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Anyone feel hiding replacement boards is deceptive?
Jun 7
2011, 10:06:18 AM
The only exception is when the star performer's name is ABOVE the title on the marquee. If they are out, you can legally go to the box office and insist on a refund, because in that case, you ARE paying to see a performer, since their name is more prominent than the title.
Legally? No. The theatres are under no obligation to give a refund for a ticket, but in the case of above-the-title names, they almost all make the exception as a goodwill gesture. Alas, the fact they do common
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So I Found This Poster At A Yard Sale Yesterday... (Help With It's Value)
Jun 6
2011, 09:25:09 AM
You will come back and let us know once you've found out, right? :)
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Arcadia
May 26
2011, 05:33:56 AM
Tortoise, dude. Plautus is a tortoise. :P
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Favorite BWW Board Posts
May 16
2011, 07:50:42 AM
Any Friday night meltdown, not just AntoniJan's. Though the creativity and hilarity that arose from those in particular astounds me to this very day. 
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After the Dance- Benedict Cumberbatch on Broadway
May 7
2011, 06:40:51 AM
Sir, surely you jest. "Excellent" is not strong enough a word for the majesty of this production! 
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After the Dance- Benedict Cumberbatch on Broadway
May 7
2011, 05:25:37 AM
I'm not gonna lie, I will scream and stamp my feet and weep in bitter envy if you get this production *and* Nancy Carroll *and* Adrian Scarborough. It was insanely wonderful and remains the utmost highlight of 2010 for me.
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Most Famous Broadway Show?
May 3
2011, 08:32:15 AM
I would give extra points to Phantom because most people know it is a Broadway show but they also could describe the plot ("dude in a mask obsessed with a singer"). I'm not sure that's the case anymore for Cats or The Sound of Music.
Be fair, a lot of people who've seen Cats couldn't describe the plot of that either.
I'd say Phantom of the Opera. Do you really truly honestly think the average joe in the street knows what A Chorus Line is?
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Has the memory of a beloved performer in the past ruined a show for you ?
Apr 29
2011, 10:56:29 AM
I don't know about "ruined", and it's not musicals, but I find it very difficult to warm to Gertrude and Horatio in most productions of Hamlet since falling for Penny Downie and Peter De Jersey in the recent RSC production. I'm also forever seeking a brilliant new Othello, but since Chiwetel Ejiofor at the Donmar Warehouse, I don't think it's going to happen. And I have a horrible feeling that, in Derek Jacobi, I have already seen the finest King Lear I ever will see.
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Has a reviewer ever dismissed a Pull quote?
Apr 28
2011, 05:06:53 AM
My favourite recent pullquote is "I'm dying to see it!" for Umbrellas of Cherbourg. It's like they weren't even trying.
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When people get the song title wrong
Apr 27
2011, 05:26:06 AM
"Pig No Pig" from Betty Blue Eyes will be repeatedly called "There's a pig in the house" no doubt.
Not as long as Ann Emery is playing Mother Dear.
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JERUSALEM Reviews
Apr 22
2011, 05:36:58 AM
Richard II has that whole wonderful bit from John of Gaunt about how England ain't what it used to be. I don't know about the intermediate links, but if there is such a line, it does at least go back 400-odd years. 
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Go ahead! List every show you've seen in chronological order...
Apr 21
2011, 09:28:27 AM
Jordan: I'm at work, it's a slow day, and my theatre history is in conveniently accessible online lists anyway.
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Go ahead! List every show you've seen in chronological order...
Apr 21
2011, 07:03:58 AM
If location is not specified, it's London. I'll mostly weed out repeat trips but may keep a couple in if I have reason for doing so. And I only started keeping detailed records in 2006, so you'll just have to imagine the repeated trips to Blood Brothers and Joseph that made up the bulk of my pre-2006 theatre-going life.
2006
Sunday in the Park with George - Wyndham's
The Woman in Black - Fortune
The Last 5 Years - Menier
Les Miserables - Queen's
Evita - Adelphi
Billy Elliot - Victoria Palace
Wicked - Apollo Victoria
Guys and Dolls - Piccadilly
Avenue Q - Noel Coward
Metamorphosis - Lyric Hammersmith
The 39 Steps - Criterion
Amadeus - Wilton's Music Hall
Amy's View - Theatre Royal Bath
Outlying Islands - Ustinov, Bath
Bent - Trafalgar Studio 1
Caroline, or Change - National (Lyttelton)
2007
The Mousetrap - St. Martin's
Jack and the Beanstalk - New Theatre Cardiff
Porgy and Bess - Savoy
The History Boys - Wyndham's
Frost/Nixon - Gielgud
Follies in Concert - Palladium
Antony and Cleopatra - Novello
The Seafarer - Theatre Royal Bath
Mary Poppins - Prince Edward
Underneath the Lintel - Duchess
Equus - Gielgud
La Boheme - Coliseum
The Phantom of the Opera - Her Majesty's
Cabaret - Lyric
The Tempest - Novello
Faust - 21 Wapping Lane
The Dumb Waiter - Trafalgar Studio 1
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Circle in the Square, New York
Beauty and the Beast - Lunt-Fontanne, New York
Spring Awakening - Eugene O'Neill, New York
Company - Ethel Barrymore, New York
Curtains - Al Hirschfeld, New York
The Pirate Queen - Hilton, New York
The Pirates of Penzance - New York State Theater, New York
Les Miserables - Broadhurst, New York
Total Eclipse - Menier
Y Weledigaeth - Egg, Bath
Daemon Days - Invention Arts, Bath
Kean - Theatre Royal Bath
The Vertigo of Sheep - Egg, Bath
Myths and Hymns - Finborough
On the Town - Coliseum
The Woman in Black - Theatre Royal Bath
Side by Side by Sondheim - Venue
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Duchess
Office Suite - Theatre Royal Bath
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Donmar Warehouse
The Drowsy Chaperone - Novello
The Lord of the Rings - Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Fiddler on the Roof - Savoy
The Last Confession - Theatre Royal Bath
Into the Woods - Linbury Studio
Blood Brothers - Theatre Royal Bath
Sweeney Todd - Royal Festival Hall
Kismet - Coliseum
Pygmalion - Theatre Royal Bath
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches - Lyric Hammersmith
Angels in America: Perestroika - Lyric Hammersmith
Little Nell - Theatre Royal Bath
Victory - Theatre Royal Bath
The Agent - Trafalgar Studio 2
How the Other Half Loves - Theatre Royal Bath
Awake and Sing! - Almeida
The Bacchae - Lyric Hammersmith
The Importance of Being Earnest - Theatre Royal Bath
Take Flight - Menier
Elling - Trafalgar Studio 1
The Masque of the Red Death - Battersea Arts Centre
Parade - Donmar Warehouse
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Theatre Royal Bath
Whipping it Up - Theatre Royal Bath
Glengarry Glen Ross - Apollo
Swimming with Sharks - Vaudeville
Henry V - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Hairspray - Shaftesbury
Rent: Remixed - Duke of York's
Legal Fictions - Theatre Royal Bath
Donkey's Years - Theatre Royal Bath
Wyrd Sisters - Mission, Bath
The Comedy of Errors - Theatre Royal Bath
Macbeth - Gielgud
King Lear - New London
Aspects of Love - Theatre Royal Bath
St. Nicholas - Egg, Bath
2008
Dealer's Choice - Trafalgar Studio 1
La Cage aux Folles - Menier
Doubt: A Parable - Tricycle
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1 - Gielgud
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 2 - Gielgud
Much Ado About Nothing - National (Olivier)
Absurd Person Singular - Garrick
Othello - Donmar Warehouse
Shadowlands - Novello
War Horse - National (Olivier)
The Vortex - Theatre Royal Bath
Visiting Mr. Green - Theatre Royal Bath
Henry V – Lion of England - Rondo, Bath
The Deep Blue Sea - Theatre Royal Bath
Merrily We Roll Along - Watermill, Newbury
Uncle Vanya - Theatre Royal Bath
The Nutcracker - Theatre Royal Bath
Cinderella - Theatre Royal Bath
Potted Potter - Egg, Bath
A Trip to Scarborough - Theatre Royal Bath
Hamlet - Egg, Bath
Journey's End - Rondo, Bath
War and Peace 1 - Theatre Royal Bath
War and Peace 2 - Theatre Royal Bath
Breakfast with Mugabe - Ustinov, Bath
And Then There Were None - Theatre Royal Bath
The Clean House - Theatre Royal Bath
Sleuth - Theatre Royal Bath
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) - Theatre Royal Bath
The Sea - Theatre Royal Haymarket
God of Carnage - Gielgud
She Stoops to Conquer - Theatre Royal Bath
Contains Violence - Lyric Hammersmith
Major Barbara - National (Olivier)
The Lover/The Collection - Comedy
Equus - Theatre Royal Bath
Gone with the Wind - New London
Fram - National (Olivier)
Single Spies - Wycombe Swan
Fat Pig - Trafalgar Studio 1
Richard II - Roundhouse
1 Henry IV - Roundhouse
2 Henry IV - Roundhouse
Henry V - Roundhouse
1 Henry VI - Roundhouse
2 Henry VI - Roundhouse
3 Henry VI - Roundhouse
Richard III - Roundhouse
The Revenger's Tragedy - National (Olivier)
Troilus and Cressida - Barbican
Betwixt - King's Head
Candide - Coliseum
Marguerite - Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Merry Wives of Windsor - Shakespeare's Globe
A Slight Ache - National (Lyttelton)
Never So Good - National (Lyttelton)
Black Watch - Barbican
Timon of Athens - Shakespeare's Globe
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Minerva, Chichester
The Music Man - Chichester Festival Theatre
Romeo and Juliet - Middle Temple Hall
Zorro - Garrick
Sunset Boulevard - Watermill, Newbury
Hamlet - Shakespeare's Globe
The Woman in Black (Japanese week) - Fortune
...some trace of her - National (Cottesloe)
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Gielgud
Love's Labour's Lost - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Hamlet - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
La Cage aux Folles - Playhouse
Ivanov - Wyndham's
August: Osage County - National (Lyttelton)
Hamlet - Novello
No Man's Land - Duke of York's
Imagine This - New London
Twelfth Night - Wyndham's
2009
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - National (Olivier)
Loot - Tricycle
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Novello
A View from the Bridge - Duke of York's
Othello - Hackney Empire
Skin Deep - Sadler's Wells
Spring Awakening - Lyric Hammersmith
Carousel - Savoy
The Pillowman - Curve, Leicester
As You Like It - Curve, Leicester
West Side Story - Wycombe Swan
Stovepipe - West 12
The Taming of the Shrew - Novello
King Lear - Young Vic
A Little Night Music - Menier
Spring Awakening - Novello
The Pitmen Painters - National (Lyttelton)
Madame De Sade - Wyndham's
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Trafalgar Studio 2
Dancing at Lughnasa - Old Vic
England People Very Nice - National (Olivier)
The Contingency Plan: On the Beach - Bush
The Contingency Plan: Resilience - Bush
The Light in the Piazza - Curve, Leicester
Time and the Conways - National (Lyttelton)
Sunset Boulevard - Comedy
A Doll's House - Donmar Warehouse
The Observer - National (Cottesloe)
Dido Queen of Carthage - National (Cottesloe)
Arcadia - Duke of York's
Chicago - Cambridge
Death and the King's Horseman - National (Olivier)
The Eternal Not - National (Olivier foyer)
All's Well That Ends Well - National (Olivier)
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare's Globe
Hamlet - Wyndham's
Priscilla Queen of the Desert - Palace
The Winter's Tale - Old Vic
The King and I - Royal Albert Hall
The Cherry Orchard - Old Vic
Zanna, Don't! - Upstairs at the Gatehouse
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare's Globe
As You Like It - Shakespeare's Globe
Waiting for Godot - Theatre Royal Haymarket
Too Close to the Sun - Comedy
Collaboration - Duchess
Taking Sides - Duchess
The Weather Man - Riverside Studios
Jerusalem - Royal Court
Troilus and Cressida - Shakespeare's Globe
Helen - Shakespeare's Globe
The Mountaintop - Trafalgar Studios 1
Phèdre - National (Lyttelton)
Julius Caesar - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Winter's Tale - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Henry V - Trafalgar Studios 2
A Streetcar Named Desire - Donmar Warehouse
Love's Labour's Lost - Shakespeare's Globe
A New World - Shakespeare's Globe
Mother Courage and her Children - National (Olivier)
War Horse - New London
An Inspector Calls - Novello
The Spanish Tragedy - Arcola
Terror 2009 - Southwark Playhouse
A Small Town Anywhere - Battersea Arts Centre
Twelfth Night - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Enron - Royal Court
Othello - Trafalgar Studios 1
Pains of Youth - National (Cottesloe)
Life is a Dream - Donmar Warehouse
Inherit the Wind - Old Vic
Prick Up Your Ears - Comedy
Turandot - Coliseum
Uncle Vanya - Young Vic
Nation - National (Olivier)
The Last 5 Years - Pump House, Watford
The Misanthrope - Comedy
Legally Blonde - Savoy
2010
Jerusalem - Apollo
Red - Donmar Warehouse
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Novello
A Man of No Importance - Arts Theatre
The Habit of Art - National (Lyttelton)
The Caretaker - Trafalgar Studios 1
Six Degrees of Separation - Old Vic
Sister Act - London Palladium
Love Never Dies - Adelphi
Ghost Stories - Lyric Hammersmith
Eigengrau - Bush
Measure for Measure - Almeida
Spring Storm - National (Cottesloe)
The Little Dog Laughed - Garrick
The White Guard - National (Lyttelton)
The Pirates of Penzance - Wilton's Music Hall
Hair - Gielgud
The Real Thing - Old Vic
Jesus Hopped the A Train - Trafalgar Studios 2
Polar Bears - Donmar Warehouse
Enron - Noel Coward
Women Beware Women - National (Olivier)
Macbeth - Shakespeare's Globe
London Assurance - National (Olivier)
Henry VIII - Shakespeare's Globe
Bingo - Minerva, Chichester
Yes, Prime Minister - Chichester Festival Theatre
The Odd Couple - Town Hall, Wycombe
As You Like It - Old Vic
The Tempest - Old Vic
After the Dance - National (Lyttelton)
Sweet Charity - Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Late Middle Classes - Donmar Warehouse
Morte d'Arthur - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Antony and Cleopatra - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Henry IV Part 1 - Shakespeare's Globe
Henry IV Part 2 - Shakespeare's Globe
The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Young Vic
La Bete - Comedy
The Duchess of Malfi - ENO/Punchdrunk
Anne Boleyn - Shakespeare's Globe
All My Sons - Apollo
Earthquakes in London - National (Cottesloe)
Danton's Death - National (Olivier)
King Lear - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Romeo and Juliet - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Clybourne Park - Royal Court
As You Like It - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Into the Woods - Open Air Theatre
The Prince of Homburg - Donmar Warehouse
The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare's Globe
Deathtrap - Noel Coward
House of Games - Almeida
Witness for the Prosecution - Wycombe Swan
Bedlam - Shakespeare's Globe
Passion - Donmar Warehouse
Anything Goes - Town Hall, Wycombe
Or You Could Kiss Me - National (Cottesloe)
Faust - Young Vic
Merrily We Roll Along - Queen's
Terror 2010 - Southwark Playhouse
Tribes - Royal Court
Company - Queen's
Blood and Gifts - National (Lyttelton)
The Children's Monologues - Old Vic
The Glass Menagerie - Young Vic
Design for Living - Old Vic
An Ideal Husband - Vaudeville
The Master Builder - Almeida
Cart Macabre - Old Vic Tunnels
Love Story - Duchess
Hamlet - National (Olivier)
King Lear - Donmar Warehouse
A Flea in Her Ear - Old Vic
Romeo and Juliet - Roundhouse
The Winter's Tale - Roundhouse
2011
Salad Days - Riverside Studios
Midsummer - Tricycle
Rough Cuts: Court Short - Royal Court
Matilda - Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon
Little Platoons - Bush
The Heretic - Royal Court
When We Are Married - Garrick
Season's Greetings - National (Lyttelton)
Double Falsehood - New Players Theatre
Becky Shaw - Almeida
Twelfth Night - National (Cottesloe)
Greenland - National (Lyttelton)
Frankenstein - National (Olivier)
Antony and Cleopatra - Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Goodnight Mister Tom - Wycombe Swan
Flare Path - Theatre Royal Haymarket
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Donmar Warehouse
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Royal Opera House
Richard II - Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Mogadishu - Lyric Hammersmith
Cause Célèbre - Old Vic
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Gielgud
Betty Blue Eyes - Novello
Honest - Queen's Head Pub
Wastwater - Royal Court
The Children's Hour - Comedy
Moonlight - Donmar Warehouse
The Bible - Shakespeare's Globe
I don't go as much as I'd like to, but I do okay in spite of it.
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The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 6
Apr 19
2011, 05:33:56 AM
'Stars and the Moon' from Songs for a New World. Every. Damn. Time.
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The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 8
Apr 19
2011, 05:32:28 AM
'Lily's Eyes' from The Secret Garden - Philip Quast *and* Anthony Warlow.
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The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 2
Apr 14
2011, 04:24:07 AM
'Another Little Victory' from Betty Blue Eyes. I love Betty Blue Eyes and I genuinely have that song stuck in my head right now. XD
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The 30 Day Musical Theatre Song Challenge - DAY 1
Apr 12
2011, 12:11:32 PM
Well, it'll have to be 'One More Angel in Heaven' from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It's the first musical I remember knowing and that's still my favourite song from it. XD
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What is the best production(s) you have ever seen at a reginal theater?
Mar 25
2011, 09:04:41 AM
I guess the RSC's kinda cheating, so I'll go with Richard II at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol.
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Tony Award Categories you wish could be
Mar 21
2011, 03:31:29 PM
Best Script of a Play.
Seems unfair that 1) musicals get Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Score while plays just get Best Play, and 2) that a brilliant script may be wholly overlooked for awards if given a terrible production.
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Sleep No More Character I.D.'s?
Mar 16
2011, 04:02:34 PM
While we're here, does anyone have a list of cast members they could share? :3
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