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Post by n1david on May 10, 2022 13:42:32 GMT
Shamelessly stolen from @nataliealana87 on Twitter:
Given the current row about tickets for Cock going for up to £400 late in the run, what night at the theatre would you pay £400 for? It can be any show, any cast - whether it took place in real life or not - whether the performers are alive or dead - any aspects of time travel or reincarnation are fine.
Personally I like the idea of La La Land on stage with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling... Or maybe a stage production of Umbrellas of Cherbourg with a 21-year old Catherine Deneuve...
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Post by inthenose on May 10, 2022 15:48:45 GMT
Liked solely for the Parapluies de Cherbourg reference. She didn't sing in the movie (my favourite movie musical) but I'd pay £4000 or more for that, IF she was 21 and IF she sang 🤣
I'd also want the Kneehigh production to never have existed. I drive a hard bargain.
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Post by alece10 on May 10, 2022 16:33:54 GMT
The Rink with Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera.
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Post by Jon on May 10, 2022 19:25:16 GMT
Dwayne Johnson in Hamlet.
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Post by oxfordsimon on May 10, 2022 19:48:18 GMT
I would love to have experienced the first night of a Shakespeare play. Partly to see what Elizabethan theatre was really like. But also to see how much has changed about the texts that we now treat as almost sacred.
So first night of R3, Hamlet or Twelfth Night...
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Post by perfectspy on May 10, 2022 20:30:51 GMT
I would like to see an early Laurence Olivier play. Probably in Coward’s Private Lives in 1930. As Shakespeare has been taken, I’ll go back in time and see a Greek play.
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Post by crabtree on May 10, 2022 21:02:03 GMT
I'd happily pay that to see the RSC Nickelby again, live.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 11, 2022 7:37:31 GMT
The show I would pay £400 doesn’t exist. Sorry!
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Post by Jan on May 11, 2022 7:50:44 GMT
McKellen Macbeth
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Post by David J on May 11, 2022 8:06:06 GMT
The Michael Boyd Histories Cycle
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Post by tmesis on May 11, 2022 8:57:42 GMT
Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.
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Post by adrianics on May 11, 2022 9:15:09 GMT
Opening night of Nathan Lane and Lee Evans in The Producers in 2004
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Post by danb on May 11, 2022 10:00:09 GMT
Opening night of Nathan Lane and Lee Evans in The Producers in 2004 If you can find a way to remove my memory of that production you’re welcome to it for free. I thought it was ghastly. I’d pay £400 to see the full original cast of ‘Rent’ (back then). |
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Post by crabtree on May 11, 2022 10:47:05 GMT
Ethel as Momma Rose
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Post by mkb on May 11, 2022 11:04:08 GMT
Such prices are insane for theatre shows. I would only ever consider such an exorbitant sum for a one-off special event.
I thought I'd been possessed of momentary madness when I paid around £1,000 for a ticket to the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, but afterwards, I realised it was one of the best decisions I'd ever made.
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Post by daisy24601 on May 12, 2022 14:10:41 GMT
Something on Broadway, if my flight was included.
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Post by steve10086 on May 13, 2022 6:45:27 GMT
Such prices are insane for theatre shows. I would only ever consider such an exorbitant sum for a one-off special event. I thought I'd been possessed of momentary madness when I paid around £1,000 for a ticket to the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, but afterwards, I realised it was one of the best decisions I'd ever made. Snap! Also paid £995 for 2012 Opening Ceremony tickets, and still think it’s some of the best money I ever spent. |
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