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Post by Mr Crummles on Feb 11, 2018 15:54:17 GMT
True. Smelly toilet. Reminded me of Urinetown.  |
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Post by chernjam on Feb 11, 2018 17:47:04 GMT
Guess no one here went to the last night? So I was there last night (funnily enough was also at the last night of the Palace production whenever that was (mid noughties?)) Second visit - as other's have said previously really, excellent production and it does work well as an intimate chamber piece. Cast great. Marion cracked a couple of times in All For Laura - otherwise her vocal was perfect. This happened last time as well so I now think it's directed as such since she is crying and distraught. Was full last night. Having been half empty last time, I do wonder if this run made any money. Also makes me think it will be a very very long time before we see this show again. One last thing - the theatre is the second worst in London, other than the Arts. Always freezing or boiling. Carpet is absolutely filthy. Toilets smell and yesterday had no soap. Awful! Dom - it was in the early 2000's! I believe the original production closed in early 2006 Its a shame - and somewhat surprising - that it didn't have a better run... with near universal raves for the cast, and it being a small theatre, I would've expected it to have gotten some traction. Interestingly Forbes magazine had done an article when the WIW revival opened that perhaps this was going to return to NY. Perhaps London is experiencing what we did here the year Hamilton opened, where that basically took all the air out of the room for nearly everything else. That and the fact that people felt the theatre itself was a dump probably didn't help matters. Just surprised that ALW didn't want it recorded. Particularly since the only recording is of the first night of the original production and they've done enough work on it to revise it, if there was any hope of this having a life outside this production, you'd think they'd want that preserved. But I honestly don't understand any of how this business operates. |
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Post by distantcousin on Apr 23, 2018 18:02:23 GMT
Anyone else watching the new BBC adaptation, desperate for the actors to burst into song?! Just me then...  |
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Post by d'James on Apr 23, 2018 20:00:42 GMT
Anyone else watching the new BBC adaptation, desperate for the actors to burst into song?! Just me then... No I wouldn’t want to hear those songs again in a hurry; unless the BBC adaptation is that bad?? (Won’t see episode one until the weekend.) |
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