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Post by danb on Jun 1, 2023 13:05:00 GMT
*Oh no, someone is disagreeing with me, the idea of discussion is RUINED* Solid snowflake behaviour tbh Totally! I am a delicate little flower.
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Post by danb on May 31, 2023 15:57:29 GMT
Ok, great! Battered into submission. Discussion board no more. Autocratic dominance only. I get it. I do intend to see it in the next few weeks, and will make sure not to share my opinion of it.
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Post by danb on May 31, 2023 13:06:20 GMT
I guess you’d need to ask somebody going specifically to that performance exactly why they are going.
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Post by danb on May 31, 2023 5:29:11 GMT
It’s so disappointing to see so many squeamish reviews for this. People need to grow up and do some research before they go rather than being faux shocked at the subject matter. Most of the needlessly ‘enlightened’ on-line reviewers have clutched their pearls at this in their reviews. It’s 34 years old ffs! I remember someone posted something similar to my sentiment further up but I'll say it again, I don't think a lot of people dislike the show because they're appalled at the content, I think a lot of people don't like it because they just don't think it's a good show. I'm not offended by the subject matter I just think it's weird, unearned and incompletely explored. It's hard for me to imagine in the abstract how people shooting their lovers and having intergenerational relationships and sure why not a bit of child-love as well could be boring, but my god somehow this show does it. It's completely fair to say that the subject matter felt interesting and engaging and an excellent basis for a show if that's your take, but it's disingenuous to suggest that if your negative reaction is partly based on the frankly bizarre plot then you are somehow at fault. There's a strange GBNews-esque idea that seems to float about online about this show that people who rail against the story are part of the woke-brigade and can be dismissed, but if people are like me they're happy to see something provocative and edgy, as long as it's good. And I didn't find this good, sorry. Also a minor take, but I don't read what most shows or films I see are about, I just go. You sometimes like things you didn't think you would, and vice versa. It's still valid to critique them. Do you have an online review site Andrew? You appear to have interpreted an awful lot of things that just aren’t there in my post? My ‘actual’ comments were in relation to both WEW and Mickey Jo’s reviews where they start by enjoying it, then pull back because of the ‘ick’ factor. It is about what it is about. Reviews don’t exist in a vacuum. They filter a show through the life & opinions of the reviewer. That is why here is such a lovely space.
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Post by danb on May 30, 2023 16:53:36 GMT
…and of course ‘Aladdin’ that is obviously hidden in someones wardrobe or something? I wonder if it has anything to do with Jade Ewans claim against the production or has this been thrown out? Is she even in it or was it an all US cast?
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Post by danb on May 30, 2023 15:54:14 GMT
There always seems to be last minute availability, so whether they are, as you say house seats, or agency allocations being released I do not know. Either way if you pick a day and hang tight I’m sure something suitable will appear. Edit: loads of availability across all price bands tonight.
It’s so disappointing to see so many squeamish reviews for this. People need to grow up and do some research before they go rather than being faux shocked at the subject matter. Most of the needlessly ‘enlightened’ on-line reviewers have clutched their pearls at this in their reviews. It’s 34 years old ffs!
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Post by danb on May 30, 2023 15:07:07 GMT
Is there anything ‘wrist-slashy’, cos that’s my thing and I don’t want to pull a whitey sat on a high stool? I am not the show.
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Post by danb on May 30, 2023 13:20:45 GMT
I see no big J announced as Captain von Trapp?
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Post by danb on May 30, 2023 13:18:13 GMT
What are the atg prices like? I’m not a cardholder so won’t be blessed with the intel til tmrw.
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Post by danb on May 30, 2023 11:38:14 GMT
I'd have thought a week run in most venues would be about right. It might be a night short or two short of the usual Monday or Tuesday start but I'd have been surprises if it did longer than a week in most venues. Exactly. It took a while to take off in London but once word of mouth was out there it found its tribe. I’d expect Tues-Sat runs, possibly with two two midweek mats.
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Post by danb on May 30, 2023 9:59:16 GMT
Are the dates released somewhere?
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Post by danb on May 30, 2023 6:08:24 GMT
Have either of you contacted the theatre about this in advance?
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Post by danb on May 29, 2023 20:28:46 GMT
Bristol Hippodrome also one of the venues. I may move in.
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Post by danb on May 29, 2023 20:19:24 GMT
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Post by danb on May 29, 2023 15:26:20 GMT
However, the bit that muddled me the most was when it got to what I have always thought was the last day that starts with the longer TV report. After that he runs around all day helping people ending up at the banquet. I always assumed that this was one day that he's perfected the timings of over time. The day starts before dawn with Phil waking up (looked online and the event starts at 4am, mad!), sunrise is at 7:25am, then after that he's on the go all the way through to the evening. I'm going to make these times up but it went something like 11, 2, 9, 12 (midday), banquet. I guess the times jumping around mean it's lots of different days and we're just seeing him perfecting each individual moment. I think I would prefer it if it was all just the one day and the time went in order. Where are you getting the times from Dippy? I'm struggling to remember but is the clock at the back on stage for those sections? It seems really heavily implied that the last section is all this one perfect day and that's what makes Rita change her mind about Phil, he proves he is a good man at last and the cycle breaks. I think getting uptight about Phil's hypothetical age is a bit much, I'd advise people who're concerned about this don't look too hard at Doctor Who and The Doctor's various entanglements with people centuries younger than them. …or the ‘rules’ around the amount of regenerations a time lord is allowed. 😬
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Post by danb on May 29, 2023 15:02:36 GMT
It’s not my place to speak on behalf of a black audience, but I’m not seeing much defence of this idea on here, so I am going to comment. If I say anything offensive I really didn’t mean to! As I understand it, this is a black story, which wants to reach a black audience (amongst others). Different cultures have different ways of responding and “behaving” (not meant to mean “good”, or “bad”) when watching a play, and perhaps some people want to experience their own culture on stage, and be allowed to react in ways that are culturally appropriate to them, without some middle aged white bloke (me) telling them to sit still and be quiet every five minutes! Exactly this. As I see it, they are just trying to encourage an audience that otherwise may not attend, to see a piece of theatre that they may find particularly relevant and enjoy/appreciate if they saw it. It is just removing a barrier. The likes of Katie Hopkins et al would argue that it is creating one, but after I’d told her where to go, I would point out that she was free to see any of the other 29 shows but I suspect this would not support her agenda.
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Post by danb on May 29, 2023 10:09:32 GMT
Do we think someone didn’t look at a calendar before choosing the date? Definitely something that I would do. 😳🤦♂️
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Post by danb on May 28, 2023 10:07:26 GMT
I think it just shows the flaw in Golden Buzzers being given out at the time. They should be decided at the judges ‘getting together’ stage…no confetti canons, just the announcement.
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Post by danb on May 28, 2023 9:55:33 GMT
My wife has a blue badge for her crappy arthritic knees (now replaced). The only time we’ve used it for theatre is ‘& Juliet’ at the Shaftesbury. I think the tickets were half price, there were a variety of different locations dotted around the auditorium and the theatre staff were lovely; even popping in to our box at interval to check she was ok. I’m pretty sure I booked them online.
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Post by danb on May 28, 2023 8:35:41 GMT
I have watched a couple of these this weekend. It is set about 5 years before Grease, so, at the inception of the Pink Ladies moniker. It would have worked better without the infrequent songs tbh. Trying to deal with modern issues through the lens of Commie hating 50’s America is very ‘surface level only’ so far. It’s a fun enough watch though.
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Post by danb on May 27, 2023 21:13:36 GMT
Old vic regulars help please Booked to see this Stalls T Row seats Due to staging just had an email to say our seats have been reallocated to dress circle D row 19 and 20 Is this an ‘upgrade’ or worse seats? The original tickets were expensive so don’t really want to move or go if this is the case. Does the dress overhang the stalls? How far is the stage from the dress? Review says there is a pillar at D 18 - am I going to have someone leaning my way to see round it? Quite naughty of them to do this. It’s not like the show hasn’t been there before! Thanks in advance. The reviews on seatplan say that it has a pillar in view. I’d get on the phone sharpish, and kick off! How dare they?
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Post by danb on May 26, 2023 15:29:25 GMT
Michael looks very distinguished, dare I say handsome, with the grey hair and beard. I was going for ‘ruddy’…like he’s just been chasing a scantily clad waitress around a French cafe, or come in from milking the herd.
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Post by danb on May 25, 2023 14:21:02 GMT
I saw this yesterday and I didn't really have any interest in the story, there was no one I cared enough about. I kept hearing little reminders of Sunset Boulevard and it made me wish I was watching that instead. This is an interesting point, and one I think true of everything he has written this side of ‘Phantom’. He zooms in on ‘dark’ characters assuming it creates a dramatic edge. The stories he chooses to tell rarely have enough ‘story’ to power three hours of truly gripping drama so, rather than just giving us two hours of gripping drama and great tunes he over eggs the pudding. The reliance on comedy songs and pastiches has become less but he does still essentially write the same show over and over again….and if you like it you’re ok. (NB I didn’t see Stephen Ward, just in case this was the show where he rewrote his musical rule book). In fact, the time that he has done something lighter ; ‘School of Rock’ was most enjoyable and left me happier than anything since ‘Sunset’.
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Post by danb on May 23, 2023 15:20:11 GMT
So many restricted views in the Lyric. All the less expensive tickets are in a different postcode or missing 2/3rds of the stage. This should not be the modern theatregoing experience.
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Post by danb on May 22, 2023 18:30:40 GMT
We seriously have nothing to worry about. The chances of Lord Andy allowing another mis-fire are considerably less, likewise Nicole whose reinvention seems to be going great guns.
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Post by danb on May 22, 2023 18:12:24 GMT
Intrigued by this, and how it can do something that ‘Thriller’ didn’t, so have bought a couple of the fab slip seats for one of the first matinees.
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Post by danb on May 21, 2023 11:51:55 GMT
Ceebee has a valid point. Mens body’s seem to be fair game for anyone to comment on without recourse, be it lascivious perving over Bongo’s boobs or derisive put downs when someone is out of shape. Either way the wokerati don’t pounce on it with anywhere near the fervour that they do when someone describes a female lady in the same terms.
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Post by danb on May 19, 2023 21:44:06 GMT
I’m not getting a lot of youthfulness from any of these suggestions. Joe isn’t a big sing so it would make sense to stunt cast this if anything. Could Jac Yarrow pull this off with a weeks stubble? JLG would be fine but a bit overexposed and the wrong side of camp.
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Post by danb on May 19, 2023 20:09:26 GMT
It gets away with it by all the underscoring and ‘incidental’ music being luscious strings and atmospheric swells. Whilst they are mostly variations of the same tune they ain’t half gorgeous. This was my issue with the Watermill version…there wasn’t really enough power to ‘swell’. Even the underscore was borrowed from the Gumshoe and The Odessa File film scores that Lloyd Webber wrote in the early seventies. If you watch the trailer for Gumshoe, the title song from Sunset Boulevard is nearly all there, just in a jazzy arrangement. ….and…is that meant to diminish my enjoyment of it?
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Post by danb on May 19, 2023 18:57:53 GMT
‘35mm’ - my sons uni group are taking it to Edinburgh this Summer so I’ve been getting used to and am loving it.
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