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Post by topaz on Feb 13, 2023 15:17:41 GMT
Crossing fingers Aimee does Wednesday matinees She seems to be alternating Wednesday matinees and Thursday evenings - this from the website: Aimee Lou Wood is not scheduled to perform on 15 Feb (matinee), 16 Feb (evening), 23 Feb (evening), 1 March (matinee), 9 March (evening), 15 March (matinee), 23 March (evening), 29 March (matinee), 6 April (evening), 12 April (matinee), 20 April (evening), 26 April (matinee), 4 May (evening), 10 May (matinee), 18 May (evening) and 24 May (matinee. Hoping that you've booked for the 8 March matinee...... For the poster above, from earlier in the thread. |
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Post by dm913 on Feb 13, 2023 15:23:31 GMT
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Post by sondheimhats on Feb 13, 2023 15:31:44 GMT
Thanks all! Apologies for not looking more carefully through the thread + website (afterward, I did manage to find it on the website but it did take some digging around). Regardless, I appreciate your directing me to that info.
Anyway, it looks like I lucked out! The Wednesday Matinee I'm attending is NOT listed as one of her absences.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 13, 2023 23:37:41 GMT
Aimee Lou Wood is, in short, remarkable.
John McRea...is not.
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Post by playingdangerous on Feb 14, 2023 1:29:16 GMT
Aimee Lou Wood is, in short, remarkable. John McRea...is not. Heard someone say John as the Emcee was like Jamie New as the Emcee.. |
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Post by Dr Tom on Feb 14, 2023 7:50:21 GMT
Having seen the new cast yesterday, I feel this is the weakest set of leads so far, but I will caveat that by saying this was their first performance and things may change. The vocals were not great, although the whole show is still strong. I thought that both John and Aimee were doing their best to be different to their predecessors, different movements, different ways to saying the lines etc and some decisions just got irritating. With that said, if we take the view that Sally Bowles is meant to be only a seedy nightclub level singer, Aimee Lou Wood did perform with energy throughout and made up for a disappointing Maybe This Time with a powerful Cabaret. I would watch the second half again with this cast, but I'm not sure I'd want to watch the first half again.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 14, 2023 13:02:43 GMT
Aimee Lou Wood is, in short, remarkable. John McRea...is not. Heard someone say John as the Emcee was like Jamie New as the Emcee.. Correct, he just felt like he had absolutely no idea what to do with it. Hard disagree with the above on Aimee though - thought her Maybe This Time was heartbreaking, and then her descent through Act 2 to get to a point where she could do Cabaret was pitch perfectly...in fact she's probably my favourite Sally that I've seen in this production (didn't see Madeleine but have seen the other principals) - she wasn't angry from the beginning and had a proper arc...really superb. |
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Post by sfsusan on Feb 14, 2023 13:25:47 GMT
Does Sally have any songs outside of the club environment?
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Post by Kubrick on Feb 14, 2023 13:36:17 GMT
Does Sally have any songs outside of the club environment? Maybe This Time and Perfectly Marvelous. |
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Post by sfsusan on Feb 15, 2023 13:30:15 GMT
Maybe This Time and Perfectly Marvelous. Thanks. Now that actors are highlighting Sally's lack of talent in her club performances, I was wondering if anyone ever did these outside songs in Sally's 'interior' voice... ie, trained, polished, professional singing since I'm sure she thinks that's how she sounds. |
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Post by nottobe on Feb 17, 2023 15:53:06 GMT
Has anyone else ordered the vinyl? I pre-ordered on Amazon and it was meant to be released today however Amazon says it will be delivered on Tuesday.
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Post by stevej678 on Feb 19, 2023 12:22:00 GMT
The last time I got chills in a theatre it was thanks to the Liverpool Empire treating its audience to an immersive performance of White Christmas, leaving the heating off on a freezing cold December evening.
The Kit Kat Club was a comfortable temperature yesterday afternoon so I can only put the return of the goosebumps down to Aimee Lou Wood's sensational performance as Sally Bowles.
She's funny, high-energy, vulnerable, heartbreaking and completely mesmeric to watch. I enjoyed John McCrea too and the ensemble were always engaging but it was Aimee everyone was talking about as we filed out of the Kit Kat Club at quarter to five.
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Post by jacob on Feb 21, 2023 23:10:56 GMT
Hi all- what’s seating like for this one? Are the cheapest ones still okay or is it best to splurge.. or is lottery my best bet?!  |
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Feb 21, 2023 23:16:21 GMT
Hi all- what’s seating like for this one? Are the cheapest ones still okay or is it best to splurge.. or is lottery my best bet?! Honestly you'd be fine with the £30 front row edge grand circle A or B seats or even centre row C seats. If you want to splurge a bit more, the £50 back of the stage side dress or £70 back of normal side dress are really good. Going to the box office on the day can also get you a good deal. I wouldn't rely on the lottery, very low chance of winning. |
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Post by darreno on Feb 22, 2023 16:16:59 GMT
Hi all- what’s seating like for this one? Are the cheapest ones still okay or is it best to splurge.. or is lottery my best bet?! I've tried a few different seats to try and get the best of everything, just can't justify the really expensive ones as I go on my own and they seem better suited to couples/groups. From my experience, Dress Circle H8 is perfect! I think I've sat in 4 different areas so far and that's what I would recommend to a friend for sure, and is where I'll be sitting on my next visit! |
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Post by anita on Feb 23, 2023 10:25:36 GMT
Hi all- what’s seating like for this one? Are the cheapest ones still okay or is it best to splurge.. or is lottery my best bet?! I was in front row of Upper circle A2 & perfect view. However if you are tall {I'm not} you may need more leg room. Awful toilets. |
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Post by mattnyc on Mar 1, 2023 1:23:09 GMT
Saw Aimee tonight and WOW. Another sensational casting call made by this production.
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Post by Seriously on Mar 8, 2023 0:31:11 GMT
And the award for Most Anticlimactic replacement cast goes to…. This show will close in weeks with this new cast. People won’t pay the kind of prices that they’ve been charging and they will simply not get ‘star’ names in for the 2nd re-cast. It just doesn’t work like that. This casting is a bold move that will backfire on them if they think it will continue to be a sell out show. No disrespect to Fra F and Amy L, they are great. But they ain’t ‘stars’. How time flies. |
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Post by crowblack on Mar 9, 2023 18:37:19 GMT
Aimee Lou Wood will be on The One Show tonight (Thursday 9th)
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Post by circelily on Mar 21, 2023 23:24:18 GMT
Well I finally made it and I can honestly say that's the most intimate West End show of my life. I can't believe the transformation from the standard layout for Women on the Verge some eons ago. Not a weak note in cast nor music. Love Aimee going from strength to strength. A fab double day contrast to Standing on Sky's Edge.
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Post by luminaire on Mar 29, 2023 18:41:36 GMT
Okay, so we are planning to be in London late May, Early June. I am desperate to see this production, but the seating chart confuses me. Any recommendations of where to sit? Preferably not the highest priced options… the Canadian dollar does not stretch as far in the UK. Thanks in advance! Okay just an update, we got tickets! Went for Dress Circle, row G centre. Read a bunch of seat reviews, and everyone seemed to say it was a great spot still, and it fit in our budget. Cannot wait! We will be there first week of June, so sounds like we will be seeing a new cast? |
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Post by Steve on Apr 5, 2023 22:16:46 GMT
Aimee Lou Wood was off tonight, as was Richard Katz. On in their places were Emily Benjamin as Sally Bowles, and Grant Neal as Herr Schultz. I really enjoyed myself tonight regardless, as this is such a wonderful production. Some spoilers follow. . . John McCrea is my least favourite of the 3 Emcees I have seen in this production, as he plays the first part so detached. Consequently, it's very hard to get into "Willkomen," for example, as deep down he's going through the motions and has no warmth for the audience at all. By contrast, Callum Scott Howells was determined to barrell the audience into submission, and Eddie Redmayne was so enormously ebullient and stand-up comedyish that those two brought the house down with "Willkomen," with Redmayne having the clear zany entertaining edge. However, McCrea is the most chilling of all, singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," because his voice is so angelic. The combination of angelic and detached is hellishly frightening, serial killer like. This frightening quality is at its zenith for "I don't care much," cos he evidently doesn't, and like David Tennant's sociopath in the recent "Good," he'll clearly watch the world burn without batting an eyelid: or maybe he'd just perform an angelic song, like "Walking in the Air" while the world burns. As Herr Schultz, Grant Neal is beautifully beckoningly heartwarmingly gentle, more gentle even than Richard Katz, but he lacks Katz's astonishing zany comedic timing, so his "Pineapple" song is not half so funny. My heart broke to see such a gentle soul in such awful circumstances, though. Emily Benjamin is a great Sally Bowles. More so than Jessie Buckley (unstable Sally) or Madeline Brewer (extremely unstable Sally), she is commandingly good as a singer: you feel this in particular the way she gets the entire audience to stop breathing simultaneously just by deliberately modulating certain moments. She's less tragic than either of the aforementioned Sally's at the end though, as her jolly hockey sticks commanding presence and ability to stop time never leave her. She is like if Lewis Hamilton drove a car drunk: sure, she's out of control at the end, but she's still Lewis Hamilton, so even under the influence of emotions, she can still steer the (theatrical singing) car, and I just didn't worry about her Sally half so much as Buckley's breakdown of a Sally or Brewer's absolute train wreck of a Sally. Anyway, Benjamin is a delight to listen to, McCrea is chilling and angelic simultaneously towards the end, and Grant Neal's Herr Schultz is like aiming a machine gun at a teddy bear. Another great night at the Kit Kat Club! 4 and a half stars for this lineup. |
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Post by jkcohen626 on Apr 5, 2023 23:01:53 GMT
Saw this last week and I am still thinking about it. One of my all time favorite theatrical experiences.
What makes it so incredible to me is that there is very unique smart directorial vision and production that could totally work on it's own in a traditional theatre. Then it's elevated by the immersive elements and in-the-round staging.
Aimee Lou Wood was EVERYTHING as Sally. Such a unique take on the character. She felt so real and very accessible. It REALLY felt like it was her show.
I'd agree there was room for improvement with John McCrea. He sings the role beautifully and I didn't feel like he ruined it or anything, but he just doesn't leave such a strong impression. His Tomorrow Belongs to Me was INCREDIBLE though. Easily the song most improved by hearing it live vs. listening to the recording. John NAILED it, but also just the way that it fills the space. It was chilling.
The ending was also INCREDIBLE. I am still thinking about it and it's been a week. They found a unique new vision for it, set it up so well without me even noticing until afterwards, and said so much so clearly, but so simply.
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Post by viscountviktor on Apr 5, 2023 23:30:00 GMT
Rebecca Frecknall must be the most highly rated theatre director in the UK currently, with Streetcar also getting acclaim.
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