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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2016 9:34:33 GMT
Does 'The Laughing Gnome' feature in this? That's my favourite Bowie song. No Laughing Gnome. No Ryan. I ADORE that song! Me and Louisa used to sit at the back of the school bus in Germany listening to that everyday! We would then go to her house and watch ultra violent movies!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Nov 10, 2016 11:06:36 GMT
Does 'The Laughing Gnome' feature in this? That's my favourite Bowie song. No Laughing Gnome. No Ryan. No Laughing Gnome, sorry Ryan
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 12, 2016 14:02:06 GMT
Back here tonight. Hoping to make more sense of it this time round!
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 13, 2016 1:27:17 GMT
Okay, just back from the evening show. It's very clear which aspects of this show work and which don't. Projections and lighting are wonderful. Surely some awards coming their way, and rightly so! At times it was almost like watching an art instillation piece at a museum. Cast is also exemplary. Michael C Hall's voice is very unique but he nails the Bowie-esque vocal stylings too. The title song is performed particularly well. Amy Lennox also wonderful. Jamie Muscato and Julie Yammanee are great in their roles but have next to no stage time unfortunately. For me the standouts are Michael Esper as Valentine and Sophia Anne Caruso as the Girl. The former is just completely unnerving and has three showstopper songs, which he nails. Seem to remember 'Valentine's Day' was one of the only songs that got an applause last time. (No applause after any of the songs tonight, which felt natural. Standing ovation at the end though). Caruso is just stunning. Still can't believe how young she is as her voice has so much power behind it, but vulnerability too. If nothing else the cast album is worth buying just for her version of Life On Mars. On the negative side, the story is just non-existent. Script is ponderous and pretentious to begin with, which is a shame, although I suppose it is probably meant to show off Newton's lack of human conversational skills. I said it last time and I'll say it again... Where does the bad guy go at the end?! He just wanders off with his ghost girl person? Who is he? Is he real? Why is he there? Why does he want to 'kill love'? Why does he want to kill Newton, who doesn't have any love anymore? WHY?! Also, I love a good souvenir brochure, but they were £8!!!! Totally the same as my £6 preview one, except now the back two pages are production shots not rehearsal photo. Oooooooh. . . (I definitely got one though. No shame.) Overall though, I'd say this is worth seeing. Probably not going to be the best thing you see all year, but definitely a good talking point. Sat on the side in row O and the view was great. Was a little bit tricky to see some of the action low to the ground/on the floor, but not too bad. Would reccomend the front row over it though. Our seats were sold by the online box office but I believe todaytix does a £15 lottery now.
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Post by Lopsided on Nov 15, 2016 18:05:15 GMT
Well, that's annoying - just received an email informing me that the evening show on New Years Eve has been cancelled. And there was me feeling smug about havibg front row seats.
Offer to refund or rearrange, but not sure I'll be able to get any seats with a comparable view.
Ah well, at least Michael will have the night off to enjoy himself.
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 15, 2016 18:19:49 GMT
I would contact them asking for comparable seats at the same price.
Got to be worth a try!
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Post by theatrefan77 on Nov 15, 2016 19:22:35 GMT
Nothing can beat the front row for this show. Great view and the visuals are just fantastic. Pity about the story, or lack of it. But Michael C Hall delivers the Bowie songs so wonderfully that it's really difficult not to enjoy this even if you don't care about the story.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 16, 2016 19:27:36 GMT
At Lazarus now. The venue is vile. Like an industrial aircraft hanger. Not enough seats, no cloakroom, hideously bright lights......let's hope the show is better than the venue!! Still at £15 for a front row seat I shouldn't complain.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 16, 2016 23:29:05 GMT
Positives
The view from the front row for £15 is fantastic. Great staging and projections. Fully committed performances from the entire cast especially Michael C Hall. Great vocals.
Negatives
Cold auditorium. Running time of almost 2 hours too long without an interval. Completely confusing narrative if any at all.
Warm applause at the end but no standing ovation. Seemed full.
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Post by wickedgrin on Nov 17, 2016 0:26:52 GMT
Positives The view from the front row for £15 is fantastic. Great staging and projections. Fully committed performances from the entire cast especially Michael C Hall. Great vocals. Negatives Cold auditorium. Running time of almost 2 hours too long without an interval. Completely confusing narrative if any at all. Warm applause at the end but no standing ovation. Seemed full. EDIT: To say that this isn't a musical really (i.e. with a narrative) more performance art.
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Post by rumbledoll on Nov 18, 2016 12:05:34 GMT
I know this production might be flawed but I LOVED it last Saturday matinee. It plays with your imgination a lot, looming about the idea of how we rather dream our futures than try to make them true. The incredible capacity of our minds to biuld new worlds and find ourselves at peace when there's nothing else to live for. Astonishing performance by Machael C Hall and Sophia Anne Caruso, singing wise (blimey, THE VOICES!) and plotwise as well (might be the most touching father-daughter figure relationship I saw on stage in ages). Some nusual and innovative renditions of well-known songs that fitted wonderfully into the story told (even some may thinks there's not much of it). The thing I love most about it is that you feel all the creative talents of Ivo, Enda and David blend together in a peculiar and beautiful way and still can see the individual contribution to the project. And oh yes - front row dead center for this show is "the seat with the clearest view" Very moving at the end and a standing ovations as far as you can see.
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Post by kathryn on Nov 18, 2016 13:26:17 GMT
Has anyone had experience of transferring tickets to a different person's name yet? Colleague now can't go next Friday, and has offered us her tickets, but her name is on them.
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 18, 2016 13:54:22 GMT
The box office are so helpful and accommodating in my experience. Maybe just ask her to ring them up and explain the situation. I'm sure it'll be fine.
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Post by rumbledoll on Nov 18, 2016 20:03:43 GMT
Dunno about the other prrson collection but all the instruction about not bringing your own drinks/arriving early are rubbish. No one checked our tickets when we came in, let alone bags at the entrance..
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 20, 2016 18:29:40 GMT
Just saw a really nice ad for this before a video on YouTube but I can't find it on YouTube or Facebook anywhere. Featured clips on the London cast, which was nice to see.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 2:39:13 GMT
Any chance of this extending or will it just run its limited run and end?
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 22, 2016 9:36:47 GMT
From what I gather it's been considered but I expect it may close. At least one of the principles has another job lined up afterwards so if not there'd be a cast change which could be interesting. I do expect it'll close at the end of Jan though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 9:49:41 GMT
Does Michael C. Hall do Sunday shows? Is the stage high? I'm considering C25 for this Sunday.
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 22, 2016 9:52:23 GMT
Does Michael C. Hall do Sunday shows? Is the stage high? I'm considering C25 for this Sunday. He does all shows barring illness. I sat on the front row and the view was great. You really do want to be as close as possible in this show as the rake isn't steep enough and lots of action happens on the floor.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2016 10:03:28 GMT
Thank you! I booked B20 for Tuesday 29th November. So excited!
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Post by stuart on Nov 22, 2016 12:54:17 GMT
What are the row Z onwards seats like? Are they as far back as the name suggests?
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 22, 2016 14:14:36 GMT
What are the row Z onwards seats like? Are they as far back as the name suggests? This theatre's sightlines are notoriously not that great so I personally wouldn't risk it.
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Post by kathryn on Nov 22, 2016 16:14:16 GMT
Hmm, maybe we won't offer our spare row z ticket around then.
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Post by viserys on Nov 22, 2016 19:40:26 GMT
Out of curiosity - is dynamic pricing hard at work here? I just wanted to check if its selling out now after the CD and the reviews came out and several shows in the next days have "limited availability" with plenty of seats. But most notably rows B and C are priced at only £35, the rows behind at £55. I'd be so annoyed if I had forked out £75 for the first rows months ago and now neighbouring seats are £35.
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Post by charliec on Nov 22, 2016 20:10:08 GMT
I looked on the website earlier for tickets for tonight and all seats had a bookable "dayseat £25" option on there. This was at about 6pm today so they are discounting close to showtime now I think!
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Post by talkstageytome on Nov 22, 2016 20:16:51 GMT
Here's the trailer I was talking about.
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 22, 2016 20:18:50 GMT
Out of curiosity - is dynamic pricing hard at work here? I just wanted to check if its selling out now after the CD and the reviews came out and several shows in the next days have "limited availability" with plenty of seats. But most notably rows B and C are priced at only £35, the rows behind at £55. I'd be so annoyed if I had forked out £75 for the first rows months ago and now neighbouring seats are £35. Definitely downward dynamic pricing going on. If you look at dates in the next week or so showing "Limited Availability" there's a big block of seats at the side front stalls for £35 but for dates further ahead the same seats are still £75. Note they will exchange tickets for those of "the same or greater value" 48 hours in advance so maybe worth a go if you have a cheap seat at the back! Interesting tip on the day seats too!
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Post by viserys on Nov 22, 2016 20:37:11 GMT
Ah, well, I was one of the lucky ones who got front row seats for £15 when booking opened, so I'll hold on these.
But perhaps good to know for those who only got a seat in Row ZZX or whatever or simply want to revisit.
And generelly I just take an interest in pricing out of the faint and probably pointless hope that producers will twig that they have overstepped a mark with their price hikes and premium seating in the last 1-2 years.
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Post by djp on Nov 23, 2016 4:47:40 GMT
UGH, not a fan. The cast is great and so is the direction, visually it has its moment but what a nonsense. I can't believe the same person who wrote the beautiful book of Once wrote this pretentious horror. It's like a f*cked up version "the little prince", with shallow, trivial dialogues. And they should have cut several songs, they didn't add anything to the story and they all sound the same. The cast was very very good, I'd love to see Michael C. Hall in a good musical. He could be a great Ben in Follies. Its Life On Mars on steroids or some other sort of drug- and half the public didn't understand life On Mars. Driven bonkers by longevity isn't much of a plot. Hall didn't work for me , I kept on thinking he sounded too much like the guy Jodie Foster shoots in Silence of The Lambs. Worth a ticket though for Amy Lennox, who has a decent storyline, and created a new credible character. and Sophia - who both sound every good, and are very watchable. I imagine the stage was warmer or both would have been frozen - the place was at a nice temperature until the air conditioning came on, and started blowing a blizzard down my neck. Seats were a bit odd - they had a floating feel which was quite apt , but I thought the venue was Ok -certainly better facilities than many fringe venues, and less train noise than the Garrick.
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Post by noboiscout on Nov 23, 2016 11:49:36 GMT
Gutted - should have held out. Bought tickets in row G way back at £75 as a Christmas present. Would suck it up and put it down to being to eager to plan ahead if the view was ok. I know the rake was appalling for In the Heights but thought they might have sorted it out for this production with such pricey tickets. It beggars believe that they couldn't install seating with decent sightlines, but I guess you can't pack in as many seats if you build them up, instead of stretch them way out to the back of the building. But then a lot of producers don't really care about the audience - or short a*se guys like me!
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