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Post by lou105 on Oct 19, 2019 22:14:29 GMT
I got more angry the more I thought about it! He just got fed up waiting for the road to clear and thought it was ok to try to steer me physically. It really helped me understand how difficult it is for people to react quickly enough in incidents like groping on public transport or in crowds.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 19, 2019 7:31:18 GMT
Trying to cross Shaftesbury Ave last night, I decided it was wise to wait for a green signal at a pelican crossing. A guy behind me (60ish) said "Come on, we could go". It was only as I said "actually there's a car moving" that I realised he'd put both hands on my hips in an attempt to (gently) nudge me forward. I said "Please don't touch me like that" and the lady he was with announced that he'd been told about that before. Now I'm totally sure that his only intention was to persuade me to cross so that he could move too. But as I went on my way I had a fresh understanding of why people who have worse experiences just freeze..it took me a few seconds to process what he was doing. Shame I didn't have a Thatcher style handbag.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 19, 2019 7:00:55 GMT
Second visit yesterday. Having gone with family deliberately to see JOJ, I booked a solo trip on a Boe night, because it's a slight family joke that he was off both times I tried at Queen's. Fully prepared for a Boe No Show, I'd actually begun to secretly hope to repeat the wonders of JOJ. However! Mr Boe was there. I don't have anything to add to what's been said really. There were memorable moments. I feel like Bring Him Home has been done to death (no pun intended) now, but it was good to hear it live and the audience were silent til the end, bar an occasional sniff. Carrie and Bradley were even stronger this time. Michael Ball was very pirate-like at the beginning, much to the amusement of a loud guy behind me who kept repeating "Jean Valjean" in a Ball voice. Yet Stars was much stronger than on my first trip.A lady in front had been on the Stages Floating Festival and said someone had heckled Boe and shouted comments about him turning up this time..so it's probably fair to say that he knows his absences are unpopular! Finally I was on the edge of Row B in the Grand Circle and was very pleased that FOH asked the front row to sit back in their seats. People in front of me complied and it made all the difference.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 14, 2019 22:35:23 GMT
Wasn't that cast known as the "short cast"? Alfie Boe isn't tall so they cast accordingly with Craig Mather, and Hadley Fraser as Javert, or so the story went.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 13, 2019 7:45:30 GMT
I *thought I saw Samantha Barks in the audience and just seen her tweet that she's a friend of Alex Scott, so that explains it.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 12, 2019 22:19:45 GMT
Well the results show is going to be interesting...but the judges seemed to be working to some strange criteria,so it's not surprising that the end result is odd. I think Dev and Dianne weren't memorable this week so probably got forgotten by voters.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 11, 2019 21:53:15 GMT
Don't worry, Dawnstar, the toffee penny lives on!
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Post by lou105 on Oct 11, 2019 14:06:56 GMT
I'm hoping that means that you will have a lot of family visiting you rather than getting through 3 tins in 3 days on your own! Oh, they can have most of the toffee ones, so that's that sorted . Just had a box and the hard, chocolate covered toffee in the brown wrapper has been replaced by a softer Chocolate Caramel Brownie. Is that more for you Monkey?
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Post by lou105 on Oct 11, 2019 12:02:13 GMT
I hope they manage to make the stage floor visible to as many as possible. Rather like Curious Incident, you'd lose a dimension otherwise.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 11, 2019 6:49:39 GMT
Just seen Baz say in reply to a question that "stalls will be elevated on a platform so audience can see the brilliant set, lighting etc ". That sounds interesting and allays some of my concerns about the magic being lost behind a pros arch.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 6, 2019 11:01:33 GMT
The set didn’t look right for 13/14 year olds to me. Too junior. That was my interval comment too. In fact with the way they entered, I thought they were breaking into their old primary school. However! I enjoyed this and very happy to be close up and able to observe it all. For my personal tastes, the serious aspects to balance the farce were good. Down at 10.10
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Post by lou105 on Oct 6, 2019 8:50:17 GMT
Walked past the back of the Noel Coward yesterday and the doors were open as they were moving stuff in/out. Quite surprised to be able to see straight through to the auditorium.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 4, 2019 14:02:51 GMT
Sounds like a medical condition. Needs broad spectrum antibiotics! Strallens dont need antibiotics. They've got Aunty Bonnie.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 4, 2019 14:01:20 GMT
I was able to book a £15 front stalls seat through the website on the day. It’s worth having a check for any returns or unsold day seats that go onto there. Agreed. I just picked up a front row pair for two weeks time, having looked a couple of times without success.
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Post by lou105 on Oct 3, 2019 12:51:07 GMT
the silhouette of a non-specific lower tier Strallen Just snorted at this!
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Post by lou105 on Sept 28, 2019 7:18:57 GMT
It's included in the TodayTix £25 offer, but the seats offered are at the back. Since it's not selling too well I'm holding on for now. There have previously been £15 flash sales on Trafalgar 1 plays but no way of predicting. I know it's frustrating when you're trying to plan on specific dates.
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Post by lou105 on Sept 25, 2019 17:59:52 GMT
I had a quick scan of comments on a Facebook page, and most locals are saying that the seated tickets were just too expensive to tempt them. Even as a regular theatre goer who sees a couple of Shakespeares most years, I baulked at paying £50 and more for yet another Macbeth/Twelfth Night.
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Post by lou105 on Sept 25, 2019 17:23:20 GMT
It's been announced that the company behind Shakespeare's Rose Theatre (both venues) has gone into liquidation. They cite unsustainable losses due to current economic uncertainty. Visitor numbers in York fell from 78000 last year to 47000 this year. Blenheim attracted 38000 rather than the expected 75000.
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Post by lou105 on Sept 25, 2019 12:19:20 GMT
Cast now listed as Joe Thomas, Bo Poraj,Alex Gaumond. Laura Patch and Summer Strallen/Louise Marwood depending on venue. .
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Post by lou105 on Sept 25, 2019 8:14:11 GMT
Got through at 9, despite the clock, but took a few minutes to let me select anything once I got to front of queue. All fine but I only wanted one play and was looking late in run.
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Post by lou105 on Sept 25, 2019 7:42:06 GMT
Going well so far. Email says booking at 9, onscreen clock is counting down to 10..
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Post by lou105 on Sept 15, 2019 7:03:58 GMT
I read the other boarding school series by Enid Blyton; can't remember the name of that school but I also felt slighted on behalf of that series that it had lost out to this one That would be St Clare's with the twins:Pat and Isabel. Never seem to be mentioned as much- maybe I need to dig out a copy!
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Post by lou105 on Sept 14, 2019 23:31:34 GMT
As Eva made her somewhat unconventional entrance at Regents Park today, a voice behind said "Oh! I think she's in it!".
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Post by lou105 on Sept 14, 2019 22:15:48 GMT
There is a thread in plays..not sure which I'd stick with as there is quite a bit of music and it's not completely incidental. I saw this earlier in the week and enjoyed it "in a not what I expected way", as a friend said. The adaptation draws on the book characters (pupils only, save for a silhouette or two) but certainly doesn't go page by page! Lots of energy and fun, more tongue in cheek in the second half I thought. Some interesting reflections on why people became as they are, but nothing too heavy. I saw ages 8 to 80 enjoying it.
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Post by lou105 on Sept 9, 2019 10:36:58 GMT
Charlotte Jaconelli as Zoe Murphy anyone?? Just speculation of course 👀 Just announced in The boy in the dress..
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Post by lou105 on Sept 7, 2019 20:28:42 GMT
Least star-powered celebs ever in Strictly? The sports guy from the BBC...Mike something is just overly crazed with excitement.. "So Katya, good news. We re giving you another chance after last year's problems. And your partner is.."
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Post by lou105 on Sept 7, 2019 20:23:59 GMT
So the queue is twice a long cos both men and women use those loos? Why dont they make the men’s loos for all too? I think one of the men's sets may be neutral now too, but they're not next to each other so I didn't go looking. And anyway, there's the urinal issue.. apparently toilets on the upper floors are still gender specific, which is fine if you fancy a walk I guess.
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Post by lou105 on Sept 7, 2019 18:45:48 GMT
Is that John Mcrea near the front of the audience? Just logged on to see if anyone else was wondering that!
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Post by lou105 on Sept 6, 2019 21:29:46 GMT
One of my local venues has just made some toilets gender neutral, with a fairly wordy explanation on the outer door. However they've chosen the set formerly known as the ladies, in the main foyer. So what happens is, the ladies troop in as ever, and soon the queue is holding the door open. At which point a man, who had got in quickly and read the sign, emerges from a cubicle ,to be greeted by a queue of ladies expressing silent anger/confusion. Of course no-one says a word, but one lady marches to the door, moving a couple of people out of the way, and pulls it back, stares pointedly at the sign, then retreats shaking her head.
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Post by lou105 on Aug 21, 2019 17:19:18 GMT
Richard E Grant at the Bridge today.
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