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Post by amp09 on Aug 1, 2021 13:45:07 GMT
Anyone seen this tour yet? I'm volunteering for it in Northampton on Tuesday (and Wednesday!) so I'll report back then 🙂 Saw it in Bath this week. Not the best production of Priscilla I’ve seen but the audience absolutely loved it. Nick Hayes as Felicia was the stand out. |
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Post by robertb213 on Aug 1, 2021 13:48:57 GMT
Anyone seen this tour yet? I'm volunteering for it in Northampton on Tuesday (and Wednesday!) so I'll report back then 🙂 Saw it in Bath this week. Not the best production of Priscilla I’ve seen but the audience absolutely loved it. Nick Hayes as Felicia was the stand out. Thank you. I'm sure I'll still love it. Even a bad production of Priscilla will still be a lot of fun. According to the website, Joe McFadden isn't playing Mitzi anymore, it's showing as Edwin Ray now. I missed that news! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 1, 2021 15:22:03 GMT
I thought Joe McFadden was badly miscast. Its not a great production but can only be better without him.
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Post by robertb213 on Aug 5, 2021 19:16:16 GMT
Happy to say this was better than I'd feared - yes they've saved a few quid on the sets and costumes but it's still a boatload of fun and the performances help elevate it. Edwin Ray is better as Tick than Joe McFadden would've been, and Miles Western (Bernadette) and Nick Hayes (Felicia) are both superb. The Divas sound great too. And you can't beat that medley finale for ending on a high.
It's also been some years since I've seen it so this may be old news, but the tour uses the Broadway opening of 'It's Raining Men' as opposed to 'Downtown'.
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 24, 2021 22:53:57 GMT
I don't know why but this just felt...icky to me.
It looked like it had all been made for £7.99 and a few binliners for starters. I expected it to look cheap though, but it really was as bad as I feared. I've seen some pretty low-rent pantos with better costumes than this.
Also didn't think a single one of the leads was a good singer (or a good actor for that matter). Tick looked lost and like he was from an am dram production, Bernadette just...wasnt very good (but I guess when you've seen Tony Sheldon do it no one will look good) and Felicia seemed unable to stay in one key.
Divas were great though, and I did quite like how all the lockers turned into the bus. Bus didn't look as awful as it might.
General public lapped it up, loved it, shouted out, sang along. Can't say fairer than that.
Although I do wish more people wear masks. Obviously understand if there is a reason you can't but 'i don't want to' doesn't cut it with me. It's not that much of an imposition for 2 hours to make it a safer experience for all concerned (that's my Covid 2 pence).
2 stars from me, for a show that I gave 4 when I originally saw it at the Palace. Material has aged and not in a great way. Score still lands every single song though.
Absolutely just my view though, like I said public loved it. And it's the kind of show we need to get people back in...I just didn't think the production itself was up to much.
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Post by drowseychap on Aug 25, 2021 1:10:42 GMT
Travel zoo have 40% off all prices next week in Birmingham
Tickets prices full price are outrageous for such a budget production ..... my local amateur company even had full size rotating bus and flying divas ! Superb sets and voices tickets were £15 !
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Post by floorshow on Sept 10, 2021 16:07:59 GMT
Saw this last night, it's a crowd pleaser without ever straying outside it's comfort zone.
Some strange staging choices - particularly sticking the leads on the top of the back wall for the finale or never actually hinting that the outback is an desert (the part of Australia being played by a sheet of corrugated tin for the entire show).
Cast and tunes worth the effort, I thought - it's a good 'welcome back to going out' show.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2021 13:14:54 GMT
Priscilla is one of my guilty pleasures, seen numerous productions of it and have enjoyed nearly all of them. We caught this on Friday night at Curve and yes it isn't anywhere near as good as the original production but it still is a fun evening out.
There is just one thing that always annoys me in the show and that is the reaction to the F*ck off Fag*gots" scene. It winds me up so much that most of the time it gets a laugh from a few people in the audience. We have only ever seen one production where it was met with gasps and then silence and that was the production at the Queens theatre in Hornchurch. However, bloody heck the reaction it got on Friday night was disgusting, the amount of people laughing and one woman on the row in front of me actually started applauding it! It just REALLY didn't sit right with me. It might be me being precious, or "woke" as the kids say nowadays but it has definitely made me think if I want to carry on seeing the show.......
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Post by robertb213 on Sept 20, 2021 13:53:38 GMT
Priscilla is one of my guilty pleasures, seen numerous productions of it and have enjoyed nearly all of them. We caught this on Friday night at Curve and yes it isn't anywhere near as good as the original production but it still is a fun evening out. There is just one thing that always annoys me in the show and that is the reaction to the F*ck off Fag*gots" scene. It winds me up so much that most of the time it gets a laugh from a few people in the audience. We have only ever seen one production where it was met with gasps and then silence and that was the production at the Queens theatre in Hornchurch. However, bloody heck the reaction it got on Friday night was disgusting, the amount of people laughing and one woman on the row in front of me actually started applauding it! It just REALLY didn't sit right with me. It might be me being precious, or "woke" as the kids say nowadays but it has definitely made me think if I want to carry on seeing the show....... I COMPLETELY agree with you on that scene. I volunteered twice for it in Northampton last month, and both nights that graffiti reveal got prolonged laughter from the audience. One woman giggled for a good couple of minutes. I do wonder what world we live in where so many people still find that slur funny. They're happy to be entertained by a show about gay people, itself created by many gay people, but will also happily laugh when those same gay people are victimised in that way. I too worried that I was overreacting so I'm glad you felt the same. |
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Post by floorshow on Sept 20, 2021 14:00:14 GMT
I half expected that same response but, much to my surprise, there was no laughter and a decent amount of gasping at the Cliffs. Same for the assault in the bar later on.
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Post by WireHangers on Sept 21, 2021 12:24:50 GMT
Jesus, I can’t believe people are reacting like that! I saw the first UK tour in Manchester and that scene shut every single person in the audience up. The following scene actually had quite a profound effect on me as a 19 year old gay man trying to fit into the world.
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Post by jacob on Sept 21, 2021 15:46:03 GMT
oh dear:( tempted to buy a stalls seat for next week, but maybe I pass ..
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Post by Theatre Fan on Oct 17, 2021 20:58:33 GMT
Coming to Dominion.... 😒 Depressing x
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Post by Being Alive on Oct 17, 2021 21:03:19 GMT
They're putting THIS production in the Dominion?!
ARE THEY INSANE?!
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Post by floorshow on Oct 17, 2021 21:11:00 GMT
They'll need to buy some more corrugated iron.
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Post by Being Alive on Oct 17, 2021 21:51:47 GMT
They're gonna need a bigger bus!!!
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Post by Mark on Oct 17, 2021 22:03:37 GMT
Wow! Such a huge theatre. Although I can certainly see it selling well in the current climate.
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Post by Being Alive on Oct 17, 2021 22:25:54 GMT
Wow! Such a huge theatre. Although I can certainly see it selling well in the current climate. I mean, it'll need some names in it! |
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Post by westended on Oct 17, 2021 22:38:03 GMT
Source?
Will Hairspray not be transferring then?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 17, 2021 22:48:37 GMT
Given the earlier controversies about the casting, have there been any local protests during the tour?
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Post by Theatre Fan on Oct 28, 2021 20:30:20 GMT
Woo... I guess? Lol
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Post by mrbarnaby on Oct 29, 2021 6:37:13 GMT
Sad how the Dominion has become the dumping ground for terrible musical productions.
If I owned that theatre, I’d fully refurbish it and reduce the capacity.
No major new production wants a theatre with that many seats to fill anymore.
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Post by partytentdown on Oct 29, 2021 7:13:13 GMT
I *really* hope they bulk up the production a bit. I feel sorry for anyone booking thinking they are going to get anything like the original West End show. This is going to look extremely sparse in that barn of a theatre!
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Post by danb on Oct 29, 2021 7:25:59 GMT
How long til Nederlander start offering an actual ‘Hen Party’ deal? Use of one of the rooms beforehand with party games involving cock shaped straws and pasta. Intravenous Bacardi Breezer throughout. Suggestively decorated hot dogs in the interval. Mini prosecco with the name of the show printed on the label in a carrier bag on the way out…£195 each. Permission to amplify their raucous noise so that it sounds like more than 300 people in the auditorium.
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 29, 2021 11:45:12 GMT
I said it on Twitter, I'll say it here.
Just what the West End needs- another cock, in a frock, on a rock
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