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Post by danb on Apr 20, 2022 12:18:42 GMT
Yes, we appear to be in the gallery but the box office guy I spoke to said it was unreserved up there really. We are bang central in row p, so I don’t really want it to be a bunfight once we get in. Is this normally the case?
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Post by fiyero on Apr 20, 2022 13:42:07 GMT
Yes, we appear to be in the gallery but the box office guy I spoke to said it was unreserved up there really. We are bang central in row p, so I don’t really want it to be a bunfight once we get in. Is this normally the case? The booking page says row P is unreserved and you will be seated on arrival. The other 2 rows appear to be assigned seating. |
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Post by sleepflower on Apr 20, 2022 14:55:28 GMT
My ticket says Zone D, Seat X14...I can't even see that on the seat plan so I hope it exists lol
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Post by mkb on Apr 20, 2022 15:09:26 GMT
My ticket says Zone D, Seat X14...I can't even see that on the seat plan so I hope it exists lol That means you bought the 14th band D ticket. You will have been assigned an actual seat by now, but you will have to contact the box office if you want to know what it is. |
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Post by theatrefan77 on Apr 20, 2022 23:45:46 GMT
Yes, we appear to be in the gallery but the box office guy I spoke to said it was unreserved up there really. We are bang central in row p, so I don’t really want it to be a bunfight once we get in. Is this normally the case? The booking page says row P is unreserved and you will be seated on arrival. The other 2 rows appear to be assigned seating. That's strange. They told me that I have been allocated row P with specific seat numbers, maybe because I'm going to one of the socially distance performances |
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Post by danb on Apr 21, 2022 6:05:47 GMT
Yes, we have seat numbers allocated but he followed it by saying it was unreserved. Crazy.
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Post by Mark on Apr 22, 2022 10:50:21 GMT
First preview cancelled.
However, £5 tix available for first preview on the 27th.
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Post by n1david on Apr 26, 2022 18:17:14 GMT
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Post by LaLuPone on Apr 26, 2022 18:19:07 GMT
Noooo 😪
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Post by dazzerlump on Apr 27, 2022 20:33:39 GMT
What do we think this row P high seats will be like as Ive only seen Fun Home at the young vic. It also lets you pick a seat number but says they are unreserved??
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Post by couldileaveyou on Apr 27, 2022 23:12:38 GMT
I'm not a big fan of Oklahoma! and watching the pro-shot of the National Theatre production is pretty much like my definition of hell. The production that started previews tonight at the Young Vic, and that won the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2019, is going to be even more divisive than Regent's Park Carousel, and I feel like I could already write a list of which board users won't like it and what they will say. As for me, I enjoyed it enormously.
It's a very stripped back production with only 12 actors and 7 musicians, and it works extraordinarily well. It didn't feel like a first preview at all, it could easily open in a couple of days. Daniel Fish's take on the 79-year-old show really reminded me of the NT production of Follies: not for the aesthetics, but for the director's ability to make the "play behind the musical" emerge -- the book scenes are not a chore like in most productions of Oklahoma, but where the real meat is. This is not to say that the musical aspect is less important or not as accomplished, the new orchestrations are great and the cast is top-notch.
With all the potentially divisive choices of the production, I doubt people will find much to criticise in the cast: Anoushka Lucas is a wonderful singer and performs Laurey's sexual awakening with moving sincerity, Liza Sadovy is finally having some fun after six months of performing heart-break 8 times a week, James Davis is an endearing Will Parker, and Stavros Demetraki is an excellent Ali Hakim. Marisha Wallace will win awards for her performance. Patrick Vaill from the Broadway cast is a terrific Judd and he's one of the most innovative aspects of Fish's production: he's not your stereotypical brute, but a handsome man not without sex appeal, and not entirely repulsive to Laurey, but that ultimately is the very definition of an incel. Arthur Darvill as Curly is in very fine form, although I was slightly surpised by how closely his vocals are modelled after Damon Daunno's from the Broadway cast. It's an uniformely excellent cast and the whole show feels like an ensemble piece.
The great innovation is in the final trial scene: it's chilling and works really well. Instead of rushing over the scene's problematic moral implications that most productions tend to ignore and gloss over, Fish brings it front centre, and it's an upsetting and very satisfying moment.
It's not perfect: they play a bit too much with light and darkness, and the ballet scene is a bit hit or miss. I didn't love the choreography and its placement at the beginning of act 2 is slightly awkward - but at least it works as a tremendous entr'acte. The second act drags a little, but the fault is in the material. Some aspects might play better in the States than over here: there is a significant use of guns that affected my American friend on a very personal level, while in a place as (fairly) guns-free as London it probably loses some of its edges.
I'm very happy I saw it, it's not going to be everybody's cup of tea but I loved it.
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Post by eoghan31 on Apr 27, 2022 23:30:35 GMT
Cast are without doubt uniformly excellent. The blackout scenes are way too long and the ballet scene too indulgent with an intensity that fizzles out. Like the previous poster I’m glad I saw it but no desire to return. No doubt the producers will be keen to transfer but might be best to secure a seat at The Young Vic as it will most likely divide critics and audiences for that to be assured.
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Post by danb on Apr 28, 2022 6:40:10 GMT
Did e-tickets get sent out for this a couple of days before, as I’ve had nothing for next week yet?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 28, 2022 7:00:16 GMT
Show warnings from YV website
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Post by ladidah on Apr 28, 2022 8:05:44 GMT
I adore the original version of Oklahoma and after seeing the reviews and photos it's not for me. I like the escapism  |
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Post by Dr Tom on Apr 28, 2022 8:27:25 GMT
I was also there last night. Very enjoyable and the show is in good shape for a first preview, but there's also a roughness there which isn't all intentional.
This was transferred well from New York, but there are some things that just don't suit a UK audience (looking around - people mostly aged under 30) so well. The laughs and applause are made in different places. They have very different actors in some of the roles. The performance space is a lot smaller too. If nothing else, they shouldn't rely on the cast members being able to catch.
Fourth row stalls, where I sat, is the perfect place to see the show from. You're on a raised seat on the back row, but far enough from the stage to avoid being covered in beer and other liquids (I'm sure they must be sponsored by Bud Light with the amount of cans they get through). If you're in the centre block, your view is blocked by the band throughout. Front row of tables, you will have actors perched waiting in front of you for much of the show.
Thankfully, the gunshots (only four of them) have been restrained from Broadway and there are far fewer guns around (mostly pinned high on the walls).
The music sounds wonderful. Sound quality is mixed. Some of the vocals are so quiet as to be inaudible. Some scenes use free-standing microphones which people are just singing into too closely. There were lots of the creative team seated and taking notes, so I'm sure these issues will be fixed. The blackout scenes add little in this version (and I watched people leave just before the blackouts, so they are clearly a known trigger for UK audiences).
As for the cast, Arthur Darvill sings and plays guitar wonderfully as you'd expect and plays Curly without overstatement. Anoushka Lucas is a perfect Laurey. I think I was most impressed by James Davis as Will Parker. And the show really comes alive when Stavros Demetraki sings It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage!
The single biggest failing to me was I Cain't Say No was reworking to be sung in the style of And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going, which just came across as a screech. Otherwise, I thought that Marisha Wallace was very funny as Ado Annie.
This also ran very long last night. I didn't get out of the building until 10:40pm. There are opportunities to tighten things, especially some of the lines that are spoken very slowly and the long pauses.
One thing I liked is when they showed the Lucky Dip ticket holders in, one lady said that she'd booked two seats for social distancing and they didn't force her to take one of the Lucky Dippers (the seats are mostly benches, so no arm rests and you're otherwise very close to your neighbours).
Most people were very good about masks (required for the front seats), although there wasn't much enforcement against nose wearers and people who pulled them down.
Okay, those are my early thoughts for a production that was the potential to be very good. I look forward to seeing this again later in the run when everything is fully polished.
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Apr 28, 2022 8:54:33 GMT
Did e-tickets get sent out for this a couple of days before, as I’ve had nothing for next week yet? I'm there on Friday and received an email yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon which reads in part "Your performance e-ticket will be sent to you 48 hours before the performance date". However there's an attachment, to which the email makes no reference, but when clicked it produces the actual ticket ( far side of upstairs row K for my January £20 ). Sending an email 48 hours before the show with the message that the ticket will follow when it's actually included is another example of the Young Vic's somewhat different way of doing things ! |
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Post by raiseitup on Apr 28, 2022 10:39:52 GMT
I've just had to return my £20 tickets for tomorrow night – row K side seats, it looks like they're up on the Young Vic website now if anyone's looking for a pair of cheapies.
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Post by jaggy on Apr 28, 2022 13:21:12 GMT
Does anyone know if this is going to be filmed and broadcast/ streamed? There were rumours that it is but I can’t find an offical announcement.
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Post by Dave B on Apr 29, 2022 8:57:33 GMT
We saw this last night. Our £20 Zone C - Best Available tickets came through 4 days before as row C to the side of the musicians. Our view was fine throughout, quite happy with that. I don't often post or visit the musicals section. Not really my thing, I do want to see Cabaret and occasionally dip into that thread but mostly happy to stick in the drama section. This sounded interesting and we like the YV, enough to be members and normally just book everything they put on (rarely gone wrong) in the cheap to vaguely cheap seats. I also have never seen Oklahoma! or really know anything about it... to the point where until last night I had no idea it was the origin for Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' So having now admitted all of that - yeah this was not really for us. A lot of good stuff, the cast were pretty great throughout and we liked them all. I'll only single out Arthur Darvill because he seemed to be having so much more fun than in Rare Earth Mettle just a short time ago. Otherwise it's very much an ensemble, no weak links and most get a chance to shine. My guess is that it works a lot better for musical or Oklahoma! fans, it's harder to appreciate the deconstruction without having the basis for that deconstruction. It wasn't until reading this thread that I realised Jud wasn't normally an attractive and real option for Laurey but a menace or brute etc.
{Spoiler - click to view}I liked the ending, it's not a happy ending, it's if anything pretty downbeat and the newly-weds look like they'll be struggling with this for a while, an impact on them. A downer to leave an audience on - which I admire. That probably sums it up for myself and herself, admired it throughout but probably admired it more than we enjoyed it. I'd suspect we are in the minority and there were a lot of very happy people on their feet at the end.
Out around 10.30. Fairly full, small number of empty seats dotted around. Better mask usage than most shows (and at least some level of enforcement for the front rows). Usual YV programme for £4.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 29, 2022 9:02:40 GMT
Does anyone know if this is going to be filmed and broadcast/ streamed? There were rumours that it is but I can’t find an offical announcement. One of the theatre bloggers said it would be broadcast back in November, but the page doesn’t exist anymore so I guess he withdrew it. |
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 29, 2022 9:59:00 GMT
They marked a few performances at 'being filmed'
Cinemas have the NT Live slate through till October now so I don't think it's going out that way
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Post by mrnutz on Apr 29, 2022 10:56:20 GMT
We saw this last night. Our £20 Zone C - Best Available tickets came through 4 days before as row C to the side of the musicians. Our view was fine throughout, quite happy with that. I don't often post or visit the musicals section. Not really my thing, I do want to see Cabaret and occasionally dip into that thread but mostly happy to stick in the drama section. This sounded interesting and we like the YV, enough to be members and normally just book everything they put on (rarely gone wrong) in the cheap to vaguely cheap seats. I also have never seen Oklahoma! or really know anything about it... to the point where until last night I had no idea it was the origin for Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' So having now admitted all of that - yeah this was not really for us. A lot of good stuff, the cast were pretty great throughout and we liked them all. I'll only single out Arthur Darvill because he seemed to be having so much more fun than in Rare Earth Mettle just a short time ago. Otherwise it's very much an ensemble, no weak links and most get a chance to shine. My guess is that it works a lot better for musical or Oklahoma! fans, it's harder to appreciate the deconstruction without having the basis for that deconstruction. It wasn't until reading this thread that I realised Jud wasn't normally an attractive and real option for Laurey but a menace or brute etc.
{Spoiler - click to view}I liked the ending, it's not a happy ending, it's if anything pretty downbeat and the newly-weds look like they'll be struggling with this for a while, an impact on them. A downer to leave an audience on - which I admire. That probably sums it up for myself and herself, admired it throughout but probably admired it more than we enjoyed it. I'd suspect we are in the minority and there were a lot of very happy people on their feet at the end.
Out around 10.30. Fairly full, small number of empty seats dotted around. Better mask usage than most shows (and at least some level of enforcement for the front rows). Usual YV programme for £4.
What number seats please? As I am also Row C but booked as Zone A before seating plan was available... |
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Post by Dave B on Apr 29, 2022 11:28:46 GMT
What number seats please? As I am also Row C but booked as Zone A before seating plan was available... C30/31 |
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Post by mrnutz on Apr 29, 2022 11:37:22 GMT
What number seats please? As I am also Row C but booked as Zone A before seating plan was available... C30/31 Thanks - I have 60/61. The first seats on the corner of one of the side rows - opposite side from yours. I hate not choosing my own seats! |
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