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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 15, 2022 5:51:36 GMT
Looking to transfer to a larger theatre… Noel Coward 👀
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Post by LaLuPone on Jun 15, 2022 8:14:25 GMT
After calling the Vaudeville their “forever home” all the time for the past year, funny.
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Post by Rory on Jun 15, 2022 8:21:15 GMT
Looking to transfer to a larger theatre… Noel Coward 👀 I sort of hope not. Would like the Noel Coward back for plays.
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Post by emilycornnuts on Jun 18, 2022 15:00:31 GMT
Is anyone going to the Hampton Court Palace show tomorrow? I’m interested to see if there’s any changes to the script.
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 18, 2022 15:34:25 GMT
Looking to transfer to a larger theatre… Noel Coward 👀 Didn't they literally JUST advertise the Vaudeville as their 'forever home'
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Post by Rory on Jun 18, 2022 15:51:48 GMT
Kenny Wax has been pretty loyal to Nica Burns and she to him, and they seem to work well together, so I'd be surprised if he / Six left Nimax. Although he is probably buoyed up by the Tony success for the show.
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Post by Paulw on Jun 19, 2022 15:16:16 GMT
Is anyone going to the Hampton Court Palace show tomorrow? I’m interested to see if there’s any changes to the script. I am! They might change a few small bits as that's where 3 of them lived! But can't see too many major changes. After being critical of them using the original cast for everything I a past post I grabbed a last minute ticket so I can see for myself what all the fuss is about the original Queens, I have seen 2 different casts so far so I have something to judge it on. I just have to remember to go in with an open mind!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 19, 2022 16:06:39 GMT
Looking to transfer to a larger theatre… Noel Coward 👀 Didn't they literally JUST advertise the Vaudeville as their 'forever home' Money talks and they could absolutely be selling more tickets in a bigger house right now
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Post by keekio2 on Jun 19, 2022 18:04:57 GMT
Didn't (Doesn't) the Vaudeville have problems with accessabilty? It does I remember there being a lot of controversy around it
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Post by littlefluffychick on Jun 19, 2022 20:45:42 GMT
Might be an unpopular opinion on here but I think Six is massively over-rated.
My 14 year old loves it, and I’ve seen the show in the West End and on tour with various very talented casts. But I find the whole production a bit meh and a bit cringe. They must be raking it - really really short shows, super low budget set, no costume changes, tiny group of musicians. I always feel a bit short changed when I have paid for us to see the show.
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Post by Rory on Jun 19, 2022 20:51:17 GMT
It's clever and it's a lot of fun, but I'll be disappointed if it ends up hogging the Noel Coward for years.
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Post by danb on Jun 19, 2022 22:19:52 GMT
I like it BECAUSE it’s short & punchy and I can do a 2 show day and still be back on the M4 for 9.30!
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Post by thesoberpanda on Jun 19, 2022 22:22:52 GMT
Might be an unpopular opinion on here but I think Six is massively over-rated. Really really short shows, super low budget set, no costume changes, tiny group of musicians. I always feel a bit short changed when I have paid for us to see the show. I kinda used to feel like that especially about how short it was but having seen it, what it lacks in minutes, it makes up for in effort - such a high energy show that I'm not even sure how they would go on for much longer than they do. I'm definitely not the target audience, but I was surprised how much I enjoyed it and immediately wanted to rebook !! Sure, they might well be raking it in but they will have to pay a large fee to the theatre with the absence of an interval (to compensate the bar) plus it's certainly not the highest priced ticket in town by a long way. I think part of the problem that stems from that is that it's not a traditional west end show as such and plays more like a pop concert, it's short and punchy without any filler tracks so everything hits !! (By the way I can certainly appreciate your point of view, I just wanted to come at it from a different angle I can definitely see how it could be cringey for some)
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Post by squidward on Jun 20, 2022 1:22:39 GMT
The fact that this won a Tony for the best score beating A Strange Loop was inexplicable to me. The score for Six,rather like the show itself , is entertaining to a point, but rather slight and quite derivative in my opinion. I don’t understand all the love for it really.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 20, 2022 6:42:15 GMT
It’s the perfect musical for the social media obsessed youth with short attention spans.
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Post by Paulw on Jun 20, 2022 8:34:18 GMT
A quick one about last night at Hampton Court Palace
On arriving it was like a comic book convention with the amount of people dressed up (as the queens) or in some sort of Six merch, they had a merch stall set out with some special edition Hampton Court stuff which seemed to be going down well with the fans.
Onto the gig itself as I said in a previous post I was keeping an open mind, I was sat in block d one of the side blocks but had a good side view of the stage despite the height, people in row a of all blocks couldn't see a thing and were trying to move throughout (think front row limited leg room theatre seat with a concert height stage). I am not going to lie it was like being at a Justin Bieber (or whoever the young teens are into these days) concert at times with the screaming from the fans! Most songs were clapped along with and people dancing along with full moves while remaining seated, which was a strange experience.
No changes to the show itself apart from the usual place name check change and there were a couple of references to the Palace in Richmond which I can't remember being used in the theatre production, and the cast not rushing to deliver the next lines so the one liners etc... worked so much better.
The sound was of course louder than the theatre and was so clear you could hear everything, lighting could have been better and at times the stage looked in darkness (it wasn't) and whichever one was singing the follow spot lost them at times.
Now in previous posts I have been critical about the production using the original cast for all these extra things and to be honest I don't see why they are put on such a pedestal, yes they were good but no different to other casts I have seen. The stand out for me was Natalie Paris, having never come across anything she has been in before she was very impressive. Aimie Atkinson was a little disappointing (and I shouldn't have read that post about her intake of breath before every line in the Pretty Woman Thread). As I said I was in one of the side blocks and I have to say they didn't make use of the massive stage they had, I found it a very narrow performance and no use of the wings of the stage in fact they never really acknowledged anyone to the sides and sang and did everything down the middle even the bows never made it outside of that small middle section.
It was an enjoyable night and if you have an extra few £'s to spare go tonight as you will have fun but to be honest for me at that price I would have preferred to have gone to the theatre 3 times (on Rush Tickets) to see it (or other things) instead of that. And lastly nothing I saw changed my mind on why these Original Queens are held up so highly by the fans!
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Post by inthenose on Jun 20, 2022 8:39:32 GMT
Was the angry woman there, shouting about being a dirty rascal? Now that's what I call musical theatre.
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Post by Paulw on Jun 20, 2022 8:41:17 GMT
Was the angry woman there, shouting about being a dirty rascal? Now that's what I call musical theatre.Yes! I read your post a while ago about that and that was in my head when she rapped those lines which made me chuckle!
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Post by inthenose on Jun 20, 2022 8:42:15 GMT
Was the angry woman there, shouting about being a dirty rascal? Now that's what I call musical theatre.Yes! I read your post a while ago about that and that was in my head when she rapped those lines which made me chuckle! Lovely stuff! I really will get around to listening to the soundtrack at some point, but... is the whole thing like that?
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Post by Paulw on Jun 20, 2022 8:49:22 GMT
Yes! I read your post a while ago about that and that was in my head when she rapped those lines which made me chuckle! Lovely stuff! I really will get around to listening to the soundtrack at some point, but... is the whole thing like that? No that is the only bit apart from a few Beyonce impressions and the 90's Rave track attempt which is better visually than as a piece, the rest of the songs are more like pop songs but Heart Of Stone is such a fantastic song right in the middle and would work as a stand alone release. It is a light hearted thing as opposed to serious theatre and if you listen or watch with the "its a bit of fun" mindset it is good fun
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Post by bethr20 on Jul 15, 2022 14:26:13 GMT
I finally got to see Six on the West End, having seen the show once before on the tour and falling in love with it. When I found out that my local theatre was hosting the show back in November, I booked impulsive last-minute tickets (having no idea what the show was about, nor knowing any of the songs in context), and I came out that evening with my expectations completely surpassed . It was my first post-lockdown show and it completely rekindled my love for musical theatre; suffice to say, ever since then I had been hoping to see the show again West End, and it was certainly worth waiting for. I managed to get rush tickets for £25 for me and my mum (who also loves the show, and has seen it 3 times now) to the 8pm performance on Wednesday, which meant that we were sat in row A of the stalls: we knew that row AZ was the front row upon booking, but many of the people sat around us obviously didn't as they were complaining about not being at the front of the theatre. We had Rachel Rawlinson on as Catherine Howard but, other than that, it was the usual West End cast. The performance was amazing, although dampened slightly by some of the audience members around us who were singing and dancing very loudly around us; I'm pretty sure that they even got some looks directed at them from the Queens, because of how loud they were being throughout the performance. During Haus of Holbein, they even pulled out their own glasses and began adding in all of the dialogue between each other, which was frustratingly just out of time with what was happening onstage. The two girls (who were probably around the same age as me, so 17 or so), also got into a heated applaud rivalry with the girl sat behind me (probably aged 10 or 11) who was on holiday from America with her family and was ecstatic before the show about finally being able to see it, causing the applaud to be extended into the rest of the show with them wanting to 'beat' the little girl. Not so much annoying, more immature, in my opinion. I'm all for enjoying myself at a show, and applauding and whooping whilst everyone else is, but not at the detriment to the rest of the show or the other audience members around me. Sorry for the little rant, but in all of the shows that I've been to it's never been as blatant as those girls were, which is probably what surprised me the most.
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Post by jacob on Jul 15, 2022 15:29:10 GMT
I finally got to see Six on the West End, having seen the show once before on the tour and falling in love with it. When I found out that my local theatre was hosting the show back in November, I booked impulsive last-minute tickets (having no idea what the show was about, nor knowing any of the songs in context), and I came out that evening with my expectations completely surpassed . did you get rush tickets from Today Tix? congrats, if so!! trying to do the same at some point - and sorry about the immature behaviour, nothing gives me the ick more than the fangirls that have to make everything about themselves .. it’s not a concert ffs
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Post by daisy24601 on Jul 30, 2022 17:07:48 GMT
Could anyone clear something up for me? I was just going through my list of West End theatres that I've visited (nearly ticked them all off now!) and I'm now confused over where I saw Six. I saw it in Nov 2021 and according to all reports it was at the Vaudeville by then. But I remember distinctly queuing around the side of the Lyric because they didn't let us in until 5 mins before th show start, so the queue was massive. Did it go back there briefly?
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Post by LaLuPone on Jul 30, 2022 17:34:32 GMT
Could anyone clear something up for me? I was just going through my list of West End theatres that I've visited (nearly ticked them all off now!) and I'm now confused over where I saw Six. I saw it in Nov 2021 and according to all reports it was at the Vaudeville by then. But I remember distinctly queuing around the side of the Lyric because they didn't let us in until 5 mins before th show start, so the queue was massive. Did it go back there briefly? Definitely not. It opened at the Lyric late November/early December 2020 just after we came out of another lockdown and then rapidly shut down a week later when we went straight back into lockdown, then played the Lyric again from May 2021 to the end of August before taking a month’s break to move to the Vaudeville where it opened at the end of September.
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Post by Rory on Jul 30, 2022 21:26:27 GMT
Could anyone clear something up for me? I was just going through my list of West End theatres that I've visited (nearly ticked them all off now!) and I'm now confused over where I saw Six. I saw it in Nov 2021 and according to all reports it was at the Vaudeville by then. But I remember distinctly queuing around the side of the Lyric because they didn't let us in until 5 mins before th show start, so the queue was massive. Did it go back there briefly? Yes, I saw it in November 2021 too, and it was definitely at the Vaudeville.
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Post by daisy24601 on Jul 30, 2022 22:03:40 GMT
Hmm, confusing. I will have to get to the bottom of this now.
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 31, 2022 8:16:53 GMT
I remember distinctly queuing around the side of the Lyric 'Tis indeed a mystery. Both the Lyric and Vaudeville are landlocked, as it were. Neither is on a corner.
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Post by keekio2 on Aug 12, 2022 10:27:16 GMT
Is this still looking to move to a larger theatre it could move back to the lyric
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Post by daisy24601 on Sept 7, 2022 9:39:40 GMT
I remember distinctly queuing around the side of the Lyric 'Tis indeed a mystery. Both the Lyric and Vaudeville are landlocked, as it were. Neither is on a corner. The Lyric is on a corner, it goes down the side street past McDonalds. Turns out I didn't realise how close together my two visits were. I've been once to each place.
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Post by keekio2 on Sept 23, 2022 15:09:40 GMT
Does anyone know when cast change is ?
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