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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 16:04:16 GMT
That's some dodgy photoshop work there.
Quite liked the original image (above sans principals) for the promotional theme.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 12:47:54 GMT
Full Cast Announced...
Anita (Jocasta Almgill)
Tony (Andy Coxon)
Riff (Michael Duke)
Maria (Gabriela Garcia)
Doc/Krupke (Tom Hodgkins)
Anybodys (Emily Langham)
Schrank/Glad Hands (Jack Lord)
Bernado (Fernando Mariano)
Chino (Manuel Pacific)
Shark (Jordan Cunningham)
Shark (Frances Dee)
Jet (Hannah Cadec)
Shark (Natalie Chua)
Shark (Pol Galcera)
Jet (Sebastian Goffin)
Jet (Justin Lee Jones)
Jet (Michael Lin)
Jet (Ericka Posadas)
Jet (Lukin Simmonds)
Shark (Bree Smith)
Jet (Christopher Tendai)
Jet (Oliver Tester)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 15:18:00 GMT
Am just re-watching the film now as I finished work early, and it really is just amazing isn't it. I can't understand more now why it is considered one of the greatest of all time. Especially with, for me anyway, the choreography, which is just incredible.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 15:22:10 GMT
Full Cast Announced... Anita (Jocasta Almgill) Shark (Jordan Cunningham) Damn! ❤️ If my bank account wasn't crying in pain, I would travel to Manchester lol. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 15:26:32 GMT
I wonder if we will get lucky and see this transfer to the West End too. With a cast like this with some performers that really deserve to shine in the West End, it would be lovely to see.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 15:38:35 GMT
I wonder if we will get lucky and see this transfer to the West End too. With a cast like this with some performers that really deserve to shine in the West End, it would be lovely to see. I don't think there's a West End space that would work to transfer from Royal Exchange, Manchester. It's a very unique space. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 9, 2019 13:08:29 GMT
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 9, 2019 15:03:52 GMT
I can’t wait for this. My first ever play was Kes at the Royal Exchange. Manchester is my home city ❤️
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Post by danb on Mar 10, 2019 18:23:05 GMT
So, I’ve had a look for tickets in the first week whilst my son is oop North with his Nan and it appears to be sold out. Me & the wife will be horizontal on sun loungers in the Canaries, but I’d like to give them a treat while we’re gone. Will more tix be released? Do they do ‘day seats’ of a sort? He’s a child, she’s a pensioner? What are their chances?
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Post by david on Mar 10, 2019 18:26:05 GMT
So, I’ve had a look for tickets in the first week whilst my son is oop North with his Nan and it appears to be sold out. Me & the wife will be horizontal on sun loungers in the Canaries, but I’d like to give them a treat while we’re gone. Will more tix be released? Do they do ‘day seats’ of a sort? He’s a child, she’s a pensioner? What are their chances? Day seats at the REX are £10 each. More info here - www.royalexchange.co.uk/the-theatre-tickets |
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Post by Jonnyboy on Mar 10, 2019 21:32:15 GMT
I can’t wait for this. My first ever play was Kes at the Royal Exchange. Manchester is my home city ❤️ With Andrew Garfield as the boy. I remember that as a great production! |
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 11, 2019 16:19:52 GMT
I can’t wait for this. My first ever play was Kes at the Royal Exchange. Manchester is my home city ❤️ With Andrew Garfield as the boy. I remember that as a great production! Omg, yessss! 😄🙌 It was and it’s such a great venue! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 11, 2019 22:29:20 GMT
It is a beautiful venue and we’re very lucky to have it, although I think some of the choices they have made about the social spaces are questionable. That “pub” thing which sprawls it’s nasty tables across a quarter of the Exchange’s floorspace preventing you from walking round the lunar module would be the very first to go.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 17:50:31 GMT
This was the theatre that gave me a love of plays whilst the Opera House and Palace in Manchester were my musical theatre ‘teachers’.As sixth-form students,my friends and I used to dayseat for the banquettes at the REX and saw the likes of Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Courtney just a few feet away from us and paid next to nothing for the immense privilege.The futuristic lunar module inside the old Corn Exchange was and still is an inspired and breath-taking design.West Side Story inside this intensely atmospheric and almost claustrophobic space could be one of the great musical theatre ‘must-sees’ this year.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 15, 2019 18:38:11 GMT
I cannot wait. Ive booked twice.
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Post by bimse on Mar 15, 2019 19:15:39 GMT
This was the theatre that gave me a love of plays whilst the Opera House and Palace in Manchester were my musical theatre ‘teachers’.As sixth-form students,my friends and I used to dayseat for the banquettes at the REX and saw the likes of Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Courtney just a few feet away from us and paid next to nothing for the immense privilege.The futuristic lunar module inside the old Corn Exchange was and still is an inspired and breath-taking design.West Side Story inside this intensely atmospheric and almost claustrophobic space could be one of the great musical theatre ‘must-sees’ this year. Its a fantastic space, so atmospheric. I well remember my very first visit, from school, seeing Patricia Routledge in The Rivals. I hope West Side Story will be as memorable too. Just one point if I may, it’s the old Cotton Exchange, not the corn exchange. The corn exchange is now a nice development of restaurants, and if I’m not mistaken, the original theatre in the round which later moved to the Royal Exchange , was actually in the corn exchange. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 19:44:46 GMT
Thank you for this.You have inspired me to spend a few minutes reading up on the history of this iconic building on the REX website.Just had a quick scan through my programme collection and found to my astonishment that I must have seen a very young Kate Winslett before she became famous.
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Post by david on Mar 15, 2019 20:05:29 GMT
A bit off topic, but for anybody interested, the REX do a fantastic backstage tour. Costs £5 for a tour which lasts 90mins to 2hrs.
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Post by bimse on Mar 15, 2019 21:50:37 GMT
Thank you for this.You have inspired me to spend a few minutes reading up on the history of this iconic building on the REX website.Just had a quick scan through my programme collection and found to my astonishment that I must have seen a very young Kate Winslett before she became famous. You’re quite right, me too, Kate Winslett was in “What the Butler Saw”, and Hugh Grant was in “An Inspector Calls” , then there was Liam Neeson , Helen Mirren , Ben Kingsley ..... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 22:22:55 GMT
At the risk of de-railing the WSS thread and with apologies,just a few memories after looking at old REX programmes....Smoke by Rod Wooden in 1993 when vast swathes of the wealthy fur-coated ‘Cheshire set’ (as we called them) walked out of the theatre in the first Act as the very fruity language upset them.The Odd Couple in 1989 when I thought I was literally going to die laughing and The Lodger previews in 1994 when the director,Richard Wilson asked me what I thought of the show in the interval with notebook in hand.What a theatre and what memories!
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Post by undeuxtrois on Mar 17, 2019 22:23:09 GMT
I'm very excited to see this next month, Andy Coxon sounds fantastic
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 27, 2019 11:43:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 11:05:21 GMT
RX Theatre have reposted some stizprobe videos on their Instagram Stories feed. The orchestra looks pretty comprehensive and this has now got me pretty excited!
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Post by theatre241 on Apr 8, 2019 9:26:15 GMT
Is or has anyone dayseating for this? It is pretty much sold out and the day tickets are the very back row of the 3rd tier
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Post by freckles on Apr 8, 2019 9:55:52 GMT
This looks wonderful, I love the artwork and the leads look just perfect.
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