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imeldasturn said: "I suspect The Artist should aim for a limited season at the Sadler's Wells rather than a West End run"

Sounds like a pretty fair shout from what I’ve heard about it. 

Loved it. Kristin is wonderful, absolutely perfect. I actually really liked the score, and having not been familiar with the documentaries or real life subjects, I found the story easy to follow and really interesting. 
 

Act one is 1:25. Act two 1:05, and with an almost 30 minute interval and 5 mins late starting, my last photos from the bows are time stamped at 11:06. Sure there’s trims to be made but I doubt this goes much below 2:40.

Will be there tomorrow evening :)

1) Hell's Kitchen

2) The Outsiders

3) Illinioise (but to Sadler's Wells)

4) Water for Elephants (I doubt we see a replica production)

5) Suffs (too similar in themes to "Sylvia")

I actually think more likely than any of these, is a transfer of The Notebook.

Does anyone know if they're selling Standing Room SRO for this?

Kecia for featured actress

Eden best actress

Outsiders best musical and best score

I had row D far side for Outsiders. It was partial view but I found it mostly fine, only a little bit missed

Water for Elephants I was Rear mezz row E right at the far side. Felt a bit too far away for my liking although the side on view didn’t affect me much.

I think it's a great set of nominations. That featured actress in a musical category is incredible. What I am very surprised at is all of the love for Water for Elephants. It was by far one of the weakest musicals of the season for me and for it to be nominated for Best Musical and a slew of others was not on my radar.

It's ONE NUMBER staged that way. Pretty much everything else in the show is performed in front of you on the stage, with video usage as an addition. 

I was around 10th in line last Saturday at 9:15 and just missed out on matinee rush. They did offer $59 PV side orchestra which I took. There was around 15 people behind me when the box office opened.

inception said: "What was the running time inLondon? Is it one act ir two? I have plans to be in NYC just after this opens.

TaffyDavenport said: "Presale starts at 10 am today with code TAMMY."

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Two acts. Standard sort of 2.5 hr runtime

“Wishing for the normal” and “It’s hard to tell” from Soho Cinders

A true guilty pleasure. 

I saw them in concert when I was 8 years old. I think I saw them twice more as a child before the split, and then again in 2012, 2017 and 2021. They're the best type of cheese pop and still hugely popular in the UK. Faye in particular has gone on to do a lot of work in Musical Theatre and from what I gather there's a massive cross-over of people who love musicals and people who love Steps.

 

 

The most thrilling and daring revival I think I’ve ever seen. Saw once with Nicole twice with Rachel.

Best musical revival/director Tony and likely some others.

I was at the second Off-Broadway preview and thought there and then that if it transferred, he'd be a major contender for the Tony. I hope it's his year.

Often there are set tickets set aside for rush/lottery, for example front row/far aide orchestra seats. That said, if a show is vastly unsold, they're likely to sell additional lottery/rush tickets.