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Post by eatbigsea on Feb 18, 2020 20:49:40 GMT
Am in the interval at the moment. I’m enjoying it more than I thought I would - the cast are charming, the singing is lovely as is the dancing. The songs are forgettable but adequate. But honestly, I paid £82.50 for my stalls ticket and the costumes are actually offending me. I could get better ‘80s-influenced dresses anywhere on the high street - Phase Eight, LK Bennett, even M&S.
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Post by SomeOtherMe on Feb 22, 2020 12:13:30 GMT
The back three rows of the Grand Circle are all available for £25 on Monday 2 March, if anyone’s looking for a cheap-but-steep option. The performance wasn’t showing at all on ATG until last night so I’d assumed there wasn’t one, but now that it’s appeared with a 7pm start I’m wondering if that’s possibly press night. Handy, anyway, as it’s the very night I was looking for!
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Post by xanady on Feb 29, 2020 9:43:45 GMT
^Just had a heads up from TT about ‘exclusive’ opening night tickets on 2/3 which may be of interest.Maybe they will throw in a glass of fizz or something?
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Post by ABr on Mar 2, 2020 16:51:19 GMT
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 2, 2020 17:19:56 GMT
Am in the interval at the moment. I’m enjoying it more than I thought I would - the cast are charming, the singing is lovely as is the dancing. The songs are forgettable but adequate. But honestly, I paid £82.50 for my stalls ticket and the costumes are actually offending me. I could get better ‘80s-influenced dresses anywhere on the high street - Phase Eight, LK Bennett, even M&S. I really liked Happy Man's costumes / costume changes ... but agreed, for Vivienne the dresses (apart from the lovely blue with white spots) looked naff, especially as the premise is she's shopping high end stuff. Stupidly excited to see what critics make of this. I *so* enjoyed my evening there on Valentines Day I really hope it gets great reviews. |
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Post by horton on Mar 2, 2020 17:56:05 GMT
Did David Rockwell just borrow his Dirty Rotten Scoundrels set?
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Post by Steve on Mar 2, 2020 19:21:54 GMT
This is like fan-fiction, where everyone is adorable, and soar over obstacles effortlessly, and yet, I LOVED it, as the four central characters are SO adorable! Some spoilers follow. . . The piece knows it's not a social documentary about asset-stripping and sex work. It self-identifies as a "fairy tale," which the book asserts at every opportunity, even including a fairy godfather in Bob Harms, which holds true whether his character is called Mr Thompson or Happy Man or whatever. But even so, this show crosses the line between fairy tale and fan-fiction. An actual fairy tale puts severe obstacles, like cruel stepsisters and/or omnipotent witches, between protagonist and wish-fulfillment. Not so here, where even the most minor distress to Aimie Atkinson's Vivian is resolved in the very next scene. This is like tiramisu without the alcohol, or cream without strawberries, sticky sweetness without any bite. But it's so sweetly delicious, as there are 4 irresistible characters, who I enjoyed spending time with so much that I didn't feel the need for drama of any kind. Proud but bumbling Aimie Atkinson is adorable. Chiselled yet soft-centred Danny Mac is adorable. Flashy avuncular Bob Harms is adorable. And Impish full-hearted beaming Bellhop, Alex Charles is ADORABLE SQUARED! And when any of the adorables dance with each other, or sing to each other, the adorability factor multiplies exponentially to even higher heights. If you have a sweet theatrical tooth, it's impossible not happily gorge on this show. Just manage your expectations and don't expect a drama, a documentary, or even something as gritty as a fairytale lol. For me, I did feel the missing ingredient of drama for about ten minutes of the running time, but my overwhelming feeling was that I was mind-numbingly happy just spending time with the above theatrical "characters" lol. It's like a wonderful dream in that you want it to go on precisely because you know it amounts to nothing. 4 stars. 
PS: Also, the show alerts audiences that they will eventually hear the Roy Orbison song they came to hear, which is then the capper to all the wish-fulfillment, at the end of the show!
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Post by blobble84 on Mar 2, 2020 23:09:37 GMT
First few reviews are in...
Guardian - 2 stars
WOS - 2 stars
The Stage - 2 stars
Time Out - 1 star
Ouch!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 23:55:29 GMT
Yikes. Those are some rough reviews, but the title alone will keep it there for a while, 9 months max.
At least the ES gave it 4*
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 2, 2020 23:55:32 GMT
First few reviews are in... Guardian - 2 stars WOS - 2 stars The Stage - 2 stars Time Out - 1 star Ouch! Eek! I thought the show was pretty bland when I saw it on broadway but still enjoyable. More of a 3 star than 2! The Telegraph, Metro and The Independent all give it ⭐️ ⭐️ also! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from BWW though so that’s at least something! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ from The Times |
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Post by intoanewlife on Mar 3, 2020 0:19:50 GMT
Urgh, those reviews are nauseating...
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Post by intoanewlife on Mar 3, 2020 0:22:18 GMT
Some of the comments made in the WOS review are just vile... Basically degrading Aimie because the “costumes don’t suit her”, and making unnecessary comparisons to Julia Roberts. The people paying to see this show want to see a theatrical presentation of the film and story they know, not some re-written political statement on modern feminism. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2020 0:24:18 GMT
Some of the comments made in the WOS review are just vile... Basically degrading Aimie because the “costumes don’t suit her”, and making unnecessary comparisons to Julia Roberts. When you basically replicate the film to stage, there will always be comparisons to Julia Roberts, there is no getting away from it.
And i know it's all personal opinion, but i didn't read anything vile or degrading about Aimie in that review at all. They said the costumes made an attractive woman look dowdy. How is that degrading??
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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 3, 2020 0:47:10 GMT
Some of the comments made in the WOS review are just vile... Basically degrading Aimie because the “costumes don’t suit her”, and making unnecessary comparisons to Julia Roberts. When you basically replicate the film to stage, there will always be comparisons to Julia Roberts, there is no getting away from it.
And i know it's all personal opinion, but i didn't read anything vile or degrading about Aimie in that review at all. They said the costumes made an attractive woman look dowdy. How is that degrading??
I guess it depends on what the comparison is about, especially since Pretty Women is now remembered almost exclusively as a "Julia Roberts Movie". If a critic says that Aimie is not as charming or magnetic as JR I wouldn't say that's an unnecessary comparison, but if they say something like she's not as pretty of whatevs that's absolutely unnecessary. |
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Post by gmoneyoutlaw on Mar 3, 2020 1:39:41 GMT
First few reviews are in... Guardian - 2 stars WOS - 2 stars The Stage - 2 stars Time Out - 1 star Ouch! Eek! I thought the show was pretty bland when I saw it on broadway but still enjoyable. More of a 3 star than 2! The Telegraph, Metro and The Independent all give it ⭐️ ⭐️ also! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from BWW though so that’s at least something! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ from The Times |
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Post by gmoneyoutlaw on Mar 3, 2020 1:41:22 GMT
The Guardian reviewer wrote: "The soundtrack by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance" Soundtrack! LOL could they not afford a professional
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 3, 2020 7:35:24 GMT
I saw the Time Out review last night - posted 5 hours before the end of opening night, so he wasn't there last night.
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Post by sophie92 on Mar 3, 2020 7:40:06 GMT
TodayTix Rush starting today
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Post by horton on Mar 3, 2020 7:46:49 GMT
I saw the Time Out review last night - posted 5 hours before the end of opening night, so he wasn't there last night. It's quite customary for reviewers to see a late preview once the show is frozen. What point are you trying to make? It's still a tawdry story- not just for "modern feminists" intoanewlife- it always was a shabby story and not all of us bought into it even when the film came out. It helps us to remember how crass that period of history was though (and how mistakes are repeated). |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 3, 2020 8:01:38 GMT
It’s quite comforting that this pile of rubbish is getting these reviews. Not that it will put off its intended audience though of course.
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Post by stevej678 on Mar 3, 2020 8:16:32 GMT
"Ice-cold...skin-tingling unpleasantness," "regressive", "overpriced", "cynical" and "tasteless".
That's the quotes for the posters sorted.
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Post by alece10 on Mar 3, 2020 8:30:53 GMT
Just read the Metro review and it's especially cruel about Danny Mac. The critic doesn't seem to have liked him in anything.
Not nice.
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 3, 2020 8:46:15 GMT
Just read the Metro review and it's especially cruel about Danny Mac. The critic doesn't seem to have liked him in anything. Not nice. I was literally gonna post this .... the Metro review is unnecessarily vicious! I don’t like when reviewers just pile in. “Danny Mac, meanwhile, somehow keeps landing plum West End roles despite having the stage presence of a bar of soap. As Edward Lewis, his lovely empty features don’t change at all beyond the condescending affection he adopts whenever he looks at Vivian being goofy, as though she were an adorable puppy.” “There are several icky, bordering-on-soft-porn sex scenes (although such are the subtle variations in Mac’s performance, they are easy to confuse with Edward’s business meetings).” 😬 |
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 3, 2020 8:52:28 GMT
Re. the comparisons to Julia Roberts, I get it. I found myself comparing too when I saw Sam Barks play the role in NYC, even if that’s not really fair. However people feel about the movie, Julia Roberts was perfectly cast in it, and she basically WAS THE MOVIE, and it’s always gonna be hard for the person playing her not to be compared, and often unfavourably.
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Post by sparky5000 on Mar 3, 2020 9:09:11 GMT
4 stars from Mark Shenton.
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