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Post by theatre241 on Dec 9, 2019 19:01:59 GMT
TodayTix are doing £25 rush tickets! Has anyone seen this, Worth seeing?
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Post by viserys on Dec 10, 2019 11:47:36 GMT
Still no news on dayseats?
Checked rush this morning and they offered Row T in the stalls for £25... meh.
Edit: They made the front row in stalls available for £22.50 for tonight, not for other performances. Some sort of online dayseats?
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Post by edi on Dec 10, 2019 12:46:44 GMT
Still no news on dayseats? Checked rush this morning and they offered Row T in the stalls for £25... meh. Edit: They made the front row in stalls available for £22.50 for tonight, not for other performances. Some sort of online dayseats? Must be unsold sayseats
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Post by jampot on Dec 12, 2019 21:02:20 GMT
If any one thats been can tell me eve finish time...trains strikes have really messed this up for me and my last train home from waterloo is 22.20!
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Post by liverpool54321 on Dec 12, 2019 23:49:56 GMT
Finished just before 22.10 tonight when everyone rushed to switch their phone on.
Front row view is good - eye level with stage height for me at 5’ 10”. Not sure you could be much closer as most of solo singing done from edge of stage. I can see one of the mic stands landing in the audience at some point during the run. As for the show, they have made quite a few tweaks from previous run. Katie Brayben a good choice to play Elizabeth Laine and she does her own spell binding version of Like a Rolling Stone. For a 4th preview this was definitely up and running.
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Post by Jane Parfitt on Dec 17, 2019 11:22:11 GMT
I would like to buy tickets for this but my friend is only 5'1" tall. Does anyone have any experience of the front row of the dress circle please, eg are there lights or safety rail in way of small people? I've looked at @theatremonkey fab website but I'm still undecided! Thanks
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Post by Jane Parfitt on Dec 17, 2019 18:51:03 GMT
I'd go a row back just to be safe. Thanks @theatremonkey! Do you think that is a better option than the side boxes?
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Post by somnorific on Dec 18, 2019 10:25:26 GMT
Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but it turns out the official ticketing website are releasing front row seats for £22.50 !! I was agonizing yesterday over choosing a rush seat in center stalls row H, VS a stall box and then refreshed the ticketing map and saw a wonderful stream of light blue in the front row. Hope that helps someone! For the record, I thought it was a solid production but I will say I liked it less than I thought I would given all the commotion around it. I was only already familiar with perhaps 4 of the Bob Dylan songs in the musical, but I didn't mind that as I enjoyed virtually all of the songs except one. The main problem for me was that I didn't exactly connect enough with any of the characters. The closest I got was the mother. They are all very skilled performers, and she was particularly great - but I couldn't really suspend disbelief as she (Katie Brayben) seemed WAY too young to be the mother of that son! All in all, a solid evening though and definitely good value for money for those front row tickets.
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Post by Xanderl on Dec 18, 2019 10:29:42 GMT
I guess these are day seats which they put online if they are not sold in person? At the moment they are on sale for today but not for later dates. Most of the row is on sale today so if this is the case, not much of a day seat queue!
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Post by edi on Dec 18, 2019 14:54:10 GMT
Yes they must be day seats. Every day they pop up around 11-12ish . I will pop out next week and get some to save the £2.50.
How is front row?
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Post by david on Dec 18, 2019 19:21:35 GMT
Keeping an eye on the DMT seating plan, I was going to try and day seat for next Monday’s matinee, but by the looks of it, there has been plenty of availability of the £22.50 front stalls tickets over the last few days. The cheap tix could still be bought when I checked at 4.30pm this afternoon. Saves me getting up early to queue up at the box office early Monday morning and freezing to death.
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Post by ruperto on Dec 20, 2019 15:24:02 GMT
I caught this yesterday afternoon and was surprised to find myself enjoying it even more than when I first saw it at the Old Vic. I actually slightly preferred this cast - there are some great people in it, such as Finbar Lynch and Katie Brayben.
We (my daughter and I) were in Box A, and I can thoroughly recommend it for the experience. It cost us £32.50 per seat (£30 each plus restoration etc fees, I think) though on some dates it seems to be a bit more expensive...
As noted by Theatremonkey, there are two moveable seats, so you can position them for the best view, and there's lots of legroom and space to dump bags and coats etc. You're literally right next to the stage, above the stalls but slightly below the level of the dress circle. We could pretty much see people in the stalls looking up and saying who are they/how much did they pay to sit there etc, and it was hard to resist giving them a regal wave...
We looked across at Box C and Theatremonkey is right - there's a fixed bench in there, so I don't think it would be as good.
Box A is restricted view, so you do miss some action on the left as you're looking at the stage, but it's so fun to be in a box, and I loved being so close to the actors without having to crane my neck up. You get there via a funny little door, then you go into a weird little ante-room, where some random bloke was sitting as we left, and then there's the door to the box - it's really surreal!
Anyway, at that price it would make a great treat for a birthday/anniversary etc.
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Post by david on Dec 23, 2019 18:18:55 GMT
Caught today’s matinee.
Day Seat Report - Arrived at the theatre at 8.55am with only 2 people already waiting. By 10am, there where 5 of us waiting for tickets. I was offered stalls A13 for £20. (Feel free to use this in your reader reports @theatremonkey ) A great seat. When I arrived at the theatre at 1.45pm, the box office manager seemed to be upgrading a few people from what I could overhear. The stalls where not sold out at the matinee performance.
As for the production itself, while I didn’t think the book was that great (I felt leaving at the end the subject of Depression era America and its impacts on society has been dealt with far more effectively in other plays such as Grapes of Wrath and Mice and Men with far more emotional impact), where it did win for me was with the cast. An absolutely fantastic cast with great vocals in singing those great Bob Dylan songs. Katie Brayben’s rendition of “Like a Rolling Stone” being a particular highlight. Though the use of the songs in this production did at times seemed a bit of a weird choice. Some of them seemed to come from nowhere in relation to their placement in the plot and I couldn’t see how they moved the plot or character development forward rather than being an organic part of the production in helping to tell the story. The OCR will definitely be getting bought.
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Post by Mr Snow on Dec 28, 2019 11:35:56 GMT
Please help. I am starting to worry about my attention span, but seeing this last night I can't recall hearing the title song? It's listed in the programme, for after the interval, and one of my favourite Dylan songs, but? ? Thought it was an entertaining mess. Too much plot meant much 'soap' like dialogue but I came away intrigued and may return. I often complain that plays have 'too many words' ( )and this was certainly enlivened by some great singing and interesting choices of songs.
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Post by viserys on Dec 28, 2019 17:44:47 GMT
Please help. I am starting to worry about my attention span, but seeing this last night I can't recall hearing the title song? It's listed in the programme, for after the interval, and one of my favourite Dylan songs, but? ? I have the textbook of the play and there's a line, during the longer dialogue between Perry and Marianne at Thanksgiving that says: "Out in the kitchen a girl sings "Girl from the North Country", other guests harmonizing"So I guess if you were waiting for it to be performed properly ON stage, you would have missed it. It's a pity that it gets lost, because sounds so gorgeous on the cast recording and is actually my favourite song on that. I'll try and look out for it when I see the show next week.
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Post by theatre241 on Jan 4, 2020 14:40:22 GMT
Is this production worth seeing from front row or TodayTix Rush?
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Post by david on Jan 4, 2020 14:48:49 GMT
Is this production worth seeing from front row or TodayTix Rush? I didn’t have any issues sitting in the front row for this. Great view for £20.
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Post by theatre241 on Jan 18, 2020 20:26:02 GMT
Tonight’s performance was cancelled:( Casy illness I think. So annoying, got there at 7:20 and everyone was coming out and I knew so we grabbed the letter and ran to Les mis and it was sold out so we ran to phantom and they offered £69.50 seats and it was 2 mins until curtain up and weren’t prepared to discount so no show for tonight:(
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Post by cakedetective on Jan 23, 2020 16:42:10 GMT
Does anyone know of any deals on tickets for this?
Apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place.
Miriam
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Post by Being Alive on Jan 23, 2020 16:46:16 GMT
We are discussing this in plays - mods please merged.
TodayTix is offering £25 rush - that's the only real offer I know of.
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Post by Being Alive on Jan 23, 2020 19:56:51 GMT
Not sure what you mean Being Alive, as it is in this thread, in plays. Welcome to the board cakedetective Miriam. It is in the London Theatre Sale until next week, and it dynamic prices down. There's also day seats and todaytix rush. This was originally in musicals on a brand new thread @theatremonkey but it got merged into this one (the usual merged comment just hasn't been left by a mod)
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 23, 2020 20:05:17 GMT
Not sure what you mean Being Alive , as it is in this thread, in plays. Welcome to the board cakedetective Miriam. It is in the London Theatre Sale until next week, and it dynamic prices down. There's also day seats and todaytix rush. Sorry mr monkey I merged threads at the request of Being Alive and didn’t add a post. Mea Culpa 😧
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Post by horton on Jan 25, 2020 9:25:12 GMT
(I have been searching the boards with some confusion.
The show's own publicity material now describes it as a new musical, so surely it's now in the wrong place.)
Sad to say, I re-visited this at the Gielgud and it is not a patch on the Old Vic incarnation. Finbar Lynch brings his signature energy to the role of the reverend but unfortunately this cast does not catch the intensity and truth of the originals.
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Post by amp09 on Jan 27, 2020 0:03:08 GMT
(I have been searching the boards with some confusion. The show's own publicity material now describes it as a new musical, so surely it's now in the wrong place.) Sad to say, I re-visited this at the Gielgud and it is not a patch on the Old Vic incarnation. Finbar Lynch brings his signature energy to the role of the reverend but unfortunately this cast does not catch the intensity and truth of the originals. Agreed, saw the first act this week and left during the interval. Very rare that I do that, but really didn’t like it. Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood.
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Post by latefortheoverture on Jan 28, 2020 12:52:53 GMT
Saw this for the first time last night, after missing it before. What a stunning show. I got a day seat online at around 11:30, A19, £22.50. Stage is at eye level so it really is a perfect view. I think it will be hard to top this one, for me, this year. I couldn't find a weak link in the cast, the book enthralled me, and the music was hauntingly beautiful. I don't really listen to Bob Dylan, so only really knew one song (make you feel my love), but if I didn't know I would've thought the songs were wrote just for this. I didn't expect to be so emotional. Gloria Obianyo as Maryanne broke me. As she started singing Tight Connection to my Heart, the third song in, I was in floods. Never have I been so emotional, so early on in someones performance. She really was a marvel. Rachael John didn't disappoint, a soulful voice, and great acting. She was even better in this, than she was in hamilton. Katie Brayben works hard, a world away from Carole King! The 'Duquesne Whistle' number sounded lovely, but I felt did make an abrupt stop to the pace. And 'make you feel my love' was cut criminally short, that arrangement is stunning. Would've loved to have heard it all the way through. The performance 'Lay lady lay/jokerman' at the end was so nice, again I was emotional. The arrangements are a big part of the beauty of the piece I feel.
Due to me being so emotional I kind of miss the Dr's final monologue. I was straight on my feet at the end, I knew it would be a good show, but didn't think it would be *that* good! Was nice to see so many Bob Dylan fans watching the show. One gent in a box was wording the songs and was moved at the end of it, as was another lady behind me. She was crying on the way out, she was telling her husband that she did not expect it to be how it was. It would be a crime to call this a jukebox musical, while on paper it is. This is worlds away from what a jukebox musical is, and that's a testament to the creators of it! Shame I caught it so late on, as I would've returned. Hope this does well on broadway, and hope to see it back here one day. {Spoiler - click to view} Can anyone tell me what the Dr tell us in the final monologue. I remember mentions of him seeing Maryanne and Joseph returning.
And can anyone explain what the ending of the family back to normal at the table signifies? It went over my head, too busy crying! Katie Brayben just thought it would be ok to finish me off properly singing forever young!
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Post by Theatre Fan on Oct 29, 2021 19:46:23 GMT
UK & international tour revealed - Confirmed venue Newcastle Theatre Royal, running from 26th September – 1st October 2022 x
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 30, 2021 13:14:19 GMT
Definitely a solid 4 star show, which is also the consensus of this board. Great to hear Dylan’s great score dramaticalised, even though the book isn’t overly great, it still makes an excellent evening.
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Post by welcome2hollywood on Oct 31, 2021 17:40:11 GMT
Saw this on Broadway last week. Enjoyed the music but not so much the depressing plot. It also seems Broadway is still struggling to come back, with maybe a third of the theater full.
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Post by jampot on Nov 12, 2021 16:02:10 GMT
Mayflower Southampton 30th Aug - 3rd Sept
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