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Post by mkb on Jun 24, 2023 11:27:04 GMT
They should ditch the term "Basement". I thought it meant I was going to be really low down looking up.
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Post by highonahill on Jun 25, 2023 12:43:25 GMT
Well I was as in awe of this show yesterday as I was in 2019.
For me, it was perfect then, but it's now a different kind of perfect, every note, harmony, movement, word & gesture combining in the most exquisite storytelling.
Two 'newbies' I took with me were spellbound, one (my daughter who'd missed it first time round) was skeptical of how much the rest of us had hyped it up, but said I was actually right 😉. The two audience members sat next to me were also mesmerised and ecstatic at having taken a chance on it, only having found out about it and booked tickets last week.
I'm really hoping for a third run somewhere and a cast recording. In my opinion this deserves a longer life and more exposure.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 25, 2023 13:32:53 GMT
I wish this was extending. I’m going on holiday tomorrow so will miss it 😭
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Post by zahidf on Jun 27, 2023 22:09:27 GMT
Just as good as it was in 2019. Music beefed up, very moving by the end
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Post by vabbian on Jul 1, 2023 9:11:22 GMT
This was just fantastic! 5 stars
Great music, talented ensemble, moving plot. Wish I saw it before the end of the run so I could've gone again...
Surely there will be a West End transfer for this, put it in the Lyric or Criterion
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Jul 1, 2023 12:19:38 GMT
This was just fantastic! 5 stars Great music, talented ensemble, moving plot. Wish I saw it before the end of the run so I could've gone again... Surely there will be a West End transfer for this, put it in the Lyric or Criterion after the strength of sales of the preview run i'm not sure it's a done deal... |
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Jul 1, 2023 19:11:57 GMT
after the strength of sales of the preview run i'm not sure it's a done deal... And that was when top price tickets cost £28!They'd have to recast as well as Jamie Parker is going into Next to Normal If it transferred I doubt it'd be opening before Next to Normal completed its run |
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Post by mattnyc on Jul 1, 2023 21:45:29 GMT
Spoke to someone in the show who said West End run being worked out right now. Not sure exact start dates but 6-8 months from now and it IS happening.
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Post by zahidf on Jul 1, 2023 22:05:39 GMT
Spoke to someone in the show who said West End run being worked out right now. Not sure exact start dates but 6-8 months from now and it IS happening. Ah great news. Is a lovely show which deserves another run |
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Post by mattnyc on Jul 2, 2023 13:14:58 GMT
This wasn’t at all what I expected it to be, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself at the final performance last night. i had read the story after I saw the film in 2008 but had forgotten much of it. I didn’t know if it would be based on the story or the film and was surprised when it was really based on neither, outside the main plot point of a man aging backwards. Maybe I should have read this thread or other conversations but I really wanted to go into this (like most things) blind.
If I had any say, I would have incorporated a few things from the film that I felt really added to the characters and the story but for this being what it was, it was very special. Hopefully for a proper West End run, they will really work to expand the staging and incorporate water more. And I don’t even mean real water but just the idea of it, if that even makes any sense. I still obviously have lots of jumbled thoughts on what was a very special production.
Side note, they were sold out of programs and again I hadn’t read anything about this and somehow missed it was Jamie Parker as Benjamin so when he stepped out I was like “THATS HARRY POTTER!” He’s such an exceptional actor, really.
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Post by mattnyc on Jul 2, 2023 13:18:52 GMT
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Post by Being Alive on Jul 2, 2023 16:46:18 GMT
Jamie Parker is an absolute phenomenon in this, as he always is in musicals.
His Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls is one of the best leading male performances I've seen in years, and he was also superb in High Society and Assassins (and a rather dashing Count in the 40th Anniversary concert of A Little Night Music)
Very fair that he's well known for playing Harry Potter, but he really is one of our most versatile actors who can do both play and musicals
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Post by mattnyc on Jul 2, 2023 17:54:44 GMT
I bet he was fantastic in all of those but my introduction to him was Harry Potter, so it was amusing having no idea he was in this when he appeared.
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Post by blobble84 on Feb 19, 2024 22:19:20 GMT
It seems this could be making a return perhaps?
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Post by mattnyc on Feb 19, 2024 22:51:21 GMT
I guess something happened to stop a transfer, but I do very much hope it reappears at some point.
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Post by jacobjb25 on Feb 19, 2024 22:54:25 GMT
I've just had a Culture Insights survey about marketing materials for this show which would suggest it is transferring.
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Post by mattnyc on Feb 19, 2024 22:57:19 GMT
I've just had a Culture Insights survey about marketing materials for this show which would suggest it is transferring. That’s fantastic. Hopefully after “Next to Normal” finishes, so Jamie can still do it. |
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Post by matttom0901 on Feb 20, 2024 8:20:51 GMT
I've just had a Culture Insights survey about marketing materials for this show which would suggest it is transferring. Oh wow I hope it is! Fingers crossed! |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 20, 2024 8:32:20 GMT
I'd have said History Boys is one of his biggest roles, especially with the movie that followed. That original cast at the National was outstanding and produced some real talent that regularly work today. Even James Cordon was good in it.
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Post by alece10 on Feb 20, 2024 12:44:37 GMT
I've just had a Culture Insights survey about marketing materials for this show which would suggest it is transferring. Just completed the same survey and thought that it definitely felt like they are bringing it to the west end. I voted for the hour glass poster. |
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Post by Rory on Feb 20, 2024 18:31:57 GMT
Can someone please send a link to the survey?
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Post by zahidf on Feb 22, 2024 13:10:05 GMT
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Post by jampot on Mar 20, 2024 9:56:42 GMT
Updated their profile pic this am...
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Post by Adalea on Mar 20, 2024 11:47:22 GMT
That's exciting, looks great!
Let's hope for an announcement soon. They're probably waiting for Jamie to finish Next to Normal.
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Post by Rory on Mar 20, 2024 12:06:59 GMT
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