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Thanks for any help...

ST]]> showtoones Love Should Die Tue, 05 May 2009 14:43:53 +0000 6177 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11404
there is a new production which is to tour the u.s. and is currently having a premier run at the apollo theatre in harlem, and according to playbill.com the producers are planning a production in london in the 2010-11 season

surely the fabulous sharon d clarke must feature in it somewhere!]]> Millie Dillmount Marius Pontmercy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:17:58 +0000 11404 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11246
Very funny throughout. A MUST for all lovers of west end musicals.. You have to listen very carefully for all the jokes. Theres so much for those actors to remember.
A must see.]]> samsam1985 Laughingmonsta Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:04:56 +0000 11246 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=10791
This play will apparently only be 1 hour 45 minutes without interval which is fine, but they also tell me that due to the unique configuration of the seating, some of the seats will have no back rests! Now I know good posture is important but that seems an awful long time to have to sit up straight with no break. There could be Annie Get Your Gun-like stampedes to get the 'good' seats, something to look forward to...]]> applesarenice armadillo Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:24:10 +0000 10791 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11362
RANT

What show for you delivered real value for money? What show was a huge let down for the price you paid?

Will producers actually take note? will things get better? or with the Credit Crunch still with us will they continue to charge us high prices for very little expenditure?]]> Laughingmonsta Laughingmonsta Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:54:35 +0000 11362 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11355
In each show they do about 4 numbers and they are brilliant, mixture of pop and musical classics, the lead singer is Lea Michele who starred in Spring Awakening both on and off Broadway and the teacher appeared in Footloose amongst other shows on Broadway.

You must check it out, best series I have seen in ages, well written and a lot of fun.

PS Lea really should take the Elphaba role if they do film Wicked, she has an amazing voice and sings Defying Gravity in the tv show.]]> spendleb Felix Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:39:47 +0000 11355 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11407 Been trying to get tickets now for close on 45 minutes: so many attempts that end up with a server fail, or right to the last bit to say no tickets left...real fans are being fleeced by touts who have bucket loads of tickets already going for £1000 I am sooooo ANGRY Laughingmonsta Laughingmonsta Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:38:28 +0000 11407 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11384 Going to see Sister Act tommorow afternoon, sitting front row of stalls, just as a matter of interest how high is the palladuim stage for sitting in the front row? I have been in the palladuim many times before but never the fron row normally circle or dress circle so this is not normally something i have needed to know.]]> mjr mjr Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:52 +0000 11384 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=10990
Crikey, this is not good. To say that it is about the friendship between the two ladies, they only share barely a third of the stagetime together, the rest is full of interminable monologues, and pointlessly interjected songs, only a few of the songs had anything to do with the action. Hope Augustus's singing was actually really good, and I would have preferred an evening of her singing to this, especially as the jazz quartet was superb. But why did she have to keep slipping out of character to comment about Ella Fitzgerald as Hope, it was really distracting and added nothing to it. Frank Sinatra kept randomly appearing, and led a final singalong to New York New York which was embarrassingly long as he forced the two leads of the show to do the kicks next to him yet didn't share any of the vocals. I don't know how or why this got revived, but having read a couple of reviews from the run last year in Stratford, it seems that some radical changes have been made, there is no curtain this time round....

Plenty of celebs there though, Debra Stephenson, Neil Pearson and Charles Dance next to me (who shared my opinion!)]]> applesarenice JulieJordan Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:45:14 +0000 10990 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=4938 Just to wish Scarlett all the best for her first performance in Poppins on Broadway tomorrow. direct to JulieJordan Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:17:45 +0000 4938 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=9345 Who to replace Michael Gambon? Is McKellen free? Trev curzon Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:26:41 +0000 9345 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=2984
on wedensday at the matinee of sound of music margaret preece's climb every mountain was drowned out at dress circle level by the teacher who started handing out the fun size mars bars before the interval, and they were all opened one by one, but the loud russle of the packet as it was passed along the row!

last night at blood brothers i was shocking - two women in front of me slurping on their starbucks and then they started eating crisps! there was a man seated as far as possible from the toilet who went three times in fifteen minutes (he has either an infection or an enlarged prostate!!) and the ushers spent the entire show darting round the circle telling people to stop recording the show on their mobile phones

there was an elderly woman last week at part 2 of nicholas nickleby who brought along her sandwiches wrapped in tin foil and in a russly bag - eat before the show dear, this is the theatre! she got very annoyed when i turned round and told her to stop munching! during the interval she tried a how very dare you on me, and it didnt wash! i went to town on her - telling her that the sandwich munching older generation simply had no respect!

this all plus the endless number of pre pubescent children with untrained bladders with untrained parents who do not prompt toilet visits and bladder evacuations before the curtain goes up, and largely a week of theatre going has been distrubed on a mega scale

whats the problem? a general lack of respect from these people to the audience and the performers? the wrong sort of people being attracted into the theatre by the likes of grease / maria / joseph on tv? producers like uncle bill who offer top price seats to school parties for £10 to try and get people in?

if i am paying £40+ to see a show then i expect to be able to hear the show and not have it drowned out by some old biddy munching on her walker's sensations. i also think part of the problem is that they allow food to be taken into the auditoriums of theatres - it should go back to the days of eat before the show and NO food or drink in the theatre - maybe this is something that should be added into the pre show announcments, and theatre staff doing bag checks should remove any evidence of food from people entering the theatre! either that or stay at home and much in front of corrie and eastenders - it is more of an appropriate intellectual level

call me theatre snob? yes i am and am proud of it!!]]> Millie Dillmount curzon Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:37:03 +0000 2984 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=4563 BroadwayDave Guest_Jen_* Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:56:20 +0000 4563 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11393 I am swithering, although lots of energy by the end.]]> mjr Guest Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:55:20 +0000 11393 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=9661
MICHAEL BALL in Passion (bottom in opening scene)

EMMA WILLIAMS in ZORRO (bottom- unnecessary)

KELLY REILLY in Piano/Forte and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (topless, pointlessly in both I thought)

MATT SMITH in That Face (bottom - unnecessary)

RUPERT PENRY-JONES in The Play About the Baby at Almeida (he wasn't famous then)

NIGEL HARMAN and JAMES MacAVOY in Privates on Parade

ANTHONY CALF and others in My Night with Reg

That's enough to be going on with....! Interesting to note how many times one notices nudity or partial nudity because it is so unnecessary for the show concerned.]]> BenWhoKnows Jenny_tyr Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:10:14 +0000 9661 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11380

Sat on the side of the Barbican stage watching the scenes immediately prior to Caesar's death, some 2 hours into the show.

All I can say is if you can come one of the two next nights then come, it is an amazing experience!

Though you can go out of the theatre, there is food and drink on stage and an amazing camaraderie already amongst the audience.]]> TheatreMadGoer Jan Brock Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:20:50 +0000 11380 http://www.whatsonstage.com/board/index.php?showtopic=5801
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COVENTRY BELGRADE THEATRE

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NATIONAL THEATRE

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Well, I got introduced to this company through PUNCHDRUNK and I'm watching their new show called HALL tomorrow... everything's been super secretive! I couldn't find any reviews whatsoever... anyone seen this???]]> Felix Felix Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:44:28 +0000 11403