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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 26, 2019 23:34:12 GMT
I saw both shows today. The evening was set on a luxery yacht in the Bermuda Triangle & called "Lost". I really enjoyed both shows but especially the matinee, which went straight into my top ten Showstopper shows. kathryn Book of Mormon is requested fairly regularly so they're used to it. |
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Post by david on Jan 26, 2019 23:53:46 GMT
This is a show I’ve been wanting to see for a while, but only doing the odd show at the Lyric theatre, it never coincided with London visits. Thankfully I can rectify this soon Planning on booking a show for late Feb when I’m down for a few days. By all the positive reviews, it should be a good night out. Had a look at prices and can’t complain at £25 for row B.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 0:27:04 GMT
Saw this on Friday night as some £20 tickets had popped up at the last minute. The theatre was barely half full (plenty of people moved down from the back rows closer to the front) but it was still a good atmosphere.
Apparently their 5.30pm show had been about teachers in a public school staff room, in the style of Sondheim and Rodgers & Hammerstein.
We got Grassy Ass, a show about a family running an illegal marijuana farm in Mexico and the two American cops whose job it was to infiltrate them and who ended up being the drug mules heading back towards the border. All in the styles of Bernstein (huge WSS love song), Guys & Dolls (Luck be a Lady parody), Hamilton (brilliant parody of My Shot) and Avenue Q. Everyone got high, nearly everyone got shot, and Crufts and drag queens were also involved. Utterly bonkers but very, very funny.
Almost all the interval audience suggestions were used last night one way or another. The cast are clearly all very good at working together, but I have to admit it was just as funny when they made each other corpse or completely failed to anticipate the lyrics one of the others would sing (it was a repeated lyric where one word changed and half of them picked one word and half picked the other each time - in about six attempts I don't think there was one where they all sang the same line!).
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Post by jamb0r on Feb 4, 2019 9:31:52 GMT
£15 sale on TodayTix for this at The Other Palace for the next few weeks. Looks like great seats in the front too!
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Post by MusicalTalk on Feb 5, 2019 11:42:30 GMT
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Post by david on Feb 6, 2019 19:54:15 GMT
The show is doing a discount for Mon to Thurs and the 5.30pm FRI show up to the 23rd Feb. Using code LOYALTY
Tickets are £27.50 (For Band A and A+).
Offer not available for the 14th Feb show.
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Post by adrianics on Feb 12, 2019 11:44:37 GMT
Saw the show for the fourth time yesterday, these guys just get better and better every time I see them. The show was One Last Push!!, set in a maternity ward in Glasgow in the styles of The Mikado, Chicago, Dreamgirls, Bat Out of Hell and The Lion King. This company is phenomenally talented and I have no idea how they do what they do but I adore them for it.
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Post by Dr Tom on Feb 13, 2019 22:04:48 GMT
Tonight was a special show to celebrate yhe second birthday of the Other Palace. The show was produced for Lord Webber with references to his songs and shows performed in the venue.
A mostly different cast to last time I visited.
We saw Flight Club, a musical set in an airport in Halifax Canada. A mother and security guard caring for her three children, having to keep them in the airport lost property office during the day, while they ate sugar and dreamed of becoming items found there. Meanwhile her husband, a half pilot, worked to become a full pilot. Both suffered from temptation from other lovers, the husband tried to steal away the kids, an ice house and lots of potatoes were involved, but in the end advice from self help books won out and the family escaped the drudgery together to start a new life in Moscow.
Well, to be honest I’ve almost made the plot make sense there. It was good, but not the most sharply observed, not helped by swapping around who was playing what. I could tell from the conversations when I left that quite a few people were confused.
The bottom half of the theatre was pretty full. More spread out at the upper half.
Lots of songs. Started off in the style of Come From Away (unsurprisingly), then through Eugenius, Lion King and West Side Story in the first half. Then through Cats, Heathers and Dirty Dancing in the second. Plus a few others.
Ran about 1 hour 55 minutes. The ideas for this one were stretched a bit thin.
Big plug at the end for The Good The Bad And The Fifty, which takes place at Wilton’s over the weekend with 50 hours of live improv. The Showstopper team will be there.
Have to be impressed with how they do all this stuff. Yes, there are few techniques they use that I’ve spotted, but I still would have no hope of being so quick witted. Always a good way to spend a spare evening.
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Post by stevej678 on Feb 23, 2019 17:13:59 GMT
Loved today's matinee set in a circus, If You Liked It Then You Should Have Put Three Rings On It, with music inspired by Sondheim, Avenue Q, The Sound of Music and Kinky Boots. Easily the best Showstoppers I've seen. Susan Harrison as a 107 year old trapeze artist was the highlight for me.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 23, 2019 18:48:29 GMT
stevej678 Oh, I was in this afternoon too. I'm sorry I didn't know there was a fellow board member there, could have said hi. I loved this afternoon's show. Straight into my Showstopper top 10 (sample size: 61). My highlights all involved Ruth Bratt & Adam Meggido. I love seeing them play opposite each other. I rarely cry at Showstopper (except with laughter) but this afternoon their Act 1 duet "Security" had me in tears & Act 2's "Screw You" nearly did.
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Post by stevej678 on Feb 23, 2019 18:56:58 GMT
stevej678 Oh, I was in this afternoon too. I'm sorry I didn't know there was a fellow board member there, could have said hi. I loved this afternoon's show. Straight into my Showstopper top 10 (sample size: 61). My highlights all involved Ruth Bratt & Adam Meggido. I love seeing them play opposite each other. I rarely cry at Showstopper (except with laughter) but this afternoon their Act 1 duet "Security" had me in tears & Act 2's "Screw You" nearly did. The reprise of Screw You almost had me in tears (of laughter). Genius! Do you happen to know who the third female Showstopper was alongside Ruth and Susan today? She was great but I don't recognise her from the bios and pics in the programme. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 23, 2019 18:58:28 GMT
Yes, that was a great switch to the other meaning of the phrase!
Heather Urqhart.
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Post by david on Feb 27, 2019 23:18:46 GMT
My final show of my London theatre binge and what a way for it to come to and end. This was my first Showstoppers and I managed to get a Row B centre seat for tonight’s show for £25. I think being near the front of the stage really helps in this show and the TOP is a great venue to house this show in.
These guys didn’t disappoint and the amount of improv skill and singing both comedy songs and more powerful numbers from nothing was just crazy. For 2hrs it was just crazy fun and non stop laughs. After being there, you really do have to give total respect to what these guys achieve each night in creating something fresh and original.
For our musical we had “Wookeleaks” the musical. The basic premise being a company team bonding trip to the Wookie Hole caves that goes astray.
The musical numbers came from STOMP, Rogers and Hammerstein, Spamalot and SIX! For me the standout performance came from Lucy Todd and her song in the style of SIX! - “I don’t neeed you Danny”.
I am definitely going to be seeing more of these guys in the future.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 28, 2019 19:46:59 GMT
My final show of my London theatre binge and what a way for it to come to and end. This was my first Showstoppers and I managed to get a Row B centre seat for tonight’s show for £25. I think being near the front of the stage really helps in this show and the TOP is a great venue to house this show in. I always find sitting at the front works best for improv, especially as it means you miss fewer lines being drowned out by audience laughter. I can't understand why the front 2 rows are cheaper for this run than further back, as the view isn't remotely restricted, but given how many times I've seen it I'm jolly glad that they are. |
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Post by david on Mar 1, 2019 0:11:22 GMT
My final show of my London theatre binge and what a way for it to come to and end. This was my first Showstoppers and I managed to get a Row B centre seat for tonight’s show for £25. I think being near the front of the stage really helps in this show and the TOP is a great venue to house this show in. I always find sitting at the front works best for improv, especially as it means you miss fewer lines being drowned out by audience laughter. I can't understand why the front 2 rows are cheaper for this run than further back, as the view isn't remotely restricted, but given how many times I've seen it I'm jolly glad that they are. When I went last night, I certainly found a great deal for my ticket. Though I think it only was for certain price bands both at the front and further back. I agree, I think to get the most out of improv shows, you really do need to pretty close to the stage as I a lot of the humour can be fairly quick and maybe sometimes missed if you are further back as you say. The audience I sat with last night was very receptive to the audience participation chucking out the various ideas. I thought the cast coming out into the foyer post show was nice to get people to sign up to the online newsletter and have a chat with the fans. |
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Post by talkingheads on Mar 1, 2019 8:29:43 GMT
Another interesting thing to note is they've just released a CD, billed as their favourite songs from past shows (which I can only assume means they record every show, some lucky person must have a hard drive full of them!). I'll pick it up on my next visit.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 9, 2019 22:27:13 GMT
Lovely to meet up with Stasia at this evening's Showstopper. By highly amusing coincidence, the show was a spy one set partly in Russia! |
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Post by Stasia on Mar 9, 2019 22:49:52 GMT
Lovely to meet up with Stasia at this evening's Showstopper. By highly amusing coincidence, the show was a spy one set partly in Russia! I’m just going to brag about it everywhere! They used some of my plot suggestions, asked for more (“Katusha” song will never be the same). Later they personally thanked me from stage. People clapped for me. One girl asked for a photo with me... I an going to be popular, right? |
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Post by pianowithsam on Apr 6, 2019 21:51:43 GMT
Saw this tonight for the first time. Absolutely brilliant.
"Cheap as Chips" - set in the 'cheap seats' of the balcony in the theatre. Thoroughly entertaining.
Was a little disappointed by the fact that they'd sold out of DVD's though, considering they only went on sale a few days ago.
I guess I'll e-mail and hope for the best.
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Post by david on May 11, 2024 12:00:20 GMT
I’ve been trying to see this again for ages after first seeing them at TOP and with a few days at the Liverpool Playhouse I was at Thursday’s show.
With all the different audience suggestions for shows, we ended up with a plot about polygamy in a care home entitled “Between the Sheets”. With the musical styles of Sondheim, Oklahoma!, Hairspray, Book of Mormon making up the bulk of the songs. We also had a Hamilton style rap number in Act 2.
The Showstopper team on at that show were great fun. The improvisation as always was top class and the songs both witty and at times a bit more hard hitting.
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