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Post by fossil on Nov 20, 2018 16:16:38 GMT
Nearly all the circle seats for the NT Live Camera Rehearsal performance 23rd Nov at 1.30 have gone on sale. Priced at £15 to £30.
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Post by fossil on Oct 25, 2018 19:19:48 GMT
This is being repeated on Radio 4 Extra this Saturday. Hugely entertaining and well worth a listen with lots of anecdotes from his acting career interspersed with some of his old radio programmes including a Down Your Way he did from Stratford-Upon-Avon.
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Post by fossil on Oct 22, 2018 21:29:15 GMT
Nice interview with Bonnie Langford on Steve Allen's programme on LBC yesterday. Mention of a tour of the show being undecided. Worth a listen, I believe it can be downloaded on the LBC website.
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Post by fossil on Sept 30, 2018 15:36:48 GMT
Bonnie Langford was on yesterday's Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. The whole programme is on iPlayer or downloadable as a podcast.
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Post by fossil on Sept 23, 2018 11:59:25 GMT
Yesterdays matinee was my 6th visit and the first time since the end of January. Having sat front stalls and front balcony I thought I would view the show this time from the front of the Grand Circle. Seats A15 and 16 are discounted as restricted view but except for missing the top third of the mirror there seemed to be nothing much restricted about these seats.
It was good to see the show is still as fresh as ever but, oh dear, what has happened to the sound? From where I was sitting in the Grand Circle the sound from the performers microphones was very tinny. The equalisation was completely wrong. The singers were also being balanced at the same level as the orchestra so words were often drowned out. Sound balance should nearly always favour the singers over musicians and this is a common error among sound engineers.
I would be interested to know if this problem is now affecting current performances generally or if it just depends on who is driving the sound desk on that day. Has anybody else experienced poor sound recently?
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Post by fossil on Sept 7, 2018 16:29:06 GMT
More tickets appear to have become available.
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Post by fossil on Jun 28, 2018 8:57:20 GMT
Stressful NT priority booking this morning. Got position 1300 in the queue. 30 mins to get to the head of the queue. Then found the site very slow, 2-3 mins to load each page. Could only find one front £15 seat for Ant and Cleo - I suspect they are holding some of these back.
Front row for The Prisoner in the Dorfman are £20 bench seats.
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Post by fossil on Jun 26, 2018 16:30:03 GMT
The new platform performances now seem to be on general sale. I have just booked my Theatre Quiz ticket. For this platform, if you log in as a priority member tickets are £0 under Show Concessions.
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Post by fossil on Jun 3, 2018 18:49:17 GMT
A little bit of Googling reveals that this production is produced by Mercurius whose web site has a link to a crowd funding page for this production: "We need to raise money to do justice to this brilliant piece of theatre, and pay people for their talent and energy. We've got an amazing team together and original writer Warner Brown is revising the script and score especially for this production. But to make it happen and to reward everyone for their work we need your help."
I have no reason to doubt the integrity of Mercurius ands suspect that if this production transfers to a larger theatre (it would be a crime if it does not!) then the actors would the be better remunerated.
Effectively, because the actors choose to gain experience and exposure by choosing to work for very little money, Shenton is to punish them for being exploited by not giving publicity to their efforts.
I saw the matinee on Saturday. A thoroughly enjoyable show playing to a full house. 4*
The usher was asking everyone not to record the show on any devices. Apparently they have had trouble with a few people doing this.....and presumably they want to sell the CDs of the show which were on sale.
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Post by fossil on May 26, 2018 7:25:49 GMT
The Liza Minneli film is on Talking Pictures TV tonight at 9.00pm
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Post by fossil on Mar 23, 2018 14:49:11 GMT
Public booking on the Delfont Mackintosh web site showing a better selection of seats than were being offered by the RSC during members booking.
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Post by fossil on Mar 21, 2018 10:47:13 GMT
Painless members booking this morning. You cannot select your seat for the Gielgud. Premium price offered me row G seats and the second price row E. Gave me two seats towards the side E4 and 5 initially. I held these seats and asked for two more and was given E18 and 19 which are a bit more central. I was then able to discard 4 and 5.
Also was able to grab a bargain £8 centre front for R&J at the Barbican.
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Post by fossil on Mar 16, 2018 14:57:39 GMT
This is also on at the Exeter Northcott 30th Oct - 3 Nov with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. It is the production that was on at the Union Theatre and Bath. It is touring so I suspect more dates will be announced. Having just watched the video at www.rdww.co.uk/salad-days/ I am very tempted to see it again.
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Post by fossil on Mar 16, 2018 9:03:03 GMT
Grange Park Opera with the BBC Concert Orchestra. 7th June-7th Jul 2018.
I was going to book until I saw the eye watering ticket prices. Stalls are £130-£180. The cheap balcony/attic seats are £75.
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Post by fossil on Mar 16, 2018 8:47:14 GMT
Thought I would try public booking to see if any £15 front seats for Translations would become available. 17th in the queue so was through very quickly. For each performance 2 seats at each end of row C appeared that were definitely not on sale when I logged in an hour earlier. I did not bother as I am content to take my chances for a more central seat as a return or in the next booking period.
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Post by fossil on Mar 4, 2018 17:56:17 GMT
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Post by fossil on Mar 2, 2018 10:29:18 GMT
150 in the queue. Less than 10 minutes then quick and easy booking. Loads of seats available including the £25 end of row seats.
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Post by fossil on Feb 26, 2018 8:26:17 GMT
If anybody wants some good central seats, there are a few in rows H, J, L and R that somehow are priced at £30 for Saturday 3rd March matinee instead of the normal £125 or £85. But check Theatremonkey.com first, as I used the £10 (+ £.50 fee) deal which is better and should be valid as mine was for a later date and I got J for that price. I have been able to book myself a centre row D seat at £11.50 ticket for a more convenient date. Many thanks for pointing me to that deal.
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Post by fossil on Feb 25, 2018 18:30:50 GMT
If anybody wants some good central seats, there are a few in rows H, J, L and R that somehow are priced at £30 for Saturday 3rd March matinee instead of the normal £125 or £85.
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Post by fossil on Feb 23, 2018 19:49:44 GMT
£10 seats seem to be the rows M to R only
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Post by fossil on Feb 23, 2018 19:39:11 GMT
From the Stratford Herald website dated 21 Feb 2018.
"The RSC has been working with a household name on an exciting new project for 2019. The company had wanted to keep any details secret until early next year – but the star’s agents accidentally let the cat out of the bag…. Find out the full story in tomorrow’s Stratford Herald."
Nothing further on the web site. Does anyone have more information on this?
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Post by fossil on Jan 29, 2018 10:26:46 GMT
I managed to buy an Othello ticket at 9.50 this morning. Perhaps links on some pages became active earlier than others.
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Post by fossil on Jan 16, 2018 16:05:26 GMT
Looks like they have fixed this. On the priceless site there was a box to click to buy tickets. I can see they have removed this and added some login text instead. Looking back through my browser History I can see the web addresses I used, you could try tickets.royalalberthall.com/booking/production/bestavailable/59542You may have to log into a your account (create one if necessary) for the Albert Hall first.
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Post by fossil on Jan 16, 2018 14:37:42 GMT
Although tickets are not supposed to be on general sale yet, out of curiosity I went to the Albert Hall web site www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2018/the-olivier-awards/It let me select seats and go right through to the payment page and looks like it will accept any credit card. Not many seats showing as on sale though and £85 for a second tier seat is a bit too much for me for this event so I did not complete the transaction. I will wait and see if more tickets will become available for MasterCard holders.
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Post by fossil on Jan 14, 2018 17:15:32 GMT
I wonder if its just because they haven't actually announced the booking extension yet have they? So maybe they want to wait until they offically annouce it, likely with a cast announcement which we will likely expect in the next couple of weeks. Sidenote, I looked at the seating plan around 7pm last night for the 7:30 show as I was curious to see how it is doing. Lovely to see that the show was pretty much sold out bar a few single seats here and there. Considering its slow time in the West End, its really lovely to see. Yes Im looking at going on Wednesday. Checked the Matinee and all 4 sections look very well sold. For a Wednesday afternoon mid-January, I'm dubious. When looking at how well sold a date is, I can see that agencies, e.g. Seatplan, show a different selection of seats from the main 42nd street web site. For next Wednesday afternoon Seatplan have quite a few seats in the grand circle and balcony and 100 or so in the stalls.
Does anyone know if these are the ones that get sold cheaply on the day as day seats or Todaytix?
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