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Post by stevemar on Feb 1, 2024 13:33:27 GMT
It was very slow to move up the queue this today - 15 minutes for 150 places, but once in it was a smooth process. Tickets at all prices, including £20 ones.
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Post by mrnutz on Feb 1, 2024 14:10:39 GMT
Is there a set date for the Amex presales? I can't find the info anywhere and would rather plan for it than wait for the booking email to drop.
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Post by cartoonman on Feb 1, 2024 15:42:16 GMT
Went to the NT website at 12:00 to book tickets and was surprised that the £20 ones for Boys from the Blackstuff were almost all gone. The NT are restricting tickets to a max of 4. This show seems to be very popular. I missed it when it was on TV but have booked for the NT show on the grounds that it is selling so well.
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Post by zahidf on Feb 6, 2024 10:20:39 GMT
Is there a set date for the Amex presales? I can't find the info anywhere and would rather plan for it than wait for the booking email to drop. AMEX onsale now |
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Post by Dave B on Feb 8, 2024 12:32:53 GMT
Had to go to the Circle for Boys From The Black Stuff but otherwise an easy enough booking experience today and all my tickets sorted.
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Post by cartoonman on Feb 28, 2024 21:00:07 GMT
My usual theatre going chum is in hospital so I had tickets for Nye and Dear Octopus that I could not use. Previously I have offered tickets to neighbours for free but it's hard work to persuade people to go.
I phoned the NT box office and was dealt with by a really helpful American woman who has credited me with the cost of the tickets. It was just so easy. Well done NT.
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Post by n1david on Feb 28, 2024 21:36:49 GMT
Love the NT ticket policy, wish more theatres were as helpful but do understand that when the NT stages a stinker it can lose a fortune having to credit back cancellations from people who have read reviews/word of mouth...
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Post by Jon on Feb 29, 2024 0:39:35 GMT
Love the NT ticket policy, wish more theatres were as helpful but do understand that when the NT stages a stinker it can lose a fortune having to credit back cancellations from people who have read reviews/word of mouth... With the NT credit, it's being used within the National so they've not lost out money wise. It'd be different if it was a commercial production. |
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Post by n1david on Feb 29, 2024 0:53:00 GMT
Love the NT ticket policy, wish more theatres were as helpful but do understand that when the NT stages a stinker it can lose a fortune having to credit back cancellations from people who have read reviews/word of mouth... With the NT credit, it's being used within the National so they've not lost out money wise. It'd be different if it was a commercial production. They've still lost out because they've lost the revenue for the production for which I've cancelled, and when I use the credit that's not new money coming into the NT. If I cancel for - say - Hex and use the credit for Til the Stars Come Down, they're only getting one ticket sale and not two. If they hadn't refunded Hex, maybe they'd have got the revenue from that and from Stars. Yes, the ticket credit stays within the NT, but it's still reduced revenue. |
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Post by damaskanddark on Feb 29, 2024 8:53:58 GMT
My favourite period of the NT was the 1990s into the early 2000s, with all those gloriously staged classic musicals. Carousel, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Oklhahoma!, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Anything Goes. I wish they would do a series of classic musicals again exploring The Sound of Music, The Most Happy Fella, Gypsy, etc
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Post by zahidf on Feb 29, 2024 9:14:38 GMT
My usual theatre going chum is in hospital so I had tickets for Nye and Dear Octopus that I could not use. Previously I have offered tickets to neighbours for free but it's hard work to persuade people to go. I phoned the NT box office and was dealt with by a really helpful American woman who has credited me with the cost of the tickets. It was just so easy. Well done NT. Worth noting for the future, you can do this all online in your account section without phoning up, and its all very quick |
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Post by mkb on Feb 29, 2024 9:32:25 GMT
My usual theatre going chum is in hospital so I had tickets for Nye and Dear Octopus that I could not use. Previously I have offered tickets to neighbours for free but it's hard work to persuade people to go. I phoned the NT box office and was dealt with by a really helpful American woman who has credited me with the cost of the tickets. It was just so easy. Well done NT. Worth noting for the future, you can do this all online in your account section without phoning up, and its all very quick That's useful to know. How close to performance time is this possible? |
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Post by zahidf on Feb 29, 2024 10:22:35 GMT
Worth noting for the future, you can do this all online in your account section without phoning up, and its all very quick That's useful to know. How close to performance time is this possible? Also worth noting that theyll process it during box office times, so itll be better to it then rather than outside of those times if close to the performance time |
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Post by bigredapple on Mar 3, 2024 23:16:59 GMT
Had a lovely tour of the NT last week, and our guide was telling us how the stages are capable of holding an entire different show’s set in the wings/flys, and pre Covid each stage would run two shows a week
This seems wild to me as someone who only moved to the uk recently! Does anyone have any examples of this? Were there common themes between the two shows? Would they divide the week in half, or do each show on every second day?
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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 3, 2024 23:56:41 GMT
Had a lovely tour of the NT last week, and our guide was telling us how the stages are capable of holding an entire different show’s set in the wings/flys, and pre Covid each stage would run two shows a week This seems wild to me as someone who only moved to the uk recently! Does anyone have any examples of this? Were there common themes between the two shows? Would they divide the week in half, or do each show on every second day? It's part of its history as a repertory company, I didn't realize they weren't doing it anymore post-covid. I remember seeing My Brilliant Friend and Translations in the same week at the Olivier in Autumn 2019. But no, the plays didn't have common themes running through them, the multiple shows being performed were not intended to be companion pieces. As for the schedule it really depends, it was never a 50-50 situation. Sometimes one of the plays would do just two or three performances a week or even disappear for a little while. Some times a show started out doing all the performances of the week and then fizzled down to a few for part of its run. For the middle part of the run Follies shared the Olivier Theatre stage in repertory with the play St. George and the Dragon during 2017 |
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Post by Jon on Mar 4, 2024 0:55:59 GMT
It's likely a cost thing to not have shows in rep.
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Post by mrnutz on Mar 4, 2024 8:44:33 GMT
It's likely a cost thing to not have shows in rep. This was what they said when I did a tour there a couple of weeks ago - they just can't afford to stage that many shows simultaneously at present. |
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Post by Jan on Mar 4, 2024 9:05:18 GMT
Some of the leading actors liked the rep system there because it gave them lots of time to do other work at the same time, they might be only doing two or three performances per week, or even no performances some weeks, so they could do TV/Film at the same time. I guess like at the RSC it was also good for the tourist audience who could see multiple plays in a week in their various auditoria.
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Post by lynette on Mar 4, 2024 14:42:49 GMT
For the RSC the actors didn’t like the rep system keeping them out of London for longer. That’s what I think happened, not completely sure. So now short runs of one play seem to be the thing. i used to love the rep system there, seeing three plays in a weekend. And at the NT. Makes for a buzz, mix of FOH people and media attention.
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Post by foxa on Mar 4, 2024 15:49:29 GMT
The RSC became known as the 'divorce-maker' because actors would commit to two years in Stratford while their families often remained at home (particularly if there were children in school,etc.) so lots of time separated and ripe for mischief.
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Post by takeabow on Mar 6, 2024 13:11:57 GMT
£26million announced in the budget to renovate the stages at the National. Wonder what this will be?
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Post by ceebee on Mar 6, 2024 13:13:25 GMT
£26million announced in the budget to renovate the stages at the National. Wonder what this will be? The drum revolve... |
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Post by lynette on Mar 6, 2024 13:38:27 GMT
I hope for more than that. If they need that much for the revolve they will be using it all the time..sigh.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 6, 2024 15:53:20 GMT
It will mean a series of rolling closures. I hope they find other spaces to keep the number of productions/performances in line with normal.
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Post by jek on Mar 6, 2024 15:59:28 GMT
A national theatre skills centre sounds good. I guess this may be akin to the sort of thing that the Royal Opera House have out at Thurrock. Doubling the number of apprenticeships can only be a good thing - they seem harder to get on to than prestigious university courses.
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