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Post by david on Oct 19, 2024 20:47:39 GMT
Thanks for this reply. I checked again today and have managed to swap my 2 front row gallery seats to front row stalls for an extra £30 total. Slightly off to one side. Looking forward to trying it out, don't really sit in the stalls much just because I am used to visits with my daughter and we always sit higher up but as she's now as tall as me there's no reason not to try this out. Good to hear that you have managed to get front stalls creakingstool . It is definitely worth the upgrade for you and your daughter. It was a great atmosphere when I saw it sat there. Hopefully you will have a great time watching it. |
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Post by creakingstool on Oct 25, 2024 16:04:41 GMT
Really enjoyed this show yesterday. The front row stalls seats were fantastic and I'm so glad I changed our seats.
There were a lot of covers on, both Ali and Sean were covered, and I was a bit disappointed to start with but really no need. Kitty Harris was on as Ali, she has a great voice and played the role really well. Stefan Lagoulis was on as 2nd cover Sean, it was his debut but I wouldn't have known, he was really good. The whole cast was right behind him.
The show is fun, the costumes were great, loved the set and the revolve. Special mention to Jackie Burns as Tess, brilliant, and one of the male dancers kept catching our eye, very talented, Callum Macdonald. The dancers were excellent throughout.
I keep checking for tickets in this last week of the run as I'd love to catch Todrick and Jess Folley, not sure I'll be able to make it though.
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Post by westendgirls on Oct 25, 2024 19:14:19 GMT
Now that the Garrick has opened up with WIASS closing would that be a suitable home for this in London?
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Post by danb on Oct 25, 2024 19:21:21 GMT
If every ticket was £120 perhaps?
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Post by Being Alive on Oct 25, 2024 19:22:26 GMT
Now that the Garrick has opened up with WIASS closing would that be a suitable home for this in London? No. Too small capacity wise. They'd never make their money back. |
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Post by Rory on Oct 25, 2024 21:39:07 GMT
Now that the Garrick has opened up with WIASS closing would that be a suitable home for this in London? No. Too small capacity wise. They'd never make their money back. Someone online mentioned the Apollo on Shaftesbury Avenue. Would that work? |
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Post by kit66 on Oct 25, 2024 22:07:53 GMT
No. Too small capacity wise. They'd never make their money back. Someone online mentioned the Apollo on Shaftesbury Avenue. Would that work? No - same reason as the Garrick Too small stage/wing space. Not enough seats to make it finacially viable.Apollo 658 seats.Garrick 732 seats. |
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Post by Jon on Oct 25, 2024 23:27:24 GMT
The runs in Glasgow and Manchester have been at fairly big theatres so Burlesque is not going to a playhouse like the Apollo or Garrick.
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 25, 2024 23:43:09 GMT
I kind see where this would go, if it cannot play a small house, unless somewhere like the Aldwych/Novello become free. People will say the Adelphi/Prince Edward but I couldn’t see this show shifting 10k tickets a week.
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Post by unseaworthy on Oct 26, 2024 12:17:40 GMT
What is so complicated about this show? Could it be modified to fix it into a London theatre?
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Post by danb on Oct 26, 2024 13:19:44 GMT
I suspect that it is as much the business model as the scale of the show itself. U.S. names cost money, the IP will cost money and it will need to recoup at a scale that I suspect a cronky old 800 seater theatre can’t deliver.
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Post by ptwest on Oct 31, 2024 21:11:17 GMT
Thanks to a handy bit of dynamic pricing I took a trip to see this today; front stalls at a comparative bargain. This show has clearly had a lot of money spent on it - it looks fantastic, and the set pieces of choreography are excellent. The problem is though that it takes an already cliched and thin story from the film and somehow manages to make it thinner and more cliched . Taken as a song and dance spectacle it’s great, taken as a musical, less so. None of the new songs made any real impact, and plot lines would start and then seemingly be dropped without trace. There was a lot of filler, I guess we were meant to feel like we were at a burlesque club at times, but unlike, say , cabaret where the club songs have something to say and are making a point, there was a lot which seemed to go nowhere. The seduction scene bordered on being uncomfortable as the pair warbled their way through stripping each other. However, the finale “show me how you burlesque” was terrific and should be the song they choose if promoting this shown on any tv programmes in the future.
I was sat next to too huge Todrick Hall fans who seemed to find everything he did utterly hysterical, I thought he was good without being exceptional. No Jess Foley as Ali but I do have to give credit to Ella Jay who took on this role; I thought she was a little wobbly in the first act but it was announced at the end that she was a swing who doesn’t normally even cover the lead, and only found out she was going to do it last night. Given that context her performance was remarkable.
Once again I seemed to be in the minority given the audience reaction at the end, I guess if you like big singing and dance set pieces without a discernible plot then this is very lavish and does it well. For me, mildly entertaining but I’m pleased to have seen it at a bargain price.
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Post by flouise on Oct 31, 2024 22:06:47 GMT
It's incredibly impressive what Elly Jay did today, I wish I could have witnessed it!
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Post by Paulw on Nov 1, 2024 0:29:31 GMT
It's incredibly impressive what Elly Jay did today, I wish I could have witnessed it! She has don’t that before during her time in Pretty Woman she was Vivian understudy and swing and in less than 24 hours was playing Kit due to cast illness |
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