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Post by sam22 on Sept 23, 2017 20:44:47 GMT
I don't know the Gieldgud very well. Would people recommend the Dress Circle slips or the £25 seats in the Upper Circle? Thanks trying to decide what's best can't fork out for the stalls!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2017 10:18:53 GMT
I don't know the Gieldgud very well. Would people recommend the Dress Circle slips or the £25 seats in the Upper Circle? Thanks trying to decide what's best can't fork out for the stalls! It won't matter. La LuPone will sell it to you even if you're in the lobby! She don't just stop at the back of the balcony you know. Try Theatremonkey's website. That will give you great information on seating, view, legroom, value for money etc. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 24, 2017 10:48:27 GMT
Sondheim really needs a small theatre for it to work. So much can get lost in a big space. But heck I'll still be there, I want an early preview and then a few months into the run
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 24, 2017 11:40:34 GMT
What's Patti's reputation like for
a) turning up on the night?
b) sticking it out until the end of the run?
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Post by Scswp on Sept 24, 2017 12:26:22 GMT
What's Patti's reputation like for a) turning up on the night? b) sticking it out until the end of the run? Patti LuPone is very reliable at doing all eight shows a week and she will do the whole run. She actually gives the impression that she prides herself on her work ethic and reliability, and she is quite outspoken about how unprofessional some people seem to be in terms of missing shows. She has missed a few performances of War Paint through illness and she is almost seventy years old, but she is definitely an old-school 'work-horse' in the style of the great Ethel Merman. You will be extremely unlucky if you attend and she's not there - she rarely misses. |
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Post by frontrowcentre on Sept 24, 2017 12:32:39 GMT
Sondheim really needs a small theatre for it to work. So much can get lost in a big space. But heck I'll still be there, I want an early preview and then a few months into the run Agree! I remember loving this at the southwark playhouse, then a few moths after I was very impressed with the Sheffield production, set in the 70's like the original and with a second to none cast, but in a bigger space, and it's not like the Crucible is massive, it didn't feel quite the same |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2017 13:03:50 GMT
What's Patti's reputation like for a) turning up on the night? b) sticking it out until the end of the run? Well, a) there's a story in her autobiography about missing one performance of Sunset in London to attend a friend's funeral back in the US. She travelled by Concorde to cut the journey time and so she would only miss the one show. It didn't quite go to plan due to icy runways but she moved heaven and earth, not to mention the rest of the passengers, crew and the pilot to ensure that she made that evening's show by a whisker. b) unless she's fired by the producer before the end of her contract (*cough*) my bet is she'll see through the entire run You missed out the last one: c) continuing the performance without interruption if she spots any member of the audience recording her? Answer: not good. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 24, 2017 13:06:21 GMT
I do hope someone tries to take a photograph the night I'm there. I'd be prepared to pay extra!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2017 13:11:35 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 24, 2017 13:20:54 GMT
Sondheim really needs a small theatre for it to work. So much can get lost in a big space. But heck I'll still be there, I want an early preview and then a few months into the run Agree! I remember loving this at the southwark playhouse, then a few moths after I was very impressed with the Sheffield production, set in the 70's like the original and with a second to none cast, but in a bigger space, and it's not like the Crucible is massive, it didn't feel quite the same Loved the Sheffield production, superb cast, thought it would transfer. |
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Sept 24, 2017 13:22:23 GMT
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Post by martin1965 on Sept 24, 2017 13:22:23 GMT
I do hope someone tries to take a photograph the night I'm there. I'd be prepared to pay extra! Yes it would be worth it to see the eejit turned to stone! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2017 13:40:15 GMT
Sondheim really needs a small theatre for it to work. So much can get lost in a big space. But heck I'll still be there, I want an early preview and then a few months into the run Agree! I remember loving this at the southwark playhouse, then a few moths after I was very impressed with the Sheffield production, set in the 70's like the original and with a second to none cast, but in a bigger space, and it's not like the Crucible is massive, it didn't feel quite the same I loved that production too. I was inches away from Siobhan McCarthy which made my evening! (I love your avatar by the way... I remember seeing Les Mis in Madrid years and years ago. The first non-blonde Fantine, I think!) |
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Post by frontrowcentre on Sept 24, 2017 14:01:37 GMT
Agree! I remember loving this at the southwark playhouse, then a few moths after I was very impressed with the Sheffield production, set in the 70's like the original and with a second to none cast, but in a bigger space, and it's not like the Crucible is massive, it didn't feel quite the same I loved that production too. I was inches away from Siobhan McCarthy which made my evening! (I love your avatar by the way... I remember seeing Les Mis in Madrid years and years ago. The first non-blonde Fantine, I think!) The 1993 production in Madrid was the first professional production of a musical that I ever got to see, hence why  And you're right Fantine's hair wasn't blonde ![]()  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2017 14:09:25 GMT
That photograph is bringing back some wonderful memories...
I used to be a Les Mis nut and I travelled everywhere to see it. There was someone I was in contact with at Cam Mack's London offices back then who said he'd be working on the Madrid production, and he asked if I wanted a backstage tour when I saw the show. Yes, I did!
We were still walking around on the set a couple of minutes before it started (very late in Spain... 8.30, I recall) and I was wondering if I could get away with being in the chain-gang before taking my seat!
(I didn't. I saw the entire show and loved it. It sounded beautiful in Spanish.)
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Post by Oleanna on Sept 25, 2017 12:14:15 GMT
Agree! I remember loving this at the southwark playhouse, then a few moths after I was very impressed with the Sheffield production, set in the 70's like the original and with a second to none cast, but in a bigger space, and it's not like the Crucible is massive, it didn't feel quite the same I loved that production too. I was inches away from Siobhan McCarthy which made my evening! (I love your avatar by the way... I remember seeing Les Mis in Madrid years and years ago. The first non-blonde Fantine, I think!) Apart from thread star Patti LuPone...? 😉 |
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Post by viserys on Sept 25, 2017 14:11:33 GMT
I loved that production too. I was inches away from Siobhan McCarthy which made my evening! (I love your avatar by the way... I remember seeing Les Mis in Madrid years and years ago. The first non-blonde Fantine, I think!) Apart from thread star Patti LuPone...? 😉 She wore a blonde curly poodle wig though, IIRC |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 14:13:59 GMT
Apart from thread star Patti LuPone...? 😉 She wore a blonde curly poodle wig though, IIRC Giving it her best Bernadette Peters . . .  |
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Post by viserys on Sept 25, 2017 14:47:13 GMT
Yea, that was the photo I seemed to recall in a dusty unused corner of my brain...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 16:54:03 GMT
Finally listened to this. I do find Sondheim hard work unfortunately and this is no exception (though having said that I enjoyed Follies CD much more having actually seen it so hoping this will be the same).
Being Alive however is EPIC.
But am I right in thinking that Dame Patti will not be singing this number? I know this isn't the attitude but that is a TRAGEDY as she would sing the hell out of it. And surely would be one of the main reasons for going.
Which songs would her character sing out of interest? Do hope it's not gonna be like Drowsy Chaperone where they forgot to give EP more than one number.....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 16:59:10 GMT
Finally listened to this. I do find Sondheim hard work unfortunately and this is no exception (though having said that I enjoyed Follies CD much more having actually seen it so hoping this will be the same). Being Alive however is EPIC. But am I right in thinking that Dame Patti will not be singing this number? I know this isn't the attitude but that is a TRAGEDY as she would sing the hell out of it. And surely would be one of the main reasons for going. Which songs would her character sing out of interest? Do hope it's not gonna be like Drowsy Chaperone where they forgot to give EP more than one number..... Patti is playing Joanne so she'll sing a couple of numbers with others and then towards the end she gets her BIG solo number 'The Ladies Who Lunch' (I posted a clip earlier in the thread of La LuPone singing it at the Sondheim 80th Birthday show). And it's a biggie! She'll bring the house down. And if you check your phone while she's singing it, she'll bring you down with it. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 17:01:54 GMT
Oh. And here is La LuPone singing the living sh*taroonie out of 'Being Alive' at yet another Sondheim celebration show. From the 90s if you couldn't tell from the hair.
Eat your heart out Rosalie.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 17:08:09 GMT
Oh. And here is La LuPone singing the living sh*taroonie out of 'Being Alive' at yet another Sondheim celebration show. From the 90s if you couldn't tell from the hair. Eat your heart out Rosalie. Oh my God. The hair. The jacket. The voice. She NEEDS to sing this song. Ladies Who Lunch is fine, but it's no Being Alive! |
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Post by theatremadness on Sept 25, 2017 17:22:20 GMT
Oh. And here is La LuPone singing the living sh*taroonie out of 'Being Alive' at yet another Sondheim celebration show. From the 90s if you couldn't tell from the hair. Eat your heart out Rosalie. Oh my God. The hair. The jacket. The voice. She NEEDS to sing this song. Ladies Who Lunch is fine, but it's no Being Alive! Ah just you wait until to see Patti do Ladies Who Lunch live!! With a full martini glass! From the front row! As for EP in The Drowsy Chaperone, well that show existed on Broadway before EP took the role in London, so she knew full well what she was getting herself into! haha. |
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Post by ali973 on Sept 25, 2017 18:10:57 GMT
Those who saw Patti during her week's run at the Leicester Square Theatre with Seth Rudetksy will remember how thrilling her Ladies Who Lunch was. I was sitting in the front row on the last show and was honored to have been splashed by her water in the martini glass.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 19:27:26 GMT
Those who saw Patti during her week's run at the Leicester Square Theatre with Seth Rudetksy will remember how thrilling her Ladies Who Lunch was. I was sitting in the front row on the last show and was honored to have been splashed by her water in the martini glass. It was definitely a highlight. I do hope she does a few solo shows whilst she’s in town. God so do I! How amazing. Though guess she doesn't do With One Look and As If We Never Said Goodbye anymore. Desperate for the day her and ALW kiss and make up. (Though as she said to Norton, that ain't ever gonna happen...) |
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