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Post by danb on Jun 1, 2020 17:53:48 GMT
Comedy sidekick characters all to be rounded up and fired into the sun.
🙏 amen to that, along with all of ALW’s mid-act 2 comedy numbers. No need.
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Post by squidward on Jun 1, 2020 19:11:36 GMT
. Heathers deserved a West End Run. Truth? You can’t handle the truth!! I believe it ran in west end theatre Royal Haymarket for 8th sep - 24th November 2018 Ha! My bad. I omitted the word 'longer'. |
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Post by David J on Jun 1, 2020 19:55:32 GMT
Loved Bertie Carvel’s cold and menacing Miss Trunchball pre-west end. Hate his more shrill Trunchball after that
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Post by happytobehere on Jun 1, 2020 20:10:02 GMT
Dear Evan Hansen is a terrible show, with largely boring songs (1 or 2 excluded). It’s only been successful because of the brilliant performers playing Evan.
I think the queens from Six should’ve won the supporting actress Olivier over Rachel Tucker & Patti LuPone (even though they were both amazing).
Despite how good Hamilton is, In The Heights should be regarded as LMM’s best musical.
Most ALW shows are unimaginative and dull.
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Post by ptwest on Jun 1, 2020 20:14:08 GMT
Alfie Boe was so foghornish I had to turn off the Les Mis concert film after the prologue making me so grateful I booked a JOJ night. I’ve tried watching it three times and just can’t bear him.
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Post by sparky5000 on Jun 1, 2020 22:49:16 GMT
- As much as I really enjoyed Six, the live singing of the cast I saw was at times, really bad
- Company was massively overrated
- Adrienne Warren was robbed the Olivier award
- Ashley Roberts was a really endearing Dawn
- No, certain West End performers shouldn’t be cast in EVERYTHING just because theatre snobs say so
- Carrie Hope Fletcher is unfairly maligned by some and is super talented and doesn’t get enough credit for it
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 8:04:57 GMT
Salad Days pisses all over every British musical ever written
Wicked is spoilt by everyone on the front row (yes we know you know the songs)
Whom ever played the pharaoh to Joe Mcelderry’s Joseph at Brighton theatre royal should be kicked out of equity. If you’re gonna look THAT bored and put in ZERO effort at a matinee then you should have let someone else have a go. Never have I been more annoyed by a “performer”, it was embarrassing
f*** H&S let’s have a proper Starlight Express revival. They could have a rolling broken bone counter on the marquee!
Merrily We Roll Along is dreadful. Start a musical with conflict and then progressively remove it until you end with a non climax. If it ever gets revived I’m standing outside and booing the whole run
If the old can’t go to the theatre and the young can’t afford it then it will be down to the lgbt community to keep it afloat. Get ready for a load gay musical revivals
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Post by Dave25 on Jun 2, 2020 8:34:08 GMT
Hamilton is a very mediocre show, a mishmash of styles and moments and musical cliche's. Headflips on last chords, characters coming out of nowhere singing 1 song, incoherent songs and scenes. Very uninspiring songs (some songs are all on 1 note). It's like a parody. A show like RENT is 100 times better in that regard.
Ramin Karimloo can't sing. He moos, lows and wails in straight hysterical tones above the actual note. He butchers songs to the point where not 1 note is on key and he creates completely new melodies. Totally unacceptable.
John Owen Jones is underrated. His is a master of the craft with a golden voice and ability to act through sung notes. Everything he does is mesmerizing and touches me. The essence of this art.
The show Dear Evan Hansen should not be allowed. It gives off the message that using the victim role to get what you want is acceptable which is a terrible message for young people.
I think that casting deliberately on race is racist and so is deliberately putting poc in every project of at least 2. We should start thinking in human. This is not the right way to do that.
Musicalfilms could be the best thing in the world in the right hands. Usually, they become disasters.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 8:47:23 GMT
I think that casting deliberately on race is racist and so is deliberately putting poc in every project of at least 2. We should start thinking in human. This is not the right way to do that. I just looked it up and over 16% of this nation are “POC” so if there is a cast of 20 then there really should be at least 3 non white people in it, you know, just to represent themselves in society as they statistically are. or we could just keep it all white to make sure every white person is 100% comfortable? Also you should prob turn on a tv or read the news as your comments are at best a little off for what’s going on right now |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 8:49:38 GMT
Wicked is spoilt by everyone on the front row (yes we know you know the songs)  tenor.com/M2yI.gif(i don't know how to attach gifs!!) |
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Post by pianowithsam on Jun 2, 2020 10:05:04 GMT
Six is one of the worst shows to ever come out of the West End.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 2, 2020 10:19:51 GMT
Six is one of the worst shows to ever come out of the West End. YASSS! Its not even a musical. I don’t think it should be classed as one. There’s no story and no acting. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 10:23:15 GMT
I think that casting deliberately on race is racist and so is deliberately putting poc in every project of at least 2. We should start thinking in human. This is not the right way to do that. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more tone deaf, inappropriate and point-missing post on this forum than that. I would post many of the excellent educational resources on white privilege and the true extent of racism that are currently circulating the internet, but I think that should be the topic of a separate thread as it is hugely important but not on the topic of this one. |
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Post by pianowithsam on Jun 2, 2020 10:24:45 GMT
Six is one of the worst shows to ever come out of the West End. YASSS! Its not even a musical. I don’t think it should be classed as one. There’s no story and no acting. Absolutely. I mean, I do think the idea is pretty cool. However, the execution (no pun intended) is just appalling and redefines the meaning of cringey pop trash. |
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Post by theatremadness on Jun 2, 2020 11:59:15 GMT
Thank goodness we have this thread here to allow members to be a little racist. Oh well, truth hurts!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 2, 2020 12:11:52 GMT
I think that casting deliberately on race is racist and so is deliberately putting poc in every project of at least 2. We should start thinking in human. This is not the right way to do that. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more tone deaf, inappropriate and point-missing post on this forum than that. I would post many of the excellent educational resources on white privilege and the true extent of racism that are currently circulating the internet, but I think that should be the topic of a separate thread as it is hugely important but not on the topic of this one. yes can we not have the casting/race discussion again on this thread please. Dave25 most of us know your views on this, you’ve repeated them ad infinitum in numerous threads in the past and you already know that most people here entirely disagree with you. If you really must have the discussion again start a dedicated thread but be aware that the mods will be all over it and as soon as it descends into arguing and name calling, which is 99% certain, it will be closed. |
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Post by pianowithsam on Jun 2, 2020 12:22:57 GMT
• Mischief Theatre should publicly apologise for the terrible performance on the Royal Variety last year.
• Charlie & The Chocolate Factory should have run for longer at Theatre Royal and should have toured afterwards.
• Young Frankenstein definitely should have toured.
• Hamilton is boring.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 12:29:22 GMT
I much preferred Six at the Edinburgh Fringe and on it’s 1st UK Tour. When I eventually got to see it in the West End and on it’s 2nd UK Tour some of the magic of the previous production had been lost.
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Post by greeny11 on Jun 2, 2020 16:48:29 GMT
Hamilton is the most overrated piece of theatre I have seen - and I could not understand half the lyrics as they were rapped. The score was forgettable.
Follies is the most boring piece of theatre I have watched in a long time - the cast were good though. It is the only show I have ever fallen asleep in.
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Post by elizapot on Jun 2, 2020 17:15:51 GMT
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is not a very good show, mainly due to the spectacularly unmemorable songs
Phantom is still the most visually impressive show on the West End and generally hasn’t aged poorly at all
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 2, 2020 18:17:27 GMT
Chess is massively underrated, the book is fine, the ENO production was fabulous. If you didn’t like it, you’re jealous of Michael Ball 🙂
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Post by pianowithsam on Jun 2, 2020 18:25:58 GMT
Hamilton is the most overrated piece of theatre I have seen - and I could not understand half the lyrics as they were rapped. The score was forgettable. Follies is the most boring piece of theatre I have watched in a long time - the cast were good though. It is the only show I have ever fallen asleep in. If you want another nap, try Sound of Music. |
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Post by danb on Jun 2, 2020 19:39:44 GMT
Chess is massively underrated, the book is fine, the ENO production was fabulous. If you didn’t like it, you’re jealous of Michael Ball 🙂 Chess in massively ‘underwritten’? Something has been missing for 36 years and I’m still not sure what it is. Is underwritten the right word? The music is sublime, the book adequate. Short of making it about something else I’m not sure how re-arranging the words, order of the scenes, shifts in focus, direction etc could change anything. I didn’t see the ENO production so maybe this was the one to make sense of it? The casting wasn’t enough to draw me the 150 miles to town so I guess I missed out. |
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Post by originalconceptlive on Jun 2, 2020 21:57:23 GMT
I really like Chess too. Personally I think things go a bit awry book-wise in Act 2; the show tries too hard to make it seem as though too many characters are playing an 'intricate game', when the key plot points are actually pretty straightforward. It makes no sense for the USSR to enlist Freddie to convince Anatoly to do anything, he would have no pull with Anatoly. But this is getting into separate thread territory I guess.
Back on topic:
'Next to Normal' is nothing special, and its ending does not work.
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Post by d'James on Jun 3, 2020 0:49:01 GMT
Chess is massively underrated, the book is fine, the ENO production was fabulous. If you didn’t like it, you’re jealous of Michael Ball 🙂 It was a five star production of a one star show. |
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