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Post by steve10086 on Jan 24, 2018 19:24:27 GMT
Sorry to report that I didn't really enjoy this very much today. The cast sounded undeniably great but apart from two songs I just found it really dull. Some people left at the interval. I stayed but had to fight off a snooze by Act 2! Probably my least favourite Webber. Always worth a gamble though 😁 Just be glad you didn’t see the original production then. Even worse!
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 24, 2018 7:50:15 GMT
Well I hope that you do enjoy it, but I’m a pretty big ALW fan and like everything he’s done (except Requiem), but find TWIW deadly dull. The plot, the more intimate setting, and the great performances, should keep you interested/entertained though. I’m interested, Steve, what don’t you like about Requiem? Just not my kind of thing. Apart from Pie Jesu and Hosanna it’s not something I can listen to.
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 23, 2018 20:43:39 GMT
Hoping to see this tomorrow if I can get a rush ticket. It feels more of a list-ticking exercise for me at the moment than something I'm genuinely excited about, but hopefully I'll enjoy it. I've yet to find a Webber score that I've hated (that's just jinxed the hell out of it, hasn't it...) Well I hope that you do enjoy it, but I’m a pretty big ALW fan and like everything he’s done (except Requiem), but find TWIW deadly dull. The plot, the more intimate setting, and the great performances, should keep you interested/entertained though.
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 23, 2018 19:53:44 GMT
Not much to say. The cast are better than the original, the staging is better than the original, the music is still as boring.
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 20, 2018 23:51:26 GMT
Finally saw it tonight.
***** production of a ** show.
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 14, 2018 9:22:45 GMT
I had a drive today, so enjoyed listening to the cast recording, I am familiar with Steinman/Meat Loaf through both Bat 🦇 Out Of Hell Albums, I think I bought the second one they say it came out, on cassette. Listening you can understand why this is popular and and I can see Bat Out of Hell doing steady business at the Dominion, is because Steinman’s score is breathtaking and is inherently musical, especially the closing song ‘I do anything for love, but I won’t do That’, with the excellent duet at the end. What I am not familiar with is the song and it’s a brilliant song ‘What Part of my Body Hurts The Most’, was this written specially for this musical? It’s hard to say what any Steinman song was “written for” because he’s been working on this show pretty much all his life, but the song was premiered back in 2006 as part of his Dream Engine project. This is the first official release though.
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Post by steve10086 on Jan 13, 2018 9:14:08 GMT
If you’re talking about ‘Hamilton: The Revolution’ then it’s a brilliant book. Every chapter focuses on a different song (in the order they appear in the show), giving some of the historical context behind it and then discussing how they wrote the song, the staging, how they cast each part. Each chapter then ends with the lyrics to said song, complete with Lin’s notes for it. I finished reading it last week and I feel like it made me appreciate the music a whole lot more. You can get it for about £20 on Amazon. In other news, tonight’s the night for me!! I was interested in this, but a brief flick through this in Foyles I felt the pages were really thick and it felt like a cop out to make the book seem bigger than it is, so didn't go for it. May reconsider. The paper used may cause that effect, but it’s not because it’s a “cop out” - it’s just a quality product, in the style of books from Hamilton’s time. I thought it was a very interesting read, and it looks lovely on a shelf afterwards.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 30, 2017 8:55:03 GMT
She is indeed the best in my opinion. If you have not seen her do it in the mid 90's you missed a theatrical treat. Or dodged a bullet
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 24, 2017 22:44:08 GMT
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 24, 2017 21:42:12 GMT
So they think\know there's an audience for music theatre on television. Is that it though? Or is it that there’s an audience for “celebrities” doing anything... up to and including eating kangaroo c*ck. How many ITV viewers would have bothered watching this without it being “All Star...”?
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 24, 2017 20:08:35 GMT
All these “stars” fawning over Crawford as the master of musical theatre should have seen him in Dance of the Vampires...
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 13, 2017 9:06:56 GMT
This has already been covered in the last 10 pages, I imagine but I have restricted time this morning. Do I need to print out the ticket confirmation or can I show it on my phone? Kind of defeats the “paperless” notion if I have to print out the email... Can show on phone
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 12, 2017 13:16:40 GMT
Saw it last night. Don’t have time now to say much more than WOW!!! No expectation lowering is required - the show is stunning. Oh, and the guy playing Washington... is he believable as a leader? Oh yes, and he could lead me anywhere
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 11, 2017 18:04:53 GMT
Seeing the show tonight!! Assuming they accept my out of date 20 year old passport as ID. Luckily I haven’t aged a day.... I wish!
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 6, 2017 12:39:30 GMT
Not sure why this is receiving so much coverage, yes it was a big scandal but you would have to be in your 60s to recall it. Do you have a particular cut off point when you think things should or should not be reported about? 1980? 2015?
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 5, 2017 20:33:43 GMT
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 5, 2017 19:48:58 GMT
I second all of the above. The WMC is a fantastic theatre! Did have quite bad legroom on Saturday though, which surprised me as it’s always been great before. For future reference, where did you sit @steve1006? I was in the stalls row k, centre block to one side, but not actually in the side block. Leg room was fine , but I’m not tall anyway . Centre of Row C in the Lower Stalls, which is actually the last row of the front block of seats, before the wide aisle that runs across the stalls area. I’ve always been pleasantly surprised by the legroom as WMC, so hadn’t expected it.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 5, 2017 18:24:57 GMT
I think the Wales Millenium Centre is one of my favourite theatres, it’s a beautiful building inside and out and looks like it was just built yesterday. The auditorium is stunning with its wood and (I think slate) frontages to the balconies and boxes , the exterior is attractive and imaginative, and the foyers, bars and catering areas are spacious and clean , and I found the staff all round were friendly and polite . I second all of the above. The WMC is a fantastic theatre! Did have quite bad legroom on Saturday though, which surprised me as it’s always been great before.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 4, 2017 13:14:24 GMT
David Blaine *is* a git wizard!! There’s “showmanship” and then there’s “pointless idiot sitting in a box”. I’m glad the British public just threw rubbish at him while he was up there.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 4, 2017 13:11:36 GMT
I wanted Row A but chickened out when I saw they were cheaper. Not knowing what the view will be like, I didn’t want a repeat of my experience in the front row at Manchester, where the front of the set blocked half of the show!
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 4, 2017 12:30:29 GMT
Tickets now on sale for the Dominion run!
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 3, 2017 18:46:31 GMT
I dont know much about the show itself, but does Hamilton have book scenes like a traditional musical or is it through sung? It’s through rapped
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 3, 2017 18:02:33 GMT
‘Dance of the Vampires’ on Broadway had 61 previews, and only 56 performances after opening!
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 3, 2017 16:10:40 GMT
Saw this in Cardiff last night.
Very unimpressed with the sound quality in Act I. Sounded like an overamplified bootleg recording! Was better in Act II.
Didn’t like the guy playing the Engineer. Far far too camp, bordering on laughable. Kim was fantastic. And, apart from the sound, the production values were excellent as expected.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 16:02:07 GMT
I knew nothing about Sunset the first time I saw it but fell in love with it the second those strings started up. In this instance it was to the shows advantage that Andy only used about five different melodies throughout the whole show, because they just sucked you back in every time they were re-used.... ...but I don’t really understand why you would go to a musical based on the music of someone you don’t know then complain that you didn’t know any of the songs. It just sounds wasteful when you could go and see Thriller for 20p and know most of the songs! 😃 If a show is new to me, but has an existing cast recording, I will usually listen to it beforehand as I do tend to enjoy them more when I know them. But funnily enough, Sunset is also one of my “instant likes” - loved it from that very first viewing.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 13:23:47 GMT
How anyone can not know: Bat Out Of Hell Dead Ringer For Love It’s All Coming Back To Me Now I’d Do Anything For Love I only recognise 2 out of those 4 song titles & I do actually own a Meatloaf CD. (My Dad's contribution to my sex education was to give me a Meatloaf CD & tell me to listen to Paradise By The Dashboard Light.) Are you young? If so, they could be before your time, which is fair enough. But I doubt you’d have gone to the show *expecting* to know the songs in that case, which is fine.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 13:11:54 GMT
I fail to see how the number of songs you know from a show before you see it could impact on your enjoyment? I only recognised three songs from Sunset Boulevard but I still came out loving it. If you go into a musical without knowing much about it, it’s your own choice. You can’t then blame your dislike for the show on the decision that you’ve made, that’s pretty absurd. Not liking the show because you don’t like the songs is one thing. Not liking the show because you don’t know them is lunacy. Precisely!
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 12:34:11 GMT
I assume the English one is a currently very well employed (self-employed) director of major repute? “Of major repute”... Bill Kenwright is in the clear then!
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 12:08:11 GMT
It was aimed at danb, who seems to disagree with you. In which case I’m happy to apologise, though I don’t actually think danb and I really do disagree on this very much. It’s musicalmarge who seems to think that if you go to a “jukebox” musical (which this isn’t really anyway) by a songwriter whose songs you aren’t familiar with, that it’s the shows fault when you don’t know the songs. How anyone can not know: Bat Out Of Hell Dead Ringer For Love It’s All Coming Back To Me Now I’d Do Anything For Love is beyond me anyway, so only knowing 2 songs implies someone has been sticking their head in the sand for a long time.
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Post by steve10086 on Dec 2, 2017 11:59:35 GMT
Yes, the sign of a good musical is homework. If that was aimed at me then it’s ridiculous. You don’t need to do any homework to enjoy Bat Out Of Hell, but someone saying they only knew 2 songs on a show based on an album of 7 songs (plus follow up albums and other stuff) is rather pointless.
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