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Post by partytentdown on Jan 22, 2016 10:24:45 GMT
With the closure of the old forum, I thought it would be a suitable time to discuss some of the great forum memories of the last decade.
I'll kick off when it was discovered staff members of a certain London entertainment venue were unveiled as posting very positive comments about a less than excellent show...at their venue.
Any more?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 10:33:35 GMT
In the early days people could post as guests without registering so there was a period when most threads were overrun with pr0n spammers
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 11:13:12 GMT
A favourite sequence of moments: Over a period of several months a number of posts from various new members appeared, all raving about the same book. I did some investigation and discovered that, by a truly remarkable coincidence, every one of the members happened to be a relative of the author. Sales must have been really bad.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 11:34:48 GMT
Oh man, I don't think archiving the whole forum is at all an achievable or important goal, but actually I've always enjoyed a good tutting session in the Bad Behaviour thread. I might save that one myself for personal reference.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 12:16:20 GMT
Remember Judyfan and the great Alan Rickman non-ovation incident?
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Post by David J on Jan 22, 2016 12:51:59 GMT
There's a 2 year old (9 days off the date) discussion about a funny gap in Lynette Theatre's scheduling that still cracks me up
I won't elaborate. I've only just become a member here.
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Post by partytentdown on Jan 22, 2016 12:59:27 GMT
Lynette once told me off, it scarred me for life.
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Post by Snciole on Jan 22, 2016 13:23:23 GMT
The bizarre "Is this real life" comment on Dusty thread had me crying with laughter.
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Post by Jan on Jan 22, 2016 14:27:20 GMT
I used to like it when I used to be on that forum.
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Post by daniel on Jan 22, 2016 14:49:41 GMT
My personal favourites have to include the entire Bend It Like Beckham thread, "how high is the stage?", "are there day seats" and the Level 100 fangirling on the Wicked thread around Cast Change season. Here's to plenty more on TheatreBoard!
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Post by partytentdown on Jan 22, 2016 14:52:03 GMT
The other forum is becoming a sort of apocalyptic wasteland
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Post by SuperTrooper on Jan 22, 2016 16:32:47 GMT
OliveMarie anyone?
She was a long long time ago, on ALL the message boards!
Personally, I enjoyed calling out a FoH girl at the Novello and her inside knowledge of EP and her show schedule on Drowsy Chaperone! She used her own name and was saying that the manager told her!
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Post by Jon on Jan 23, 2016 2:28:58 GMT
Jill Clarke was a hoot due to her obsession with Michael Ball and using caps lock to make a POINT!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2016 7:14:00 GMT
On the subject of Michael Ball but not entirely on the forum, there was the first public award vote where the Michael Ball fans rigged the outcome. WhatsOnStage corrected the result to remove the fraudulent voting, and the furious fans responded by claiming that Michael Ball still deserved to win because he was the only candidate so popular that his fans would go to all the effort of rigging the vote.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jan 23, 2016 14:23:51 GMT
At the time, not knowing there was a Michael Ball lobby I once made a post laughing at Michael Ball. Whom whilst performing at the Proms invited the Royal Albert Hall audience to join him in the rousing finally to 'Love Changes Everything'. And nobody did.
I thought it was funny but I was informed in no uncertain terms that their has always been a snobby Proms atmosphere
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Post by Mark on Jan 23, 2016 14:29:36 GMT
The entire Bend it Like Beckham thread...
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Post by frappuccino on Apr 2, 2020 5:45:25 GMT
Remember Judyfan and the great Alan Rickman non-ovation incident? What was this incident about? |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Apr 2, 2020 8:41:03 GMT
*Points at signature*
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 20:32:33 GMT
Remember Judyfan and the great Alan Rickman non-ovation incident? What was this incident about? Back in the far-off days of the old forum ... we had a member called Judyfan who was a highly enthusiastic fan of "End of the Rainbow" starring Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland. Literally posted about nothing else. On one of his or her many visits to the show, Alan Rickman was in attendance and failed to join in the standing ovation at the end. Cue massive rant on the forum from Judyfan - "WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS?? HIS FATHER WORKED IN A FACTORY FOR GOD'S SAKE" is the phrase that sticks in my mind although I may have misremembered the exact details. |
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Post by frappuccino on Apr 2, 2020 23:28:34 GMT
Accidental initiator of the greatest horse pun of 2019? |
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Post by frappuccino on Apr 2, 2020 23:36:50 GMT
What was this incident about? Back in the far-off days of the old forum ... we had a member called Judyfan who was a highly enthusiastic fan of "End of the Rainbow" starring Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland. Literally posted about nothing else. On one of his or her many visits to the show, Alan Rickman was in attendance and failed to join in the standing ovation at the end. Cue massive rant on the forum from Judyfan - "WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS?? HIS FATHER WORKED IN A FACTORY FOR GOD'S SAKE" is the phrase that sticks in my mind although I may have misremembered the exact details. I would've loved to have seen this |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Apr 5, 2020 8:32:23 GMT
Back in the far-off days of the old forum ... we had a member called Judyfan who was a highly enthusiastic fan of "End of the Rainbow" starring Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland. Literally posted about nothing else. On one of his or her many visits to the show, Alan Rickman was in attendance and failed to join in the standing ovation at the end. Cue massive rant on the forum from Judyfan - "WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS?? HIS FATHER WORKED IN A FACTORY FOR GOD'S SAKE" is the phrase that sticks in my mind although I may have misremembered the exact details. I would've loved to have seen this If it at all possible, it was made funnier by an Alan Rickman pile on. He didn't sign my autograph to he never stage doors. He didn't carry my shopping and never stands up for old ladies on the tube  |
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Post by frappuccino on Apr 5, 2020 11:14:12 GMT
I would've loved to have seen this If it at all possible, it was made funnier by an Alan Rickman pile on. He didn't sign my autograph to he never stage doors. He didn't carry my shopping and never stands up for old ladies on the tube But he always stage doors! How strange! And he doesn't sign Harry Potter cause they end up on ebay. He only makes exceptions for children and the infirm. He used to sign them in the early days of HP though. |
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