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Post by daisy24601 on Feb 14, 2020 9:49:00 GMT
MEMPHIS, all day long. Sometimes I just randomly get a pang of missing it. Sweeney Todd. Seriously. I want stroke NEED to see it. Not the film, hate that, but a proper production. I only saw it last year in Liverpool but I’ve only seen 3 versions of it so I’m not all sweeney’d out. I love it. I wish that WYP production would get resurrected. BRING BACK SWEENEY TODD. What do you miss? I only saw Sweeney Todd when I worked as an usher years ago and wasn't into musicals yet, so I definitely would love a comeback and a chance to see it again properly. I'm not sure why it hasn't tbh.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 10:06:55 GMT
Sweeney Todd, Sunset Boulevard and Company should be permanently staged so I can drop in at leisure. Honestly, between ALW and Sondheim I’m surprised there’s not a company just regularly programming them like they do Shakespeare. It’s not like the volume or standard of work isn’t there (but yes, I get there’s other issues involved in making this a reality...)
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Post by ensembleswings on Feb 14, 2020 11:36:59 GMT
Kinky Boots Billy Elliot 42nd Street
All of which I've seen before and wish I could see again right now. I'd also love for Memphis to return, it's the one show I've never seen that I'd love to
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Post by juliem on Feb 14, 2020 11:58:33 GMT
I miss The Bridewell.
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Post by JJShaw on Feb 14, 2020 13:48:59 GMT
I would have said City of Angels but I cannot believe we are getting a remount 5 years later!
I know it wasn't may peoples cup of tea but I loved Urinetown. Quirky music, interesting premise, original storyline, I personally loved the set and staging. I always like it when the West End gets original Original shows!
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Post by MrBraithwaite on Feb 14, 2020 14:41:10 GMT
Also I miss the Dress Circle shop.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 14:59:31 GMT
JCS at the Barbican Carrie at the Southwark Playhouse. Why haven't other compnies done it in London done it yet??
Shows that last under 4 months.
hydraulics in set designs.
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Post by ABr on Feb 14, 2020 15:25:17 GMT
Also I miss the Dress Circle shop. I second this! I only went in a few times when I was younger, before I really was engrossed in the MT world, and I loved it! I'd love to be able to go back now, and look through all the cast recordings and posters! At least we still have it in a digital form!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 16:42:18 GMT
Also I miss the Dress Circle shop. I do too, though it was a shadow of it's former self in it's last few years. Went there as a teenager mainly for foreign cast recordings and used to get so excited that they would for example have versions of Cats, Starlight and Phantom in multiple different languages. As I got older though, HMV Oxford Circus ended up with a much better selection as the Dress Circle CD section seemed to shrink. Of course both stores now sadly demised as CDs are disappearing. (I still buy them!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 16:46:23 GMT
Interpreted "miss" in the title of this thread as something that became part of your life - i.e. long runners!
Guess you can miss things that weren't around for as long too though.
In which case I would add the Barbican Jesus Christ Superstar.
Bat one of my absolute faves of the last 5 years but as I saw it so many times and did Manchester, Coliseum, Dominion and then continued in Oberhausen (Germany) plus with the tour on the horizon, I don't really feel I have had the chance to 'miss' it yet. Must have been 30 odd times lol - enough to be sated!
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Post by horton on Feb 14, 2020 17:02:37 GMT
The Westminster Theatre
Duncan Weldon
The RSC's permanent residence at the Barbican
Renaissance Theatre Company
PJ's (and just realized Balthazar bakery has gone!)
Yeah Dress Circle and Dean Street
Roger Redfarn, Jonathan Miller, Harold Fielding, Eartha Kitt, John Napier, oh so many people.
And as for shows... Follies at the Shaftesbury, She Loves Me, the original La Cage, John Wood's Tempest and Des Barritt in The Comedy of Errors at the RSC.
I don't miss... (that's another thread)
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Post by partytentdown on Feb 14, 2020 17:44:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 18:34:54 GMT
Phone-free auditoria. Didn't realise how much until Madonna did it last week. Happy buzz of conversation in the foyer, people chatting in their seats, no worry that someone would start recording during the show. Absolutely! They should introduce what she's done everywhere.
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Post by richey on Feb 14, 2020 19:58:10 GMT
Also I miss the Dress Circle shop. me too! Was always a highlight of any trip I made to London
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Post by marob on Feb 14, 2020 20:12:29 GMT
After being underwhelmed by the first musical I saw when I was getting into theatre I was a bit iffy about going to another one. But the next one was Nikolai Foster's production of Merrily We Roll Along, which I loved and bought the then-recent New York cast recording. Would love to see that again. More Sondheim in general anyway please.
When I went to Liverpool to see the touring version of Guys and Dolls a few years back there was a lady in the queue who was very excited to see Louise Dearman. I'd never heard of her. I thought she was great, but didn't realise how good until I saw her on a couple of BBC Proms.
Wish I'd seen Company a second time. Doubt I'll ever see Patti Lu Pone again. (Fingers crossed on seeing the infamous eight pack again...)
Sweet Charity at the Royal Exchange with Kaisa Hammarlund. So much better than the Donmar one last year. (Bit O/T but it also had possibly the best trailer I've seen for a theatrical show. Fun and completely unpretentious, unlike most trailers. Don't know how to post it here, but it's on Youtube.)
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Post by shady23 on Feb 14, 2020 20:15:28 GMT
Sweeney Todd. Seriously. I want stroke NEED to see it. Not the film, hate that, but a proper production. I only saw it last year in Liverpool but I’ve only seen 3 versions of it so I’m not all sweeney’d out. I love it. I wish that WYP production would get resurrected. BRING BACK SWEENEY TODD. What do you miss? I was at the V&A at the weekend and looking at the Sweeney set designs in the theatre gallery and found myself thinking the same thing. More recently, I miss 42nd Street. That show was something really special.
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Post by alece10 on Feb 14, 2020 20:29:07 GMT
After being underwhelmed by the first musical I saw when I was getting into theatre I was a bit iffy about going to another one. But the next one was Nikolai Foster's production of Merrily We Roll Along, which I loved and bought the then-recent New York cast recording. Would love to see that again. More Sondheim in general anyway please. When I went to Liverpool to see the touring version of Guys and Dolls a few years back there was a lady in the queue who was very excited to see Louise Dearman. I'd never heard of her. I thought she was great, but didn't realise how good until I saw her on a couple of BBC Proms. Wish I'd seen Company a second time. Doubt I'll ever see Patti Lu Pone again. (Fingers crossed on seeing the infamous eight pack again...) Sweet Charity at the Royal Exchange with Kaisa Hammarlund. So much better than the Donmar one last year. (Bit O/T but it also had possibly the best trailer I've seen for a theatrical show. Fun and completely unpretentious, unlike most trailers. Don't know how to post it here, but it's on Youtube.)
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Post by poster J on Feb 14, 2020 23:31:23 GMT
TBH I'm still pissed Memphis shut. Argh I forgot about Memphis! That goes on my list too!
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Post by jakobo on Feb 15, 2020 0:31:44 GMT
Phone-free auditoria. Didn't realise how much until Madonna did it last week. Happy buzz of conversation in the foyer, people chatting in their seats, no worry that someone would start recording during the show. How did they manage to do that? Did they use pouches?
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Post by impossibleprincess73 on Feb 15, 2020 0:38:29 GMT
Another vote for the original production of Starlight Express, it was the first show I saw on my first trip to London and still holds a special place in my heart. Billy Elliot (I think I didn't enjoy Hamilton cause I blame it for Billy closing, even though that's irrational) Blood Brothers with Stephanie Lawrence (damn, I miss Stephanie Lawrence) Miss Saigon at Drury Lane Les Mis at the Palace The Bodyguard with Beverly Knight Witches of Eastwick at Drury Lane Pajama Game at the Shaftesbury Dress Circle
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Post by CG on the loose on Feb 15, 2020 0:41:02 GMT
42nd Street, Singin’ in the Rain at the Palace, Memphis, High Society at the Old Vic, Sunset Boulevard at the Comedy, and *whispers* Time at the Dominion. And many more that my brain is too addled to bring to mind. Working in London 3 days a week - West End theatre trips have to be carefully planned now and cost a LOT more. Ticket prices from 30+ years ago when I first moved to London. The sense of occasion that a trip to the theatre provoked when I only went a handful of times a year (but I wouldn’t trade that for the amount of theatre I see these days) The energy I had when this passion for theatre first bloomed.
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Post by musicallady on Feb 15, 2020 7:20:15 GMT
The original Bill Kenwright touring version of Joseph. Yes it was tacky and cheap but it had something about it the new revamped version can never have. Many happy days spent travelling all over the country to see it. Happy days.
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Post by horton on Feb 15, 2020 9:32:55 GMT
Another vote for the original production of Starlight Express, it was the first show I saw on my first trip to London and still holds a special place in my heart. Billy Elliot (I think I didn't enjoy Hamilton cause I blame it for Billy closing, even though that's irrational) Blood Brothers with Stephanie Lawrence (damn, I miss Stephanie Lawrence) Miss Saigon at Drury Lane Les Mis at the Palace The Bodyguard with Beverly Knight Witches of Eastwick at Drury Lane Pajama Game at the Shaftesbury Dress Circle But Billy Elliot is coming back at least
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 15, 2020 13:23:34 GMT
......... Ryan .......... Sigh.
Also Groundhog Day. Was talking to a lady last night about it, she loved it too.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 15, 2020 15:05:41 GMT
Interpreted "miss" in the title of this thread as something that became part of your life - i.e. long runners! I think something can become part of your life even if it didn't run for that long. The show I most miss is Zorro. It ran for less than a year but in that time I saw it 22 times so it was part of my life at that time. It closed nearly 11 years ago but I still miss it painfully sometimes. I'm so nervous in case I get ill or the trains are screwed next Sunday & I can't get to Cadogan Hall for the concert performance (though it won't be the same without the staging).
The other West End shows I miss are Top Hat, Crazy For You (Regent's Park production) & Lend Me A Tenor. More generally, I miss the time prior to the last few years where seats were cheap enough that I could go & see any new musical to see what it was like, & when most of the musicals that opened appealed to me. In the last few years seat prices have gone up so much that I have to really want to see something & few of the musicals that have opened in the last 3-4 years have appealed to me. A combination of these two factors has meant I've seen comparitively few WE musicals recently. (I'm still going to a lot of theatre but not WE musicals.)
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Post by whoknows on Feb 15, 2020 17:57:13 GMT
Memphis & In The Heights are at the top of my list, together with the production of JCS at the Open Air Theatre and Once with the original cast.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 22:07:36 GMT
Wish I'd seen Company a second time. Doubt I'll ever see Patti Lu Pone again. This is why I made myself go a second time. I saw it fairly early on and it was just perfect, to the point I decided a second viewing couldn’t match it. Some shows stay with you for whatever reason and this stuck with me... and I talked myself into going again and it didn’t disappoint. I’ve seen Patti do solo shows, but to see her in a musical was a big thrill and I doubt she’ll do another after this. But the entire cast is one of the strongest I’ve ever seen and every role was perfectly cast. I wish it would come back or we’d get a DVD somehow, but I’d settle for a concert version in a few years reuniting the London cast.
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Post by jakobo on Feb 16, 2020 13:05:15 GMT
How did they manage to do that? Did they use pouches? Yes. www.overyondr.com/howitworks. As entry was by ticket on your phone, staff walked the line outside. You showed them the ticket on your phone and they wrote your seat number on a nifty souvenir card. An usher scanned your phone ticket at the door, then another usher asked you to turn off / airline mode your phone and put it into a pouch then handed it back to you. At the end, ushers stood at the door with magnetic unlockers. You took the phone out of the pouch and dropped it into a container. Sounds quite smooth. I wish it was introduced everywhere, and especially in cinemas where the behavior is truly horrible nowadays.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2020 13:37:21 GMT
The Grinning Man. I came to it too late in the day, so didn’t have the chance revisit it. The cast recording still gives me chills. That and the production of Rent that began life at the Other Palace. Sublime.
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Post by frontrowcentre on Feb 16, 2020 17:21:45 GMT
But Billy Elliot is coming back at least ...is it?!!
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