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Post by drmaplewood on Jul 21, 2022 15:20:25 GMT
PWC tickets on sale this Tuesday, 3 shows with Helen Hunt, the other 2 with the understudy.
Tue 06 Sep, 7.30pm
Wed 07 Sep, 7.30pm
Thu 08 Sep, 7.30pm
Tue 13 Sep, 7.30pm**
Wed 14 Sep, 7.30pm**
**From 13–16 Sep Helen Hunt will not perform and the role of Suzanne will be played by an understudy.
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Post by saints on Jul 21, 2022 19:42:15 GMT
Hello, does anyone know when the onstage seating goes onsale for this?
Thanks!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jul 21, 2022 21:55:26 GMT
Hello, does anyone know when the onstage seating goes onsale for this? Thanks! Onstage seating what?! |
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Post by nottobe on Jul 21, 2022 22:04:03 GMT
Hello, does anyone know when the onstage seating goes onsale for this? Thanks! I think that is just an error on the Old Vic website. I believe as A Christmas Carol has them, it automatically adds them to all the seating plans. Here they are said to be 'sold out' when they wont actually exist for this production at all. I think they have had this issue before. |
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Post by jm25 on Jul 21, 2022 23:01:44 GMT
PWC tickets on sale this Tuesday, 3 shows with Helen Hunt, the other 2 with the understudy. Tue 06 Sep, 7.30pm
Wed 07 Sep, 7.30pm
Thu 08 Sep, 7.30pm
Tue 13 Sep, 7.30pm**
Wed 14 Sep, 7.30pm**
**From 13–16 Sep Helen Hunt will not perform and the role of Suzanne will be played by an understudy.
Thought I'd missed the PWC tickets! Glad I held off booking. Will see if I'm able to pick one up. |
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Post by Dave B on Jul 26, 2022 11:47:17 GMT
I had forgotten PWC was today and so I was late to the queue. Stalls seats long gone, so annoyed with myself. Still used the 4000 Miles credit, left with some change from that. Looks like there is a new OV Loyalty scheme for direct bookings too, small number of points for cheap bookings and some more for opting in. I suspect it'll take a lot of PWC previews to add up to any sort of discount but slow and steady etc etc.
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Post by jm25 on Jul 26, 2022 12:37:14 GMT
Picked up a couple of PWC seats. Got stuck in a queue on my phone but tried on my desktop and strangely got in straightaway. Looks like there’s still good availability for the week Helen Hunt is off.
Are there no Rows A-D for this?
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Post by theoracle on Jul 26, 2022 14:42:16 GMT
Managed to get in very painlessly earlier. Might’ve been first in the queue as I arrived at 12pm and managed to get central row L for a Helen show. Never got PwC tickets before as I always forget but wow, what a bargain!! Very happy today
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Post by margoc on Jul 27, 2022 7:14:20 GMT
Managed to get tickets for the 26th oct, im surprised it didn't sell out, usually a hollywood name regardless of whom they are usually causes tickets to sell like hot cakes.
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Post by Mark on Jul 27, 2022 9:11:49 GMT
Managed to get tickets for the 26th oct, im surprised it didn't sell out, usually a hollywood name regardless of whom they are usually causes tickets to sell like hot cakes. Tell that to Amy Adams - tickets readily available for the entire run of Menagerie. |
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Post by Jon on Jul 27, 2022 9:22:35 GMT
Helen Hunt isn't exactly a big name though.
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Post by alessia on Jul 27, 2022 10:27:11 GMT
Managed to get tickets for the 26th oct, im surprised it didn't sell out, usually a hollywood name regardless of whom they are usually causes tickets to sell like hot cakes. Tell that to Amy Adams - tickets readily available for the entire run of Menagerie. Indeed! I was surprised Amy Adams did not attract more people. Compare that with Jodie Comer! |
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Post by margoc on Jul 27, 2022 11:56:00 GMT
Tell that to Amy Adams - tickets readily available for the entire run of Menagerie. Indeed! I was surprised Amy Adams did not attract more people. Compare that with Jodie Comer! I think what helped jodie was the fact she had just finished killing eve and people wanted to see her in something new. |
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Post by vickyg on Jul 28, 2022 11:23:17 GMT
Helen Hunt isn't exactly a big name though. Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy winning actor Helen Hunt? I would say she is quite a big name. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jul 29, 2022 8:28:32 GMT
Helen Hunt isn't exactly a big name though. Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy winning actor Helen Hunt? I would say she is quite a big name. She hasn’t had a profile for years. Name her last film? She’s a great actress, but this isn’t Julia Robert’s/Julianne Moore/Cate Blanchett level casting. |
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Post by theoracle on Jul 29, 2022 11:05:16 GMT
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Post by Being Alive on Jul 29, 2022 11:17:28 GMT
Yes, for a very American play. I think it makes lots of sense |
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Post by jamb0r on Jul 29, 2022 13:18:44 GMT
Susan Kelechi Watson was my favourite thing about This Is Us. I’m more excited to see her on stage than I am Helen Hunt! Even more happy with my front row centre PWC ticket now!
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Post by alessia on Jul 29, 2022 14:07:54 GMT
Susan Kelechi Watson was my favourite thing about This Is Us. I’m more excited to see her on stage than I am Helen Hunt! Even more happy with my front row centre PWC ticket now! That's great, I loved her in This is Us and I'm with you- more excited to see her than H Hunt! |
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Post by mkb on Aug 24, 2022 9:16:15 GMT
The running time in New York is reported as being 1:50 including (a presumably 15-minute) interval.
Does anyone have any insider knowledge of whether the Old Vic production is likely to be much different, aside from a likely longer interval?
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Post by drmaplewood on Sept 6, 2022 9:06:38 GMT
£25 rush available on TodayTix
Also got the e mail that this is 2 hrs, including the interval.
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Post by mkb on Sept 6, 2022 22:00:52 GMT
I got that too. Any first-hand reports of what time the show ended tonight?
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Post by al on Sept 7, 2022 6:05:28 GMT
Wonderful evening. Both extremely funny and thought provoking. Was very well received by the audience. Finished at 9.35pm. Highly recommended.
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Post by Steve on Sept 7, 2022 22:41:58 GMT
Saw this tonight, and agree with everything Al said: "extremely funny and thought-provoking!" The cast is uniformly terrific, the writing is clever, the first half is hilarious, the second half dramatically impactful. Really great theatre, well-worth a trip! Some spoilers follow. . . A school committee at a very liberal school tries to give everyone a hearing, but when mumps comes a calling, how do you bridge the line between vaxxers and anti-vaxxers? There's a "Gods of Carnage" vibe of inevitability about these good souls falling out, but at the same time, this isn't as misanthropic as that play, a lot more complex than the idea that everyone is simply hiding an inner savage. In that sense, it's actually more interesting and I was a lot less sure about what would happen, which is great. At the same time, it's always a lot less funny when people in shows are not going all the way savage lol. Spector ingeniously manages to have his cake and eat it, in Act 1, by having a zoom meeting between the committee and the parents at the school. This imports a kind of anonymous social media savagery into the mix, which coupled with the hapless reactions of the committee, makes for some of the best stage comedy I've ever seen. The information flow is so fast and furious and funny, it is impossible to take it all in, and makes this a play it would be fun to see again, just to try to take in what you missed the first time round lol. The second half of the play is less funny, more poignant, and all together, it's an exceptional play, although I yearned for more of the sheer unmanageable wildness of the scene that ended the first half, which the playwright denied me. The players were terrific too. I'm most familiar with Helen Hunt, having seen a bunch of nineties and noughties movies once upon a time. From her movies, I'd say her biggest strengths are her witty humour (eg arguing with Bill Paxton in "Twister," where, with exquisite comic timing, she pushes all his buttons deliberately) and her ability to emote extreme compassion (eg in "Project X" or "The Sessions" or "As Good as it gets," where, by wide-eyed, raised-brow, open countenanced empathy, I found myself crying over, in turn, the pain of experimental chimps, a man in an iron lung, and of all things, the meanest man in the world lol). Here, Hunt's talents are utilised in reverse, with her being the stiff hapless butt, rather than the witty loose instigator, of jokes, and her compassion is similarly polluted with a rigidity, whereby you half suspect she'll morph into Nurse Ratched at any minute and smother and destroy everything she purportedly stands for. It's a fascinating and beautifully calibrated performance that kept me off balance and interested for the duration. By contrast, Mark McKinney's committee moderator is so predictably precise about sitting smack in the middle of every fence, that watching the plot constantly and cruelly throw him off balance is endlessly amusing as well as endearing. The character I most identified with was Susan Kelechi Watson's Carina, a newcomer to the school committee, whose silent, raised eyebrowed, disbelief at all the extreme cosseted customs, was relatable and funny. By the most minimal micro-expressions, Kelechi Watson got laughs inversely proportional to how little she did to get them. The more she disguised her exasperation, the funnier it all was. Anyhow, I loved this show, and I will certainly see it again.  4 and a half stars from me. |
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Post by Dave B on Sept 8, 2022 7:20:00 GMT
We saw this last night and enjoyed it a whole lot. I think Steve mostly hits the nail on the head in his review just above but I have one particular issue.
The timing seems off throughout. In the very funny first act, there are no gaps for laughs to land and a lot of lines totally missed as the cast just keep going leaving a lot inaudible due to laughter. This is really notable during the zoom where frankly there is at least 5 minutes (it felt like 10!) where the cast may as well have been miming on stage as the laughter at the social media again drowns out everything. This left me feeling this section was way too long, it could have just run at the interval or pre-show, it was just a waste of the cast and their script for too long.
But other than that, yes really good and the cast were a lot of fun and looked to be having fun with it too.
Interval 20:18 and whole thing finished at 21.32
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