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Post by Michael on Sept 8, 2016 12:58:46 GMT
Rosanna Hyland would've been an amazing Ms Mullens. Fingers crossed she's at least an u/s.
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Post by Michael on Sept 8, 2016 8:11:09 GMT
Thanks Michael, but I couldn't get that to work on my phone. There's a sort of cog top right, and an option to select post comes up, but when I went to the reply box, the posts weren't there... See my post above. It does work, but requires a work-around (well, sort-of). Select all posts you want to multi-quote but the last as you've described, and then simply quote the last post by clicking on the quote button.
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Post by Michael on Sept 8, 2016 8:08:51 GMT
The problem with shows set in an ostensibly dystopian future is they become less entertaining and harder to bear the more time goes on and we realise that the premise wasn't so far-fetched after all. The problem here was Jamie Lloyd's overblown production which, alas, trampled the joke. I think Baemax may be closer, mallardo, but I do take your point, too. Maybe because American society is so used to everything being "pay or go away" they are more accepting of the single joke in the show? Just booked my ticket for my New Year's trip. Can it be that they still haven't announced who's playing Benjamin Coffin III? That info is on the website. The role will be played by Javar La’trail Parker Test
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Post by Michael on Sept 8, 2016 7:35:37 GMT
I can't work out how to quote multiple posts here Easy: Select all posts you want to quote by clicking on the small (i) button at the top right of each post and choosing Select Post. Once you've selected all posts you want to quote (which'll also work over several pages of a longer thread), click on the Reply button in the black menu bar above the still empty text box at the bottom. You'll be redirected to the Create Post editor where all your preselected posts are included as quotes. and
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Post by Michael on Sept 8, 2016 5:14:52 GMT
Just booked my ticket for my New Year's trip. Can it be that they still haven't announced who's playing Benjamin Coffin III? That info is on the website. The role will be played by Javar La’trail Parker Where did you find this? The cast list on www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/theatre/rent-the-musical/ doesn't include him:
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 19:15:20 GMT
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 19:10:08 GMT
I'll even be getting up ridiculously early on Friday morning to download the AutoRip version of Braver Than We Are from Amazon. Really happy to see that Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf have teamed up again.
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 18:32:59 GMT
He happens to harass quite a lot of the cast continuously on Twitter if this is who I'm thinking it is... He does have a couple of videos with him in them so you can see if it is him but yeah, this is the guy I was told about, apparently a lot of the cast are aware of his recording in the theatre. Why don't they stop him?
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 18:32:02 GMT
Couldn't have said it better I think the monster is loose Neither of which are by Steinman Did I Say That? For cyrin' out loud it's all coming back to me now
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 18:24:26 GMT
Just booked my ticket for my New Year's trip. Can it be that they still haven't announced who's playing Benjamin Coffin III?
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 18:09:05 GMT
There's a thin needle at the back:
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 16:38:18 GMT
I honestly don't think my response was out of place. I am genuinely happy for someone who is so self-involved, clueless and blinded by privilege to have no problem with with overt case of whitewashing, disregard for performers of color, depriving them of already scarce opportunity and making them invisibile. Must be nice to live in that world. I'm actually rather amused that I'm the only one who flagged it and for everyone's flagrant disregard to it, and then to be the bad guy for calling out someone who is is actively supporting it. Ha, I would have if I'd bothered to look at the thread before now. Sorry one of the immediate responses was a rolled-eye emoji. As the esteemed orator Christine Daae once said, you are not alone. (Also, how many times have we seen anyone on a message board say they're leaving and then... they don't?) (posted without my moderator's hat on)Actually, I didn't want to post anything on this topic, but since you took up my rolleyes emoji: I'm not having a problem with what Ali said but how he put it. His posts went from arrogant and rude to mean and insulting - and even hurt making his point. It's OK to disagree with someone, but please put it nicely in a way in which you expect to be addressed from others. I'm sure poor Billyboy had no idea why he was attacked and what he supposedly did wrong. Had Ali worded his post as talkstageytome did, everything would have been fine. Again: It's the how and not the what.
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 14:19:30 GMT
Well i left this late didn't it and now no tickets are available. Where there is on certain sites but i;m not paying £200 or whatever for obstructed view seats. Hope some more are released over the next few days. Just go to the box office, show them your Theatreboard badge*) and they'll be happy to comp you the best seat in the house. *) The special badge, though, not the plain blue one
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 13:54:14 GMT
Only if you promise not to sing along during the show 😜😝 That'll be really hard if the entire score is as catchy as I Don't Wanna Miss A ThingCrap. It is. So if you catch me singing along, just kick me and I promise to stop for the next minute or two
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 13:49:13 GMT
So a quick poll: (i) Are you male or female? (ii) What are your feelings on Playing Nancy? (iii) Do you think the ending is sexist? (i) male (ii) liked it as a song but found it completely out-of-place (to use your words, I didn't get it) (iii) no
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 13:42:02 GMT
What about those jokes? They're defective! They are! I read them and weep I think the monster is loose
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 12:42:29 GMT
Couldn't have said it better
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 10:12:53 GMT
You took the words right out of my mouth
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 10:12:11 GMT
That's two christmas cards less to write then
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Post by Michael on Sept 7, 2016 4:25:22 GMT
...no. Vocally good but not outstanding as others, but her wooden acting lets her down. All in all, Jackie's an average Elphaba. ...can we all...just... accept each others opinions.... even if they differ.... Had they worded it in a way that Jackie's thier favourite Elphaba, of course, everyone's entitled to their opinion. But they said it in such a definite way that I had to challenge it.
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Post by Michael on Sept 6, 2016 21:20:23 GMT
The Gladys Pugh bit with that teacher talking over the tannoy about "how important the girl band is" was hilaire. I'm not familiar with the word 'hilaire'. Is it some type of northern Cockney rhyming slang type thingy? (Hilaire Belloc = bollocks.) Or is it a fey way of saying hillyhairyarse? Urbandictionary is your friend: (I'd have guessed the same...)
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Post by Michael on Sept 6, 2016 21:08:44 GMT
Only if you promise not to sing along during the show 😜😝 That'll be really hard if the entire score is as catchy as I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing
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Post by Michael on Sept 6, 2016 20:36:04 GMT
....yes. So vocally solid and acting choices far superior to most other 'actresses' playing the role. Also - she knows when to pull back and take a show off to rest, recover and recuperate. Something to be said for a 'sane' Elphaba!! ...no. Vocally good but not outstanding as others, but her wooden acting lets her down. All in all, Jackie's an average Elphaba.
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Post by Michael on Sept 6, 2016 20:15:45 GMT
To listen before I see the show next Saturday or not - that is the question
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Post by Michael on Sept 6, 2016 8:30:05 GMT
I had heard a while back that Rock of Ages is going out again next year, and it does appear to be on York Opera House schedule in the spring, but nowhere else yet, so not sure if that is a new tour, or a York am-dram group? A few days ago, talkstageytome posted in another thread that a request for RoA's amateur rights was denied: My uni musical theatre society's request for the Rock of Ages rights were denied because apparently a new production is going to open in London at some point soon. Anyone heard anything about this? So another tour and/our West End production might in fact happen. Extremely happy if true
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Post by Michael on Sept 5, 2016 20:34:28 GMT
I'm sure you don't, dear. I'm so happy that you're content with your privilege and complacency.
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Post by Michael on Sept 5, 2016 19:36:54 GMT
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Post by Michael on Sept 5, 2016 19:25:05 GMT
Crap. Why can't I watch UK TV over here? Think I need to find myself a UK proxy.
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Post by Michael on Sept 5, 2016 18:59:13 GMT
Nope. That's the DVD I already posted earlier in this thread. Blu Ray is nowhere to be seen as of now.
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Post by Michael on Sept 5, 2016 18:01:44 GMT
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