2017 7:44:29 GMT
Tom Bateman. Something to do with a restraining order I think . . . . The opposite of blocking - he once held a door open for me!
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 10, 2017 7:42:55 GMT
Andrew Scott was at the Almeida yesterday. I saw him an hour before the matinee, he hovered around outside, then went to the toilet but I didn't seem him at all after that but I assume he watched Against. Poor thing.
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 9, 2017 18:43:55 GMT
Loved this Tweet: Posted here in case anyone says the faces are spoilers. Play nicely, dear!
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 8, 2017 23:10:13 GMT
Spend Christmas with some other people?
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 8, 2017 12:09:13 GMT
Just a quick show of hands, please...
Am I the only person who is seriously irked by the existence of the 'Strictly Spoiler'? I don't see the point of being so obsessed with finding out the result before the Sunday night when it's broadcast. I've read through their site a few times the last couple of years and you'd swear some of the people on there would think they were Edward bloody Snowden. I really don't like how people feel it's so important that they know before everybody else.
What next? We have sites to find out who wins Bake Off after week one, or what's going to happen in the last episode of Doctor Foster before the first one's even aired? Clearly I like it. With dramas I tend not to want to hear them but sometimes if I find out what happens it doesn't bother me. For example I'm really behind on How To Get Away With Murder so I have an idea of what's going to happen. It really doesn't matter or spoil my enjoyment and if it's a certain character dying or something then I can prepare myself. I don't think your example holds up though. You don't know what's going to happen in HTGAWM before it's actually broadcast in the U.S. When Strictly is recorded on the Saturday the only people who are meant to know the result are the contestants, the people who work on the programme & an audience selected by the BBC, who as far as I know, are told not to divulge the information. It's not been put into the public domain. Is it always audience members who leak the info or does the site have a mole who works on the production?
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 8, 2017 11:43:42 GMT
Just a quick show of hands, please...
Am I the only person who is seriously irked by the existence of the 'Strictly Spoiler'? I don't see the point of being so obsessed with finding out the result before the Sunday night when it's broadcast. I've read through their site a few times the last couple of years and you'd swear some of the people on there would think they were Edward bloody Snowden. I really don't like how people feel it's so important that they know before everybody else.
What next? We have sites to find out who wins Bake Off after week one, or what's going to happen in the last episode of Doctor Foster before the first one's even aired?
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 8, 2017 1:13:03 GMT
What auditions are happening for musicals at the moment? Who's casting BBC Les Miserables TV series? Thanks Angel xX It's not the musical, just a straight adaptation of the original novel
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 6, 2017 21:11:32 GMT
Yay? I'm sure its a fine show. It doesn't really appeal to me though, I don't think I'm its target audience. I'd never even heard of the film. So lets see how this one goes. You're a theatre gay that likes sparkling things & chutzpah by the buttload. Of course you're its target audience! Just think of all those actors that'll be in it, who you love but the rest of us have never heard of!
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 5, 2017 22:41:59 GMT
What did she say?
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Post by alicechallice on Sept 5, 2017 17:06:18 GMT
Finally, the agonisingly long wait for the tour dates to be announced is over: SMDAI'm thinking a trip to Eastbourne might be in order for next April... See you there!
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