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Post by Sean on Feb 25, 2020 22:35:13 GMT
What time is the embargo on this lifted?
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Post by woobl on Feb 25, 2020 23:05:24 GMT
Technical issue at the press night tonight. Still not started, bars reopened. Oh dear... 45 mins late. Bet the producers were going mad! 2 stars in the Guardian.
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Post by westendcub on Feb 25, 2020 23:08:37 GMT
4 stars from ‘Whats On Stage’
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 25, 2020 23:17:06 GMT
3 stars from Stage and Time Out.
The guardian review is probably the closest to how I feel. I'd have given 2 stars too
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Post by woobl on Feb 25, 2020 23:34:16 GMT
4 stars from ‘Whats On Stage’ Anything to push some tickets...
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 25, 2020 23:36:29 GMT
The party looks more spectacular than the production tbh
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Post by amp09 on Feb 25, 2020 23:45:14 GMT
Technical issue at the press night tonight. Still not started, bars reopened. Oh dear... 45 mins late. Bet the producers were going mad! 2 stars in the Guardian. It was a night “plagued” by problems. Started 45 minutes late. Scott then came on to apologise and explain that two of the sound desk computers weren’t talking to each other. Moses then fell out of his basket during the weird human sea section at the start. Sound was dodgy. The well that Moses is down, unhooks as Tzipporah is winding it back up. The towels resembling babies that the ensemble then unfold - 2 of them were unfolded incorrectly and ruined it. That’s all I can think of right now... but you know what, I didn’t think it was terrible. The staging and projections were amazing, and whilst there were no stand out moments, I enjoyed the production and wasn’t bored. Think I’ll give it another go in a few months.
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 25, 2020 23:46:14 GMT
The party looks more spectacular than the production tbh At least now we know where that Dreamworks budget went x
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 25, 2020 23:48:01 GMT
45 mins late. Bet the producers were going mad! 2 stars in the Guardian. Moses then fell out of his basket.
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Post by lonlad on Feb 26, 2020 0:18:48 GMT
3 stars from the Telegraph 2 stars from Mark Shenton and also The Times
I have a feeling 2 or 3 will be the norm. Can't see anyone going for 1 or, ahem, 5 .....
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Post by raiseitup on Feb 26, 2020 9:13:32 GMT
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Post by maggiem on Feb 26, 2020 9:40:21 GMT
Only 2 stars in the Metro paper this morning.
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Post by vickyg on Feb 26, 2020 10:36:33 GMT
"Moses and the Amazing Polystyrene Brick Count" it will forever be to me now. I scraped it up to 3, just because of the ensemble work and excellent choreography. Truthfully, though, I can't recommend this show except for a laugh and some halfway decent effects. More on my site if anyone cares. I'm going tomorrow... can't wait...
I am intrigued though. This has such potential and I expect so much from these types of shows so I'm interested to see what they do (or don't do) with it.
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Post by Playbill99 on Feb 26, 2020 10:46:50 GMT
Moses then fell out of his basket during the weird human sea section at the start. I'm sorry but I just can't get over this. A colleague was explaining it to me this morning and the images in my head are just amazing.
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Post by wickedgrin on Feb 26, 2020 14:37:34 GMT
ES - "it's a pretty godforsaken evening". That made me laugh....I can just see the quote on the marquee.
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Post by showtoones on Feb 26, 2020 14:57:32 GMT
Honestly, I think this show can run a while...it just needs to find its audience in the long term like Wicked. Not sure it’s critics proof but if they throw money behind advertising and targeted marketing/social media and get production photos out there, I def think it could have a very healthy run.
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Post by Jon on Feb 26, 2020 15:04:01 GMT
Honestly, I think this show can run a while...it just needs to find its audience in the long term like Wicked. Not sure it’s critics proof but if they throw money behind advertising and targeted marketing/social media and get production photos out there, I def think it could have a very healthy run. I doubt it'll be the next Wicked by any stretch. A run similar to Shrek would be a success for DreamWorks.
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 26, 2020 17:32:59 GMT
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 26, 2020 17:41:44 GMT
^ It was energetic and creative, and the only thing that kept me going through most of the show... credit where it is due, it could have been as crass as the dialogue. I'm just yanking your chain...I've been dying to use that rolling gif for weeks I didn't mind it apart from the rolling and slow walks in a group to the front of the stage to supposedly create 'drama' x
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Post by sparky5000 on Feb 26, 2020 18:13:47 GMT
I don’t really get in what world Prince of Egypt deserves 1 star!
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Post by robertb213 on Feb 26, 2020 18:28:25 GMT
Or 2 stars! It's a solid 3 stars on vocals and technical merit alone.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 26, 2020 18:31:50 GMT
I don’t really get in what world Prince of Egypt deserves 1 star! Well he got one ‘like’ for his review on Twitter. So well done him 👍
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 26, 2020 19:34:04 GMT
I gave 2 stars on the first Friday preview, 2nd night of paying audience. Maybe it's tightened up but I'm still happy with what I gave for the show I saw.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 26, 2020 20:01:08 GMT
I gave 2 stars on the first Friday preview, 2nd night of paying audience. Maybe it's tightened up but I'm still happy with what I gave for the show I saw. Agreed. The show was worth 2 stars from what I saw on Friday
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Post by david on Feb 28, 2020 8:03:22 GMT
Extension announced to 31st October.
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Post by vickyg on Feb 28, 2020 9:47:08 GMT
I saw this last night and whilst there are some high points, Deliver Us (except this was SO LOUD I thought my eardrums might explode), When You Believe and the dance, the rest is a weird and awkward mess. The songs are far better than the spoken stuff which is in parts terrible and parts average but even the songs seemed to have one or two big notes at the end which came from nowhere following a very middle of the road song. I'm not really familiar with the bible story except vague memories of a baby in a basket, plagues, the ten commandments and the parting of the red sea, but the story didn't enlighten me at all I thought assumed quite a lot of knowledge. The way they did the killing of the first borns was emotive but I can't remember why it happened in the bible and this didn't tell me.
The theatre seemed nearly full from the dress circle, very diverse audience, I was in K17 in the dress circle for £25 which I thought was an excellent seat. Very central but still on an aisle, good leg room, perfect sight lines, not too far from the stage. There was a standing ovation, but not from everyone where I was sitting. The people next to me were blown away but I did hear people complaining as we were waiting to leave: "Stephen Schwartz can't possible think they were good songs."
Overall a real shame as this could be epic and I really wanted to love it, but it needs a full rewrite! I was giving it 2 stars at the very beginning but it moved up to 2.5 literally just because of the fire...
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Post by Figaro on Feb 28, 2020 10:47:13 GMT
Looking at the £15 Today Tix offer. Would you go for back of circle or back or stalls for this one?
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Post by robertb213 on Feb 28, 2020 11:38:06 GMT
Looking at the £15 Today Tix offer. Would you go for back of circle or back or stalls for this one? I'd say Circle, you'll get more out of the projections
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 28, 2020 11:59:03 GMT
Looking at the £15 Today Tix offer. Would you go for back of circle or back or stalls for this one? Definitely circle, even though you're literally in the Gods. I'd imagine you lose a lot in the back of the stalls because of the overhang and this production has a LOT going on top of stage and around the sides reaching out into the audience x
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 28, 2020 12:15:25 GMT
Looking at the £15 Today Tix offer. Would you go for back of circle or back or stalls for this one? I'd say Circle, you'll get more out of the projections And the choreo...
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