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Post by Dr Tom on Dec 6, 2023 19:57:19 GMT
Restricted view front extreme sides of stalls have just been put up for sale - £20 each. Have grabbed one as sat in them for Jack and the Beanstalk last year and was very good value. Yes you're extremely close and do miss the rear of the stage, but compared to the prices elsewhere I recommend them. Thanks, just booked. There's only one seat available for single theatregoers (the rest are only available in 2s), so no prices for guessing where I'm sitting. |
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Post by greenandbrownandblue on Dec 6, 2023 19:58:17 GMT
Restricted view front extreme sides of stalls have just been put up for sale - £20 each. Have grabbed one as sat in them for Jack and the Beanstalk last year and was very good value. Yes you're extremely close and do miss the rear of the stage, but compared to the prices elsewhere I recommend them. Thanks, just booked. There's only one seat available for single theatregoers (the rest are only available in 2s), so no prices for guessing where I'm sitting. C3? I'm there too! |
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Post by marob on Dec 6, 2023 20:32:17 GMT
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 6, 2023 21:36:15 GMT
Hmm. Wondering just how bad C3 is. I haven't missed a Palladium panto since they came back, but wasn't prepared to pay this year's silly prices. However, I'm mindful of the comments re the front rows when the Wizard of Oz was in situ.
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Post by greenandbrownandblue on Dec 6, 2023 21:41:20 GMT
Fwiw, I sat row A extreme side last year and whilst the stage was high, I could see pretty much everything - especially as in the panto, they play everything front and centre. I've gone for C3 this time as it's the only one I can buy a single seat for, and if you look at last year's panto thread, people did say the extreme sides of row C were better than row A.
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Post by happysooz2 on Dec 6, 2023 22:28:34 GMT
Thanks for the heads up on this, I’ve just booked for the Christmas Eve matinee 🎉 Booking felt a bit stressful with several attempts where the tickets I had chosen weren’t available, not being able to leave a single, and a moment where the system put a box into my basket instead. Still, am sure most of that was user error on my part!
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Post by fiyero on Dec 6, 2023 23:37:31 GMT
Restricted view front extreme sides of stalls have just been put up for sale - £20 each. Have grabbed one as sat in them for Jack and the Beanstalk last year and was very good value. Yes you're extremely close and do miss the rear of the stage, but compared to the prices elsewhere I recommend them. Thanks for this, I had a spare space in my diary with hopes of a second visit to this (hope I enjoy the first visit!!) |
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Post by judidenchisacat on Dec 8, 2023 14:29:46 GMT
Does anyone have any reviews of standing at the palladium in the Stalls for the Panto. Me and my family went a few years back and did standing in the dress circle for the Panto and it was fab but they don't seem to be selling that this year and a bit more trepidatious about standing in the stalls. How bad is the view and is it standing with somewhere to lean?
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Post by voyagerweb on Dec 9, 2023 16:01:24 GMT
Back in good old form this year. Act 1 ended with a great special effect only the palladium can deliver. A tribute to Paul o Grady too.
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Post by Figaro on Dec 9, 2023 16:07:52 GMT
Back in good old form this year. Act 1 ended with a great special effect only the palladium can deliver. A tribute to Paul o Grady too. Can you give us a clue? (Spoiler tags maybe?)) |
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Post by mitchelldisney on Dec 9, 2023 18:01:12 GMT
What I really need to know, does Jennifer sing Holding out for a Hero?
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Post by voyagerweb on Dec 9, 2023 18:16:33 GMT
we have Julian up through the audience into the top trap door, some seemingly impossible flying orbs and a lot of confetti. We have the massive twins fx croc and the one from the pit that eats Hook. And no holding out for a hero Rob Madge is on form again! |
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Post by corblimey on Dec 9, 2023 19:12:09 GMT
Sat ready in my RV £20 seat ,B32
The view is awful to be honest and I would say A24 and A25 the view because of a piece of scenery meant to be like a ribbon unless you’re 7ft tall not sure you’d see anything much at all.
But my view for £20 is bearable I guess and can listen along!
The running time notice board says
Act 1 1hr 15 mins
Interval 20 mins
Act 2 55mins
And you can film the curtain call!
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Post by happysooz2 on Dec 9, 2023 19:35:29 GMT
Hmmmmn. These seats are sold as severely restricted but posters who sat in them last year didn’t seem to mind them so much. I’m not sure what most of the previous message was meant to say, about being 7ft tall and a ribbon. Hopefully you can come back at the end and tell us how much of the show you saw!
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Post by corblimey on Dec 9, 2023 21:08:29 GMT
Interval-The view isn’t great but still enjoying it.
Too be simple there is a piece of scenery blocking the view ,worse in Row A25 no real view at all not just severely obstructed and a guy came and sat there and wasn’t sat down for 10 seconds and stormed off and never came back,guess got a different seat.
If anyone has booked A24-25 I would contact the box office.
The low numbers side does not look quite as restricted.
The show is good ,the Paul O Grady tribute was emotional and Julian did another tribute to Paul by what he does at the end of act 1.
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Post by mattnyc on Dec 9, 2023 22:48:38 GMT
Amazing seat tonight in the front of the Royal Circle - I’d highly recommend it for this one. For me, that was the best Palladium Panto I’ve ever seen. Yes it’s a lot of the same gags but it mostly all felt really elevated this year and REALLY GAY. I mean, there were parts where even I was thinking “OMG there’s kids here” but that made me laugh even harder. And I’m not going to spoil it for anyone but Saunders in Act Two gives the gays EVERYTHING WE’VE EVER WANTED. I was talking to a group of guys afterwards and one summed it up right - “We can die happy, now”.
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Post by callum on Dec 9, 2023 23:25:34 GMT
Whoops - I’m getting concerned about sitting in A24/25 next week. I did buy knowing they were ‘severely restricted view’, but was perfectly happy with A1/2 last year. Are they really that bad?
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Post by longinthetooth on Dec 9, 2023 23:44:43 GMT
I've succumbed to one of the restricted seats, but on the low numbers side. Not going until the final week, though, so will await reports with trepidation.
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Post by bimse on Dec 10, 2023 9:05:57 GMT
Would never want to put anyone off but not only the £20 seats have a bad view,many around me paying 5 times as much weren’t happy either. I’ve put a temporary photo of the view from my seat B32 on Instagram! Timberladuk I checked out your photo, thanks for posting. Looks like more of a listening seat than severely restricted view. |
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Post by callum on Dec 10, 2023 10:30:36 GMT
Thanks for the pic corblimey.
How much action is performed front stage (as in previous years)? And was *that* even viewable from your seat?
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Post by corblimey on Dec 10, 2023 11:30:11 GMT
Thanks for the pic corblimey. How much action is performed front stage (as in previous years)? And was *that* even viewable from your seat? There are certain things I missed totally ,ones that could see were in hysterics and I had no idea why! Also missing the entrances of Julian and Jennifer etc kind of spoiled things. I mean I didn’t expect a perfect view but think it was the worst view I’ve ever had in a theatre ,hopefully the producers may realise but guess it’s difficult when so many of these seats sold and I am sure they will get complaints from people paying £99 etc. I mean I know the design is pretty etc but they are losing about 7 ft each side of stage in how they are staging it. |
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Post by greenandbrownandblue on Dec 10, 2023 11:37:48 GMT
definitely sounds worse than last year {Spoiler - click to view}
Can you see the big effects - crocodile, end of act 1 and the flight to Neverland?
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Dec 10, 2023 11:43:11 GMT
Last year I sat in A24 - cost £22.50 - and my partner had C3 which cost £29.50. I posted on the 2022 Jack And The Beanstalk panto thead at the time that my view was indeed very restricted whereas her seat significantly less so.
Therefore when the £20 seats were announced here I was pleased to get C3 and C4 for us but for the price I would still have accepted row A if no alternative. You do get what you pay for there but only just.
Incidentally the seats in the centre of the front row of the stalls were only recently put on sale and are currently available for most performances @ £99.50.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 10, 2023 11:47:59 GMT
Would never want to put anyone off but not only the £20 seats have a bad view,many around me paying 5 times as much weren’t happy either. I’ve put a temporary photo of the view from my seat B32 on Instagram! Timberladuk That seat shouldn’t be on sale in my opinion. |
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Post by callum on Dec 10, 2023 13:47:46 GMT
definitely sounds worse than last year {Spoiler - click to view}
Can you see the big effects - crocodile, end of act 1 and the flight to Neverland?
And can you see… {Spoiler - click to view}
Jennifer as Edina?
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