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Post by gmoneyoutlaw on Jan 6, 2024 20:36:29 GMT
Looks like chaos to me, but each to their own. It's the guy at the end with the white top totally breaching the cordon that did it for me. Just needs one idiot with a knife or a thirst for notoriety... Yep, health and safety nightmare! 😱 If only there was some solution… like not performing a musical live on a public pavement perhaps 🤷♂️ When its on Broadway at the St. James it will be far more contained. We are all looking at the result without a complete understanding of what prep went into so that it goes exactly as planned. Some will think that the real freaks are those waiting to meet the cast after the show. I’m one of them. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 6, 2024 20:43:46 GMT
That didn’t look chaotic at all to me. Everyone behaving respectfully.
I think it’s actually rather lovely all those people turned out like that- I’m sure the cast were touched by it
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Post by kyvai on Jan 6, 2024 21:06:11 GMT
Well, last night interval report, it’s a great atmosphere. A smidge of a SO in the dress circle for With One Look. Nicole is on fire - she seems way more mature in the role compared to the preview I saw her in.
There was some mini commotion/applause in the stalls I couldn’t see just before the start of Act 1 - what was that?
They’re chivying everyone back in for the second act pronto!
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Post by darvsplanet on Jan 6, 2024 21:32:25 GMT
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Post by richey on Jan 6, 2024 21:46:25 GMT
They could have given Tom a decent brolly for the final show!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 6, 2024 21:56:32 GMT
Well, last night interval report, it’s a great atmosphere. A smidge of a SO in the dress circle for With One Look. Nicole is on fire - she seems way more mature in the role compared to the preview I saw her in. There was some mini commotion/applause in the stalls I couldn’t see just before the start of Act 1 - what was that? They’re chivying everyone back in for the second act pronto! Usually that’s a celebrity turning up. Perhaps SJP is watching the final show? |
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Post by toomasj on Jan 6, 2024 21:57:20 GMT
BIGGINS?
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 6, 2024 21:59:05 GMT
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Post by danb on Jan 6, 2024 22:00:39 GMT
The front of house always looked like they were on some sort of secret mission with their ear pieces and covert glances if you asked the way to the toilet within 10 mins of act 2 starting again. Relax ‘Dougal’ I’m only going for a wee!
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Post by richey on Jan 6, 2024 22:33:20 GMT
I sat next to her in the theatre once and sadly she didn't get the recognition she deserved. |
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Post by Matt on Jan 6, 2024 22:41:45 GMT
All the people who turn up outside for the street walk just ruin it. What’s the need to be there? Just let people do their job. If you want to see the show then book a ticket.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2024 22:53:00 GMT
I mean, the cast appreciate it on social media and the staff and security are always down for chats so the people who matter enjoy the crowds. 🤷♂️
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Post by traveller15 on Jan 6, 2024 23:03:18 GMT
A forgotten/cancelled/past it YouTuber or TikTokker Is there any other kind? |
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Post by Steve on Jan 6, 2024 23:03:49 GMT
There was no onstage goodbye speech at the end tonight. It didn't really make sense to do that anyway, as the credits at the end are an intrinsic part of the show, a meta way of making the ending feel like the ending of a movie. Instead, Tom Francis said goodbye by giving the monkey a big cheery hug goodbye in the meta movie. And Nicole Scherzinger said goodbye by holding one note longer than I've ever heard anyone hold a note before! Absolutely astonishing. Well-deserved in-show standing ovation for her, and well-deserved standing ovations for everybody at the end.  |
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Post by richey on Jan 6, 2024 23:04:42 GMT
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Post by jm25 on Jan 6, 2024 23:11:21 GMT
In spite of tickets for this evening costing an arm and a leg, it was worth every penny! (I’m just glad I booked early!) Simply sensational - and Nicole really was at her dazzling best.
There was a very long applause after With One Look and when the lights came up she actually took a bit of a moment to savour it - which prompted more cheers!
Tom holding the umbrella for his final “Sunset walkaround” was actually quite effective because he was able to switch hands and use it for one final, grand “Sunset Boulevard” reveal when he spun round on the corner of Savoy Court. Quite the crowd out tonight!
The big note in As If We Never Said Goodbye was the longest it’s ever been (I’d say a good 18 seconds?!) and there was a standing ovation for a full minute afterwards.
Time to start saving up for Broadway!
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Post by Afriley on Jan 6, 2024 23:22:46 GMT
Spectacular show absolutely ruined because all the big notes were drowned out by screaming people.
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Post by BVM on Jan 6, 2024 23:26:28 GMT
Well, last night interval report, it’s a great atmosphere. A smidge of a SO in the dress circle for With One Look. Nicole is on fire - she seems way more mature in the role compared to the preview I saw her in. There was some mini commotion/applause in the stalls I couldn’t see just before the start of Act 1 - what was that? They’re chivying everyone back in for the second act pronto! It was the cast backstage! Doing that little cheer thing they always do just before last show. I was mid/front stalls and someone about 5 rows ahead started loudly shushing, not realising was the cast! |
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Post by BVM on Jan 6, 2024 23:29:33 GMT
Amazing last show. Three mid show standing ovations. Which normally I’d be hard eye rolling at, but tonight were truly deserved.
Fantastic atmosphere. Nothing new to add really.
Emotionally exhausted and need some theatrical time off after this I think.
See you all for Starlight Express 😍✌🏻🤩!
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Post by vabbian on Jan 6, 2024 23:35:23 GMT
was at the show tonight seen Rachel three times, my first time seeing Nicole Is Nicole usually so comedic in the role? or was it just because it was the final performance? Not sure I appreciated it - I did like the Jai Ho dance though !  |
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Post by chernjam on Jan 6, 2024 23:41:37 GMT
It's so awesome reading all of these posts and kind of reliving the excitement of 1993/1994 - when Sunset opened in Los Angeles with much better reviews and then speculation began building that Glenn Close would come to NY instead of Patti, only to be announced in March, when tickets went on sale - for a November 1994 debut. Deja vu all over again... 30 years later, this acclaimed production has people on this side of the pond already excited and waiting.
Just hope for a cast recording in the meantime
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Post by Steve on Jan 6, 2024 23:44:18 GMT
This was my first show of the year, on January 1st, as it was the only time I could make a Monday, and I really wanted to catch Rachel Tucker as Norma. This made for a particularly meta show when the cast sang "Auld Lang Syne," and looked forward to everything being better in the New Year. Tucker was phenomenal in the role, as wonderful as Nicole Scherzinger, albeit her performance has a very different flavour, in my opinion. Some spoilers follow. . . Of the two, I found Tucker more intimately moving, Scherzinger more grandly breathtaking. Tucker's Norma seemed to regress to becoming a young girl at times, so jubilantly happy was she to be dancing with Francis, for example, as if dancing for the first time. Equally, her winks to the audience were gleefully joyfully playful, like a little girl discovering everything wonderful about life for the first time. She reminded me of Judi Dench playing Wendy in that Peter Pan play, as the contrast between herself and the actress playing her younger self was so severe in hard lit closeup, and yet, in spirit, Tucker's Norma was more youthful than her physically perfect doppelganger. So, for me, the theme of the tragedy of how aging destroys our bodies, even as we retain a youthful spirit, came across much more strongly in Tucker's performance than Scherzinger's, and I found myself crying buckets. But Scherzinger's performance tonight was something of utter magnificence. She's too grand and knowing to be naively youthful, like Tucker. Where Tucker regresses to becoming a young girl in spirit, Scherzinger seems to become pure id, sometimes snarling like a velociraptor, sometimes moving as smoothly and silently as a shark, and when she sings, its like Shirley Bassey, in her prime, on acid, so pristine are her vocals, so full voiced and powerful, elongated and athletic. When she's snarling and covered in blood, it's so primal it's reminded me of Benedict Cumberbatch emerging from his cocoon for the first time in the Frankenstein play, like a depiction of humanity evolving for the first time, as a thinking but flailing irrational creature. Everything human, from her singing, to her movements, to her ferocious emotions, are so large and so magnificent in Scherzinger's Norma, that I think it's one of the most dazzling portraits of the primal essence of humanity I've ever seen on stage. Absolutely fabulous. I've seen this show 4 times, and it was easily 5 stars for me every time. |
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Post by kyvai on Jan 6, 2024 23:44:56 GMT
Spectacular show absolutely ruined because all the big notes were drowned out by screaming people. Oh give over, what a miserable, misanthropic take this is. It’s a live performance, and the genuine audience reaction is part of that. It was the last night, it’s been a complete phenomenon of a show, and there was a lot of emotion in the room. I’m sure you expected mid-show ovations if you’ve been following the show on here, Nicole even egged the audience on more in the middle of AIWNSG!!! There was no drowning out of any big notes, the powerful sound mixing saw to that. No one can drown out La Scherzinger in full flow! |
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Post by Afriley on Jan 6, 2024 23:48:56 GMT
Spectacular show absolutely ruined because all the big notes were drowned out by screaming people. Oh give over, what a miserable, misanthropic take this is. It’s a live performance, and the genuine audience reaction is part of that. It was the last night, it’s been a complete phenomenon of a show, and there was a lot of emotion in the room. I’m sure you expected mid-show ovations if you’ve been following the show on here, Nicole even egged the audience on more in the middle of AIWNSG!!! There was no drowning out of any big notes, the powerful sound mixing saw to that. No one can drown out La Scherzinger in full flow! Let’s agree to disagree. Whooping and cheering is fine. AFTER the song has ended. |
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Post by greatauntedna on Jan 7, 2024 0:12:35 GMT
As someone who went this afternoon out of curiosity, I totally resent the freaks anology here thanks. Everyone was super respectful, the security and front of house staff chatted to everyone in the lead up to it happening. The team at the Savoy love that it's developed a following - everyone followed the (very simple) instructions we were given in advance - so I see no issue with this and don't appreciate the unnecessary name calling. Looks like chaos to me, but each to their own. It's the guy at the end with the white top totally breaching the cordon that did it for me. Just needs one idiot with a knife or a thirst for notoriety... That guy is a member of the production. |
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