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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 9, 2021 12:10:08 GMT
I'm very relieved that this will be occupying the Vaudeville over the summer. When I saw that Magic Goes Wrong wasn't re-opening until October I was afraid Mischief might fill in with Mischief Movie Night. So I'm thrilled that instead it's a play that I don't want to see!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 8, 2021 21:04:30 GMT
Today I came across a discussion on the subject of choc ices. I remember as a child I was always terribly disappointed in choc ices. The concept sounded great, but the ice cream was rarely better than adequate and the coating tasted like it was made by someone who'd once had chocolate described to them but didn't really understand the point of it. Thin sheets of brittle brown plastic. Ice cream Mars bars, on the other hand, are wonderful. That's what choc ices should have been. Dammit, now I want some ice cream. This is a stupid time of the day to be reminded of ice cream. As a child I liked the standard choc ices. I once tried a Mars ice cream & it was far too rich for me, as indeed ordinary Mars bars are. I would never try a deep fried one!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 8, 2021 19:07:38 GMT
peggs As long as I don't get a fatal blood clot then yes!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 8, 2021 18:36:07 GMT
Had a very last-minute jab this afternoon. Phone call at 4.38pm & I reckon the needle was stuck in just after 5pm! So relieved to have had it, though worrying about side effects (& hoping any I have go away by Saturday afternoon, when I'll have a Waitrose delivery to bleach).
PS In case anyone is wondering, no I am not over 50 but I have been given it in advance of my age group to protect a family member who has recently received a serious medical diagnosis.
PPS AstraZeneca
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 1, 2021 16:52:07 GMT
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 1, 2021 12:23:37 GMT
I'm very pleased to see there will be a streaming option. We had tickets for this last summer but I do not think we are likely to feel safe travelling all the way from Cambridge to Chichester this summer, so being able to see it streamed will, while not the the same as seeing it live, be better than nothing.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 1, 2021 12:21:51 GMT
It smacks of that ITV Loose Women mentality where they’d have topless blokes coming on with birthday cakes and Denise Welch or Jane McDonald shouting “Ey look at this girls!” at the audience. I find it strange & sexist that this sort of thing, objectifying men, is still considered acceptable by the some of the same people, including the media, who consider objectifying women to no longer be considered acceptable. To have secxual equality surely it has to be acceptable to either objectify both sexes or (preferably) neither.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 29, 2021 11:38:17 GMT
I slept badly the night before last & even worse last night. This is the result!
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 27, 2021 15:17:29 GMT
Once features a Hoover. I wish all musicals did... Carrie going to the ball on a Henry? Ah yes, the classic musical-theatre prop hoover. Little West End easter egg, a hoover features in every show, you just need to look reeeeealy hard. The Play That Goes Wrong already ticks this box. There is a very brief appearance by a hoover at the start of Act 2.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 26, 2021 16:40:36 GMT
In the original Grimms fairytale, there is no fairy godmother. Originally the magic came from a tree planted in memory of Cinderella's mother, which I think Cinderella waters with her own tears... Anyway, she prays under said tree every day. Then on the night of the ball, she sits under the tree and wishes for clothing, which is then dropped from the sky by a passing white bird and which she has to return before sunrise. Wheeldon's ballet version of Cinderella, that ENB did in 2019, had a version of this, but it was elaborated with the corps de ballet representing the four seasons to make it a big ensemble number. There were many fabulous costumes & it was visually very attractive.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 25, 2021 22:05:54 GMT
Once I’m vaccinated and feel like going back to theatre is safe for me I'm waiting for this too. I don't know when I'll be vaccinated. It might not be until July, or even later with all the vaccine supply problems. So I can't book anything yet. I assume those who have lots of shows booked are either over 50s who have been vaccinated or under 50s who aren't afraid of covid.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 22, 2021 17:11:45 GMT
Definitely less in the short term. For starters, I'm not booking anything until I've either been vaccinated or at least have a vaccination booked. When I finally feel able to book, not having worked for a year, I don't have much money so won't be able to book loads of tickets.
In the longer term I'm not so sure about amount but I think it likely that the change in the tpe of theatre I see, that I noticed in the couple of years before lockdown, may well continue. There isn't a single big upcoming new West End musical that I am particularly interested in seeing & hasn't been for quite some time. Looking at my theatregoing list, the last big musical I saw was The King And I, in the WE in August 2018 & on tour in February 2020, and that can hardly be described as new. The, fairly small number, of other musicals I've seen during that period have been either fringe productions or concert performances. All the rest of my theatregoing 2018-20 has been opera, ballet, improv & plays (mostly Mischief & now Bank Robbery has closed I'll be seing less Mischief as Magic is not my thing). I can only assume I'm getting too old for modern musicals, as many of them seem to be about issues that I do not wish to watch musicals about. Prices do not help either: a decade ago I might have taken a punt on something with cheap ticket; today I don't want to pay up to £100 for a seat near enough for short-sighted me to see the acting.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 21, 2021 22:54:35 GMT
Jeez, no wonder you’ve never been back! 😂 Admittedly it was far from the best Bond but I don't think there was a direct correlation! It was more that I'd started to get interested in theatre, especially opera, and in 2004 started regular theatregoing so I preferred to spend my time & money on that rather than going to the cinema. Not that I went to the cinema that often before 2002 either. Films on the big screen have always been too big & loud for my taste, ever since I was terrified by Ursula the Sea Witch the first time I went to the cinema aged about 6.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 21, 2021 22:05:32 GMT
Sorry I wasn't aiming it at you at all, more at the general conversation going on around holidays. Some of the Telegraph journalists are awful about this. You'd think that several foreign holidays per year were listed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights the way they've been moaning about not being able to go abroad. I feel like pointing out to them that it's only been a few months since they could go abroad whereas during WWI & WWII people couldn't go on holidays abroad for 5-6 years!
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 21, 2021 21:59:38 GMT
A discussion I can get into. I've seen the following musicals before / without ever seeing the film on which they were based: Kinky Boots, Lord of the Rings, Made in Dagenham, Hairspray, Billy Elliot, 9 to 5, Bend it Like Beckham, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels From Here to Eternity, Little Shop of Horrors, The Producers, Sleepless in Seattle, Sunset Boulevard, Waitress and Whistle Down the Wind. I will add to that list unless I watch the film of The Prince of Egypt soon! I really wish I could go into Frozen without knowing the twist. I'm sure unlike when I saw the film everyone will know it is coming. I'm also not a film person. Out of your list LOTR is the only one where I've seen the film (well, the first two, after they changed some of the plot so much in the 2nd one I didn't see the 3rd) though admittedly I've not seen all the musicals either. Usually every time a musical based on a film is announced, & people complain it's boring because they already know the plot, I'm going "I've never heard of that film". The last time I went to the cinema to see a film, rather than a streamed opera or ballet, was in 2002 (Die Another Day).
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 19, 2021 12:47:12 GMT
Reading about all the hassle everyone is having with rescheduled tickets, I'm so glad I took refunds for all mine last year. Although it depresses me more than anything, I've decided to wait until things are more settled before I start ticket buying again. I don't have a single thing booked. Until I know when I will be vaccinated it's impossible to book anything. I can only assume people with loads of shows booked are either over 50s who have been vaccinated or under 50s who have no fear.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 18, 2021 21:24:07 GMT
>>I can only assume this is because I am plain & men aren't interested in me.<< I'm sorry to see you think that. While some harassment is triggered by a woman's looks or dress, elderly nuns have been raped, so sometimes the perpetrators just want to pick on someone they feel they can victimize. Oh yes, I agree that there are some perpetrators who will attack any one & sadly they sometimes seem to be the most violent attacks. I was thinking more of the being groped in a crowded bar sort of harassment, where I suspect men are more likely to go for a woman who has caught their eye because they think she is attractive.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 18, 2021 19:27:28 GMT
Seconded ^ At the end of the day. If you're not a woman (including trans) - you have no idea what we go through. No idea. Men need to listen, challenge others and be allies. The 'not all men' is a redundant statement. Don't pretend to relate to what we have to go through. You will never know. Not all women go through it though. All the recent talk of all women being sexually harassed or being scared to walk on their own at night rather baffles me. I've never been sexually harassed in my life (I don't feel the one time I got wolf-whistled at by a builder when I was 17 counts) and I happily walk from the West End back up to Kings Cross after evening theatregoing with no qualms (pre-pandemic, obviously). I can only assume this is because I am plain & men aren't interested in me. So "not all men", but also "not all women" view all men as a potential threat.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 18, 2021 16:34:05 GMT
I agree Rob would be perfect - his voice is sublime. (Anyway know what he's up to this Summer which means he can't come back for the Les Mis Concert?) South Pacific at Chichester, assuming Chichester have the same cast as was originally advertised.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 18, 2021 16:32:13 GMT
Interesting casting choice Haydn Oakley as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh! 😄 I think he's fairly suitable for the role. The incongruity is that they've cast a Reno Sweeney who is decades older than both the character was envisaged to be and than he is.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 12, 2021 12:40:16 GMT
I'm with you on Richard Jones. Yawn. Sweepstake for which design of wallpaper he'll go for this time?!
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 11, 2021 20:30:12 GMT
1. Chocolate chip cookies, either Sainsbury's or M&S own brands 2. Nice 3. Jam rings (not Jammy Dodgers, they're not the same)
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 10, 2021 21:33:06 GMT
Matthew Warchus said it will be staged again "before the end of my tenure here at the Old Vic". The Zoom ended with Tim Minchin singing "There Will Be Sun". Quite moving really. When does his tenure end?
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 10, 2021 20:43:20 GMT
That's good that it flopping on Braodawy hasn't consigned it to everlasting oblivion. As long as it doesn't return until after I've been vaccinated then I'll go & see it again. Although for the last year I feel like I've been living a Groundhog Day anyway!
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 10, 2021 20:39:24 GMT
As I won't have been vaccinated when the ROH re-opens, and so won't be able to attend, I'm very pleased to see they'll be opening the ballet with Within The Golden Hour and two Pite works: I was lukewarm about the former and, after spending one of the longest half an hours I've ever spent in a theatre suffering Flight Pattern, have no desire to ever again see anything by Pite! As for La Clemenza di Tito, I find that depends so much on the production. I've found it gripping, dull, and several variations in between when seeing various different live and recorded productions.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 10, 2021 11:53:59 GMT
I also don't know if the Coliseum is a good place for it, seeing as it's the home of ENO, so many will expect the opera version. Best just put it into a mid-sized West End theatre. They could do a cost-saving 2-for-1 with the production: build one set & use it for both the opera & the musical!
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 9, 2021 22:03:43 GMT
Have seen more boiler men in this last year then altogether in my life. I'd say it was extra usage but strictly off during the day. We may have used ours slightly more but not massively. It feels like the boilers are just being deliberately awkward!
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 9, 2021 17:11:44 GMT
Yesterday our boiler broke for the second time in 3 and a half months. Fortunately the heating company were able to send a workman that afternoon and it was quickly fixed, just a loose connection. However I'm not impressed with the boiler for breaking twice during a pandemic after years of working fine!
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 8, 2021 21:29:02 GMT
I don't own a car but if I did I really do not think I'd want to drive it into the centre of Birmingham, as the road system looks ghastly! Yes, I understand that, but from what I can tell, the whole point of this new thing is to plonk it by the NEC near the motorway, thus make it easily accessible by car without having to drive into a chaotic city. The only time I visited the NEC I was about 7 so I can't say I remember the road system around there. (And it would be worse to get to by train than central Birmingham for me.)
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 8, 2021 16:30:00 GMT
What is the obsession with Londoners being such an important part of the potential audience for this project? I don't think it's so much Londoners as Outside-Birminghamers. There's not really any good late-night public transport from Birmingham to anywhere more than a short distance away so, matinees aside, it would be a strictly Birmingham-only affair. Yes. I've been complaining about Cambridge to Birmingham being a pain to do, since that's where I happen to live. I am sure there are many other people living in places-that-are-neither-Birmingham-nor-London who would likewise have long journeys to get to Birmingham. Like cars don't exist in Britain? I don't own a car but if I did I really do not think I'd want to drive it into the centre of Birmingham, as the road system looks ghastly!
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