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Post by christya on Oct 12, 2020 19:47:58 GMT
I'm just glad there were any, but it did rather limit the choices.
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Post by christya on Oct 12, 2020 15:25:26 GMT
Snagged front of the Dress Circle for the last Friday night. Slightly restricted view, but I don't mind that for a concert and I'm just glad to have a ticket!
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Post by christya on Oct 6, 2020 8:45:21 GMT
I've channelled some of what I'm saving into donations to local theatres and food banks, but what with not having my train/hotel to London to pay for and the other things I'm not spending anymore (due to working from home, not being able to meet friends for dinner or at the pub, and not leisure shopping) I'm still saving at least £500 a month. Which is great, but I'd rather have my life back.
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Post by christya on Sept 22, 2020 11:22:58 GMT
I wonder if the 10pm curfew will apply to theatrical productions? Probably. They stuck us with a similar curfew in the North East and my cinema showing was cancelled because it would have finished at 10:15.
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Post by christya on Sept 15, 2020 22:10:19 GMT
Does anyone else think that curfews will lead to some people adopting an attitude of 'lets see how drunk we can get before nine o clock' attitude? Absolutely. Also makes it more likely that people will try having get-togethers at people's houses where they can go on late into the night. I couldn't find any concrete source on a proposed curfew though, have I missed something obvious? Can't see it going down very well.
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Post by christya on Sept 10, 2020 12:15:33 GMT
From the posts I'm seeing on Facebook and Twitter, most people aren't planning on paying this any attention, but it's rebellion of the 'I'll see my kids if I want to' kind and not the 'you gotta fight for your right to party'. So maybe it'll work.
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Post by christya on Sept 4, 2020 15:48:39 GMT
After a six month hiatus, my mum's Friday morning singing sessions resume today. They normally meet inside the bowls pavilion, but they're now going to be meeting outside it. I'm not sure how that's going to work when it gets too cold to be outdoors for two hours, but good for them, I say. We are getting there! I'm horribly jealous of your Mum, my own choir has just had to cancel our Christmas concerts for this year because we'd normally start rehearsals at the end of September. While we all feel a bit sorry for ourselves, the other issue is that our concerts bring in a lot of money for our venue, which is used to support some of the loss-making community programmes over the year, so the knock on effect will be going right into next year. We're currently looking at whether we can do something in different venues, with smaller groups, but hitting roadblocks all the time so I suspect it's over until next year.
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Post by christya on Aug 5, 2020 20:40:33 GMT
People over 65 who are still capable of working, and who would find their lifestyle impacted by losing their income, are not likely to just give up their job for a younger person. Doesn't sound particularly reasonable.
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Post by christya on Jun 7, 2020 10:41:08 GMT
It's a shame that Six took off the way it did. It's a great concept and a solid beginning, but desperately needs development to be a complete show, and will never have it because the fanbase grabbed it and ran with it - why develop what's already raking in the coin?
There should be a strict limit placed on riffs. Especially in 'Wicked'.
With some notable exceptions, someone going straight from school to the lead in a major musical is not a good thing, just a good 'story'.
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Post by christya on Jun 5, 2020 20:46:21 GMT
Watching on BBC2 now. Incredible. God knows why this never made it to London. Great melodies. Spectacular automated set and lighting. Breathtaking choreography. A few years back I was talking to one of the Broadway cast who said the problem was they couldn't get a suitable theatre. Think there were even auditions run here at one point.
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Post by christya on Jun 5, 2020 17:14:51 GMT
The best amateur performer I saw as Deloris (and I'd argue the best Deloris) I've seen was a white lady, who had either red hair or a red wig. Came away feeling like I'd seen how it might have been with Bette Midler.
Hairspray though - race is actually important, fundamental even. The idea that this condition hasn't always been there is more than a bit off.
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Post by christya on Jun 5, 2020 17:11:15 GMT
Newcastle Theatre Royal handled refunds really well, I thought. They sent an email promptly, with details of the options (refund, donation, credit) and links you could click to choose which one. Completely painless. The only down side is that they didn't give the option to give the lot as a donation, closest was 50% donation, 50% credit voucher, but it was really quick and easy.
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Post by christya on May 28, 2020 14:41:39 GMT
All I ask from the Broadway version is that Megan Hilty is Ivy, and Ivy is Marilyn by the end of the show. Well, that and a ticket obviously.
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Post by christya on May 28, 2020 14:37:53 GMT
Surely if masks were compulsory, the rest wouldn't matter so much, providing people weren't going about rubbing their eyes. Everyone being protected by everyone else's mask and by their own common sense.
Personally, I'd rather just go back to normal seating and normal theatre attendance and accept a baseline of risk, but the time obviously isn't here for that yet.
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Post by christya on May 27, 2020 15:28:05 GMT
Disastrous though that looks from a financial perspective, my short self can't help but think "Hey! No heads in front of me! I'd be able to see - and from the stalls!"
That's if I could get a ticket...
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Post by christya on Apr 27, 2020 20:48:17 GMT
So far:
Beautiful UK tour Everybody's Talking About Jamie UK tour Broadway Princess Party at Cadogan Hall
Not hopeful about Bring It On, which was supposed to be in June.
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Post by christya on Mar 9, 2020 16:43:40 GMT
This is sounding like they're making the entire show into an absolute joke.
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Post by christya on Dec 19, 2019 18:59:19 GMT
On the Jennifer Hudson version the ‘sunlight through the trees...’ but is truly dreadful. (I know it’s not her singing it.) Good grief, I just heard it, and it really is bad. Reminds me of Emma Watson's autotuned voice in Beauty and the Beast. And then the voice just...gives out at the high notes? Awful.
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Post by christya on Sept 20, 2019 17:34:06 GMT
but then u could argue we should get rid of Pride marches so it doesnt annoy people. Or that musical weekend they have in Trafalgar Sq. Or sporting events/gigs at stadiums. or nude bike riding. all these things can stop people going about their day to day business but we dont mind coz its life None of those things are deliberately going out to cause disruption and then expecting people to listen to them. I don't care if people want to protest. But they should not deliberately obstruct other people. Those clowns blocking bridges in London are among the worst examples of that, but there are plenty more. People clogging up transport, etc, on their way to a protest? Whatever, get on with it if it floats your boat. People deliberately stopping transport from operating? Entirely different ball game.
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Post by christya on Sept 20, 2019 15:04:59 GMT
This morning? No, but then I haven't been paying it much attention. But there are plenty of people saying similar things from previous events, so if I cared enough I'd probably find the same thing.
It's not for you or anyone else to decide that someone cannot go about their daily business. Get in people's way, and their thought process is going to be closer to "Shut up and move" than to "Oh my, I wonder what made all these people care so much? I'd better give them what they want!".
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Post by christya on Sept 20, 2019 13:47:44 GMT
The trouble is that normal people won't 'put up with' disruption without being completely turned off the people and supposed 'message' that caused it. If it takes me three hours to get to work instead of one, I don't give a damn what the people who caused that disruption have to say. Especially if they're kids with zero clue about earning a living.
Protest, go on TV if anyone will let you, get published in as many places as possible - but when people are trying to go somewhere, get out of the way. It does nobody any favours.
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Post by christya on Sept 20, 2019 12:24:15 GMT
I don't think for one minute that most of these kids are in it for anything other than a combination of bandwagon-jumping and a day off school. But so long as they can protest without stopping people going about their daily business, whatever. It's their time. People who block public highways, etc, should be forcibly removed, but most protests don't do any harm.
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Post by christya on Sept 18, 2019 12:33:02 GMT
I liked his version better than most I've heard - really promising considering that was two years ago. Personally I'd much rather hear it like this (albeit with the American accent) than done in any kind of quirky way. If they'd pulled anything too out of the left field with casting I don't know if I'd have bothered to go.
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Post by christya on Aug 29, 2019 10:10:43 GMT
Thoroughly unpleasant individual sat next to me at Book of Mormon last night. Older 'lady' who complained about people taking their seats a few minutes prior to the performance, loudly going on about how latecomers should not be let in (the people taking their seats were NOT late and most were sat nowhere near her). Tutted and said "Oh for god's sake" when I got up to position my coat properly - still five minutes to go before the performance. It was far too audible for me to pretend that I hadn't heard, so I told her to get over it.
During the performance she tutted at everything anyone else did, right to the point of moaning because someone on the aisle, and out of her sightline, nipped out presumably to the loo. She of course had no problem fidgeting herself, leaning forward, talking to her companion and trying to take up the armrest to the point of actually putting her elbow in my side. I normally don't fight for the armrest since I'm quite comfortable with arms forward, but obviously a principle was involved so I had to repel the invading elbow.
She whinged again at the interval because other people wanted to leave the row - then left it herself, complaining that the six or seven people between her and the aisle didn't all step out into the aisle to give her a clear path.
The cherry on top though was when she started pushing her way out during the finale, forcing people to stand to let her out. Apparently it's fine to disrupt people when she does it.I did tell her she was very rude, but naturally she became deaf at that point. One of those people who operates on the assumption that nobody will ever say anything to them, I suspect.
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Post by christya on Aug 28, 2019 17:34:42 GMT
Thanks! I prefer the in person ones as the odds are better, but I'm also really lazy so this works for me.
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Post by christya on Aug 28, 2019 11:07:44 GMT
Does anyone know if they're doing the lottery for this in Sunderland?
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Post by christya on Aug 20, 2019 14:22:36 GMT
I went to the matinee on Sunday, and god was I glad I did! What a fantastic show. Loved every bit of it, from Gandalf right through to hearing all the stories he could think of behind various Shakespeare plays. I'd happily go again - suspect no two performances will be exactly alike.
It being the matinee, I wasn't overly hopeful about stage door but I thought that if I found he had come out I'd be kicking myself. So I went round - probably about a hundred people waiting in the usual laid back Newcastle fashion. He did eventually come to speak to everyone briefly - essentially to say thanks for coming and that he couldn't do signing and pics due to lack of time and needing a lie down! Not one person (that I heard anyway) moaned about it, and everyone basically just said 'Thank you' and left happy that he'd come out at all. I thought it was really kind of him to come and speak to everyone rather than let people wait and gradually drift off - he didn't have to, and if I'd done that show at 80 I'd probably be lying down with a gin in hand within two minutes of being off stage!
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Post by christya on Aug 17, 2019 10:11:50 GMT
It looks like they're on the seats...not a fan of that! But at least I'd have no trouble seeing over their heads.
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Post by christya on Aug 16, 2019 10:19:49 GMT
Expecting a man to automatically join a toilet queue behind women seems a bit weird - two signs usually means separate facilities. Also, they were snippy about it. I have a pet hate for people saying "You need to" when what they mean is "I want you to" though, so could just be me - I always want to respond with "I don't NEED to do anything, you WANT me to".
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Post by christya on Aug 14, 2019 15:39:14 GMT
I was trying for Come From Away tickets yesterday and noticed the same. Everything was 'gone' as soon as the rush went live, but single tickets did keep popping up over the next 20 minutes or so, before being snapped up again. I imagine the "more tickets..." message stays until all transactions have actually been completed. Another thing which might affect this is people just popping in to see what's available. The week before I grab rush tickets I'll normally take a look on 2-3 mornings and see what kind of tickets are available - helps me decide if I want to take the risk or book in advance. And of course when I release what it found, they're back available again.
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