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Post by mrekko on May 21, 2024 14:27:36 GMT
Do I defy my fear of “reimagined” productions and book this? I have never seen the original, mind.
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Post by Fleance on May 21, 2024 14:46:26 GMT
Sharon has a great singing voice it's a shame that this won't give her the opportunity for a song. She was so good in Ma Rainey. And in Blues in the Night.
Although I can't imagine Lady Bracknell singing in a traditional production, perhaps they can add a few songs for her, as they did in Death of a Salesman. There was a musical version of Earnest called Ernest in Love, which included the song "A Handbag Is Nothing Like a Mother." That would suit her. |
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Post by alece10 on May 21, 2024 15:35:36 GMT
My booking day is tomorrow but my friend has the all singing all dancing membership and can book already. She checked a couple of dates I was interested in and it was heavily booked.
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Post by cherokee on May 21, 2024 15:37:41 GMT
Reimagined, hmmm...
Given that Algy and Jack are played by two gay actors and as only Cecily and Gwendolen remain unannounced, I wonder if they're going full on queer casting and will have male actors playing them?
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Post by ilovewemusicals on May 21, 2024 16:53:58 GMT
Reimagined, hmmm... Given that Algy and Jack are played by two gay actors and as only Cecily and Gwendolen remain unannounced, I wonder if they're going full on queer casting and will have male actors playing them? I also thought this but then not sure why they wouldn’t announce it up front. |
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Post by nash16 on May 21, 2024 16:59:49 GMT
Sharon has a great singing voice it's a shame that this won't give her the opportunity for a song. She was so good in Ma Rainey. They did it in Death of a Salesman (for little reasoning beyond the fact SDC can sing…) so I wouldn’t put it past them to have her sing in this too. |
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Post by fiyero on May 21, 2024 18:08:52 GMT
Amex presale quietly opened this morning for this and the other new season shows. This quietly popped up on my Facebook as I was on the bus home. Booked. |
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Post by jm25 on May 21, 2024 18:57:54 GMT
Amex presale quietly opened this morning for this and the other new season shows. I had this pencilled in and was through to the website within a few seconds of the sale starting. Front row is usually my go-to for the Lyttelton but despite how early I was I couldn't find anything on the front row. Most (though not all) of the Amex seats appeared to be right at the back, so I wasn't sure if this is just super popular (and the seats all sold very quickly) or if the usual ones weren't all on sale. At least front row for Coriolanus was a bit easier! |
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Post by Dave B on May 21, 2024 19:23:51 GMT
Amex presale quietly opened this morning for this and the other new season shows. I had this pencilled in and was through to the website within a few seconds of the sale starting. Front row is usually my go-to for the Lyttelton but despite how early I was I couldn't find anything on the front row. Most (though not all) of the Amex seats appeared to be right at the back, so I wasn't sure if this is just super popular (and the seats all sold very quickly) or if the usual ones weren't all on sale. At least front row for Coriolanus was a bit easier! Same here. I managed front for Coriolanus but for both Earnest and the Other Place, I had to settle for edge of second row. I assume a lot of tickets have keen kept back for general sale |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2024 20:50:33 GMT
Reimagined, hmmm... Given that Algy and Jack are played by two gay actors and as only Cecily and Gwendolen remain unannounced, I wonder if they're going full on queer casting and will have male actors playing them? I also thought this but then not sure why they wouldn’t announce it up front. I can understand if they did cast it that way but then they have Sharon D Clarke as Lady Bracknell. Sharon is in a same sex marriage so might we even have a couple of lesbian actresses as the two female leads? |
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Post by mkb on May 21, 2024 23:34:13 GMT
There's so much fun and subversion in Wilde's work here, when presented traditionally, that I can't see what is to be gained by queerifying it further. (Yes, I know I've just made up that word, but I like it.) Besides, I've seen enough versions of this play that I'm not ready for another just yet, and the term "re-imagined" sets my alarm bells ringing.
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Post by crabtree on May 22, 2024 13:09:03 GMT
I always assumed Jack and Algernon had some sort of history together, practising before meeting the ladies. And 'Bunbury' must be the most queer of metaphors.
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Post by kyvai on May 23, 2024 11:01:21 GMT
In the queue for public sale tickets! It doesn’t give me a queue number or estimated time though.
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Post by kyvai on May 23, 2024 11:02:08 GMT
Ooh, now it does. 180 ahead of me, yay not so bad :-)
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Post by kyvai on May 23, 2024 11:22:36 GMT
Still took 15 minutes to get through, but got the tickets I wanted. In the diary :-)
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Post by jr on May 23, 2024 11:52:18 GMT
Managed to get a £25 stalls ticket for this. Very happy!
I wanted to book for Meera Syal's play but prices were expensive and cheaper tickets seemed to have really bad visibility. I'll wait for Friday rush for that one.
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Post by nash16 on May 23, 2024 12:05:16 GMT
Managed to get a £25 stalls ticket for this. Very happy! I wanted to book for Meera Syal's play but prices were expensive and cheaper tickets seemed to have really bad visibility. I'll wait for Friday rush for that one. £25 stalls? Have they upped the lowest price to £25 now?! |
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Post by MrBunbury on May 23, 2024 12:07:10 GMT
Managed to get a £25 stalls ticket for this. Very happy! I wanted to book for Meera Syal's play but prices were expensive and cheaper tickets seemed to have really bad visibility. I'll wait for Friday rush for that one. £25 stalls? Have they upped the lowest price to £25 now?! It is strange because I paid £20 for "The other place" and £25 for "Earnest" for basically the same places. |
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Post by nash16 on May 23, 2024 12:09:55 GMT
£25 stalls? Have they upped the lowest price to £25 now?! It is strange because I paid £20 for "The other place" and £25 for "Earnest" for basically the same places. That’s so disappointing of the National. |
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Post by Jon on May 23, 2024 12:27:02 GMT
It is strange because I paid £20 for "The other place" and £25 for "Earnest" for basically the same places. That’s so disappointing of the National. Costs have gone up, it's still a business at the end of the day. |
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Post by marob on May 23, 2024 12:33:26 GMT
Booked. Haven’t been to the NT since The Corn is Green, so I think this is my first time using the revamped website. Had a very lovely surprise during checkout that I had £45 credit on my account. Absolutely no idea what for, but must have accumulated from various old credit notes in their returns system.
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Post by alece10 on May 23, 2024 13:15:51 GMT
I've booked one of the early start shows near Christmas so will combine it with a Christmas meal and the theatre with a friend.
Last time i saw the play was with Maggie Smith I think at the Aldwych.
It was in the days when you queued for returns and I got a seat just as the curtain was coming up.
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Post by bordeaux on May 23, 2024 19:23:40 GMT
I've booked one of the early start shows near Christmas so will combine it with a Christmas meal and the theatre with a friend. Last time i saw the play was with Maggie Smith I think at the Aldwych. It was in the days when you queued for returns and I got a seat just as the curtain was coming up. 1993, directed by Nicholas Hytner and with Alex Jennings and Richard E Grant who greeted each other with a kiss, I believe. |
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Post by lookingatthestars on May 23, 2024 20:31:39 GMT
I've booked one of the early start shows near Christmas so will combine it with a Christmas meal and the theatre with a friend. Last time i saw the play was with Maggie Smith I think at the Aldwych. It was in the days when you queued for returns and I got a seat just as the curtain was coming up. 1993, directed by Nicholas Hytner and with Alex Jennings and Richard E Grant who greeted each other with a kiss, I believe. A couple of years ago I was at a Q and A with the set designer of that production, Bob Crowley. He was asked if ever worked with somebody he didn't get on with. He answered first by saying they had since apologised to each other and were by then good aquaintances, but himself and Maggie Smith disliked each other during that production. She hated his designs and he found her difficult to work with. Anyway, he said one night after a performance of the play, they were all in the green room when they got the news that a nearby theatre, think it was one of the ones on The Strand, had caught fire but was under control and without missing a beat Maggie looked in Bob's direction and said, pity it didn't make it's way down here and burn down this awful set! |
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Post by princeton on May 23, 2024 22:49:51 GMT
The Aldwych production of Earnest was not a happy experience for many of the people who worked on it.
Maggie Smith was deeply unhappy and spoke to almost no one in the cast or crew. Margaret Tyzack and Richard Pearson as Prism and Chasuble had both worked with her on Lettice and Lovage and had been cast at her suggestion - so escaped her ire. Alex Jennings, being someone who gets on with everyone, tried his best to provide a link between the younger cast members and Maggie - but to no avail. The actresses playing Cecily and Gwendolyn were in constant terror of getting on the wrong side of Smith - but she mainly just ignored them. Her specific loathing was for Richard E Grant who she openly referred to as Richard E Can't (and sometime pronounced differently!)
Grant gave an interview in which he said: "This was my worst acting experience of all time, because I was tortured by (co-star) Maggie Smith the entire time. We’d worked together previously on film Suddenly Last Summer, a Tennessee Williams play, with Rob Lowe and Natasha Richardson, and we all got on well. But Maggie was unhappy with the production, and I became the scapegoat, her victim. I’m still amazed that anyone can be so inventive in the ways they can demolish you, but she did. She’s a brilliant actress, but she has a history of doing this. I was told by someone that every single job she’s ever done, she’s done it to someone. And I suffered six months of it. I couldn’t resign because then I’d regard it as a terrible failure, and that she had won, but I often wished that they’d fire me. After the first three months, I no longer gave a f***, and finally started to enjoy myself. But before that, well, it was just horrible. Urgh!"
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