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#1 BenMonk

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Posted 27 August 2009 - 09:15 PM

Another play I have missed out on due to my determination to book after I returned from my holiday- it has now completely sold out, how annoying.

Does anyone know if there could be an extension, or if more tickets will be released, or if anyone has any spare tickets, or if there could be a West End transfer, or if it is really worth seeing at all. Thanks!

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#2 Jan Brock

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 06:19 AM

You needed to book the first day public booking opened, even then there was not much left. In general audiences know what will be good - draw your own conclusions & read the national newspaper reviews for its Chichester opening.

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 07:24 AM

Saw this on Wed at Chichester. I booked by chance - I usually try to catch the summer musical at Chichester but didn't fancy seeing Oklahoma for the umpteenth time. All I can say is - wow! It's a thrillingly staged play worthy of it's rave reviews which takes a pretty dry subject and turns it into something truly engaging. I would imagine any transfer - if it happened - may not keep the stellar cast (Tim Piggot-Smith, Tom Goodman-Hill and Sam West).

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 08:34 AM

QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 28 2009, 07:24 AM)

takes a pretty dry subject and turns it into something truly engaging.

How is it a 'pretty dry subject'?

It is the biggest fraud in recent history, the subject of a movie, countless documentaries, now a play, affected thousands of people not only in the US but the hundreds of people in the UK employed by them, resulted in the collapse of the oldest accountancy firm, lead to reform of financial law globally and is still in the process of being resolved by the administrators.

I'd hate to think what counts as exciting in your world!

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 09:05 AM

In a nutshell, it's all business and finance, right? Not really my first stop in the bookshop when looking for a fun story to read. And look at the West End. Do you really think the Dirty Dancing/Mamma Mia!/Jersey Boys crowds are the sort who go "gosh, white collar crime, what a thrilling subject for a play!"? And even your description makes it sound fairly dull, for a massive global scandal. "Documentaries", "accountancy", "financial law", and "resolved by administrators"? DEFINITELY the most riveting keywords you could've used there!

Nonetheless, I have my ticket and am deeply looking forward to it. I trust the creatives to have made it interesting enough for me, and the reviewers reckon they've managed it.

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 09:38 AM

You are probably all too young to remember the Caryl Churchill play "Serious Money" which was on a roughly similar topic - the Thatcher-era financial big-bang, financiers, junk bonds etc. That started at the Royal Court, transferred to the West End, and then to Broadway. I imagine "Enron" will do the same.

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 09:51 AM

Serious Money just had a blast in Birmingham this year as well, actually. I saw pictures. I loved them. :3

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 10:06 AM

QUOTE(Weez @ Aug 28 2009, 09:05 AM)

And look at the West End. Do you really think the Dirty Dancing/Mamma Mia!/Jersey Boys crowds are the sort who go "gosh, white collar crime, what a thrilling subject for a play!"?

I hate to be pedantic but surely those count as musicals rather than plays? It's a totally different target audience!!

There is also the new David Hare at the National - The Power of Yes.

Anyway it will be a good play and I'm looking forward to it.

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 10:07 AM

Enron - is perhaps Goold's bests work to date!

This is my street, I smile at the faces I've known all my life, They regard me with pride.

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Posted 28 August 2009 - 10:10 AM

I count Dirty Dancing and Jersey Boys as plays with songs, but the medium is irrelevant to the point that a heckuva lot of audiences like to go for the easy option with their entertainment, and the average person in the street would probably rather watch singing and dancing than financial issues when it comes to a fun night out.

Which was tangential to my point of "just 'cos the Enron scandal was unprecedented and mindblowing doesn't mean 'business and finance' is any less dry a subject matter to quite a lot of people" anyway. XD

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