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Post by Marwood on Jul 5, 2017 11:54:25 GMT
So, we're already over halfway through the year, what are the best shows you've seen so far (and the absolute worst one too), also what have your favourite films, records and TV shows been?
I shall report back later with my choices (I'm writing this on my phone in a pub to escape the heat (well that's my excuse anyway)) but feel free to leave your choices and recommendations in the meantime.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 12:02:12 GMT
Best play: An Octoroon.
Worst play: Obsession.
Best film: probably Get Out.
And I don't really have a best TV show or record.
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Post by adrianics on Jul 5, 2017 12:26:41 GMT
Best Show: School of Rock
Worst Show: Aladdin
Best Film: La La Land
Best TV Show: The Handmaid's Tale
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 5, 2017 13:03:34 GMT
Best play: Virginia Woolf
Best musical: 42nd Street
Best record: Michael Kiwanuka Love and Hate
Best British TV show: The Missing (I think that was this year!)
Worst TV show: Prime Suspect 1973....there are no words to describe my disappointment in this load of twaddle.
Worst theatre show: Matilda (sorry, but many phoned in performances the day I saw it.)
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Post by zak97 on Jul 5, 2017 13:42:57 GMT
Best Play: Virginia Wolf
Worst Play: Nice Fish
Best Musical: The Girls
Worst Musical: 42nd Street (least favourite so far, but haven't seen anything genuinely terrible)
Best TV show: Fearless
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Post by d'James on Jul 5, 2017 13:46:23 GMT
My memory's so bad. Will have a think and get back.
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Post by Michael on Jul 5, 2017 14:17:08 GMT
Best show: Tough one. Think I'll go for Bat out of Hell, closely followed by A Bronx Tale and Groundhog Day.
Worst show: Love Story in Aachen, Germany
Best film: Don't go to the cinema that often, but, if it counts, it's the Newsies screening. If not, Hidden Figures.
Best record: I still can't put blink-182 - California away, but that was released last year. If it has to be from this year, it's Montreal - Schackilacki
Best TV show: No-brainer: The Big Bang Theory. Can't wait for the next season to start. And for Young Sheldon.
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Post by lynette on Jul 5, 2017 15:12:39 GMT
I think Greg Hicks RIII standing out this half. The Treatment yuck.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 15:26:10 GMT
[That I have seen this year...]
Best Show: Dreamgirls (sheerly for atmosphere)
Worst Show: WonderBland (aka wonderland)
Best Film: +1 for Newsies (really enjoyed that screening!)
Worst Film: Not seen enough to judge
Best Record: Dear Evan Hansen OBCR
Worst Record: Jamiroquai - Automaton (Was a big anticlimax for me!)
Best TV Show: The Night Manager (late to the game)
Worst TV Show: Love Island (Not even seen it but hate the concept and attention its getting)
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Post by showgirl on Jul 5, 2017 15:56:06 GMT
Too tough! I'm sure others have seen more and it's not a competition, but having seen nearly 70 plays and 50 films, I can't single out one "best" in each category. Even a top ten would be difficult to pick.
Definite contenders for top ten plays: Gloria and Travesties
Worst play: undoubtedly Octoroon (first half only), which looks likely to remain my benchmark for a dire and disappointing experience for some time to come.
Best musical: The Girls
Best opera: The Secret Marriage (cheating as it's the only one I've seen so far this year, but it'd go in my lifetime best list, too; it was that special)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 16:10:37 GMT
In a couple of weeks I see Ferryman, Angels in America, Ink, shortly to be followed by Mosquitoes and Road so quite incomplete at the moment.
Best Production - Hamlet - Almeida
Best Regional Production - Persuasion - Royal Exchange, Manchester
Best Musical Production - The Wild Party - The Other Palace
Least liked production - The Life - Southwark Playhouse (for cartoon performances and shoddy script, score was the highlight)
Best Record - Saint Etienne - Home Counties
Best TV - tough one, because it's finished I'll have to go with the majestic season 3 of 'The Leftovers' but....
Best TV episode - Twin Peaks: The Return, part 8, quite simply the most astonishing TV episode I've ever seen.
Films, I always see late because I can't cope with the behaviour of cinema audiences.
Major frustration, having moved back up north I can't book a few days in advance, so will miss Anatomy of a Suicide, which didn't fit into my holiday pattern. Then again, I haven't got a mortgage anywhere near as crippling and I'm nice and cool whilst the south east is baking, so.....swings and roundabouts.
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Post by Marwood on Jul 5, 2017 16:45:45 GMT
Ok, so...
Best Play: The Ferryman, with honourable mentions to Ugly Lies The Bone and The Kid Stays In The Picture.
Worst Play: by far The Philanthropist, I wish I had bailed at the interval.
Best film: T2 Trainspotting, also liked the Lego Batman Movie, Free Fire and Wonder Woman.
Best record: haven't heard anything amazing (so far), but liked From Deewee by Soulwax, Oczy Mlody by the Flaming Lips and Little Fictions by Elbow
TV show: Taboo (haven't seen much else of note drama wise, hoping Game Of Thrones in a few weeks time will lift the spirits)
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 5, 2017 20:32:06 GMT
Best
musical - 42 nd street but I also loved On the Town
Play - I really can't decide between Twelth Night (NT), Hamlet (Almeida) and La strada
Ballet - Casanova
Opera - Hamsel and Gretel (opera north)
TV - The Girls and Tracey breaks the news
I've also been very lucky with LSO and BBC Minamist concerts at the Barbican
Boring and dull
Musicals - She loves me, Working, The Life
I'm not sure if I have seen any really poor plays. Glass menagerie was a so so
Ballet - Boy in the stripped pajamas (northern ballet)
Opera - Winters Tale & Exteminating Angel
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 5, 2017 21:35:11 GMT
Dreamgirls
42nd Street
Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 21:49:12 GMT
Best musical-:42nd street- haven't seen as many musicals yet but this was great and amazing being front row
Best play: I have seen lot so of plays and here are mAngels in America-do I have to say anymore,la Strada- really enjoyed it and very creative, Hamlet - really great production as well as Mary Stauart which I saw in January also the show is technically from last year.
Worst show:Commonn- lots of potential but it flopped and also did not enjoy the glass menagerie
Best film- Wonder Woman or the screening of newsies
Best recording- musicals I am loving falsettos,groundhog day and pop music I am liking don't matter now by George Ezra and Blosson by may favourite band milky chance
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jul 5, 2017 22:41:44 GMT
So much great theatre this year.
Best: An Octoroon, Ferryman, Anatomy of a Suicide. (Also vv good: Angels in America, Low Level Panic, Lottery of Love, Travesties, See Me Now.) Roman Tragedies for the experience if not the actual production.
Worst: Common! Don Juan in Soho and the YV Dream were disappointing.
Best film: Get Out.
Best TV: Handmaid's Tale.
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Post by Jon on Jul 5, 2017 23:42:22 GMT
Best Play: Twelfth Night, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Virginia Woolf
Best Musical: 42nd Street with Dreamgirls a close second
Best film: La La Land, Beauty and the Beast and Wonder Woman
Worst film: The Mummy
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2017 5:35:01 GMT
Best show: The Great Comet
Worst show: Dear Evan Hansen (sorry!)
Best film: Moonlight is the best 2017 UK release but I already saw it in 2016. Of the ones I saw for the first time this year I've loved Get Out, Raw and Frantz
Worst film: The Void
I'm too lazy to keep up with TV and music. The best thing I've seen on TV this year (and possibly ever) is the Oscars mishap live.
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Post by purple12 on Jul 6, 2017 7:07:25 GMT
Best play: Angels in America
Worst play : Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (just didn't 'get' it)
Best musical: 42nd Street with Working as highly commended because it was very enjoyably unexpected (for me).
Worst musical: Haven't been to any I haven't enjoyed but on the scale of ones I've enjoyed least (and this does feel a bit harsh) - American in Paris.
Worst film: King Arthur (but got a good snooze out of it)
Best film: Beauty and the Beast - live action.
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Post by duncan on Jul 6, 2017 7:26:31 GMT
23 shows seen so far this year, in order of preference -
Cuttin A Rug
The Red Shoes
Rent
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Death of a Salesman
War in America
The Addams Family
Not Dead Enough
Glory on Earth
Nell Gwynn
Wonderland
Girl in the Machine
Judgement in Stone
Bouncers
Count Arthur Strong
Funny Girl
Jane Eyre
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Fisk
Out of Order
Charlie Sonata
My Country
Anita and Me
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Post by vdcni on Jul 6, 2017 7:55:16 GMT
Best Play - Angels ahead of Woolf and Twelfth Night.
Worst - I haven't seen much this year, paying/planning for a wedding takes it out of you! So I've focused on the things I've really wanted to see and they've been pretty good. Hedda Gabler and R&G Are Dead probably the weakest but not bad.
Don't really watch TV though I made a rare dip into Netflix and really enjoyed Riverdale, Film - I loved Wonder Woman but that's my only trip to the cinema so far this year.
Best book - I couldn't put down Artemis Cooper's biography of Elizabeth Jane Howard though I was a bit disappointed with Peter Ackroyd's Queer City - it started well but I thought he could have down more with the 20th Century.
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Post by bellboard27 on Jul 6, 2017 9:51:36 GMT
For me the following:
Best play: Too difficult to answer (quite a few jostling for top spot!)
Worst play: probably The Philanthropist (I have not seen Common!)
Best musical: 42nd Street
Worst musical: Ballroom at Waterloo East
Most annoying show: Madam Butterfly at La Monnaie in Brussels – it still makes me angry when I think about it (all about the staging rather than the singing which was great!).
Funniest show: Red Mary – an opera in Prague set during the communist period. No idea what to expect, but it was excellent!
Most weird staging: Endgame in Brussels
Most versions of a story: The Winter’s Tale (2 different plays and an opera)
Best recommendation from Theatreboard: Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road (thanks Monkey!)
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 6, 2017 10:17:10 GMT
Forgot two catorigies
Best book - Maggie and Me.
Best CD - Natasha, Pierre and the great commet
I've come across a lot of poor books and CDs that I can't be bothered to name
Worse film - la la land
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Post by Mark on Jul 6, 2017 10:24:56 GMT
Musicals : The Girls, Come From Away, Hello Dolly (although saw Evan last year)
Plays: Angels in America, Virginia Woolf
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Post by crowblack on Jul 6, 2017 10:49:10 GMT
Best play - Wish List, lovely, human writing and fab (and deservedly award winning) young cast, writer and actors in their early 20s and all ones to watch. Loved Andrew Scott in Hamlet, though a bit less love for the production as a whole (to be fair, it's not a play I like). Life of Galileo was great fun.
Worst play - Woyzeck, a real misfire.
Best musical - I don't see many, loved the freshness of the performances in Junkyard but the music in Fatherland is better.
TV - hard to choose - Taboo for its Ken Russell-ish gusto (though it's very silly), Broken for the acting and themes, The Handmaid's Tale for the edge-of-the-seat horror of the story.
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