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Post by ladidah on Sept 12, 2024 9:52:46 GMT
At this rate we'll be camped out in Regents Park, trying to overhear!
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Post by distantcousin on Sept 13, 2024 8:10:03 GMT
I liked this (only ever seen an amateur production 10 years ago). Not familiar with the piece otherwise.
It was a "nice" show, but nothing earth shattering. Act I dragged for me, and not enough happened. The storyline felt gentle rather than dynamic. Not enough pace for me - I found my mind drifting....
Some very nice touches, but I wanted to see more conflict, more of the encroaching darkness.
Teyve is something of an anti-hero isn't he? Though I can imagine in the time the show was conceived, he was more of an out and out hero figure....I had to keep reminding myself this is a show created in the 60's when the elements of clunkiness really stuck out.
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Post by ladidah on Sept 13, 2024 9:01:05 GMT
Yes!! I was lucky today on Rush
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Post by ladidah on Sept 13, 2024 20:34:58 GMT
Wow, incredible so far.
Very very cold though!
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Post by ladidah on Sept 14, 2024 9:06:37 GMT
5 stars, incredible.
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Post by viscountviktor on Sept 15, 2024 21:50:36 GMT
First time at OAT and it was so loud! Loved this production.
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Post by max on Sept 19, 2024 18:44:43 GMT
Itās such an interesting choice in this production, to make the set heavily spotlight territory and place, in a way that the writing hardly does. Itās kept me thinking, including some uncomfortable thoughts about the end.
Thereās such a contrast between the opening numbers in this and the directorās previous London show. In āOklahoma!ā Curlyās āOh What A Beautiful Morninā has him at one with nature. He even seems in conversation with it - a hangover from Lynn Riggs original play where itās implied that Curly, Aunt Eller, and others have mixed āIndianā heritage. Though too skimpy in the musical, by the end theyāre negotiating a new constitution - joining the federation of the USA as a brand new state, but asserting that soil defines them more than any new federal rules: āwe know we belong to the land, and the land we belong to is grandā. Itās all about territory and place.
āFiddler On The Roofās opening is all āTraditionā, which isnāt about territory, but portable - if you can hold onto it. The line āwe always keep our hats onā a reminder to be portable at a momentās notice, as Jewish people have too often needed to be.
But the set has the field peeled back with roots hanging down, the place name stamped deep through its layers of sediment, and the action taking place not on the fields, but deep within the soil itself. Tradition still needs a place to settle and lay its hat for a while of course, but this set design seems to level up the claims of Territory and Tradition in the piece in a way I havenāt seen before.
At the end the characters say (more than once) of Anatevka: āItās just a placeā. Maybe itās what they have to tell themselves to lessen the pain; or perhaps being predisposed to Tradition more than Place they really are more phlegmatic in taking that more valuable portable thing with them and starting again (with some able to join other previous family emigres).
I may have felt this discomfort anyway - but with that Set I found it hung heavy that in 2024 Tevyeās descendents might say about another groupās loss of land: āah well, itās just a placeā.
I think this production softens matchmaker Yenteās late statement about moving to Israel (as other productions have done), so that sheās going there to innocuously make marriage matches, without an agenda for the result: to embed the population through procreation, which was the original line (āIāll arrange marriages, yes? So Iām going to the Holy Land to help our people increase and multiply. Itās my missionā).
Iām glad this production didnāt become controversial in the current climate - but that set provoked some interesting and uncomfortable thoughts, in me anyway.
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Post by sf on Sept 21, 2024 23:47:32 GMT
Saw it this evening.
Visually beautiful, and beautifully acted and sung. Very moving, without losing any of the laughs, and the production's final musical flourish is very clever indeed. Five stars - and I'm picky, that doesn't happen very often.
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Post by Mark on Sept 23, 2024 9:50:36 GMT
Hazarding a guess it will be cancelled tonight. Not convinced my performance on Wednesday will go ahead either looking at the forecast. Thatāll teach me to wait until the final week.
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Sept 24, 2024 10:05:36 GMT
Was very lucky to have no rain on my day (my Regent's Park Open Air Theatre luck continues touch wood). I've not seen any other production so I have no point of comparison, but I liked this a lot.
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Post by ladidah on Sept 24, 2024 10:52:08 GMT
Was it cancelled this week?
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 24, 2024 10:52:47 GMT
Hazarding a guess it will be cancelled tonight. Not convinced my performance on Wednesday will go ahead either looking at the forecast. Thatāll teach me to wait until the final week. Friend went last night and had a perfect evening for it with a tad of drizzle at the interval. |
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Post by ceebee on Sept 24, 2024 22:24:37 GMT
Yippee! I just got the last ticket for the final performance on Saturday evening! Been scanning the OAT site for days!!!!!
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Post by nick on Sept 25, 2024 7:44:54 GMT
Hazarding a guess it will be cancelled tonight. Not convinced my performance on Wednesday will go ahead either looking at the forecast. Thatāll teach me to wait until the final week. Friend went last night and had a perfect evening for it with a tad of drizzle at the interval. I've got tickets for Friday. Very much crossed fingers but the forecast looks similar. Tonight's looks the dodgiest although it may be light rain. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 25, 2024 20:20:45 GMT
Wow this is pretty risky to have a show running till the end of September
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Post by Mark on Sept 25, 2024 20:25:30 GMT
Show stop around 30 mins in tonight and eventually cancelled. Looked like we might have just got through it initially and then it got worse.
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Post by pws on Sept 26, 2024 6:39:20 GMT
Show stop around 30 mins in tonight and eventually cancelled. Looked like we might have just got through it initially and then it got worse. It has to be bad if they cancel it. Such a shame. |
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Post by Mark on Sept 26, 2024 6:57:15 GMT
Show stop around 30 mins in tonight and eventually cancelled. Looked like we might have just got through it initially and then it got worse. It has to be bad if they cancel it. Such a shame. Every time they managed to clean up the stage it got heavier, and the forecast didnāt look great. Will try rush for Friday and Saturday but gonna take this as a sign to go earlier in the season next year! |
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Post by Mark on Sept 26, 2024 7:55:16 GMT
Have actually managed to get a closing night ticket from TodayTix on the drops for just Ā£12.50! Amazing, and Saturday looks clear
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Post by ceebee on Sept 26, 2024 8:15:27 GMT
Have actually managed to get a closing night ticket from TodayTix on the drops for just Ā£12.50! Amazing, and Saturday looks clear Seat U2 (back row) is currently available for Saturday night at Ā£18 also. |
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Post by Mark on Sept 26, 2024 8:25:49 GMT
Have actually managed to get a closing night ticket from TodayTix on the drops for just Ā£12.50! Amazing, and Saturday looks clear Seat U2 (back row) is currently available for Saturday night at Ā£18 also. Right next to me! |
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Post by Mr Snow on Sept 27, 2024 7:14:00 GMT
Rain delayed and stopped once but we got lucky last night...
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only Adam Dannheisser and Michael Seigel impressed.
Was it the wind but the voices were so loud you couldn't hear the band. What made it worse was several voices were really weak, particularly the men. I admired Lara Pulver in Gypsy but even she was less than stellar.
Direction seemed low key and most songs landed with a soft bump, except Tevye's dream.
Worst night we've ever had there. But even with quite a lot off, the audience lapped it up. A show so strong its hard to balls it up, even if
its seems like they were trying to.
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Post by ceebee on Sept 28, 2024 23:48:10 GMT
Another excellent (and final) performance of this great production on Saturday night, played out under clear and chilly skies. This show deserves a future life.
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Post by Mark on Sept 29, 2024 7:34:23 GMT
A magical atmosphere at the closing night of Fiddler. So glad I was able to return after getting rained off on Wednesday. The open air definitely works better later on in the run when itās dark from the get go. I thought all the performances were strong and just a great production of the musical.
Bring on the 2025 season.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 29, 2024 11:04:07 GMT
Im so glad last nights performance was able to go ahead, its least this excellent production deserved
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