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Post by Jon on Mar 28, 2023 20:15:22 GMT
No objection to the show but I wish they could just go to one place and stay there! Just when you hope something decent is going to get a prime West End theatre slot, this pops up again. If 2:22 is selling well, why not move it for another season. I do think we forget that theatre is all about bums on seats. |
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Post by shady23 on Mar 30, 2023 19:38:59 GMT
I eventually saw it last Sunday and, yes, I only booked it because of Cheryl.
I enjoyed it and thought she was great.
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Post by sam22 on Mar 31, 2023 12:24:46 GMT
Has anyone seen any offers for this for London?
I thought I might pop and see it as an extra show on a Sunday when I'm down but decent seats are fairly pricey.
Thanks:)
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Post by Roxie on Mar 31, 2023 13:16:27 GMT
Hi, I do fancy trying to catch Cheryl in this. Can anyone tell me please without spoilers, if this is likely to be triggering or upsetting for someone recently bereaved?
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Post by gmoneyoutlaw on Mar 31, 2023 17:11:23 GMT
Hi, I do fancy trying to catch Cheryl in this. Can anyone tell me please without spoilers, if this is likely to be triggering or upsetting for someone recently bereaved? You may be in tears during the tail end. |
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Post by Marwood on Mar 31, 2023 20:21:10 GMT
This has GOT to have Dean Gaffney in it before it departs on its global tour (or maybe Barry from Eastenders aka Shaun Williamson)
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Post by shady23 on Apr 1, 2023 23:30:26 GMT
Dean Gaffney is playing the Prince alongside Kerry Katona in the Easter panto tour of Rapunzel until June. Why do I know this?!
"Barry" would actually be a great shout though.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 13, 2023 5:45:03 GMT
New cast announced at ten am
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Post by partytentdown on Apr 13, 2023 9:13:20 GMT
New cast announced at ten am Nothing yet |
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Post by Rory on Apr 13, 2023 9:22:45 GMT
New cast announced at ten am Nothing yet Now 12pm. Be still my beating heart! |
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Post by partytentdown on Apr 13, 2023 9:34:17 GMT
Now 12pm. Be still my beating heart! Last minute change of heart from H from Steps? |
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Post by mitchelldisney on Apr 13, 2023 10:33:39 GMT
Now 12pm. Be still my beating heart! I’m now going to be disappointed when it isn’t Diana Vickers |
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Post by sophie92 on Apr 13, 2023 11:06:14 GMT
Jaime Winstone, Clifford Samuel, Sophia Bush, and Ricky Champ.
They’ve finally got me with Sophia Bush, the One Tree Hill fan in me can’t miss this
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Post by Roxie on Apr 26, 2023 10:11:07 GMT
I saw this on the 15th April, and I quite enjoyed it! I saw the twist at the end coming in the first half, Cheryl I thought was fairly good. Obviously, it wasnt the most nuanced performance, but she was passable. Jake Wood and Louise Ford were outstanding!
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2023 19:18:41 GMT
Cheryl was surprisingly not awful, or maybe she seemed passable considering the other 3 actors were...passable.
Saw the twist coming literally ten minutes in - ALEXA ANYONE?! - so that was that.
Glad to have ticked it off, will never see it again.
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Post by solotheatregoer on Apr 26, 2023 19:58:24 GMT
Cheryl was surprisingly not awful, or maybe she seemed passable considering the other 3 actors were...passable. Saw the twist coming literally ten minutes in - ALEXA ANYONE?! - so that was that. Glad to have ticked it off, will never see it again. Completely agree with this. I genuinely don't understand the praise this has received. Very predictable plot. I agree the acting wasn't terrible but it did feel a bit amateur in parts. I appreciate the production has probably been designed that way and doesn't take itself too seriously, but I didn't feel it was worth the trip overall. |
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2023 20:56:33 GMT
I have this weird conspiracy theory the whole thing is a money laundering scheme but that's for another day 😂
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Post by Roxie on Apr 26, 2023 22:25:37 GMT
Cheryl was surprisingly not awful, or maybe she seemed passable considering the other 3 actors were...passable. Saw the twist coming literally ten minutes in - ALEXA ANYONE?! - so that was that. Glad to have ticked it off, will never see it again. Yes! Alexa really needs an ‘I’m talking ABOUT you not TO you’ setting! I have to whisper it’s name when I’m in the same room as it and I’m explaining something to my dad about it, and it still lights up half the time! |
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Post by Steve on May 31, 2023 23:15:38 GMT
Saw the latest iteration of this tonight, and although the acting is strong and the basic premise and structure are still sturdy, this is the weakest of the three versions I've seen. Clifford Samuel is terrific. Some spoilers follow. . . If the A story line is whether or not there's a ghost (Jamie Winstone's Jenny says "Yes," but her husband, Clifford Samuel's Sam says "hell no"), the B storylines concern guest couple, Ben and Lauren, where Ben stresses about a class divide, between himself and everyone else, and Jenny stresses about seeing her old fancy, Sam. For the play to really pop, it's imperative we get distracted from the A storyline (the plot is otherwise too linear, the solution is easy to guess and the scares are cheap tricks) by the B storylines. The B storylines create an atmosphere of delightful delirium and complex social chaos that have the potential to add a massive amount of comedy and drama to the proceedings. In the first Lily Allen iteration of 2:22, Jake Wood brought the chaos to the character of Ben, his inferiority complex manifesting in the most outlandish and outsize behaviour that stunned the other characters and ladled in the laughs from the audience. In the Cheryl iteration, my favourite by far, not only did Jake Wood return to bring the chaos, but he brought the even more chaotic, nervy, edgy, bitter, alcoholic Louise Ford with him, as his partner, Lauren. Ford's performance was a masterclass, every action and look filled with desire and memory and intention. Like a hoity toity Noel Coward character who wandered in from another play, you couldn't take your eyes off her, as her beady eyes ate Sam up right out from under Cheryl. Coupled with Cheryl's more self-effacing embodiment of haunted fearfulness (which Allen also achieved, but with more fragility and notes to her performance), the B storylines served as spectacular entertainment, spurring endless audience laughter and gasps of excitement, allowing the more quotidian A storyline just the right amount of playtime as well as an effective climax. In this iteration, however, while Ricky Champ is gloriously sensitive, believable and loveable, he simply doesn't dominate the audience the way Wood's enormous dick of a Ben did. Similarly, while One Tree Hill fans will revel in the elegance, dignity, decency and credibility of Sophia Bush's Lauren's hush-voiced restraint and poise, as a psychiatrist who never fulfilled her desires, that very restraint diminishes the effect and function of the B storylines. Thus, the A storyline is mightily exposed in this iteration, and although Clifford Samuel's Sam is excitably compelling and funny as the disbeliever in the supernatural, he can't hide the A storyline's flaws. Jamie Winstone, who I felt was terrific opposite Russell Tovey in "Sex with a Stranger" at the Trafalgar 2, is a more experienced actress than either Lily Allen or Cheryl, and consequently, given the threadbare B storyline, her worries and fears about ghosts absolutely overpower the proceedings here, with her Jenny a much more imposing and searching figure than either Allen or Cheryl were, thrusting the mysteries of the ghost story perpetually to the fore. If this material was better, that would be a good thing, but instead, it serves to highlight the weakest aspects of the show. Therefore, despite 4 good performances, this is not more than the sum of its parts, and the material creaks at times. 3 and a half stars from me.  |
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Post by Rory on Jul 18, 2023 23:10:08 GMT
Is this finally ending in the West End on 17th Sept at the Apollo? No harm to them but I've just had a horrible thought it might try the Haymarket next.
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Post by Jon on Jul 18, 2023 23:44:26 GMT
Is this finally ending in the West End on 17th Sept at the Apollo? No harm to them but I've just had a horrible thought it might try the Haymarket next. It is touring in the Autumn so it's a maybe. Don't think we should knock a successful play, it's better than a dark theatre. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 19, 2023 17:43:56 GMT
Is this finally ending in the West End on 17th Sept at the Apollo? No harm to them but I've just had a horrible thought it might try the Haymarket next. Don't think we should knock a successful play, it's better than a dark theatre. We absolutely can knock successful plays. Being successful doesn’t mean it’s good, and it certainly doesn’t mean it’s beyond criticism. As long as people follow our rules they can criticise. Also, are dark theatres an issue in the WE? Seems to me that there’s a shortage of theatres to meet demand. Are any theatres in the West End dark at the moment? |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jul 19, 2023 20:23:42 GMT
This terrible play has been clogging up west end theatres for far too long, enough now.
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Post by westendboy on Jul 20, 2023 17:12:10 GMT
I'm not going to lie, even though I enjoyed this play when I saw it at the Gielgud, it's definitely outstayed its welcome.
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Post by mjh on Jul 21, 2023 11:33:14 GMT
Sophia Bush has withdrawn from the rest of the run, with Frankie Bridge taking her place from August.
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