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Motown
Jul 22, 2016 18:25:15 GMT
Post by Phantom of London on Jul 22, 2016 18:25:15 GMT
How did you get the cheap ticket please?
Was the theatre full?
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Motown
Aug 6, 2016 13:27:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 13:27:32 GMT
Here now. Looking forward to the show but just paid £7 for a programme!! Most expensive I've ever paid - I think they should be kept at £4 like ATG venues. It does look like a souvenir brochure though so
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Motown
Aug 6, 2016 18:52:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 18:52:42 GMT
Here now. Looking forward to the show but just paid £7 for a programme!! Most expensive I've ever paid - I think they should be kept at £4 like ATG venues. It does look like a souvenir brochure though so Be sure to report back! Also, if you are seeing Beverley in The Bodyguard, the programme is £8 but it is more a brochure!
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Aug 6, 2016 19:56:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 19:56:12 GMT
Saw this tonight and was pleasantly surprised! Really enjoyed the show - the songs are amazing and are sung so well by the performers. Thought the whole cast were sublime but Cedric Neal and Lucy St Louis stood out for me. So lovely to see people around me enjoying themselves with the music! I thought the set was really good actually. I loved the use of the two black projection screens which carry themselves along the stage as well as the multiple automation machines that being in scenery from the wings. Great set in my opinion! Much better than expected! I think the songs and performers are the best part of this show! They can all sing, dance and act marvellously! Nice to see the show running very well and good to see people enjoying themselves. After reading poor reviews of the book of the show, I thought it wasn't that bad. Not he best book but explained the story well and also the themes of the show, it's not a terrible book. I had a great time out at this show - it's a good show to visit for a light hearted evening out with some great songs! 4 stars
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Motown
Aug 7, 2016 14:32:03 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2016 14:32:03 GMT
The trouble is, as much as I do enjoy the Motown catalogue and am quite intrigued, whenever I have seen clips of the Broadway or West End production, it is very much screaming "cruise ship" to me. That said, Lucy as Diana sounds amazing in the clips I have heard from her!
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Aug 7, 2016 14:48:05 GMT
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Post by Scots UK Theatre on Aug 7, 2016 14:48:05 GMT
Saw this tonight and was pleasantly surprised! Really enjoyed the show - the songs are amazing and are sung so well by the performers. Thought the whole cast were sublime but Cedric Neal and Lucy St Louis stood out for me. So lovely to see people around me enjoying themselves with the music! I thought the set was really good actually. I loved the use of the two black projection screens which carry themselves along the stage as well as the multiple automation machines that being in scenery from the wings. Great set in my opinion! Much better than expected! I think the songs and performers are the best part of this show! They can all sing, dance and act marvellously! Nice to see the show running very well and good to see people enjoying themselves. After reading poor reviews of the book of the show, I thought it wasn't that bad. Not he best book but explained the story well and also the themes of the show, it's not a terrible book. I had a great time out at this show - it's a good show to visit for a light hearted evening out with some great songs! 4 stars Saw this tonight as well. House was packed including standing tickets sold. It's essentially just a jukebox musical, but at least it has a semi decent book to it. And George the Shaftesbury only ever do the one programme & it's more of a brochure than anything else. Plenty of good photos. Used to be £6 but the format has changed slightly for Motown. In addition loved the signs & announcement not to take part & sing along until instructed to do so by the cast.
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Motown
Sept 9, 2016 17:41:01 GMT
Post by littlefluffychick on Sept 9, 2016 17:41:01 GMT
Do not go and see Motowan as it is pants. I nearly died of heatstroke in the theatre (slight over-exaggeration but you get the picture) and the show was so self-indulgent and long and boring. It made Thriller Live seem like Hamlet. Never ever again. How anyone could find this load of tosh entertaining is beyond me. Just had to get that off my chest...
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Motown
Sept 17, 2016 20:58:17 GMT
Post by Phantom of London on Sept 17, 2016 20:58:17 GMT
This certainly isn't No Man's Land which I should of seen, except my ticket didn't get processed, so this came as a handy 3pm curtain, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it, as always something else I want to see instead of.
If you love your Motown music ( which I can take it or leave it, but more so in the later camp), then you love it, as the full capacity crowd lapped it up, who were mainly your more seniors devoured it.
But if you love something more theatrical with a great book and hate stuff with a poor book, with great classic songs set to it (I do), you probably hate it, which I kind of did, except a couple of mildly entertaining moments. This is no Mamma Mia or Jersey Boys.
So seeing the audience leave in their hoards entertained, there truly isn't any accounting for taste, but judging by most of the audience - by tomorrow they probably would have forgotten they had ever been.
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Motown
Sept 17, 2016 22:58:59 GMT
Post by Seriously on Sept 17, 2016 22:58:59 GMT
How remarkably ageist. Are there any other areas of society you're not a fan of?
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Post by universetipping on Sept 17, 2016 23:16:39 GMT
How remarkably ageist. Are there any other areas of society you're not a fan of? I read it as a suggestion that the audience was tanked up on booze!
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Motown
Sept 18, 2016 11:17:04 GMT
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 18, 2016 11:17:04 GMT
I didnt read it as a comment on the age group at all.
And then i went bavk and read the whole post rather than just the last paragraph
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Motown
Sept 18, 2016 13:48:12 GMT
Post by Seriously on Sept 18, 2016 13:48:12 GMT
the full capacity crowd lapped it up, who were mainly your more seniors devoured it. ...by tomorrow they probably would have forgotten they had ever been.
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Motown
Sept 18, 2016 15:54:24 GMT
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 18, 2016 15:54:24 GMT
See thats the very part of the post i thought was suggesting the audience were mostly inebriated or high on crack. That part doesnt mention age at all
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Motown
Sept 18, 2016 22:48:20 GMT
Post by Seriously on Sept 18, 2016 22:48:20 GMT
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Motown
Sept 18, 2016 23:04:02 GMT
Post by Phantom of London on Sept 18, 2016 23:04:02 GMT
And, a bit of tongue in cheek, lighthearted fun, got a problem?
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Motown
Sept 18, 2016 23:12:34 GMT
Post by Seriously on Sept 18, 2016 23:12:34 GMT
And, a bit of tongue in cheek, lighthearted fun, got a problem? Yes. You're ageist.
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Post by Phantom of London on Sept 18, 2016 23:33:35 GMT
Wow, some people have too much time on their hands. Am I any other 'ist'?
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Motown
Sept 19, 2016 0:12:56 GMT
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 19, 2016 0:12:56 GMT
Didnt realise you could edit quotes or maybe my phone didnt show the top bit of the quote. It does seem a bit of a leap to me to assume the last paragraph refers back to the mention of seniors rather than being a comment about punters partaking in many a g and t or lager or alcopop before and during a show (Selected a range of drinks to avoid being accused of ageism)
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Motown
Sept 19, 2016 0:20:48 GMT
Post by Seriously on Sept 19, 2016 0:20:48 GMT
Didnt realise you could edit quotes or maybe my phone didnt show the top bit of the quote. It does seem a bit of a leap to me to assume the last paragraph refers back to the mention of seniors rather than being a comment about punters partaking in many a g and t or lager or alcopop before and during a show (Selected a range of drinks to avoid being accused of ageism) Where does it mention or suggest alcohol in his post, bengal73?
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Post by talkstageytome on Sept 19, 2016 0:32:24 GMT
I personally took it to mean alcohol too. Thought it was a reference to audiences at jukebox musicals usually being in a bit more of a party mood than a theatre going one.
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Post by theatremadness on Sept 19, 2016 0:35:12 GMT
I also thought that the last sentence was a reference to alcohol. Seemed to be enough to read between the lines without explicitly saying it - and far enough away from the 'senior' comment for them to be related.
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Sept 19, 2016 1:51:45 GMT
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 19, 2016 1:51:45 GMT
As the 2 posters avove have said reading the last paragraph its pretty easy to assume he was referring to alcohol based inebriation without stating that alcohol consumption had taken place
In fact looking back across the last 2 pages since the post in question 4 of us have felt it was a reference to alcohol only you picked it up as a reference to age? 80% against 20%. Interesting that is it not
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Sept 19, 2016 1:56:12 GMT
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 19, 2016 1:56:12 GMT
I personally took it to mean alcohol too. Thought it was a reference to audiences at jukebox musicals usually being in a bit more of a party mood than a theatre going one. Its not just me. Im so glad.
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Motown
Sept 19, 2016 10:41:05 GMT
Post by Seriously on Sept 19, 2016 10:41:05 GMT
Yes, I'm sure a post which doesn't mention alcohol, but does mention "seniors" is actually about alcohol.
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 19, 2016 11:52:56 GMT
Yet taking the part. Judging by most of the audience by the next day they wont remember having been doesnt mention seniors either and in isolation says to me that as they left the theatre they were looking a bit tipsy. Its clearly not just me who reads it that way. If someone says to me I bet you dont remember what you did last night I dont instantly think. Oh theyre being ageist. Im more likely to think they were assuming id been drinking. Alcohol isnt mentioned in that conversation either
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 11:59:03 GMT
You know what the sad thing is... this whole alcoholic/ageist thing has been more entertaining than this whole thread and I haven't seen it yet, but by the sounds of it the whole show too...
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Sept 19, 2016 12:00:45 GMT
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 19, 2016 12:00:45 GMT
I wonder if theres such a thing as being alcoholist
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Sept 19, 2016 12:03:03 GMT
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 19, 2016 12:03:03 GMT
It is as you say making Motown the musical look popular
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Post by schuttep on Sept 19, 2016 13:14:05 GMT
As a "senior" I find myself forgetting more and more things. So I took the forgetting to mean "as part and parcel of being senior". I can see how others might have put that down to alcohol.
That being said, who cares if youngsters want to label us seniors as being stupid enough to forget what they saw the day before?
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Sept 19, 2016 13:25:46 GMT
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Post by bengal73 on Sept 19, 2016 13:25:46 GMT
Im 43 and stupid enough to remember the stuff from yesterday. I think its ageist to suggest this forgetting things is exclusively for the genuinely senior (said tongue firmly in cheek)
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