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Post by dazzerlump on Feb 3, 2020 8:08:29 GMT
I'm there this Friday. Ive never been to a show this early in previews but it just worked to add it on to a pre booked trip. I really hope it doesn't get cancelled
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 3, 2020 12:00:43 GMT
Do you think this will extend through Christmas? Think a show is booked in from end of October so seems unlikely
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Post by showtoones on Feb 3, 2020 12:31:54 GMT
Do you think this will extend through Christmas? Think a show is booked in from end of October so seems unlikely What show? Do tell...
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 3, 2020 13:20:13 GMT
Think a show is booked in from end of October so seems unlikely What show? Do tell... Back to the Future so I've heard - only theatre available that's big enough!
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Post by robertb213 on Feb 3, 2020 22:55:38 GMT
Waiting for news of any potential Rush tickets and may try and see it this week. TodayTix are now showing Rush tickets, available from Wednesday 😀
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Post by Mark on Feb 3, 2020 22:59:14 GMT
Waiting for news of any potential Rush tickets and may try and see it this week. TodayTix are now showing Rush tickets, available from Wednesday 😀 Woohoo! Guess they will be mega competitive. Will try Thurs/Fri/Sat.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2020 23:12:39 GMT
TodayTix are now showing Rush tickets, available from Wednesday 😀 Woohoo! Guess they will be mega competitive. Will try Thurs/Fri/Sat. Given the size of the Dominion, i'd think they would have lots available, and also, because its a new show, i think the first few days will be quiet. Good luck!
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 4, 2020 16:44:10 GMT
Stephen Schwartz was on BBC Breakfast this morning (right at the very end if anyone wants to watch on iPlayer). He talked about using "invention" and "theatre magic" for the chariot race and parting of the Red Sea. Then ended by saying that "everything is really done by the actors and dancers", which makes it sound relatively 'tech-lite'. Not long to find out, I suppose!
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Post by MusicalTalk on Feb 4, 2020 18:10:36 GMT
An illusion designer is involved, though....
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Post by emeraldbaudelaire on Feb 4, 2020 19:23:54 GMT
I noticed the costumes include blue and red Nile dancers, perhaps they'll be something to do with it.
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Post by Boob on Feb 4, 2020 21:19:33 GMT
I predict the tacky over-use of video/projection coupled with the kind of movement direction that felt fresh when Shared Experience did it in the early noughties.
Can’t wait.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 4, 2020 23:40:08 GMT
I predict this to be Norte Dame De Paris levels of naffness.. but completely over designed. The costumes and set look truly awful..
Cannot wait.
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Post by showtoones on Feb 5, 2020 1:13:22 GMT
Maybe Back to the Future will move into the Dominion early lol?
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 5, 2020 2:55:30 GMT
Maybe Back to the Future will move into the Dominion early lol? They don’t want the Dominion..
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Post by showtoones on Feb 5, 2020 5:53:45 GMT
Maybe Back to the Future will move into the Dominion early lol? They don’t want the Dominion.. What theater do they want and when do they plan to come in?
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Post by poster J on Feb 5, 2020 7:57:12 GMT
Maybe Back to the Future will move into the Dominion early lol? They don’t want the Dominion.. And yet again those of us who aren't privy to inside information don't know who to believe!
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Post by latefortheoverture on Feb 5, 2020 10:14:53 GMT
Just managed to get a rush ticket after tapping the button furiously one came back.
Was hoping for stalls, but it’s in the circle. Can’t complain for £25! Excited to see what’s in store!!
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Post by ABr on Feb 5, 2020 10:27:39 GMT
I tried to Rush today, just to see what tickets did come up, but didn't manage to get through! I'm in no rush to see this, was more curious at what tickets they were planning on selling as rush tickets. I imagine that once the initial rush calms down they will be easier to come by
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Post by Mark on Feb 5, 2020 11:32:21 GMT
Really hope the staging of this matches the fantastic score. One complaint about many musicals is unmemorable music, which this one certainly isn’t.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 5, 2020 13:42:14 GMT
They don’t want the Dominion.. What theater do they want and when do they plan to come in? I’ve said this already- The Adelphi. If they wanted a huge theatre, they wouldn’t be opening it first at the Opera House Manchester- they’d be opening it at the Curve or Plymouth.
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Post by showtoones on Feb 5, 2020 14:24:45 GMT
What theater do they want and when do they plan to come in? I’ve said this already- The Adelphi. If they wanted a huge theatre, they wouldn’t be opening it first at the Opera House Manchester- they’d be opening it at the Curve or Plymouth. The Adelphi won’t be available until March 2021. Do you really think they’ll wait that long? They may lose cast members.
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Post by dazzerlump on Feb 5, 2020 15:04:14 GMT
Is anyone in here there tonight? I’m going Friday so will report back then
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Post by ABr on Feb 5, 2020 16:42:22 GMT
Just managed to get a rush ticket after tapping the button furiously one came back. Was hoping for stalls, but it’s in the circle. Can’t complain for £25! Excited to see what’s in store!! Please report back! I really hope this lives up to what I hope it does!
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Post by Theatre Fan on Feb 5, 2020 17:42:47 GMT
What theater do they want and when do they plan to come in? I’ve said this already- The Adelphi. If they wanted a huge theatre, they wouldn’t be opening it first at the Opera House Manchester- they’d be opening it at the Curve or Plymouth. The Opera House Manchester is similar in size to the Dominion though? Makes sense for it to go in there x
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Post by theatre241 on Feb 5, 2020 17:57:38 GMT
I’ve said this already- The Adelphi. If they wanted a huge theatre, they wouldn’t be opening it first at the Opera House Manchester- they’d be opening it at the Curve or Plymouth. The Opera House Manchester is similar in size to the Dominion though? Makes sense for it to go in there x The opera house isn't as big as the dominion. But Bat out of hell went from the opera house to the dominion.
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Post by tonylony on Feb 5, 2020 18:51:19 GMT
I’ve said this already- The Adelphi. If they wanted a huge theatre, they wouldn’t be opening it first at the Opera House Manchester- they’d be opening it at the Curve or Plymouth. The Adelphi won’t be available until March 2021. Do you really think they’ll wait that long? They may lose cast members. Doesn't make sense to lose all the Christmas traffic. I mean, does the Dominion has anything booked for Christmas or is the expectation for PRINCE to extend?
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Post by showtoones on Feb 5, 2020 19:01:14 GMT
I 100% agree. And Prince will be good for the family audience. I just don't know where Back the Future would go unless its the Savoy, which we were already told had something that had been on Broadway in the last 10 years.
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Post by emeraldbaudelaire on Feb 5, 2020 20:00:17 GMT
There are a few pictures of the stage online, unfortunately it looks very similar to the barely there US set, there seems to be some fancy lighting design patterns going on though. Hopefully it looks a lot better in action.
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Post by latefortheoverture on Feb 5, 2020 22:58:17 GMT
I went in with my hopes too high. Never seen the film before, and was hoping for a good story and score. Neither were delivered. One minute it felt like a big expensive production, the next like a black box theatre show.
The cast are phenomenal, can’t not say that. But the material they’re given is unlawful. Can’t say I enjoyed this sadly.
I’ll write more into it when I’m back and have had more time.
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Post by tsxmitw on Feb 5, 2020 22:58:29 GMT
I was at the first preview tonight.
Scott Schwartz (director) gave a little speech at the start warming of the potential for technical hiccups but in the end there were no show stops or major mistakes that I could see. The staging Is pretty bare but consists of a central platform which pivots towards the audience at certain moments - most impressively when the Red Sea parts and a platform extends into the auditorium, which the Hebrews walk down through the central ailse. There’s also a brilliant moment when the Red Sea collapses in on the Egyptian army, and it tilts so steeply that all the ensemble slide into the orchestra pit screaming in terror. VERY cool.
It really does look a bit empty and cheap in certain scenes though. They really heavily on projections and interpretive choreography. Some scenes looked like amateur theatre. The choreography is incredible though - particularly in Look Through Heaven’s Eyes. It was so good it got a spontaneous ovation mid way through. The band sounded incredible in Deliver Us and generally throughout. On the downside, I thoughr the new songs were pretty forgettable and the book pretty poor - very on the nose at points, not helped by a surprisingly flat performance from the two male leads. They didn’t have much to work with though. I also thought the fight scene between Moses and Ramses was pretty cringeworthy and the first act overly long. Pacing is a bit off in Act 2 - it ends very abruptly. I’m sure these issues will get ironed out though.
Other highlight - real pyrotechnic meteorites raining down on the stage during the plague scene. Ring of fire which lights up around the salves at the end of act 1 during a rousing reprise of Deliver Us.
Promising stuff.
But lots of issues to iron out.
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