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Post by theatrenerd on Sept 25, 2024 12:56:13 GMT
Maybe we need a new “Magic” section on the forum? But Penn & Teller are doing a short residency at the London Palladium (their West End debut!) from 13 to 24 September 2025. On sale on Friday Presale starts tomorrow which you can sign up on www.aegpresents.co.uk/penn-and-teller-presale/ |
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Post by talkingheads on Sept 25, 2024 13:31:10 GMT
Is there any indication of prices? I HATE the secrecy about prices for every single bloomin gig, just put the prices on the page so we all know whether we want to buy tickets, it's not hard!
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Post by talkingheads on Sept 25, 2024 16:06:04 GMT
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Post by Marwood on Sept 25, 2024 18:26:35 GMT
I saw them in Vegas last year and there were a couple of good tricks/illusions (the ones with the goldfish that turned into cash being the best) but overall I wasn’t impressed, it seemed very dated: when it finished I didn’t go in search of them to get signed merch, I just wanted to get back to my hotel asap (the place they have the residency at seemed like it had long gone past its glory days)
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Post by interval99 on Sept 26, 2024 9:50:23 GMT
The LW theatres presale has lowest 52.50 to 119.50 and the first two seats on aisles on all areas are £5 more than other seats in the row.
Start time 7.30, includes Sunday but no Thursday shows.
Dynamic pricing already, mon to Wed shows about £6 cheaper. No matinees showing
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Post by mkb on Sept 26, 2024 10:45:05 GMT
I signed up for presale and the promised email never arrived.
CORRECTION:
Re-checking, the email *did* arrive earlier, but it had a subject line that began "Martin, your exclusive presale access to Bob The Drag Queen..." and the rest was off the edge of my phone screen, and I deleted it without reading as Bob did not hold much appeal for me.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 26, 2024 10:52:04 GMT
The LW theatres presale has lowest 52.50 to 119.50 and the first two seats on aisles on all areas are £5 more than other seats in the row. Start time 7.30, includes Sunday but no Thursday shows. Dynamic pricing already, mon to Wed shows about £6 cheaper. No matinees showing So they’re going to start exploiting tall people and those with medical conditions that require them to be able to get out quickly? Nice. 😐 |
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Post by mkb on Sept 26, 2024 10:59:12 GMT
£108.50 for a half-decent stalls seat on a midweek night is roughly twice what I'd be prepared to pay, so a pass from me.
In any case, it was only June last year that I saw them at the Hammersmith Apollo. That cost just 4,000 Accor points (€80 value) for two tickets including lounge access.
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Post by andrew on Sept 28, 2024 8:25:52 GMT
I've been a fan of P&T for almost my whole life through their TV work, Youtube clips etc and found the Hammersmith show last year pretty disappointing. I enjoyed seeing some of the classic tricks in person, but the whole show was just a big underwhelming, the new tricks they had were not engaging, and I couldn't believe the ending was the ending, it just sort of stopped. Fair enough if doing the bullet catch in the UK is impossible, but come up with something spectacular to end on instead. I'll give this one a miss, I suspect they're just past their prime.
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Post by mkb on Sept 28, 2024 9:34:41 GMT
I've been a fan of P&T for almost my whole life through their TV work, Youtube clips etc and found the Hammersmith show last year pretty disappointing. I enjoyed seeing some of the classic tricks in person, but the whole show was just a big underwhelming, the new tricks they had were not engaging, and I couldn't believe the ending was the ending, it just sort of stopped. Fair enough if doing the bullet catch in the UK is impossible, but come up with something spectacular to end on instead. I'll give this one a miss, I suspect they're just past their prime. Why would the bullet catch be impossible in the UK? That was just spin from them in the previous show wasn't it? You can have theatrical guns on stage still, and obviously no actual bullets are fired. Don't see the problem. |
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Post by andrew on Sept 28, 2024 10:11:46 GMT
I've been a fan of P&T for almost my whole life through their TV work, Youtube clips etc and found the Hammersmith show last year pretty disappointing. I enjoyed seeing some of the classic tricks in person, but the whole show was just a big underwhelming, the new tricks they had were not engaging, and I couldn't believe the ending was the ending, it just sort of stopped. Fair enough if doing the bullet catch in the UK is impossible, but come up with something spectacular to end on instead. I'll give this one a miss, I suspect they're just past their prime. Why would the bullet catch be impossible in the UK? That was just spin from them in the previous show wasn't it? You can have theatrical guns on stage still, and obviously no actual bullets are fired. Don't see the problem. I think the point would be that if you perform the bullet catch in the UK it makes it obvious they weren't real guns in the first place. The reasoning doesn't matter, if they've decided that they can't do it then they need to come up with a better finale. I can't remember how it was couched, but it was some pretty tame fire eating stuff right? The whole experience felt a bit phoned in. |
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Post by mkb on Sept 28, 2024 10:31:29 GMT
Why would the bullet catch be impossible in the UK? That was just spin from them in the previous show wasn't it? You can have theatrical guns on stage still, and obviously no actual bullets are fired. Don't see the problem. I think the point would be that if you perform the bullet catch in the UK it makes it obvious they weren't real guns in the first place. The reasoning doesn't matter, if they've decided that they can't do it then they need to come up with a better finale. I can't remember how it was couched, but it was some pretty tame fire eating stuff right? The whole experience felt a bit phoned in. I agree the ending was weak. The second half, being just 45 minutes, was far too short, and it did feel like a spectacular finale had been chopped. It's becoming increasingly difficult for big-budget performers to come up with anything truly original and mind-blowing, so quite what they could have added to sate me I don't know. All the genuinely innovative ideas get nicked by the America's/Britain's Got Talent formats. These days I am getting more pleasure marvelling at the small close-up sleights of hand. |
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