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Post by dippy on Jun 18, 2019 17:58:35 GMT
I've never seen SITPWG. Given the prices, it looks like that will continue to be the case! I also have a rooted objection to booking tickets a year in advance, apart very occasionally for one-off performances. I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? You could leave it to someone in your will. 😀 So you reckon they'd let you in with the dead person's ID and the will? |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 18, 2019 17:59:49 GMT
Some JG fans might be a bit confused seeing this show especially if they read today's Guilty Pleasure in The Metro and book from reading the article. It refers to Sunday as a play! Already seen a few instagram comments along the lines of "looking forward to this play". One of ex's referred to ballet, musicals and operas as plays. Drove me nuts |
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 18, 2019 19:10:40 GMT
You could leave it to someone in your will. 😀 So you reckon they'd let you in with the dead person's ID and the will? That's the thing: if the ticket holder has to be there then you're screwed. Plus I don't think anyone in my family likes Sondheim anyway! I don't think your executors would be able to get a refund either as when you die your bank account is frozen so the theatre wouldn't be able to refund the money back onto the card you paid with if, like me, you only have a debit card. Yes, I do seriously contemplate at times what would happen to all my forthcoming theatre tickets if I died unexpectedly! |
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Jun 18, 2019 20:04:16 GMT
I've never seen SITPWG. Given the prices, it looks like that will continue to be the case! I also have a rooted objection to booking tickets a year in advance, apart very occasionally for one-off performances. I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? Since I became a musicals addict I consider that I can never die or even be ill because I always have just too many exciting shows booked. Won't last forever but, touching wood, I've only missed 2 out of over 350 through illness (upset stomach) in the last couple of years and last saw a doctor in 2009. I'm seldom more than 3 days away from the next show and hate the thought of wasting a ticket or missing a show. I do applaud the faciliity to get a ticket exchange or refund on this particular show. |
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Post by justfran on Jun 18, 2019 20:35:51 GMT
I've never seen SITPWG. Given the prices, it looks like that will continue to be the case! I also have a rooted objection to booking tickets a year in advance, apart very occasionally for one-off performances. I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? Since I became a musicals addict I consider that I can never die or even be ill because I always have just too many exciting shows booked. Won't last forever but, touching wood, I've only missed 2 out of over 350 through illness (upset stomach) in the last couple of years and last saw a doctor in 2009. I'm seldom more than 3 days away from the next show and hate the thought of wasting a ticket or missing a show. I do applaud the faciliity to get a ticket exchange or refund on this particular show. Never more than 3 days away from the next show - that is impressive theatre going! 👍🏻 |
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 19, 2019 0:18:59 GMT
I know the tickets are wildly and eye watering expensive, but these are set by the producers and ATG
But FWIW it is worth shouting out and to praise Jake Gyllenhaal to the theatre rooftops for coming over, where he could easily get other stage work in New York or failing that Los Angeles/Chicago/San Francisco, so great he is coming over and doing the West End gig, unlike Hugh Jackman and others that forget what the West End looks like.
So even though the tickets are expensive, it is kind of a nice problem to have.
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Post by learfan on Jun 19, 2019 4:40:33 GMT
Alot of American's use 'play' instead of 'musical' and it always confuses me. Yes they tend to refer to musicals as "a play by so and so with music by..." |
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Post by jess173 on Jun 19, 2019 5:47:48 GMT
They had the same “the person booking the tickets has to attend the performance” policy with Betrayal recently and did not enforce it at all. All I needed to collect my tickets was my confirmation email and no one asked me for my ID ever... So I wouldn’t count on them to do that here...
I haven’t booked this yet as I’m waiting on a friend to decide whether to join me or not. I hope the cheap tickets won’t be gone by then. I hate booking that far in advance as I have absolutely no idea how things are going to be in a year. But I guess I will get tickets and then just hope for the best...
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Post by shady23 on Jun 19, 2019 6:59:32 GMT
From all the packages that come up when you are trying to book, I assume someone involved in this production has shares in Moet? "Unlimited champagne" packages too... The bad behaviour thread will be swamped!
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Post by Jonnyboy on Jun 19, 2019 7:00:30 GMT
I imagine that if you die the last thing you’ll be thinking of in your final moments is, what about my theatre ticket?!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 7:52:49 GMT
I too have given some serious consideration to what will happen to my theatre tickets if I die unexpectedly. There's always the option that I could pre-emptively offer them to a close friend who knows where to find my calendar and could be trusted not to use my email log-in while I'm still alive, but in the greater scheme of things, I don't think a single empty seat at maybe 50 shows across the course of the next year is going to break anyone's heart, and I'm cheap enough when booking that I won't think "oh but that's 50*£X that I could have bequeathed to my next-of-kin, that could have been a life-changing sum of money". If I die unexpectedly, the tickets will go unused, and I'll be dead so will be hard-pushed to care.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 7:57:54 GMT
I know the tickets are wildly and eye watering expensive, but these are set by the producers and ATGBut FWIW it is worth shouting out and to praise Jake Gyllenhaal to the theatre rooftops for coming over, where he could easily get other stage work in New York or failing that Los Angeles/Chicago/San Francisco, so great he is coming over and doing the West End gig, unlike Hugh Jackman and others that forget what the West End looks like. So even though the tickets are expensive, it is kind of a nice problem to have. And in this instance ATG are the producers. They were the main producers on the Broadway run, so logical they are here too. Hence why it was so easy for them to boot 9to5 out for this. |
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Post by Steve on Jun 19, 2019 8:47:04 GMT
Every theatregoer dies twice. The day they die. And the day the curtain comes down on the last show they booked.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jun 19, 2019 16:54:07 GMT
I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? So you reckon they'd let you in with the dead person's ID and the will? Every theatregoer dies twice. No posts on this thread for 6 whole hours.... Should we be worried...? |
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Jun 19, 2019 17:30:13 GMT
I mean, what happens if you drop dead in the intervening year? So you reckon they'd let you in with the dead person's ID and the will? Every theatregoer dies twice. No posts on this thread for 6 whole hours.... Should we be worried...? That's why the release of tickets was so unconventional and mysterious, it was actually a curse that meant anyone who bought a ticket dies before the date they booked. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 19, 2019 17:36:51 GMT
Wow.
I came on here for a bit of light relief!
Anyway EVERYONE should have made a will (he said smugly having made a will this very week after putting it off for a decade) and you can leave your tix to some musical hating friend with instructions that they MUST attend on your behalf or you’ll haunt them 👻
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Post by Dawnstar on Jun 19, 2019 18:04:05 GMT
Be interesting to turn up with both the paperwork... AND a coffin... But then you'd have to pay the congestion charge to get the hearse to the theatre. At least, I imagine transporting a coffin on the tube isn't allowed... |
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Post by Mr Snow on Jun 19, 2019 18:06:37 GMT
Be interesting to turn up with both the paperwork... AND a coffin... But then you'd have to pay the congestion charge to get the hearse to the theatre. At least, I imagine transporting a coffin on the tube isn't allowed... The size of some of the suitcases wheeled on, make me very suspicious.🙃 |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 18:17:35 GMT
In an ‘ideal’ world, you’d cark it in a theatre where most of your tickets were booked so you could stay there, in spirit, watching the shows from your *empty* seat.
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Post by dippy on Jun 19, 2019 20:41:48 GMT
But then you'd have to pay the congestion charge to get the hearse to the theatre. At least, I imagine transporting a coffin on the tube isn't allowed... Depends on how tall the person was, I learnt from experience that there is a limit to how big a thing you can take on the tube. I was transporting a long box and as I walked to the barrier someone came running after me telling me I couldn't take the box on the tube as it was too big. I had to lean it up against their measuring mark and it was just over the limit (possibly 2m from memory). So, as the box was already falling apart I split the box in two and voila the object in the box was suddenly under the limit. They could no longer refuse, so I successfully went on the tube, there was no way I was walking with it, I guess I'd have tried the bus next. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2019 8:33:46 GMT
Seeing as this thread has been worryingly quiet for almost 12 hours! I'm going to break all my rules and be 'that guy'....
Understudy George.. Any guesses, wishes, etcs? My vote goes to Nadim Naaman.
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Post by sparky5000 on Jun 20, 2019 14:38:34 GMT
I'm sure he is a nice bloke and I dont doubt that he knows or is privy to certain bits of news and goss. I think that he lets himself down by how he presents it. There is a certain level of attention seeking to it and he could do with censoring himself. You dont have to make a big thing out of everything you hear or think you know, especially when it's not very plausible. He’s a humble dude .... Carl Woodward ( mrcarlwoodward) Tweeted: this tweet has had over 40,000 impressions & over 1,000 people have clicked through on the booking link; arguably, ATG should be paying me for this sort of coverage😀 |
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Post by alece10 on Jun 20, 2019 15:18:46 GMT
I'm sure he is a nice bloke and I dont doubt that he knows or is privy to certain bits of news and goss. I think that he lets himself down by how he presents it. There is a certain level of attention seeking to it and he could do with censoring himself. You dont have to make a big thing out of everything you hear or think you know, especially when it's not very plausible. He’s a humble dude .... Carl Woodward ( mrcarlwoodward) Tweeted: this tweet has had over 40,000 impressions & over 1,000 people have clicked through on the booking link; arguably, ATG should be paying me for this sort of coverage😀 Actually he has a point. I along with quite a few other board members wouldn't have found out about the 5pm ticket sales as no other source was reporting it and certainly wouldn't have got the seat I wanted for the price if I had not logged on at 5pm. All the decent price seats have pretty much gone now. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2019 16:45:19 GMT
Except he didn't break the news. This tweet was posted 13 minutes before his..
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Post by Scswp on Jun 20, 2019 17:05:59 GMT
How are the very early sales looking? Has there been a huge rush to book with lots of tickets sold or have the early sales been less than people on here anticipated?
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