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armadillo

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In Topic: Small Audiences

23 May 2013 - 12:27 PM

View PostMatthew Winn, on 23 May 2013 - 05:29 AM, said:

I saw that. I didn't think audiences were that low, but it was a tragically dreary production that fully deserved its lack of success. Its unfortunate audiences suffered so greatly that someone on rec.arts.theatre.musicals was inspired to set up the Tess Survivors Association. There was a TSA web page too, but it no longer exists. It's not even in the Internet Archive.

(In terms of numbing lack of eventfulness it was later overtaken - by a mile - by Behind The Iron Mask, from which audiences stumbled out into the daylight in shell-shocked horror, but in its day Tess was quite remarkable.)
I definitely remember one of the performers saying there were single figures but maybe only once. Not that there were many performances...

In Topic: To Kill A Mocking Bird

23 May 2013 - 09:13 AM

View Postxanderl, on 23 May 2013 - 08:01 AM, said:

I presume you didn't go to see "Gatz" then ;)
Perish the thought. There was quite enough unnecessary narrative in the film. I blame the Age of Innocence for the modern trend of thinking we can't understand what we're seeing unless a patronizing voice-over explains it. Re Gatz - wasn't the 20 minute reading at the end just a little bit dull? Be honest.

In Topic: To Kill A Mocking Bird

23 May 2013 - 07:54 AM

View Postitsuckstobeme, on 22 May 2013 - 08:57 PM, said:

I may be in a minority but I really didn't enjoy this. The decision to have narrators reading from the book in english accents really irritated me. I found some of the acting very hammy and thought some american accents were dreadful, The staging was quite interesting but not a production I could recommend unfortunately. Perhaps it's me, the past few things I've seen lately I haven't particularly enjoyed.
  Oh goodness, if there's one thing I really hate on stage it's narrators reading from the book. There was far too much of it in Curious Incident.

In Topic: Small Audiences

22 May 2013 - 09:14 PM

There was a musical version of Tess of the Durbervilles at the Savoy about 15 years ago that allegedly played to audiences in single figures.

In Topic: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - The Spoiler Thread

22 May 2013 - 06:33 PM

Gosh, in another thread, I was told that people taking photos before the show started were bringing down civilisation and making kittens weep. :lol: