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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2022 14:52:11 GMT
Very, very excited to see this one at the end of the month. Also quite pleased that we booked our tickets before those reviews came out. We had a pretty good selection of available seating when we purchased in November. Got a table in the stalls slips, A7 and A8. Paid my right arm, but Cabaret will be my first show in London. First ever show in London? How exciting!! Even if its first show back since lockdowns began, its still exciting to go and see something in the West End.i hope you enjoy it. |
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Post by barrowside on Feb 4, 2022 15:35:32 GMT
It's very exciting the first time you get to a show in the West End. You've made a great choice as the atmosphere in the theatre/club is electric. Hope you really enjoy it and it will be the first of many.
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Post by saral on Feb 5, 2022 12:41:27 GMT
Emily Benjamin on for Sally Bowles both shows today
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Feb 5, 2022 13:59:31 GMT
a shame that when covers go on there's no way to get tickets even if you wanted to!!
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Post by inthenose on Feb 5, 2022 14:03:19 GMT
a shame that when covers go on there's no way to get tickets even if you wanted to!! I saw someone literally throw their ticket on the floor and leave the middle of the stalls when it was announced Jason Donovan wouldn't be on in The Sound of Music. I wish I followed her. |
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Post by jj9692 on Feb 5, 2022 14:30:23 GMT
Emily Benjamin on for Sally Bowled both shows today Audiences are in for treat today. I was at her first show last Wednesday afternoon, and she was fabulous. |
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Post by theatrefan77 on Feb 5, 2022 16:31:06 GMT
A friend saw Emily Benjamin and didn’t think much of her performance.
But then I saw Buckley and didn’t think much of her performance either. Her tomboy Sally didn’t work for me
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Post by theatremiss on Feb 6, 2022 14:06:42 GMT
Emily Benjamin on for Sally Bowles both shows today I saw her and thought she was good. I’m not sure I like the direction of her character but it didn’t take away from her performance. I was pleased as I’m not a fan of Buckley, far too many awkward mannerisms when she sings |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Feb 8, 2022 13:21:04 GMT
Jessie Buckley just got an Oscar nomination!
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Post by sph on Feb 8, 2022 14:08:51 GMT
Jessie Buckley just got an Oscar nomination! Good to see! Amazing how her career started on that talent search show for Nancy in Oliver and now she's up for Oscars! There's no doubt an Olivier nom on it's way too. |
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Feb 8, 2022 14:31:45 GMT
Incredible!
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Post by interval99 on Feb 8, 2022 14:40:46 GMT
Fortunately the ceremony is March 27th so people don't need to worry she would have to miss any cabaret performances.
The flip side is her growing TV and film acclaim is more likely to keep her from the theatre and hard to see her doing anything other than a very limited run in the future, but she does keep surprising us with what she has done so we can hope.
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Post by shambles on Feb 8, 2022 14:44:14 GMT
Fortunately the ceremony is March 27th so people don't need to worry she would have to miss any cabaret performances. The flip side is her growing TV and film acclaim is more likely to keep her from the theatre and hard to see her doing anything other than a very limited run in the future, but she does keep surprising us with what she has done so we can hope. Unless she signs on to a franchise, she usually does films that have the standard 7-8 week shoots; she can still do 2 of those a year. That gives her more time to do theatre. |
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Post by interval99 on Feb 8, 2022 15:06:22 GMT
Looking at Wikipedia it's showing cabaret is her first theatre since 2015 which is surprising, the Romeo and Juliet was going to be theatre run before covid and they filmed it I think.
Less theatre than I expected and only two musicals ( and not Oliver which I thought she did cover but apparently went to do a little night music) .
I wasn't completely sold by her cabaret overall performance but did love the many tones and phrasing she did sing at times between the snarling vocals the director seems to have requested.
so maybe she will at least do some recording to let us hear her voice
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Post by shambles on Feb 8, 2022 15:16:39 GMT
You can just listen to the soundtrack from her film Wild Rose. Wonderful
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Post by Jon on Feb 8, 2022 15:26:12 GMT
I'd Do Anything produced some real talent, not just Jessie Buckley but Samantha Barks, Rachel Tucker and the eventual winner Jodie Prenger.
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Post by alece10 on Feb 8, 2022 15:48:58 GMT
I remember seeing Jessie at her very first performance of A Little Night Music. I was slightly concerned that her voice wasn't strong enough for the role. However I think she was quite nervous being her first west end musical and as the days and weeks went on she transformed totally and was excellent.
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Post by singingbird on Feb 8, 2022 16:02:25 GMT
I think Jessie Buckley is an exceptional performer. It was clear on I’d Do Anything that she was a cut above the average, and I was so impressed with how seriously she took her craft in the years after the show. I’m gutted that I’ve had to relinquish my Cabaret tickets due to Covid.
I’ve been lucky enough to see her perform three times. As well as Night Music, I saw her play a gig in a tiny pub theatre in the middle of nowhere on a very rainy night a year or so after I’d Do Anything. She was playing shows singing jazz standards and was incredible. There were only about fifteen people in the audience but the night was most memorable for the retirement-aged couple sitting in the front row who chatted to me before Jessie came on. Turned out they were Jessie Buckley super-fans who followed her to every show. They’d travelled down to London from the Midlands somewhere to see her play, and told me they’d just booked her to do a private gig in their village hall. They went up and talked to her at the end and she looked genuinely uncomfortable…
A few years later I saw her in a very random promenade theatre piece taking place in some kind of warehouse by the Thames in Greenwich. A friend of mine was also performing in it and I’ve no idea what it was called. All I remember is it was pretty interminable, despite some good performances.
I really wish I was seeing Cabaret!
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Post by Kubrick on Feb 8, 2022 16:08:40 GMT
Absolutely thrilled to learn of Buckley’s Academy Award nomination. Well deserved; she’s marvelous in The Lost Daughter.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2022 22:59:14 GMT
Such a well deserved nomination - she does a lot with a limited amount of screen time in The Lost Daughter.
She's an incredible talent - I would have given her a nomination for Wild Rose a couple of years ago (and indeed Bafta did and then when Renee Zellweger won she specifically praised Jessie in her speech) so this almost feels overdue, as I said in the Oscar predictions thread!
She won't win (though at least the award is likely to go to another theatre star in Ariana DeBose) but the nomination is a huge string to her bow.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 8, 2022 23:30:34 GMT
She won’t win over DeBose but a huge congrats to her. Who’d have thought she’s have this career after I’d Do Anything. Pretty sure she’ll walk away with that Olivier this year
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Post by crowblack on Feb 9, 2022 15:22:08 GMT
Such a well deserved nomination - she does a lot with a limited amount of screen time in The Lost Daughter. She's an incredible talent - I would have given her a nomination for Wild Rose a couple of years ago (and indeed Bafta did and then when Renee Zellweger won she specifically praised Jessie in her speech) so this almost feels overdue, as I said in the Oscar predictions thread! She won't win (though at least the award is likely to go to another theatre star in Ariana DeBose) but the nomination is a huge string to her bow. Yes, she was great in Wild Rose and Beast. Neither would have had the promotion budget to get much awards notice though, I'd imagine. |
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Post by distantcousin on Feb 9, 2022 15:41:38 GMT
I'd Do Anything produced some real talent, not just Jessie Buckley but Samantha Barks, Rachel Tucker and the eventual winner Jodie Prenger. I'm a big fan of Siobhan Dillon too, although she has over time found musical theatre to not be her favourite medium. |
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Post by mrnutz on Feb 10, 2022 10:46:22 GMT
When are they announcing the new cast?!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2022 11:05:57 GMT
When are they announcing the new cast?! I understand rehearsals start in the next week or so. Presumably once they go into rehearsals then it'll be announced. |
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