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Post by Being Alive on Jul 10, 2024 22:22:44 GMT
She comes down the staircase in green, they save the red dress for the finale
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Post by damaskanddark on Jul 10, 2024 22:28:13 GMT
It is on in Britain to be fair! Initial reports have been that the production is dark, dead, black, bleak... So... |
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Post by damaskanddark on Jul 10, 2024 22:28:38 GMT
She comes down the staircase in green, they save the red dress for the finale Does she? She comes down the staircase in green? Wow. |
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Post by Being Alive on Jul 10, 2024 22:47:59 GMT
She comes down the staircase in green, they save the red dress for the finale Does she? She comes down the staircase in green? Wow. Leaning into the Irish Dolly I guess! |
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Post by damaskanddark on Jul 10, 2024 22:54:39 GMT
Does she? She comes down the staircase in green? Wow. Leaning into the Irish Dolly I guess! Yes well she is Dolly GALLAGHER Levi. And Staunton's parents were Irish, so there's a connection there. Tovah Felshuh is the only American actress to play it Irish in its musical theatre context, I believe. |
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Post by Jon on Jul 11, 2024 0:25:54 GMT
So Baz says she comes down the staircase in red.. others say green .. what is it??! Love the mention of a mouse running past- that’s the state of ALW’s theatres for you. The late Paul O'Grady once described the Palladium as a rat infested flea pit. |
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Post by danb on Jul 11, 2024 5:57:31 GMT
So Baz says she comes down the staircase in red.. others say green .. what is it??! Love the mention of a mouse running past- that’s the state of ALW’s theatres for you. The late Paul O'Grady once described the Palladium as a rat infested flea pit. It’s green. Her ‘finale’ costume is red. |
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Post by theatreliker on Jul 11, 2024 7:01:46 GMT
Probably not going to see this but how does it compare to the recent Broadway production. We saw Bernadette Peters in it. The set was amazing. The shop, the carriage, that train!
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Post by alece10 on Jul 11, 2024 7:12:02 GMT
Anyone who has been this week can you tell me if she is still getting a standing ovation for the Hello Dolly number?
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Post by danb on Jul 11, 2024 7:19:21 GMT
Anyone who has been this week can you tell me if she is still getting a standing ovation for the Hello Dolly number? Didn’t yesterday, but those male dancers should have done. They were sweating buckets by the end! |
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Post by anthony40 on Jul 11, 2024 7:42:58 GMT
I am there, front row, on Tuesday night.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jul 11, 2024 7:52:36 GMT
Probably not going to see this but how does it compare to the recent Broadway production. We saw Bernadette Peters in it. The set was amazing. The shop, the carriage, that train! general consensus is that it falls short to that, but that was a truly unique production |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jul 11, 2024 8:33:51 GMT
This is also a very limited run- it ain’t gonna compare in scale to that.
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Post by zahidf on Jul 11, 2024 8:39:49 GMT
Anyone been in the front row yet? whats the view like please?
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Post by anita on Jul 11, 2024 8:44:43 GMT
I was in B31 in stalls. Avoid this seat like the plague. A piece at the side of the stage obstructs view completely at times. - And yes I know it is classed as severely restricted! Fortunately the two gentlemen I was sitting next to insisted I move into an empty seat the other side of them for Act 2. So thankful.
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Post by frankubelik on Jul 11, 2024 8:53:57 GMT
No standing ovation for the title number on Tuesday which was quite correct.
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Post by BVM on Jul 11, 2024 8:54:37 GMT
Anyone who has been this week can you tell me if she is still getting a standing ovation for the Hello Dolly number? Not on Tuesday! |
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Post by Being Alive on Jul 11, 2024 9:25:50 GMT
No standing ovation for the title number on Tuesday which was quite correct. I agree - whilst it was lovely, because Staunton isn't really interested in dancing like Midler/Peters etc did, she sort of goes for singing, and when she's not the best singer in the world either, it was a bit incoherent. |
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Post by eoghan31 on Jul 11, 2024 9:59:56 GMT
View from A3 stalls was far better than I was expecting. As previously mentioned A2 is just about acceptable but no point taking your seat if in A1 which really should be off sale. Lot's of positives about the production but negatives in equal number. No passerell - obviously for a short run too costly. Scenery I didn't particularly miss anything from A3 as nothing apart from the train had much visual impact. Orchestra are wonderful. Choreography disappointing in Dancing and Waiters Gallop. For the title number the staircase was from the side, no curtain reveal of Dolly in her attire (which incidentally is a green dress) with Imelda visual walking up onto the platform waiting to go out to descend the angled stairs. The set design for Harmonia Gardens was awful with two ridiculously cramped booths either side of the stage which required the constant requirement of the actors to pull the open and close chord. Thunderous applause at the end of Hello, Dolly! but no standing ovation as something was lost in the staging which prevented it being the showstopper it has now become. Perhaps I have seen the bootleg and excerpts of Bette's Hello, Dolly! too many times as no denying we will never see a production the likes of again as it was perfection befitting of its star. Imelda's Dolly has a smile as broad as smile as wide as the Palladium stage and a warmth which fills the auditorium. Watching her a total joy throughout which only on reflection afterwards you realise how her presence alone makes this unmissable for musical theatre fans as too are all around her on that stage with a special nod to Harry Hepple who makes something of Cornelius which was always missing before. Critics will love it and deservedly so will heap praise on Imelda but I will cherish memories of previous productions more over this one.
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Post by anthony40 on Jul 11, 2024 10:09:20 GMT
I'm in Stalls Centre A13. That's good, right?
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Post by nash16 on Jul 11, 2024 10:10:39 GMT
Anyone who has been this week can you tell me if she is still getting a standing ovation for the Hello Dolly number? Didn’t yesterday, but those male dancers should have done. They were sweating buckets by the end! There is a God! And yes, those dancers deserve all the medals (and cooling towels/hand fans!). |
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Post by nash16 on Jul 11, 2024 10:14:35 GMT
I'm in Stalls Centre A13. That's good, right? Great seat. The (pointless) lip they’ve added centre stage aside, you’ll be perfectly fine. |
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Post by nash16 on Jul 11, 2024 10:20:44 GMT
Probably not going to see this but how does it compare to the recent Broadway production. We saw Bernadette Peters in it. The set was amazing. The shop, the carriage, that train! Lucky to have seen both, and they are completely different beasts in terms of what they’re trying to do. Broadway was all out entertainment, with moving moments, but seemed to focus purely on giving the audience (and performers) a phenomenal night out at the theatre. Fast paced, hilarious, and anarchic. Staunton/Cooke’s was never going to recreate that, or, indeed, try to. Here it is psychological detail (amidst the colourful costumes) and a laser focus that this is a widow in grief. When you start (and they literally start the show with ensuring the audience get that) from there, there IS room to move away from that, but they consistently come back to it: This is the story of a woman in grief. So, don’t go expecting the once-in-a-lifetime experience of the recent Broadway show. This is a different take. It works. But it’s a different take, because of Staunton/Cooke. |
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Post by ceebee on Jul 11, 2024 10:36:38 GMT
I'm in Stalls Centre A13. That's good, right? I sat there and it is perfect. |
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Post by zahidf on Jul 11, 2024 10:58:45 GMT
Ah cool i have A11 and A12, so glad its good views!
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