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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 14, 2017 20:45:08 GMT
Some great Circle tickets available on the Almeida site for Monday night (20th).
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Post by alexandra on Feb 16, 2017 16:53:27 GMT
First preview on Friday cancelled. Am I right in thinking they do this rather a lot there these days?
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Post by lynette on Feb 16, 2017 18:48:55 GMT
Well, let's hope they know the words........
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Post by alnoor on Feb 16, 2017 19:03:42 GMT
Got email around 16.40 about cancellation. Travelling from Manchester tomorrow.
Do I try and see something else or spend time with my family and have yummy food?
Food is getting more tummy votes!
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Post by Jan on Feb 16, 2017 19:12:28 GMT
First preview on Friday cancelled. Am I right in thinking they do this rather a lot there these days? Has it happened on anything other than a Robert Icke show ? |
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Post by popcultureboy on Feb 17, 2017 0:27:49 GMT
It didn't happen on Mary Stuart....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 8:01:50 GMT
First preview on Friday cancelled. Am I right in thinking they do this rather a lot there these days? Has it happened on anything other than a Robert Icke show ? You should hang out in the Musicals board, it happens fairly often in the MT world. Also they were hoping to do earlier previews of Cursed Child but very wisely held them off sale until such time they realised they weren't going to do them after all, at which point the whole idea was quietly dropped. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2017 20:07:19 GMT
Reports from Twitter telling of a 3hr 50 minute run time of this...that's a lot of brooding Dane time. (and double interval as well)
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 18, 2017 21:55:25 GMT
Perhaps they are hoping to upsell cushions to help people survive that long in the theatre!
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Post by lynette on Feb 18, 2017 23:13:29 GMT
If that long, then self indulgent.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 0:05:57 GMT
4 hours this evening plus a 10 minute delay starting
First preview though so I expect it will come down a bit!
Second interval seemed redundant- maybe will end up as a short pause like in Oresteia
Very similar staging to Oresteia (patio doors, clever use of video, nice suits).
Better than the Cumberbatch production
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Post by bellboard27 on Feb 19, 2017 0:11:26 GMT
Pleased now I booked a Saturday so don't have an early start next day.
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Post by popcultureboy on Feb 19, 2017 0:45:34 GMT
If that long, then self indulgent. Not really. The pretty much flawless Rory Kinnear one ran at 3 hours 35 minutes, with only 1 interval. So if this is aiming for 3 hours 50 with 2 intervals, then it isn't that much different. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 1:16:51 GMT
Was there tonight. The first half very much bedded in, the second needs another performance or two so that they can gauge and adapt to an audience. I'm sure that Icke knows where the rhythm and tone need work. Other than that, a first preview (by chance, as I usually avoid them) so I won't comment in detail. Scott was great, potentially brilliant if the above happens.
A few words as a taster though - intimate, surveillance, Dylan.
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Post by Cheryl on Feb 19, 2017 14:46:27 GMT
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Post by lynette on Feb 19, 2017 14:57:13 GMT
OK, looking v good. Thanks for that Anne. I have tix so feeling v smug. Hate me.
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Post by sondheimhats on Feb 20, 2017 10:38:58 GMT
Success! Got in the queue at like 9am and got to the front at about 10:30. Booked a £10 ticket for a weekend in March. Looks like there's over 2000 in the queue currently.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 11:03:25 GMT
I've been in the queue for nearly an hour and I've only dropped like 100 places to my current position of 1628. Good job I already have a ticket! (Also the queue is impressively long considering the running time has now been made public.  ) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 11:09:45 GMT
Impressed that it maintains your place in the queue even if you disconnect (in my experience!) and also you can get it to email you when you are at the front, so you can connect from another device if you need to. Nice feature (assuming it works!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 16:12:13 GMT
Tickets have all sold out for it now.
If you have not got a ticket yet they say there will be returns and there will also be dayseats.
It seems harder to get tickets for this then Hamilton and I do feel very smug that I have a tickets and am beyond excited I will be seeing this in Saturday!!!!
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Post by sondheimhats on Feb 20, 2017 18:03:55 GMT
Nice feature (assuming it works!) I've noticed that at the various venues that use Q-IT, and wonder the same thing. Do please try it, xanderl, and let us know. No, really, I do insist that you go first when next there's a massive line and < 100 tickets going I've tried it! It does work! It even worked when I exited the chrome app on my phone |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 19:00:07 GMT
Yep, worked for me too (not to the extent that I actually got tickets but ...)
Joined the queue from my laptop, then had to head off in a taxi, so used the link in the email to connect on my phone. Also got an email when it was time to go back and join the queue!
A nice bit of functionality for people with lives / jobs! Also - I suspect you could join the queue, then if you have to leave, get someone else to take your place - I hadn't logged in to the almeida site at this point.
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Post by PalelyLaura on Feb 21, 2017 10:32:53 GMT
Well, I loved this last night - almost 4 hours but the time flew by. Brilliantly behaved audience - you could have heard a pin drop. I wish Andrew Scott hadn't waved his arms around quite so much during his soliloquies, but otherwise he was excellent. Final death scene was incredible.
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Post by profquatermass on Feb 22, 2017 16:31:31 GMT
Well, I loved this last night - almost 4 hours but the time flew by. Brilliantly behaved audience - you could have heard a pin drop. I wish Andrew Scott hadn't waved his arms around quite so much during his soliloquies, but otherwise he was excellent. Final death scene was incredible. Almost four hours? They've cut a few minutes then |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 16:59:28 GMT
I've just returned a ticket for tomorrow night. Should pop up online shortly, if anyone is interested!
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