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Post by shady23 on May 6, 2022 18:24:51 GMT
I have booked Newcastle.
Really looking forward to this.
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Post by pianowithsam on May 6, 2022 21:50:31 GMT
For the record (from Mischief site):
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Post by charleswill on May 7, 2022 17:41:54 GMT
Briefly had my hopes up that the original actors returning meant they would finally film this, but if it’s just two weeks and they haven’t announced such a thing, I doubt it. Still, nice to have such a stellar ensemble back.
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Post by properjob on May 8, 2022 12:29:25 GMT
I suspect they are up to something. Could be filming it or rehearsing to do so. Or they could be workshoping or rehearsing for some other project during the day.
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Post by adrianics on May 16, 2022 22:21:38 GMT
Saw the tour in Birmingham tonight. Love this show, and in particular this cast. I saw it on the West End back in 2017 but think I preferred it tonight. Exhilarating watching such a young cast who are so confident, well-drilled and already have such incredible chemistry together. It's truly exhausting to watch and genius at points. The audience were a pack of arseholes, but that's a story for the Bad Behaviour thread if I can ever be bothered. Can someone more familiar with the show than me clear something up for me? When I saw the show in the West End, the scene with Chris trying to find the ledger on the chair just featured him screaming "A LEDGER" until he eventually found it. Tonight, a child in the front row yelled "it's under the sofa" and it led to an extended monologue from Chris, yelling about how he expected better from Birmingham and we were the worst audience he'd ever had, and eventually he pretended to restart the show. In the middle was a "this is not a pantomime/oh yes it is/shut up" diatribe very similar to the televised version of Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Now I'm not naive enough to believe this was genuinely improvised, but it strikes me as unlikely that they'd involve a child. Is this something new that they've added to the show? It definitely didn't happen when I saw it on the West End. |
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Post by Dawnstar on May 17, 2022 11:02:26 GMT
Can someone more familiar with the show than me clear something up for me? When I saw the show in the West End, the scene with Chris trying to find the ledger on the chair just featured him screaming "A LEDGER" until he eventually found it. Tonight, a child in the front row yelled "it's under the sofa" and it led to an extended monologue from Chris, yelling about how he expected better from Birmingham and we were the worst audience he'd ever had, and eventually he pretended to restart the show. In the middle was a "this is not a pantomime/oh yes it is/shut up" diatribe very similar to the televised version of Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Now I'm not naive enough to believe this was genuinely improvised, but it strikes me as unlikely that they'd involve a child. Is this something new that they've added to the show? It definitely didn't happen when I saw it on the West End. I've seen similar reactions from a number of Chris actors. I imagine they have both options prepared & what is done at a particular performance depends on what that audience does. If someone audibly calls out that it's under the chaise longue then Chris will rant at the audience, if they just laugh at him then he'll keep yelling "ledger" until he finally pretends to find it. |
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Post by adrianics on May 17, 2022 13:56:13 GMT
Can someone more familiar with the show than me clear something up for me? When I saw the show in the West End, the scene with Chris trying to find the ledger on the chair just featured him screaming "A LEDGER" until he eventually found it. Tonight, a child in the front row yelled "it's under the sofa" and it led to an extended monologue from Chris, yelling about how he expected better from Birmingham and we were the worst audience he'd ever had, and eventually he pretended to restart the show. In the middle was a "this is not a pantomime/oh yes it is/shut up" diatribe very similar to the televised version of Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Now I'm not naive enough to believe this was genuinely improvised, but it strikes me as unlikely that they'd involve a child. Is this something new that they've added to the show? It definitely didn't happen when I saw it on the West End. I've seen similar reactions from a number of Chris actors. I imagine they have both options prepared & what is done at a particular performance depends on what that audience does. If someone audibly calls out that it's under the chaise longue then Chris will rant at the audience, if they just laugh at him then he'll keep yelling "ledger" until he finally pretends to find it. Yeah my wife and I landed on "they prepare two different versions of the scene" after watching, couldn't imagine a child being a plant but like I said he said a lot of stuff very similar to a scene from PPGW. Thanks  |
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Post by Dawnstar on May 17, 2022 15:39:44 GMT
Yeah my wife and I landed on "they prepare two different versions of the scene" after watching, couldn't imagine a child being a plant but like I said he said a lot of stuff very similar to a scene from PPGW. Thanks  I suppose there's only so many ways you can yell at an audience! There is another borrowing from PPGW in TPTGW: in Chris's pre-Act 2 speech the bit about the raspberry ripple ice cream was in the original PPGW production. |
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Post by marob on May 17, 2022 15:47:24 GMT
Question for Dawnstar : When I saw the show years ago Chris apologised at the beginning for a booking mix-up with Mamma Mia, which is obviously directly across the road. I saw it again last year it was a mix-up with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, which had just started. Do they change that bit often? I assume it’s dropped from the tours? |
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Post by adrianics on May 17, 2022 16:14:44 GMT
Question for Dawnstar : When I saw the show years ago Chris apologised at the beginning for a booking mix-up with Mamma Mia, which is obviously directly across the road. I saw it again last year it was a mix-up with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, which had just started. Do they change that bit often? I assume it’s dropped from the tours? He mentioned those in the audience who were meant to be seeing Waitress at the Hippodrome last night. |
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Post by Dawnstar on May 17, 2022 19:46:04 GMT
Question for Dawnstar : When I saw the show years ago Chris apologised at the beginning for a booking mix-up with Mamma Mia, which is obviously directly across the road. I saw it again last year it was a mix-up with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, which had just started. Do they change that bit often? I assume it’s dropped from the tours? I don't recall ever hearing them say anything other than Mamma Mia, though I didn't see it between February 2020 & last month so evidently missed it if they changed to Cinderella last year. Having just checked the published script (all 3 editions), those lines aren't in there at all so there is no published "official" version. |
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Post by theatreliker on May 17, 2022 20:30:10 GMT
I saw it in Leicester at Curve last week and they said Ballet Hispanico which I assumed was on at DeMontfort Hall. After googling it, apparently it was on in Curve' s studio the week before. I don't think that joke worked as well as it did in London.
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Post by david on May 19, 2022 13:16:26 GMT
I’m seeing the tour in Liverpool on Monday and wondered is the pre show stuff with the missing dog still in the show or had that been scrapped?
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Post by adrianics on May 19, 2022 16:50:20 GMT
It is.
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Post by david on May 19, 2022 16:55:37 GMT
Thanks adrianics. I’ll get to my seat early on then. |
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Post by david on May 24, 2022 18:05:28 GMT
Having been to last night's show at the Liverpool Empire with a front row seat for £15, this was a great night out and, in my opinion, is still the best "Goes Wrong" play from Mischief theatre. With a great tour cast assembled (Edi De Melo as Max being the standout for me) all the quick-fire gags and physical comedy kept us thoroughly entertained right from the pre-show missing dog stuff to the set collapse at the end.
In last night's show, we had Chris apologised for the booking mix up with Singing in the Rain (which is actually coming to Liverpool next month) and with the Ledger scene, after a while we had an audience member call out that the ledger was under the chaise longue so we went with the rant option to conclude that scene which was great.
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Post by gregsp on May 31, 2022 21:21:35 GMT
Last night's show with the original cast was amazing.
Incredible atmosphere.
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Post by JJShaw on May 31, 2022 21:47:24 GMT
Do we know why they are doing this short stint? I assume a possible filming of the show?
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Post by gregsp on Jun 1, 2022 10:17:55 GMT
Do we know why they are doing this short stint? I assume a possible filming of the show? 10th anniversary |
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Post by edelweiss on Jun 1, 2022 19:32:13 GMT
Do we know why they are doing this short stint? I assume a possible filming of the show? 10th anniversary Yes that's what I originally thought, but if we're being picky the anniversary isn't until December - when I first saw the announcement I thought the OGs would return to the West End over this Christmas. Doing 2 tour weeks is slightly random, especially when the new tour cast has only just started... so there may be something more to it? Or maybe that's wishful thinking from me  |
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Post by ptwest on Jun 4, 2022 22:30:54 GMT
Absolutely brilliant tonight on Manchester. The cast were on top form and a superb atmosphere in the theatre. If you have tickets for Newcastle next week you are in for a treat.
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Post by marob on Jun 5, 2022 0:34:24 GMT
Went to the matinee in Manchester today. I didn’t bother seeing this when the tour stopped at my local theatre only a few weeks back, but couldn’t say no to the original cast (minus Charlie Russell.) As others have said there’s a great atmosphere at this, there’s clearly a lot of love for them.
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Post by edelweiss on Jun 5, 2022 11:35:02 GMT
Went to the matinee in Manchester today. I didn’t bother seeing this when the tour stopped at my local theatre only a few weeks back, but couldn’t say no to the original cast (minus Charlie Russell.) As others have said there’s a great atmosphere at this, there’s clearly a lot of love for them. Agreed! Audience were loving it. The ticket mix-up joke at the start was South Pacific, which makes complete sense as the front of the theatre was covered with SP advertising. (The tour opens there in July). The ledger section was absolutely fantastic as people started heckling Chris; someone yelled "It's behind you!" which took us into the Peter Pan Goes Wrong bit: "oh no it isn't" "oh yes it is" "shut up you're ruining it, this is not a pantomime" etc. Henry Shields even jumped off the stage to point at people in the audience and get them to stop laughing, then pointed to a man in the middle of the front row and yelled "you should be like this man, 45 minutes in and he hasn't laughed once!!". As above poster said, Charlie was absent but her alternate Aisha Numah was great and fitted in well with the rest of the cast. At Stage Door afterwards there was a long line of 60+ people - not sure if this is representative of the whole week but anyway, if you are planning on stage dooring be warned that there may be loads of people there! The cast were all completely lovely though and stopped to chat with everyone and do photos and everything. |
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Post by stevej678 on Jun 5, 2022 15:36:42 GMT
Amazing atmosphere in the Opera House for this on Friday. The full original cast were on minus Nancy, with Mary McGurk absolutely hilarious as Annie. It was a nice touch from Henry Shields to namecheck Mary at the end who then received her own ovation from the audience.
More than any other show since theatre returned last summer, this was the one that provided the best reminder of the collective experience we'd gone without for so long. Just pure joy from the pre-show antics, to the roars from the audience as the different cast members made their first appearances on stage, through to the instant standing ovation at the end. All in all, a very special night!
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Post by shady23 on Jun 10, 2022 6:59:17 GMT
I love stuff like this. At Newcastle we had Book of Mormon as the front of our theatre is covered in ads for that.
I have to say, I have never heard an audience laugh so much at a performance. It was an absolute joy.
Loads of children in belly laughing at it which some would put in the bad behaviour thread but I found it wonderful:)
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