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Post by Marwood on Apr 21, 2024 12:03:41 GMT
Phil Wang at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on Friday.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 13, 2024 21:45:17 GMT
Finally got round to seeing Everyone Says I Love You (mainly because I was going to Paris this weekend): it’s all a bit erm, easy to see why the likes of Edward Norton and Julia Robert’s aren’t renowned for doing musicals (Woody Allen just mumbles and hopes he’s got away with it): when Tim Roth and Paulie from the Sopranos rocked up, that was it for me: I’ll be generous and say five out of ten for the shots of Paris and Venice
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Post by Marwood on Apr 13, 2024 21:39:34 GMT
Ulster American, not been too impressed with anything else.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 13, 2024 17:10:20 GMT
The Jesus and Mary Chain at Elysee Montmartre in Paris tonight.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 11, 2024 15:59:10 GMT
I’m not sure how much of an expert Keith McNally (owner of Balthazar and Minetta Tavern in NYC, amongst others) can lay claim to be, but on his Instagram page today, he says he has seen many productions of Uncle Vanya, and while loved the Donmar version with Simon Russell Beale, Helen McCrory and Mark Strong, this is the best version he’s seen so I guess it’s one of those subjective things.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 6, 2024 22:07:16 GMT
A big kerfuffle kicked off a couple of times in the second act of Standing At The Sky’s Edge tonight, sounded like people coming back from the bar, talking bollocks and their neighbours shushing them and then telling them to shut the funk up: must remember to try not to see musicals in the West End on Saturday nights, the culprits had probably been caning it all day.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 6, 2024 21:55:19 GMT
Saw this tonight from row D of the stalls for £50 that I had booked a few weeks ago(no £20 seats on offer anywhere near where I was sitting when I looked yesterday, the seats next to mine were £90 so if anything was on offer at £20 it was possibly the seats upstairs and round the back where I doubt you could see which years the action was taking place in).
I’ve appreciated the work of Richard Hawley that he has done with the likes of Pulp and the Manic Street Preachers over the years rather than his own work (I saw him supporting Pulp in Dublin last year), I liked the first act but the second went on for far too long, and thought there was no need for a show like this to go on for three hours : refreshing to see a musical that isn’t just a jukebox for a couple of hours but I didn’t think it was that great.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 31, 2024 12:37:53 GMT
Ricky Gervais at the Leicester Square Theatre on Tuesday, Reginald D Hunter at the same place on Friday and Standing At The Skys Edge on Saturday.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 27, 2024 12:55:16 GMT
It’s transferred to the Belasco from now until June, prices have gone up a lot since I saw it but it’s worth seeing if you can.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 24, 2024 16:31:10 GMT
Saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire this afternoon and wasn’t impressed: it was good to see them in NYC but it just carries on for the best part of two hours and then ends without any excitement or real reason to exist (Paul Rudd is given next to nothing to do and apart from Dan Aykroyd, the other original ‘Busters were hardly in it): it opens with a produced by Ghost Corps credit but I don’t think there’s much life left in this franchise: 5 out of 10 from me
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Post by Marwood on Mar 19, 2024 19:20:55 GMT
Friday - David Baddiel: My Family, Not The Sitcom Saturday - The Chemical Brothers at the Royal Albert Hall Sunday - Air at the Coliseum
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Post by Marwood on Mar 18, 2024 18:36:54 GMT
Copied from WOS: Robert Sheehan as Withnail, Adonis Siddique as Marwood. Uncle Monty is Malcolm Sinclar I won’t be able to watch Pie In The Sky again with Uncle Monty in it 🤣 I’ll see if it ends up in London but I’ll probably stick to the film.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 16, 2024 15:29:59 GMT
Micky Flanagan at the Leicester Square Theatre this afternoon.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 15, 2024 20:40:02 GMT
Saw Raising Arizona tonight for the first time since it came out: with the exception of The Big Lebowski I’m not keen on the Coen brothers comedies and didn’t think it was that great, a lot of slapstick and shouting but I wasn’t engaged by what’s happening: I had been pondering seeing Drive-Away Dolls tomorrow afternoon but I’m thinking it might just be more of this (it’s better than Burn After Reading though, I thought that was dreadful)
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Post by Marwood on Mar 14, 2024 21:12:23 GMT
A less than glorious two star review in tonight’s Evening Standard: I’m still thinking American audiences might have been more impressed by the terrible accents (although the more I think back, that is part of the point of this) but overall it just seemed humdrum.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 12, 2024 11:45:46 GMT
I didn’t know the Oscars were being shown on ITV until midnight on Sunday so missed the first few awards (thankfully it was being a lot earlier than I remember them being in at in previous years, and I was surprised ITV showed the whole thing straight through without any ad breaks, although the ‘experts’ they had commenting with Jonathan Ross were all C grade)
I enjoyed Jimmy Kimmels compering, much better than the dross served by at the BAFTAs in recent years and of all the guests announcing the awards, enjoyed Schwarzenegger and De Vito (with a cameo from Michael Keaton) the most, with regards to Pacino at the end, the nominees for Best Picture had already been announced throughout the night, he could have maybe ‘WOOHA!’d it up a little bit when he said Oppenheimer but I think the organisers had told him to make it brief (I notice Bob De Niro didn’t look too impressed when he walked out on stage🤣)
As for the awards themselves, no real surprises but I’m not sure Cillian Murphy gave an amazing performance in Oppenheimer, I would have said Paul Giamatti should have won for The Holdovers but I’m glad that Da’Vine Joy Randolph won for best supporting actress, I thought she thoroughly deserved to win that.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 21:53:16 GMT
The Smile at Hammersmith Apollo tomorrow.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 21:30:00 GMT
Thought it was…ok: glad I didn’t pay too much for a front row seat and there was no lurking at the back of the stage from Billy Crudup. It was about ten minutes late starting but still finished at 9 on the dot, advertised as 80 minutes straight through but it seemed to be a lot longer: Crudups Cockney accent had outrun its welcome well before the ending.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 21:24:11 GMT
I’m sure there’s already a thread about this elsewhere on the forum, I have not heard anything about who is going to be in it.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 19:02:23 GMT
Hmmm: the stage seems awfully high, I’m hoping Billy Crudup doesn’t do too much lurking at the back 🤣
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Post by Marwood on Mar 9, 2024 17:49:25 GMT
Can’t believe they have not announced who is playing Juliet: in these days off equality and inclusion I thought that would have been one of the first announcements; I gave up on booking this when I saw the humongous online queue for tickets but surely someone might be keener to see who Juliet will be rather?
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Post by Marwood on Mar 6, 2024 17:57:56 GMT
Starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, directed by Kenny Leon. No mention of which theatre it will be on at on its Instagram page (search for othellobway) which has gone live today but unless tickets are eye wateringly expensive, I might go for this next year: I saw Gyllenhaal in Sea Wall/A Life back in 2019, unfortunately I never got to see Washington’s Julius Caesar.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 4, 2024 10:52:13 GMT
Harry Clarke on Saturday.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 1, 2024 17:04:27 GMT
Depeche Mode at the Accor Arena in Paris on Sunday.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 25, 2024 17:44:39 GMT
I saw the matinee performance of this yesterday (£35 for a front row seat through London Theatre Week): I think I might have seen a filmed version many years ago but this was certainly the first time I’d seen it on a stage: I enjoyed it a lot, and I couldn’t believe the anti semitism on show but something like this is more relevant now than at any point in the last 80 years but as with so many things these days the people in positions of power just look the other way and do nothing but as we’ve seen in recent years, antisemitism is coming back in a big way but is treated as a taboo subject and no one goes out of their way to do anything about it.
Anyway, sitting in the front row, me and a few people were asked to go on stage for the closing scene (a brief reenactment of the Battle Of Cable Street): thankfully we didn’t get given any lines to embarrass ourselves by mangling , just joining in with the chant ‘they shall not pass!’ A couple of the actors thanked me for going up on stage but it was so dark in there I could only see the first couple of rows and I can now go to the grave knowing I’ve been on stage in a West End show 🤣
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Post by Marwood on Feb 23, 2024 16:42:19 GMT
The Merchant of Venice 1936 at the Criterion tomorrow afternoon.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 21, 2024 20:43:50 GMT
Have heard it’s Kit Harrington. Makes sense for Jim. Jim who? Savile? Nail? Cricket? 🤣
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Post by Marwood on Feb 17, 2024 20:28:45 GMT
Saw a double bill of Withnail & I and The Holdovers at the Prince Charles this afternoon with an intro from David Hemingson, The Holdovers writer (he chose Withnail as its one of his favourites): I won’t say anything about Withnail as my forum avatar and user name should be a clue as to it being one of my favourite films, if not THE favourite but I really enjoyed The Holdovers, it seemed very slow to find its way but a few of the supporting cast were ejected and it then really got going : I’d say Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph have given two perfectly calibrated performances that thoroughly deserve Oscars (neither of them seem to be going out of their way to give ‘look at me!’ performances like some of the other nominees did)
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Post by Marwood on Feb 10, 2024 21:10:09 GMT
I finally got round to seeing Casablanca tonight and I was pretty damn impressed: the cast was great across the board and it had a script packed full of quotable lines: the credits at the beginning says it was based on a play, I’m surprised no one has tried to put on a production of it in recent years (although this was quite ambitious with the amount of scene changes so who knows what was added for the films screenplay)
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Post by Marwood on Feb 9, 2024 23:27:00 GMT
Yes there is, through the link in the plays website that was linked at the beginning of this thread: they sent me an email earlier saying the resale goes live next Tuesday (the 13th) from 8 a.m until noon: I’ve seen how many people liked this when Tom Holland shares he was doing it on his Instagram the other day so they won’t have problems selling tickets for this, I want to see who is playing Juliet first though.
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