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Post by jm25 on Dec 11, 2023 23:58:13 GMT
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Operation Mincemeat
3. The Motive and the Cue
4. Dear England
5. Dancing at Lughnasa
I could quite happily have given Sunset all five spots! (Well, four to keep Mincemeat in...!)
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Post by amyja89 on Dec 12, 2023 8:17:34 GMT
Sondheim’s Old Friends
The Crucible
Standing At The Sky’s Edge
Dixon and Daughters
Witness For The Prosecution
Still have The House Of Bernada Alba and Dear England to come this month though, so subject to change!
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Post by Courfeyrac on Dec 12, 2023 11:17:59 GMT
1. Next to Normal (Donmar)
2. Lord of the Rings (Newbury)
3. Death Note (Lyric Concert)
4. A Strange Loop (Barbican)
5. Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour)
Honestly I probably could've stopped after the top 2, there's a huge gap there.
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Post by FJ on Dec 12, 2023 12:24:39 GMT
The Little Big Things
Operation Mincemeat
The Great British Bake Off Musical
Sunset Boulevard
A Little Life
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Post by edi on Dec 12, 2023 18:23:58 GMT
It seems that I had some very limited theatre going this year , only 22 shows!
In this order:
1. Standing at the Sky's Edge
2. Crazy for you
3. The Pillowman
4. Patriot
5. A Christmas Carol Old Vic - I know it's not new, and I've seen it each year, BUT I truly cannot pick a 5th and the Christmas Carol is just pure joy
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Post by BVM on Dec 12, 2023 18:38:34 GMT
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Miss Saigon - Sheffield
Big gap.
3. Jesus Christ Superstar - Tour
4. Evita - Curve
Further gap.
5. Aspects of Love (with reservation. The production was deeply suboptimal for me but it was great to hear the score again).
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Dec 12, 2023 18:48:25 GMT
I still have Sunset to go before 2023 is up! Groundhog Day Next to Normal Operation Mincemeat The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Two Strangers (Three of these I've seen previously...but loved them; Guys and Dolls is an honorable mention for the production design; just not my favourite musical) ...How did I forget Standing at the Sky's Edge??? |
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Post by lichtie on Dec 12, 2023 19:57:29 GMT
No particular order:
Streetcar Named Desire
Grand Old Opera House
Grenfell
Pygmalion
Dancing at Lughnasa
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 12, 2023 21:10:01 GMT
I still have Sunset to go before 2023 is up! Groundhog Day Next to Normal Operation Mincemeat The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Two Strangers (Three of these I've seen previously...but loved them; Guys and Dolls is an honorable mention for the production design; just not my favourite musical) ...How did I forget Standing at the Sky's Edge??? I keep a spreadsheet so i can 'remember' |
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Post by lou105 on Dec 12, 2023 21:20:35 GMT
Not in order:
Standing at the Sky's Edge
The Motive and the Cue
Dear England
Sunset Boulevard
and a tie between The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Secret Life of Bees
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Post by kate8 on Dec 12, 2023 21:27:28 GMT
Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors
Merchant of Venice 1936
Dear England
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
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Post by distantcousin on Dec 12, 2023 21:37:49 GMT
Sunset Boulevard
Old Friends
Shirley Valentine
Aspects Of Love
Oklahoma or A Little Life!
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Dec 12, 2023 23:29:21 GMT
...How did I forget Standing at the Sky's Edge??? I keep a spreadsheet so i can 'remember' I seriously think I need to! I'm pretty sure Sky's Edge was my first musical of 2023... |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 12, 2023 23:45:07 GMT
1. Standing at the Skys Edge
2. A little life
3. Sunset Boulevard
4. Old Friends
5. Next to Normal
Worst-
Aspects of Love.
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Post by eatbigsea on Dec 13, 2023 0:58:12 GMT
Top 5, no particular order: Sunset Boulevard, Old Friends, Next to Normal, Streetcar, Standing at the Sky’s Edge. (In New York I loved Merrily, Parade and Purlie, quite liked Sweeney and Here We Are).
Honourable mention: Macbeth (Donmar), Dear England, Shirley Valentine, A Little Life, The Motive and the Cue, Crazy for You, A Mirror, La Cage, Patriots, House of Bernarda Alba, Sylvia. (ETA that I suppose I should put Vanya in here, although the fact that I didn’t remember it initially is probably indicative of something).
I genuinely think it’s been a great year for theatre.
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Post by sf on Dec 13, 2023 4:03:00 GMT
Not in rank order:
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Assassins
Guys and Dolls
Rose
Standing at the Sky's Edge
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Post by maggiem on Dec 13, 2023 12:49:23 GMT
The Ocean At the End Of the Lane
Sunset Boulevard
Patriots
Guys and Dolls
Shirley Valentine
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Post by ruthieh on Dec 13, 2023 12:55:31 GMT
No particular order:
Old Friends
Sunset Boulevard
Rodger’s & Hammerstein 80th
Lord of the Rings
Gypsy at Sonning
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Post by LaLuPone on Dec 13, 2023 20:03:14 GMT
In no particular order because the first 3 especially were all such a high standard
- Funny Girl (Lea Michele - Broadway)
- Sunset Boulevard
- Sondheim’s Old Friends
- Miss Saigon (Sheffield Crucible)
- Crazy For You
Shame it’s all revivals (plus a revue) rather than new work but that’s my honest favourite 5 things I’ve seen this year.
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Post by hannechalk on Dec 13, 2023 22:36:12 GMT
I know I'm basic...
The Woman in Black - Liverpool Playhouse
Something About George - Liverpool Philharmonic
Annie - Liverpool Empire
Calendar Girls - Liverpool Empire
And of course... Blood Brothers- Bradford, Bristol, Llandudno, Swansea.
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Post by theatregoer22 on Dec 15, 2023 0:04:52 GMT
My first year of going back to the theatre in a very long time. In ranked order, but two and three are very close.
1. & Juliet
2. Guys and Dolls
3. Crazy For You
4. Newsies
5. Les Miserables
Honourable mentions go to To Kill a Mockingbird and a A Little Life.
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Post by viserys on Dec 15, 2023 7:37:53 GMT
The best things I’ve seen this year were across the pond on Broadway, but to focus on London here:
1. Next to Normal
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Groundhog Day
4. Standing at the Sky’s Edge
5. Death Note Concert
Hated with a passion: A Little Life (only seen the cinema screening luckily)
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Post by ceebee on Dec 15, 2023 8:08:21 GMT
1. Groundhog Day
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Guys and Dolls
4. Sunset Boulevard
5. Oliver
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Post by caa on Dec 15, 2023 18:29:37 GMT
Not in any rank order
Sound of the underground
La Cage aux folles
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Sunset Boulevard
Next to Normal
A Streetcar Named Desire
Hon mention to Invisible Man at Unicorn and Guys & Dolls
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Post by Wilf on Dec 15, 2023 18:42:58 GMT
1 Rodgers and Hammerstein 80th concert
2 Old Friends
3 Groundhog Day
4 Crazy For You
5 La Cage Aux Folles
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