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Post by alicechallice on Jul 13, 2017 21:54:02 GMT
Guys, aren't we being a bit premature here? One poster really liked it and one other didn't. Let's not all throw our tickets back all at once.
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 29, 2017 10:16:00 GMT
Nah I'd be all over Queen Una. Not Zoe Wanamaker either. Or Anita Dobson. I want to say she does have a name beginning with 'A' though.... Anita Harris?
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 29, 2017 10:02:58 GMT
I saw a famous actress walking up Charing Cross road yesterday and can I for the life of me place her...no! it's really annoying me.
She was a British actress, probably in her 60s, short reddish brown hair. Possibly very BBC type....
This has been a useless update. Una Stubbs?
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 16, 2017 10:29:14 GMT
The actor that played John Partridges bf in eastenders was at Sweet Bird of Youth last night. He pretty much had the sh*ttest seats in the house Not Syed?? Yes! And he looked GORGEOUS!!
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 15, 2017 10:39:14 GMT
No Alan Cumming then!
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 6, 2017 12:27:24 GMT
It's CFT What were you expecting Its the very definition of mediocrity Are you sure the definition of mediocrity isn't "whatever the last thing Parsley said to get some attention was"?
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 6, 2017 12:25:07 GMT
I noticed the actors all had radio mics. As do an awful lot of actors in plays now. In the Olivier, Lyttleton & even in WAOVW at the Harold Pinter
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 4, 2017 21:38:16 GMT
I saw Caroline or Change last show yesterday afernoon and the boy who plays Noah (the long hair in rehearsal) was amazing his voice and his performance was magnificent. You must be a very proud Mum!
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Post by alicechallice on May 27, 2017 9:03:54 GMT
I embarrassingly mumbled to Charlie Stemp (as he was undressing) Is this something he offers inclusive of the ticket price? 😃
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Post by alicechallice on May 25, 2017 12:17:06 GMT
I really hate the thought of schlepping to Chichester for this but I *do* love a nice fiddle on the roof. After the show, perhaps?
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Post by alicechallice on May 17, 2017 13:37:44 GMT
I, for one, thought it was a very good play and am glad it's being revived. You won't be able to smell the chinese takeaway they eat at the back of the Trafalgar Studios though.
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Post by alicechallice on May 15, 2017 13:06:06 GMT
So, I stand corrected (said the man in the orthopedic shoe!)
A friend who's just been on holiday with a costumer in the 'biz, said that while they were away, he was contacted about working on this and that filming kicks off pretty soon.
No word concerning leading ladies though. The Spielberg Meryl is doing starts filming May 22nd and he is very good at quick shoots in his old age, since ditching the rubber shark. So, who knows?!!!
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Post by alicechallice on May 15, 2017 12:56:38 GMT
Eavesdropping during the interval and after in the car park along with listening to seat neighbours around me there was a general feeling of befuddlement. Lots of comments on not understanding what was happening, not being what they expected etc etc I don't think this is particularly uncommon amongst CFT regulars unfortunately. Listening to one of their excellent pre-show talks on their YouTube channel, I remember hearing that 'Top Girls' back in 2011 had a similar effect.
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Post by alicechallice on May 6, 2017 22:11:13 GMT
...and the parents of Elaine Page on Sunday's producer Jessica were also there according to twitter. Unless their names are Frank & Betty Spencer, you must have just won the award for the least famous entry in this entire thread!
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Post by alicechallice on May 4, 2017 13:45:43 GMT
I can't find this anywhere online. Are you sure it's not like that time a boy at my school, who'd just moved back from Germany, told me he'd been to see Home Alone 90?
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Post by alicechallice on Apr 22, 2017 19:23:19 GMT
...is everything. That is all. And don't pretend I'm the only person who made a special trip to Sainsbury's to buy it on release day, I know you gays. I had to go to Tesco. I wouldn't have been able to physically buy a copy anywhere else since HMV in Brighton closed. I remember buying 'Gold: Greatest Hits' in Woolworths.
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Post by alicechallice on Apr 22, 2017 18:50:17 GMT
Saw this today. Shame they cut out all the songs but still very good. Loved Imelda's silent scream/choke thing at the end. Definitely enough to put you off marriage, academia & alcohol though.
Sat in E1 in Dress Circle which was green on Theatremonkey but wasn't a great view. Could only ever see the legs of whoever was sat in the chair next to the sofa on stage left. Managed to move to A1 after the interval though which was ace. Was sad to leave behind a nice New Yorker in E2 though. He recently paid $300 to see Hello, Dolly on BW and I never got to tell him that was my going rate for the evening too! Nevermind, there'll be others.
Had a strange experience before it started where the Fire Marshall removed by rucksack from the theatre while I'd gone to the non-unisex lavatory. Apparently, you can't trust anybody nowadays, even if they are a friend of Imelda!
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Post by alicechallice on Apr 21, 2017 19:35:50 GMT
Started a thread that got closed down, I forgot about this one. Well as the locked thread suggests "The West End Gets its First Unisex Toilet". The Vaudeville Theatre. I used this just last week due to the excitement of seeing Amanda Holden! The gents is in fact just urinals, so you have to use the unisex if you need to do more. Or if you're pee-shy. In which case the alley probably isn't advisable either
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Post by alicechallice on Mar 4, 2017 10:47:05 GMT
Do they ask for Id for prologue? I have a 16-25 railcard, wud that do?!? Not when you're approaching 36, I imagine
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 16, 2017 0:42:14 GMT
If it is fiddler who do you think will play tevye? For some odd reason I feel it could be Michael ball and I don't know if that would work. Never fear, it's Omid Djalili!! Also Alan Bennett's Forty Years On starring Richard Wilson & a play about Charles "cough" Ingram by James Graham
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 15, 2017 13:37:31 GMT
Said this several times on here and would love to see them do work by Paul Simon who seems to be a bit neglected recently. A new jukebox musical? Or did you mean Neil?
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 14, 2017 17:18:55 GMT
Well after Glynis I don't think I could handle another Lear so soon. Up for a Fiddle though and I'm hoping it's the trilogy not just the one conquest Also, they did Lear in 2013 and 2005 so I think we could all do with a break. Rory Kinnear to play Norman, please.
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 14, 2017 17:06:34 GMT
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 2, 2017 23:00:50 GMT
So is this the show going in before Annie then? On Baz's twitter someone has asked about Annie - Piccadilly - Michael Ball - Miranda Hart and his response is "I'll tell all later" Please God let this be only a rumour 😔 Not just "someone"... Jill's back!!!
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Post by alicechallice on Nov 29, 2016 22:43:17 GMT
Title is still embargoed, but they're looking for six young actors who play musical instruments to play schoolboys for April's production. 'Forty Years On' by Alan Bennett? Only popped into my head because I'm reading 'Writing Home' at the mo. Also, does anyone remember the announcement that DE was going to direct a new Sherlock Holmes play next year. I remember the press release mentioning a UK premiere as opposed to a London one. So maybe CFT...
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Post by alicechallice on Nov 11, 2016 0:10:05 GMT
He just said that I wanted to leave, not claiming to have watched the whole show. We both fancied an early night, we had a crap view & the women to Mrs L's right were highly irritating. Even more so than the cast 😉 U big flirt! Maybe he'll take me to Act 2 some time...
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Post by alicechallice on Nov 10, 2016 23:46:15 GMT
People giving an opinion on a show that they left at interval...wow'!!!! He just said that I wanted to leave, not claiming to have watched the whole show. We both fancied an early night, we had a crap view & the women to Mrs L's right were highly irritating. Even more so than the cast 😉
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Post by alicechallice on May 10, 2016 22:28:51 GMT
Hello. First-time poster here, long-time snooper!
So managed to scoop a ticket for this from a friend & was hoping it would live up to my expectations and by golly, it did!
I have never felt like I related to something so much as I did this. As a person of a similar age to the characters, as somebody who spent 6 years working in a cinema & as somebody who started their adult life thinking their best attribute was extensive movie knowledge, I just lapped this up.
Superb performances & absolutely gorgeous writing, I think Annie Baker is going to be one of my absolute favourites for many years to come (adored Circle Mirror Transformation a few years back too).
P.s. Met up with 'Andrew' before hand for a bevvy & cake in the National which was lovely. Impressed he went for the Rocky Road slice, I did my usual subdued Carrot Cake routine.
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