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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 6, 2024 14:01:42 GMT
This play was made for me (no clues as to why).
FT is my favourite sitcom of all time, and the characters are at least in good hands. I am highly looking forward to this, I don't care what anybody says.
The chap who plays Basil I saw playing Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps a while back so he has the energy and physical comedy chops certainly.
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Post by stevejohnson678 on Feb 7, 2024 10:06:06 GMT
Prices on Ticketmaster for a random midweek matinee. £101 for the front row of the stalls that's flagged as restricted view. £135 elsewhere in the stalls apart from the back few rows which are £73. Everything in the Dress Circle is £73 or £101.
Prices around £10-£15 less with Nimax directly but two thirds of the stalls appear to be off sale, as well as the rear half of the dress circle.
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Post by talkingheads on Feb 7, 2024 10:22:39 GMT
Prices on Ticketmaster for a random midweek matinee. £101 for the front row of the stalls that's flagged as restricted view. £135 elsewhere in the stalls apart from the back few rows which are £73. Everything in the Dress Circle is £73 or £101. Prices around £10-£15 less with Nimax directly but two thirds of the stalls appear to be off sale, as well as the rear half of the dress circle. I was going to try and get tickets, but seeing those prices I just laughed and closed the website. I'll consider a day ticket if it's no more than £30.
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Post by max on Feb 7, 2024 11:19:56 GMT
Wow - I forgot what thread I was in, and scrolled up thinking it was the Jamie Lloyd 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Perhaps it will be excitingly high octane see three episodes of Fawlty Towers interpolated into even more manic farce, but....
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free.
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Feb 7, 2024 12:11:10 GMT
Prices on Ticketmaster for a random midweek matinee. £101 for the front row of the stalls that's flagged as restricted view. £135 elsewhere in the stalls apart from the back few rows which are £73. Everything in the Dress Circle is £73 or £101. Prices around £10-£15 less with Nimax directly but two thirds of the stalls appear to be off sale, as well as the rear half of the dress circle. I was going to try and get tickets, but seeing those prices I just laughed and closed the website. I'll consider a day ticket if it's no more than £30. Exactly my opinion too. I am curious and want to see it, but after the first week or so there are no seats below the Gods for less than £60 and that’s way too much.
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Post by talkingheads on Feb 7, 2024 12:23:37 GMT
I was going to try and get tickets, but seeing those prices I just laughed and closed the website. I'll consider a day ticket if it's no more than £30. Exactly my opinion too. I am curious and want to see it, but after the first week or so there are no seats below the Gods for less than £60 and that’s way too much. I'm guessing there will be huge discounts nearer the time.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 7, 2024 13:10:02 GMT
So after getting extremely hyped up for this, I entered the website to book, and then...glanced at the prices 🙃
I don't mind the front row high stage slightly restricted seats...but not for £80 bleedin' quid. Less than half that if it's being advertised as such.
Most of these prices are not justifiable, despite how iconic FT is, especially considering I took three people to the Only Fools Musical at TR Haymarket for £50. Good seats too!
Needless to say I am disappointed. Will take the day seat route I guess...
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Post by mkb on Feb 7, 2024 13:30:22 GMT
Worth noting that the running time (presumably based on the Australian outing) is listed as 1:50 including interval. That means there is only 90 minutes of theatre, so if it's three 30-minute tv episodes combined, the new material at the end won't amount to much.
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Post by aspieandy on Feb 7, 2024 13:31:54 GMT
21-week run initially, from Spring Bank Holiday through the last half term to all of the school summer holiday period. Obv. confident in a robust nostalgia market after Fools and Horses. I can see mums and dads from across the country dragging the teenagers along, in between the museums and sights.
I wonder how they've priced in summer walk ups. Maybe that's the key flexibility in this market.
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Post by happysooz2 on Feb 7, 2024 13:48:53 GMT
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free. I don’t think they are. We tried to watch it over Christmas and couldn’t find them on any streaming service, either free or paid. I just checked iPlayer again as making them available feels like a no-brainer in the run up to the show.
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Feb 7, 2024 14:32:10 GMT
So after getting extremely hyped up for this, I entered the website to book, and then...glanced at the prices 🙃 I don't mind the front row high stage slightly restricted seats...but not for £80 bleedin' quid. Less than half that if it's being advertised as such. Most of these prices are not justifiable, despite how iconic FT is, especially considering I took three people to the Only Fools Musical at TR Haymarket for £50. Good seats too! Needless to say I am disappointed. Will take the day seat route I guess... I know it wasn’t loved by everyone, but I’ll stand by the opinion that Only Fools and Horses was a perfect piece of introductory theatre (aka a gateway drug) for non-theatre-goers. Every time I went there were so many in the audience who obviously weren’t typical musical/play people and afterwards were vocally open about going to see more theatre shows (or people saying ‘I took my mum/dad/extended family and they loved it’). The problem for Fawlty Towers is that Only Fools was a dream of the creator, which after his death was continued as a passion project by the creator’s family and Paul Whitehouse (who himself is a big fan), who later then starred in the show throughout its run. This adaptation of Fawlty Towers feels more of a ‘John Cleese needs to pay his alimony checks’ so idk how much passion this will have even with the same Only Fools directing team behind it
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Post by n1david on Feb 7, 2024 17:01:23 GMT
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free. I don’t think they are. We tried to watch it over Christmas and couldn’t find them on any streaming service, either free or paid. I just checked iPlayer again as making them available feels like a no-brainer in the run up to the show. www.justwatch.com is my guide for this sort of thing and it says they're not available on any UK streaming service at the moment.
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Post by andys on Feb 7, 2024 18:39:56 GMT
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free. I don’t think they are. We tried to watch it over Christmas and couldn’t find them on any streaming service, either free or paid. I just checked iPlayer again as making them available feels like a no-brainer in the run up to the show. Given John Cleese has not been especially kind about the BBC in recent years, and some of the "of it's time" content of the series, maybe they consider it better left in the past.
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Post by aspieandy on Feb 7, 2024 19:08:33 GMT
some of the "of it's time" content of the series, maybe they consider it better left in the past.
What do you have in mind?
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Post by max on Feb 8, 2024 0:23:34 GMT
All the episodes of Fawlty Towers are on iplayer - for free. I don’t think they are. We tried to watch it over Christmas and couldn’t find them on any streaming service, either free or paid. I just checked iPlayer again as making them available feels like a no-brainer in the run up to the show. Ah, you're quite right. I think I watched them on iplayer last year, but they're not there right now.
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Post by cat6 on Feb 11, 2024 19:23:05 GMT
Well, I bought tix for May 9. Matinee. Front row. Living dangerously.
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Post by adamkinsey on Feb 12, 2024 0:20:02 GMT
Paul Nicholas as the Major is the most bizarre casting of that role imaginable.
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Feb 12, 2024 9:19:25 GMT
Paul Nicholas as the Major is the most bizarre casting of that role imaginable. I’m not familiar with him, why is it bizarre?
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Post by adamkinsey on Feb 12, 2024 10:04:38 GMT
Paul Nicholas as the Major is the most bizarre casting of that role imaginable. I’m not familiar with him, why is it bizarre? Nicholas was, mostly, a fairly bland leading man in musical theatre although he did have a successful BBC sitcom in the early 80s in which he was a fairly bland leading man. A good comedy character actor he ain't.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 4, 2024 10:22:01 GMT
So I abandoned booking Opening Night, thanks to your insightful reviews, and purchased a ticket for this.
£55 for restricted side view. A preview night too. "Ow much!?" she exclaims. (I paid half that in a similar seat to see Angela Lansbury...granted that was 2014 lol). The Apollo prices put me off for ages, but at least I know I'll have a better time here with something I'm familiar with rather than risking seeing Sheridan Smith and co. for a cheaper price.
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Post by joem on Apr 4, 2024 19:10:22 GMT
I’m not familiar with him, why is it bizarre? Nicholas was, mostly, a fairly bland leading man in musical theatre although he did have a successful BBC sitcom in the early 80s in which he was a fairly bland leading man. A good comedy character actor he ain't. At least he is now old enough to enjoy "Grandma's Party". I remember him as a vampiric Wagner in Ken Russell's bizarre "Lisztomania". Not bland there!
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Post by Distant Dreamer... on Apr 4, 2024 19:16:54 GMT
I’ll be intrigued to see what the script is like.
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Post by Jan on Apr 4, 2024 20:05:05 GMT
Nicholas was, mostly, a fairly bland leading man in musical theatre although he did have a successful BBC sitcom in the early 80s in which he was a fairly bland leading man. A good comedy character actor he ain't. At least he is now old enough to enjoy "Grandma's Party". I remember him as a vampiric Wagner in Ken Russell's bizarre "Lisztomania". Not bland there! I was just checking to see if I’d seen him in anything but I’d forgotten quite what a notable career in musicals he’d had - the lead in the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar, lead in the first UK production of Grease, original production of Cats, lead in Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street, lead in the first tour of Barnum, the famous Joe Papp production of Pirates of Penzance, lead in Blondel, Camelot, Singin’ in the Rain, Doctor Doolittle etc etc. That’s in addition to his pop career, his TV BAFTA for best comedy performance, and a whole host of straight plays and films. The man’s a national treasure.
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Post by max on Apr 4, 2024 23:09:04 GMT
At least he is now old enough to enjoy "Grandma's Party". I remember him as a vampiric Wagner in Ken Russell's bizarre "Lisztomania". Not bland there! I was just checking to see if I’d seen him in anything but I’d forgotten quite what a notable career in musicals he’d had - the lead in the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar, lead in the first UK production of Grease, original production of Cats, lead in Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street, lead in the first tour of Barnum, the famous Joe Papp production of Pirates of Penzance, lead in Blondel, Camelot, Singin’ in the Rain, Doctor Doolittle etc etc. That’s in addition to his pop career, his TV BAFTA for best comedy performance, and a whole host of straight plays and films. The man’s a national treasure. He's also Cousin Kevin in Ken Russell's 1975 film of The Who's 'Tommy'.
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Post by scarletmood on Apr 4, 2024 23:46:55 GMT
Ironic he is playing the Major when he had a top 10 hit with "Dancing With The Captain". Paul is 80 this year, that makes me feel old.
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 5, 2024 12:51:31 GMT
That is simply not possible!
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Post by scarletmood on Apr 5, 2024 16:48:59 GMT
That is simply not possible! I hadn't realised he was quite that old but he was one of the leads in Hair as far back as 1968. I always enjoyed him in Just Good Friends and he's had a pretty good career. Must have done well being a producer of some of those Grease tours over the years too.
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Post by max on Apr 5, 2024 22:47:31 GMT
Wow - that means Paul Nicholas is older than Ballard Berkeley was when he played the Major in the TV original. It first aired in 1975, so he was 71 at the time. The second and final series aired four years later in 1979.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Apr 7, 2024 16:07:49 GMT
That's crazy! Every day's a school day.
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