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Post by peggs on Jan 29, 2018 20:23:24 GMT
That'll be a yes to dense then! Yes that is amusing although I looking at dates now someone has got around leaving a single. This has not been a good day for the credit card but thanks for the tip off.
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Post by Stephen on Mar 29, 2018 2:50:52 GMT
Very excited to see this! Thinking about booking onstage seating. Did anyone do this in chichester if it was an option?
Looks like it would be fun to be immersed! Wonder what the view would be like...
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Post by n1david on Mar 29, 2018 8:21:28 GMT
Very excited to see this! Thinking about booking onstage seating. Did anyone do this in chichester if it was an option? Looks like it would be fun to be immersed! Wonder what the view would be like... No onstage seating in Chichester but the theatre was in the round so I’m guessing that the onstage seating is to give the sense of the Millionaire set which is in the round. The view may not be great if you’re at the back of the stage as I’d have thought they’ll play most of it “out front”, which might be why the onstage seats are cheap. Nonetheless I’m going onstage this time just to get closer to the action. There is also some (arranged in advance, consensual) audience participation which may only use onstage people, although it’s impossible to know until we see how they’ve restructured the staging. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 13:07:48 GMT
I’ve just booked, decided to go with being on the stage. Quite fancy something a bit different. I loved the show so much, I spent t many hours day dreaming what question I would answer to win a million.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 29, 2018 14:16:07 GMT
The stage seats used to be £27 up until today. I went to book and they've shot up to £42!  I don't feel as keen now. Is it *that* good to justify the price rise? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 14:23:51 GMT
WOW. They were definitely still £27 when I looked earlier. I wonder if they're trying to make it look more exclusive and like more of an "event" by putting the prices up, so as to trick people into "treating themselves" or something. Or maybe they're using dynamic pricing to trick people, like if you see them on sale for £42 now, you'll be more likely to buy them for £27 in a couple of weeks? I did find it odd that there are still more than 35 stage seats available for the performance I'm seeing, but if this is a trick, it's a very strange one to play!
EDIT: stage seats are still £27.50 for performances up to and including 19th April, then shoot up in price from there. Either get in early or wait for the dynamic pricing to realise it's scaring people away and come back down again.
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Post by n1david on Mar 29, 2018 14:50:13 GMT
Definitely dynamic pricing. My stage seats for early May were only £27 when I booked them in Jan.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 29, 2018 15:31:42 GMT
I did find it odd that there are still more than 35 stage seats available for the performance I'm seeing, but if this is a trick, it's a very strange one to play! EDIT: stage seats are still £27.50 for performances up to and including 19th April, then shoot up in price from there. Either get in early or wait for the dynamic pricing to realise it's scaring people away and come back down again. Exactly! I was planning to see it in June as part of a fun weekend romp down south, and all but one stage seat had been taken for the day I wanted, so they weren't exactly selling like hot cakes to begin with. What on earth are Delf Mac and co. thinking?? And say what? They're £27 up until 19th April? No way I can make that. ARGH!! |
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Post by Dr Tom on Mar 29, 2018 15:34:11 GMT
My stage seat was £15 when I booked a month or so ago. Don't know if I got lucky with dynamic pricing, but there were loads of £15 ones about then.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 29, 2018 15:40:57 GMT
My stage seat was £15 when I booked a month or so ago. Don't know if I got lucky with dynamic pricing, but there were loads of £15 ones about then. They were... h-how mUCH?  |
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Post by vdcni on Mar 29, 2018 15:56:23 GMT
Yeah mine were £15 though they are in previews.
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Post by Stephen on Mar 31, 2018 1:25:21 GMT
Booked for next Thursday evening! Excited now! Quite a few different pairs of good value £15 seats on offer. Decided on the very side of Row B in the Dress Circle which I think gives the best value for money if the back centre row of the dress is sold out. What does @theatremonkey.com think? I chose these seats over the Stalls boxes.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Mar 31, 2018 8:12:24 GMT
Booked stage seats for eve Thu 12th Apr, hope you don’t consider myself presumptuous robertb213,used your code to save myself £10. Initially sceptical, and being in the West End was going to give a miss, on re-reading the reviews and comments on here it seems my scepticism is misplaced. On stage seating if anything will provide a new experience and at least I can dine beforehand. |
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Post by robertb213 on Mar 31, 2018 8:57:31 GMT
Booked stage seats for eve Thu 12th Apr, hope you don’t consider myself presumptuous robertb213,used your code to save myself £10. Initially sceptical, and being in the West End was going to give a miss, on re-reading the reviews and comments on here it seems my scepticism is misplaced. On stage seating if anything will provide a new experience and at least I can dine beforehand. No that's fantastic Neil, thank you! Hope you really enjoy it. It's on my list to see as well so let me know your verdict 😁 |
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Post by demelza on Mar 31, 2018 22:24:17 GMT
A friend and I were at the first preview tonight (B26 & 27 in the royal circle) and had a brilliant night! Daniel Evans came out at the top of act one and gave a brief speech, saying how because it was a first preview there was a chance that things could go wrong (as it was, one of the screens hanging from the truss in front of the proscenium wasn't working but it did not really affect things too much)
I didn't really know too much about the Ingram scandal going into it, having been too young at the time, but I don't think this really hampered my enjoyment of the piece. The set and video designs were brilliant, and the audience participation worked really well.
The cast were all brilliant, although Keir Charles deserves a special mention for his scenestealing and uncanny portrayal of Chris Tarrant (among others). Gavin Spokes and Stephanie Street played the Ingrams well, although I did not find them to be overly sympathetic.
I definitely thought showing the result of the final audience vote of previous performances was interesting (in this case the board presented the results of the final ten performances in Chichester).
Just so others don't make the mistake my friend and I did, the voting remotes are hanging from a black string on the back of the chair in front of you. We didn't find ours until the interval, so we missed most of the voting aspect.
I definitely would recommend going to see it! I never got to see it at Chichester so I can't say how it compares but it does work well at the Noel Coward, and judging by the audience reaction at the end, others felt the same way.
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Post by andrew on Apr 1, 2018 14:59:34 GMT
I got into a whole "people cheating at game shows" youtube hole a year ago so have recently watched the documentary about this scandal, I presume there's enough in this to keep me entertained? Flicking through the seat plans, they've not sold that many tickets so far...
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Post by vdcni on Apr 2, 2018 22:49:13 GMT
Well this was one of the most painful nights I've ever had in the theatre.
The stage seats were brutally uncomfortable but even worse was the appalling play. Without a doubt one of the worst things I've ever seen in the West End.
Horribly padded, how many song routines did we need, terrible dialogue, lifeless characters - ok I know it's hard when based on real people but unlike This House I wasn't interested in these people in the slightest. A messy production which felt the need to underline every point such as flashing up Trump Tower on the screen to accompany the reference in dialogue.
A waste of a theatre and Sarah Woodward who put in by far the best performance.
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Post by robertb213 on Apr 3, 2018 18:34:12 GMT
I was going to see this tonight but all of St Martin's Lane was closed off earlier due to a gas leak so the showrunners didn't know if it was going ahead or not. So I'm at Kiss Of The Spiderwoman instead. But this is still on my list! 😁
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Post by longinthetooth on Apr 3, 2018 18:35:00 GMT
Delfont Mackintosh now saying it is cancelled tonight.
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Post by david on Apr 5, 2018 9:16:23 GMT
Managed to grab a £15 ticket st the back of the Royal Circke for tonight’s show. Hopefully there is no coughing from audience members. Last time it caused a lot of trouble for one guy.
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Post by althea on Apr 5, 2018 10:11:54 GMT
Saw this last night. Wow. From a writer with such a strong pedigree this was incredibly disappointing and considering that this is a transfer it doesn't really have the excuse of being a preview. I loved Ink and Labour of Love - both clever, informative, moving and funny. This play has none of that - it's like they swapped out anything that resembled an emotional arc or wit and replaced it with either a gimmick or a pretty poor Chris Tarrant impression.
The play basically shows us the events of the coughing scandal in benal detail. By the end of act one they had just told the story, by the end of act two they asked whether there should be a trial by media. I understand the statement but WHY choose this boring story to recreate when they could have made their point with something original and with higher consequences for the protagonists.
The gimmicks are pointless - there's a warm up guy who spends a good 6 minutes at the top of the show trying to get the audience to ooo and ahhh in the right places - all you wanted them to do was get on with it. You can cast your vote with some pretty tacky technology and don't start me on the pub quiz and throw back gameshows that the audience are forced to take part in.
Performances are fine but you're so bored by the end it doesn't really matter. Sat on the stage - perfectly comfortable but didn't really add anything to the show.
A shame that this is taking up space in such a great house.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 10:41:08 GMT
Yeah, I agree that this wasn't great - however I did find it reasonably diverting and I don't regret the time/money to see it. It's probably one of those shows where the production makes it better than the play actually is. It was not well-written and felt a bit dashed-off, and there wasn't the subtlety and exploration of issues that Ink had, for example. Now I'm writing this, I realise I don't really know what the point of it was. But it was very well acted and staged, and probably better than a lot of the old tut that usually fills up the West End and it was an entertaining way to spend a rainy Weds afternoon.
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Post by Stephen on Apr 5, 2018 11:52:48 GMT
Managed to grab a £15 ticket st the back of the Royal Circke for tonight’s show. Hopefully there is no coughing from audience members. Last time it caused a lot of trouble for one guy. I’ll be there tonight also. I don’t cough when I’m drinking gin so I’ll be fine. |
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Post by peggs on Apr 5, 2018 13:58:45 GMT
I'm along the same lines as @abby, have enjoyed James Graham's plays so much I was expecting brilliance and not quite sure what we got. I expect I would have enjoyed revisiting past shows if I'd seen them and could appreciate the send ups. I liked the set and the play through up some interesting questions but didn't quite all hang together very satisfying for me. That said I think I was the least enthusiastic from the people I was with and would still much rather have watched this than some of the other west end offerings.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2018 22:02:03 GMT
Wonderful popular theatre, this is great to see in the West End and Graham’s dialogue is as well wrought as usual. Very much a moraliity play, with a brilliant kinetic staging that makes the whole evening zip by. I would imagine that youmger audiences might miss a lot of references but it’s a Chichester production, so you know what to expect on that score.
It’s particularly effective on manipulation and the media whilst also doing exactly what it is revealing through its own format.
Also good to see a pretty balanced portrayal. Graham went to Hull University, which has been revealed this week as the institution with the greatest mix of social classes, which shows, I think. He did the same in This House where his empathy is shared out widely. Marianne Elliott went there too (as, for the record did I).
Having grown up with ITV as ‘our channel’, you could say that this is theatre as ITV might do it. Maybe they should commission a filming?
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