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Title: Musicals Post by: Tails on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 21:50:29 Has anyone on here ever seen one??
I ask because I took my girlfriend to London for the weekend as a christmas present, and it included Phantom of The Opera last night at Her Majestys Theater (as well as randomly being upgraded to a 5 star hotel in Leicester Square). I wasn't really expecting to enjoy it but to my complete surprise (and hers!) it was absolutely amazing! Never experienced anything like it before. Would definitely do it again or reccomend it to anyone. Theres even a Monty Python one out now which looks pretty decent. Title: Musicals Post by: JPC82 on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 21:51:36 :fag: , nah just joking mate, ive never been tho id imagine it would be good though
Title: Musicals Post by: STFC Village on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 21:56:34 Been to see "Joseph...." about 5 times, my family are obsessive about it, i just flat refuse to see it anymore. Blood Brothers is really good, do not see Cats
Title: Musicals Post by: Fred Elliot on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 21:59:24 I prefer to go to the £2 slots around the corner in Windmill St
:wink: Title: Musicals Post by: BANGKOK RED on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:05:13 Rocky Horror picture show, 1998 (ish) at the wyvern theatre.
My aunt's boyfriend went dressed as Rocky, My aunt went dressed as Magenta Your's Truly went as Riff-Raff. Fucking outstanding night. Title: Musicals Post by: Batch on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:05:53 Hated every minute of Phantom myself. Paid a reasonable £££ for the seats and found Her Majestys Theater to be a pretty shocking venue.
Don't go too often, but last year saw Sound of Music twice (once for free), and that silly bint that won the 'Maria' TV show (whole point of going) wasn't in it either time. We did go to Gordon Ramsay's restaurant for lunch before. Which I suppose £40 a head set menu and another £40 on wine isn't too bad. Anyway I digress. Title: Musicals Post by: Bushey Boy on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:10:40 Musicals are great, use to take my ex every few months when I lived near London. You can get cheap tickets in Leicester Square in a booth next to the Pizza Hut - superb night out and always worth the money
Title: Musicals Post by: BANGKOK RED on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:13:01 I also remeber gettin pissed in Witherspoons before the show, there where so many people dressed up in there, tha it cuold have been mistaken for a trekkie convention.
There's a light OVER IN THE FRANKENSTEIN PLACE There's li ii ii ii iii ght BURING IN THE FIREPLACE. Although i do think that Rocky Horror deserves it's own category within the musical's gendra )Sp) Title: Musicals Post by: Tails on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:19:24 Quote from: "Bushey Boy" Musicals are great, use to take my ex every few months when I lived near London. You can get cheap tickets in Leicester Square in a booth next to the Pizza Hut - superb night out and always worth the money Yeah there were loads of people there queueing up to get some. It is a fantastic night, but London is riduculously expensive.. Don't know what I was expecting really but it was about £11 for two drinks at the theatre. Never been to a musical before and it was quite an experience. Got to wander round London a bit as we had daypasses for the tube which was pretty cool. The amount of cinemas and McDonalds is bloody ridiculous! Title: Musicals Post by: reeves4england on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:22:04 Quote from: "Tails" Quote from: "Bushey Boy" Musicals are great, use to take my ex every few months when I lived near London. You can get cheap tickets in Leicester Square in a booth next to the Pizza Hut - superb night out and always worth the money Yeah there were loads of people there queueing up to get some. It is a fantastic night, but London is riduculously expensive.. Don't know what I was expecting really but it was about £11 for two drinks at the theatre. Never been to a musical before and it was quite an experience. Got to wander round London a bit as we had daypasses for the tube which was pretty cool. The amount of cinemas and McDonalds is bloody ridiculous! I live a 5 minutes walk from there so I'm kind of used to it now :D edit: Musicals! Yeh! Blood Brothers is great as mentioned above although the West End one was nowhere near as good as the one I saw in Bath! Joseph is good, and Rocky Horror really is just a totally different experience! Title: Musicals Post by: Bushey Boy on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:22:30 London is ace! but very expensive
You should try taking Strood and his mate to Mexs club for a night - £160 later and a monster hangover - that was pricey Title: Musicals Post by: Sussex on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:36:35 Saw Chicago in Laaandan Town a few years ago. The Wet wet wet bloke was in it. Was very good. £26 for two double vodkas though!
Title: Musicals Post by: flammableBen on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:47:19 I used to regularly get dragged to them as a kid and to be honest think they're a bit shit.
Maybe I'm just a bit too guarded to get into the whole thing, but in general I find them a bit cringe worthy. Title: Musicals Post by: yeo on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 22:52:41 I can think of few things more cringe worthy than musicals.
Title: Musicals Post by: Arriba on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 23:25:16 i think whatever one denise van outen is in the best :twisted:
london.nice to visit but fucking nice to leave also. Title: Musicals Post by: pumbaa on Monday, January 14, 2008, 01:38:17 Love 'em. Seen loads over the years - Les Miserables (twice), Phantom (twice), Lion King, Rent, Blood Brothers (which I fully endorse the previous recommendations), Annie (it was free....), My Fair Lady (we were in the back row and couldn't see shit), Fame and probably more that I can't recall.
I didn't really enjoy Fame and MFL, but the others are all very very good. Especially Rent. Probably going to see Mamma Mia sometime this year, as the missus loves Abba.....would love to see the Lion King again - that was spectacular! Title: Musicals Post by: Luci on Monday, January 14, 2008, 08:42:02 I got my parents Phantom tickets for Xmas it better be good considering they were the priciest seats in the house. :o
Title: Musicals Post by: fatbury on Monday, January 14, 2008, 08:48:12 they are brilliant to go and watch .. took my girlfriend a couple of times and she loved it too - Phantom x1 and Chicago x1
Title: Musicals Post by: mattboyslim on Monday, January 14, 2008, 08:54:48 Quote from: "flammableBen" I used to regularly get dragged to them as a kid and to be honest think they're a bit shit. Maybe I'm just a bit too guarded to get into the whole thing, but in general I find them a bit cringe worthy. Agree with that, went a couple of times with school but now hate them, there really is no need to sing everything! Title: Musicals Post by: Sippo on Monday, January 14, 2008, 10:07:05 Seen Grease and Wicked, both excellent but Wicked shades it.
Title: Musicals Post by: Bushey Boy on Monday, January 14, 2008, 10:13:39 Quote from: "fatbury" they are brilliant to go and watch .. took my girlfriend a couple of times and she loved it too - Phantom x1 and Chicago x1 Fatters, you got a lass now? Title: Musicals Post by: fatbury on Monday, January 14, 2008, 10:31:53 no at moment - im enjoying the single life - what I meant was that in the past i took my girlfriend then to them
Title: Musicals Post by: STFCBird on Monday, January 14, 2008, 12:59:53 I'd love to go to one but nobody will take me :(
Title: Musicals Post by: tans on Monday, January 14, 2008, 13:16:24 Quote from: "fatbury" no at moment - im enjoying the single life - what I meant was that in the past i took my girlfriend then to them Fucking hell, i was going to declare a national holiday to celebrate the fact you might get your dick wet. Title: Musicals Post by: dell boy on Monday, January 14, 2008, 13:18:17 I loved Cats and saw that three times, Phantom was Ok. When you think of the price of a Premier footie match, musicals are well worth the money you know you will get a good performance.
Title: Musicals Post by: DMR on Monday, January 14, 2008, 13:30:45 Quote from: "tans" Quote from: "fatbury" no at moment - im enjoying the single life - what I meant was that in the past i took my girlfriend then to them Fucking hell, i was going to declare a national holiday to celebrate the fact you might get your dick wet. I got some proper strange looks from round the office as I burst out laughing at that, cheers. On topic, I don't know why we're beating around the bush, musicals are for women and nonces. :wink: Title: Musicals Post by: DMR on Monday, January 14, 2008, 13:30:45 Quote from: "tans" Quote from: "fatbury" no at moment - im enjoying the single life - what I meant was that in the past i took my girlfriend then to them Fucking hell, i was going to declare a national holiday to celebrate the fact you might get your dick wet. I got some proper strange looks from round the office as I burst out laughing at that, cheers. On topic, I don't know why we're beating around the bush, musicals are for women and nonces. :wink: Title: Musicals Post by: Simon Pieman on Monday, January 14, 2008, 13:32:47 I think in general communicating a story through song and dance is pretty shit.
Title: Musicals Post by: tans on Monday, January 14, 2008, 13:38:07 Quote from: "DMR" Quote from: "tans" Quote from: "fatbury" no at moment - im enjoying the single life - what I meant was that in the past i took my girlfriend then to them Fucking hell, i was going to declare a national holiday to celebrate the fact you might get your dick wet. I got some proper strange looks from round the office as I burst out laughing at that, cheers. On topic, I don't know why we're beating around the bush, musicals are for women and nonces. :wink: No problem Davido Title: Musicals Post by: sonic youth on Monday, January 14, 2008, 14:30:29 Quote from: "Si Pie" I think in general communicating a story through song and dance is pretty shit. no way, have you never seen the buffy musical episode?Title: Musicals Post by: red macca on Monday, January 14, 2008, 14:32:09 The hills are alive with the sound of music
The songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music Beautiful Title: Musicals Post by: flammableBen on Monday, January 14, 2008, 14:32:20 Both the buffy musical episode and the lion king film are awesome. I just don't think such things work on stage.
Title: Musicals Post by: Colin Todd on Monday, January 14, 2008, 14:34:31 Quote from: "DMR" Quote from: "tans" Quote from: "fatbury" no at moment - im enjoying the single life - what I meant was that in the past i took my girlfriend then to them Fucking hell, i was going to declare a national holiday to celebrate the fact you might get your dick wet. I got some proper strange looks from round the office as I burst out laughing at that, cheers. On topic, I don't know why we're beating around the bush, musicals are for women and nonces. :wink: He's right you know. Title: Musicals Post by: Bushey Boy on Monday, January 14, 2008, 14:41:40 Quote from: "red macca" The hills are alive with the sound of music The songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music Beautiful I went to where that was filmed, had never watched it, beer was great but women were weird, all were dressing up etc Title: Musicals Post by: Amir on Monday, January 14, 2008, 14:49:24 Everyone seems to rave about Blood Brothers, I thought it would have been better off as a play. The songs were dire and only there for the sake of it being a musical imo, and if that Nolan bird have sung about Marilyn Monroe once more I would have screamed. The actual story was pretty good though, plus it was very funny in places.
Going to see some Motown one next month, which I'm hoping will be better because the songs are all classics. Title: Musicals Post by: Gazza's Fat Mate on Monday, January 14, 2008, 21:14:48 fucking ace musicals. I grow up watching them my mum/step dad used to do sercutiy for some of the threaters part time at weekends (think stewards at football ie stand around doing fuck all and getting paid) so used to get in for free so have seen loads of the fuckers always a good time recently started taking my missus and she loved it too although now i have to pay it's fucking not cheeo!
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