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Post by danb on Apr 5, 2024 14:25:35 GMT
In some sectors that's not a bad salary with experience. I'm shocked anyone would think 27k isn't a good starting salary. Unless you're expected to live in Greater London where the rent and cost of living is INSANE. Who is EXPECTED to live in GL though? Is it in their contracts? I see so many performers who live out and rely on trains & tubes to get them home at night. Parts of Herts & Middlesex etc are still only thirty mins out without central rent prices.
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Post by danb on Apr 5, 2024 12:46:22 GMT
So about £27.5k a year. A decent starting salary outside of London for somebody at the beginning of their career. Is that the very base before cover/understudy payments? 🤦🏻♂️ I’m sorry? Is it not a decent starting salary? Has peoples sense of financial worth really risen to such entitled heights where you don’t have to work your way up a ladder?
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Post by danb on Apr 5, 2024 10:39:33 GMT
So about £27.5k a year. A decent starting salary outside of London for somebody at the beginning of their career. Is that the very base before cover/understudy payments?
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Post by danb on Apr 5, 2024 3:04:52 GMT
The worst it can be for ensemble is equity minimum of £880 per week for 8 shows, plus the additional add ons for understudies, performances on etc. A basic of £3520 p/m isnt bad for your first professional job straight after college. …without having to travel into central!
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Post by danb on Apr 5, 2024 2:58:34 GMT
This Broadway transfer of Des McAnuff’s Chicago reworking of his 1995 production of The Who’s seminal rock opera looks pretty sensational on the Nederlanders’ massive stage, despite not quite matching up to its’ groundbreaking scenic design. Given that it was pretty much the first to use projections it has a lot to answer for. But when they are as innovative and ‘part of the whole’ as these, they are anything but a cheap alternative to a set. Furniture pieces are wheeled on and add depth and purpose, and a massive mirrored wardrobe has a big part to play. Wired flying played a massive part in the original production, but all 3 ages of Tommy are thrown, carried and passed around to similar effect here.
I have to admit being a tiny bit underwhelmed by the first act. It is played straight through with no breaks for applause. We were in the 4th row right by a speaker stack and still it didn’t really have the volume I’d hoped for. Thankfully act 2 knocked my socks off and made it more than worthwhile. Ali Louis Bourzgui (adult Tommy) has a gorgeous tone, sounding like a young David Essex at times, with a vulnerability and crazed look in his eyes. I dearly hope this transfers because I need to see it again and again and again as I did the original.
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Post by danb on Apr 4, 2024 20:44:12 GMT
That seems like an awful lot of expense and bother to go to? Like we’ve said earlier, theres no substage or anywhere to put the mechanics so it would be tricky. Excited to see what they do.
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Post by danb on Apr 2, 2024 19:55:19 GMT
Totally! And everyone going on about how spectacular ‘Thriller’ was?!? A dropped front cloth and some dry ice? Nothing that any decent panto doesn’t trot out every Christmas. Conveniently forgetting the rather spectacular set that features for MOST OF THE NUMBER. Well done 👏🏻 Happy to agree to disagree. Nothing struck me as spectacular at all. I’m sorry that you struggle with other peoples opinions. I just thought it was bang average. Glad you liked it. Well done 👏🏻
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Post by danb on Apr 2, 2024 17:47:00 GMT
Leaving the debate about whether or not it's appropriate to have MJ celebrated in the West End (which funnily enough has just been done on This Morning!) - am slightly bemused by how spectacular people keep saying the staging of this is. As all the TV and online clips look fairly bog standard jukebox musical fare to me - I certainly haven't seen anything that evokes the mega musical era levels of sets/lights/staging. Totally! And everyone going on about how spectacular ‘Thriller’ was?!? A dropped front cloth and some dry ice? Nothing that any decent panto doesn’t trot out every Christmas.
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Post by danb on Apr 2, 2024 11:23:19 GMT
Until someone sees it, we don’t even know what we have to make a poll about. Lets just wait and see eh?
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2024 20:32:56 GMT
Have we already mentioned most of noughties broadway in ‘The Gilded Age’ on Sky Atlantic?
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2024 20:28:23 GMT
NYC for ‘Tommy’ on Thurs, and something undecided too at some point.
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2024 16:13:33 GMT
Cut your losses and run boy!! 🤣🤣🤣
‘It Works’ is as good as it gets.
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2024 15:51:55 GMT
There are many deep pocketed producers attached to this project. I find it highly unlikely that this is anything other than the start of a long journey.
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2024 15:21:34 GMT
Ghastly.
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Post by danb on Mar 31, 2024 9:07:52 GMT
Was there a performance schedule on the website the day it went on sale? I must have missed it. No, nothing on the website, although it went on sale last May so wouldn’t have expected them to have those details back then. One of the negatives of booking early unfortunately. However based on this thread there’s still no alternate schedule and Myles is already ducking out of performances, as I found to my cost when I went in the first week of previews. Understandable as it’s a demanding show, but as I and others have said further up thread, the theatre should be making this clear on the cast board, which they’re currently not. The question was more in response to Mr B’s snarky comment that he wasn’t due to be on, like we should have known back in May. I wasn’t expecting to see the poor lamb the day after press night. Wish I could call out if I’ve been up past ten the night before 😴😂 I should have looked for the tell tale midweek 7pm show. Like I said, I don’t feel it would have improved my experience. I just didn’t like it very much.
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Post by danb on Mar 30, 2024 10:12:03 GMT
Twin Peaks
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Post by danb on Mar 29, 2024 20:13:02 GMT
I went to the eveningperformance last Thursday (the day after the press night) and Myles was on! Press night was on Wednesday night, 2 days ago.
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 22:48:54 GMT
No surprise at all that Frost is off today; just wish they’d advertise when press night is before you book, to avoid disappointment. Difficult not to feel cheated when people have raved about his performance. Did you see before the performance that he wasn’t on? When I went it wasn’t shown on the electronic board or by the box office before the show started and I didn’t see the notice that was put up which someone spotted when leaving at the interval either. I’m not sure if it was last minute that he didn’t go on but I do think if it was easy to find out who was performing as Little MJ and Marlon that this should have been clear as well. We walked past the theatre at about 12.15 and it said Myles, then returned after lunch (Bone Daddies…lush) to find Kieran instead. Then it said Myles again when we left. If he never had any intention of doing matinees or ‘days after a night out’ it’d just be nice to know is all. I can’t see how his performance could have elevated it that much tbh. 🤷♂️
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 22:42:59 GMT
Sorry, someone who actively bought himself out of numerous law suits to avoid open court. My bad, as it were. Maybe… just maybe… he was being extorted because he was rich and an easy target, and rather than be dragged through court- he paid them off to end it. Not sure why you even bothered seeing this when you clearly think he was a terrible person. Thats the thing; I didn’t and was a huge fan back in the Bad-Dangerous-History days, and saw him 3 times. I have always defended art being the art regardless of the artists personal life. But this just sparked something in me I’m afraid. Paying numerous complainants off isn’t a good look on an innocent man.
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 20:13:42 GMT
Sorry, someone who actively bought himself out of numerous law suits to avoid open court. My bad, as it were.
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 18:53:27 GMT
Do theatres just use mains power to run their shows off or do they have independent power units?
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 18:49:28 GMT
Myles was off A LOT when he was on Broadway. You have a better chance seeing the alternate than seeing him... Who was absolutely fine…I like the younger Michael better tbh.
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 17:41:43 GMT
I have the cast recording and have seen two amateur productions of this show so and vert familiar with this piece. I would like to see a professional production, one day. Apart from the central gay love story, this show also touches on other themes such as honestly, body dysmorphia, self harm, pregnancy, drug abuse, relationships- with parents and others- to name just a few. The difficulty I guess when cast is getting actors who look young enough to pass of a high school students. This should be the show that all the teens are going to! It certainly should! Its like an issue of the week teen soap with a fantastic score.
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 17:35:58 GMT
Was there a performance schedule on the website the day it went on sale? I must have missed it.
Please don’t snark me when I have just had possibly one of the most average theatrical experiences of my life, amongst possibly the worst audience ever and with the most inconsiderate FOH staff I have ever encountered. Up, down, up, down…walkie talkie crackle, actual talking, actual talking over it during the show. All it has over ‘Thriller Live’ is a bigger budget and a nicer theatre; maybe a better sound system. It has actively made me change my attitude to him, when I realised that he was still being idolised in death. I’m fine with the music living on, but when grown men & women are cheering a representation of a known paedophile like this it gave me the major ick. What a let down.
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 14:10:33 GMT
No surprise at all that Frost is off today; just wish they’d advertise when press night is before you book, to avoid disappointment. Difficult not to feel cheated when people have raved about his performance.
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Post by danb on Mar 28, 2024 10:53:06 GMT
Nimax has one box ticket for £69.50 available today?
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Post by danb on Mar 27, 2024 19:21:54 GMT
I think ‘Heathers’ gets a bad rap based on its Other Palace mega-run. A backlash against Carrie, a backlash against it constantly returning to a venue supposedly for new writing, backlash against Kenwrights practices re: covers (or lack of) and the stereotypically ‘extra’ young theatre fans that follow it. At its heart it is a darkly comic story of murder, identity and fitting in so not necessarily the obvious choice for such popularity. I think its a great show with brilliant music and find it a fun watch.
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Post by danb on Mar 27, 2024 12:47:34 GMT
She was a perfectly acceptable alternate Juliet in ‘& Juliet’. The dictionary definition of vanilla but she sang it ok.
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Post by danb on Mar 27, 2024 12:00:18 GMT
It is not acceptable to charge full price for a graduate showcase Paying audiences deserve more than a bunch of leads making their professional debuts. Yes, this sort of cast is cheap. But it does not inspire confidence It's not a graduate showcase - 'graduate showcase' is the most recent credit for those who haven't yet got through the auditions for a professional engagement. After (probably) three years of working as an ensemble with their fellow actors-in-training this cast will be well attuned to working as a collaborative company, and with an open-mindedness and willingness to experiment that is the stock-in-trade of drama school experiences. I'm not saying those facets evaporate once you've been in the industry for a while, but my recent visits to Arts Ed and Mountview suggest that it's perfectly acceptable to cast like this. Perhaps the excitement of the new will radiate from the stage. If it’s even a third as good as Arts Eds ‘Rent’ I would leave happy. New talent has to get its break somewhere.
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Post by danb on Mar 27, 2024 11:58:10 GMT
Young, fit, heathy cannon fodder. Check the insurance kids! I used the exact same phrase to someone earlier. I also thought that the cast was a bit small for the required cover.
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