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Post by aemiliapaula on Apr 7, 2019 23:16:30 GMT
Hair the Musical - 50th Anniversary Fantastic show. Just brilliant. Loved every second They'll be gaga at the Go-go When they see me in my toga My toga made of blond, Brilliantined, biblical hair
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Apr 8, 2019 10:54:07 GMT
Hair the Musical - 50th Anniversary Fantastic show. Just brilliant. Loved every second They'll be gaga at the Go-go When they see me in my toga My toga made of blond, Brilliantined, biblical hair Give me a head with Hair, shoulder length or longer. Here baby, there Mama, everywhere Daddy Daddy Hair (Hair, hair, hair, hair)
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Post by melkur on May 2, 2019 10:36:10 GMT
"Where's your grandpa right now?" "In the trunk of our car..."
Yesterday afternoon I finally saw a matinee of 'Little Miss Sunshine', my 35th show of the year, in London. I haven't seen the film yet (but I am planning to in the next couple of days), but I think this is the musical adaption I never knew I needed...
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Post by melkur on May 8, 2019 23:29:59 GMT
Today I spent a slightly wet and windy Wednesday at The Globe theatre watching both parts of 'Henry IV', which I really enjoyed and would happily see again!
I'm planning on seeing the "follow-up", 'Henry V', at some stage, but it depends on when it's on...
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 9, 2019 2:32:01 GMT
Not me, but my wife saw "Aladdin" yesterday.
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Post by masterdoctor on May 9, 2019 4:10:16 GMT
Does it count if you're playing Pulitzer in Newsies as seeing/reading it?
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Post by melkur on May 15, 2019 23:31:54 GMT
This evening I (finally) saw a production of 'The Last Five Years' at one of my local theatres and, well, it's been a while since I've been so... Mixed about a show. 'Good songs well performed, for a minimal budget show, it looked fine, but there were moments where the music was louder than the actress playing Cathy... 'As it was 78minutes straight-through, it did feel a little short (had I known I'd have headed to Guildford early to watch a film beforehand to make my time over there 'worth it'), but I enjoyed it adequately, I guess? 'Will definitely be watching the film-adaption with Anna Kendrick in a week or two though 
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Post by masterdoctor on May 16, 2019 17:35:57 GMT
Tonight is my last night performing in a local production of Newsies the Musical as Joseph Pulitzer and suffice it to say; I am a bit bummed but glad I had such a great opportunity.
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Post by melkur on Jun 13, 2019 0:06:46 GMT
Today I saw my 45th show of the year (Jesus...), 'Death Of A Salesman', at the Young Vic in London. Ignoring the fact that my, um, rear-end got rather numb throughout, I enjoyed it enough, I guess? It was nice to finally see Sharon Clark in something, it's just... Throughout the two-and-three-quarter hour runtime, the woman next to me would. Not. Stop. Effing. Sniffing! =_=
Ho hum
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 16:57:16 GMT
The Sweet Science of Bruising at the wonderful Wilton Music Hall. Great play about female Victorian boxers written by Joy Wilkinson who wrote The Witchfinders.
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Post by tuigirl on Jun 29, 2019 23:23:07 GMT
For the 30 year anniversary of the company I now work for, our boss invited all staff to a local open air theatre- for free food and a show. The show was a German comedy drama about generation conflict- some aging old time hippies moving into a flat next to some young career driven law students. German humour can often be a bit of an acquired taste, but I actually enjoyed the show. It made me remember how much I actually enjoy theatre. The actors were doing a good job and people had a good laugh. It was nothing overly sophisticated/ clever or something I would usually choose to watch, but it was great as a change of pace for me and something different. Plus, it was for free. There are certainly worse ways to spend an evening.
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Post by timegirl on Jun 30, 2019 22:12:48 GMT
Just went to see One Man, Two Guvners and it was one of the most hilarious shows I have ever seen 🤣So much physical comedy!😃
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Post by melkur on Jul 1, 2019 2:04:41 GMT
As we're on holiday at the minute, this evening I took my parents to see 'Come From Away' at Atlanta (my second time seeing it this year). 'Not sure how my father found it, but my mother certainly loved it!
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Post by Hieronymus on Jul 10, 2019 0:57:59 GMT
The Royal Opera production of The Marriage of Figaro, via the magic of internet streaming.
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Post by melkur on Jul 15, 2019 22:24:25 GMT
Last week was the first since the end of January where I didn't see (at least) a show... Jesus.
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Post by fingersmash on Jul 15, 2019 22:35:51 GMT
Legally Blonde at the Arts Center. Fun, campy, silly. I love it.
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Post by Hieronymus on Dec 8, 2019 2:26:12 GMT
The new Polish National Opera production of Puccini's Tosca. A powerful production of a visceral drama.
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Post by shutupbanks on Dec 8, 2019 14:05:16 GMT
I went and saw two plays at the Pop-Up Globe this week. It completed my viewing of all the plays in their repertoire. They did A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Measure For Measure and Twelfth Night. None of them were brilliant (except maybe Twelfth Night which was hilarious) but they were all very good and they all tried to avoid the trap of producing a museum piece and created something relevant and modern with its own ideas or take on the text.
I loved all of them: for those who don’t live in the Antipodes or have no interest in theatre, the Pop-Up Globe is a traveling reconstruction of the Globe theatre that performs Shakespeare’s plays in an environment close to what the public in Shakespeare’s day would have been in. It’s a New Zealand-based project that has travelled over to Australia for a while.
All the plays were great fun. It’s a mostly young cast but they are a true ensemble and work brilliantly together and make it a fantastic experience for the audience who are often involved in the proceedings as well. They do take a few liberties (there’s a couple of references to local politics, a few deliberate anachronisms (in Hamlet, most characters were wearing something approaching generic period dress but Polonius was wandering around with a mobile phone (which was the cause of him being discovered by Hamlet behind the arras) and it is quite a lot more sweary than i remember Shakespeare being) and a reasonable amount of improv with the audience or - as was the case when I saw Hamlet - the weather. But this just added to the atmosphere: it was the most fun I’ve had at the theatre in years.
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Post by melkur on Mar 5, 2020 0:54:58 GMT
This evening I saw 'Be More Chill' in London. I don't know if I was really expecting to enjoy it much going in (it was very much a 'spur of the moment' buy back in November), but I ended up really enjoying it!
Relatable? Pff, never...
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Post by timegirl on Mar 5, 2020 2:45:11 GMT
This evening I saw 'Be More Chill' in London. I don't know if I was really expecting to enjoy it much going in (it was very much a 'spur of the moment' buy back in November), but I ended up really enjoying it! Relatable? Pff, never... Oh My God! I love that show! 😃I saw it on Broadway😊 Did they set it the UK or US for London? What was your favorite songs? Mine is definitely Michael in the Bathroom! How was Jeremy and the Squip? They are making a movie version as well!😊
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