West End Gossip #5

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Anyone know what happened at Book of Mormon last night? A protest and show cancelled mid way through?
Just seen TikTok story of someone there. Apparently an older audience member stood up in a green balaclava during All American Prophet and started throwing stuff at the cast
 
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apparently it was a 'spiritual' protest...

Surprised they didn't wait for Hasa Diga Eebowai if they're offended by BoM...

Saw it a few weeks ago with my 76 year old Mum and she laughed the whole way through
 
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apparently it was a 'spiritual' protest...

Surprised they didn't wait for Hasa Diga Eebowai if they're offended by BoM...

Saw it a few weeks ago with my 76 year old Mum and she laughed the whole way through
I took my teen boys and mum, quite forgetting the massive swinging roosters part.
 
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I haven't heard of a single member of the now fully announced Beetlejuice cast, except for David Hunter. And I include David Fynn in that although I see he has quite a good portfolio, he's just passed me personally by.

Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing, I've seen and enjoyed many many shows where a lot of the cast are unknown names or fresh from drama school and they've been great.

Just surprised that I thought Beetlejuice had a relatively big budget, so I thought they would have had the odd known name in it to get the public appeal/interest up.
 
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I haven't heard of a single member of the now fully announced Beetlejuice cast, except for David Hunter. And I include David Fynn in that although I see he has quite a good portfolio, he's just passed me personally by.

Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing, I've seen and enjoyed many many shows where a lot of the cast are unknown names or fresh from drama school and they've been great.

Just surprised that I thought Beetlejuice had a relatively big budget, so I thought they would have had the odd known name in it to get the public appeal/interest up.
Aimee Atkinson?!
 
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Next Cabaret duo. Now those two I have heard of :ROFLMAO:

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Feel a bit sorry for him - he’s being described as a nobody.
 
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Next Cabaret duo. Now those two I have heard of :ROFLMAO:

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*heads straight to the Carrie Hope Fletcher thread
 
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Next Cabaret duo. Now those two I have heard of :ROFLMAO:

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I might've dropped an unreasonable amount of money on a ticket for this when I'm down in June. 🫣 JOY ACTUAL WOODS!
 
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Did anyone else catch this sneaky wee announcement during the Oliviers ceremony?

Yes, now I haven't actually seen the current production yet (going in a couple of weeks) but will be interested to see how it fares in a theatre which I assume has much worse views from many of the seats than the Bridge. I have even higher expectations for it after it got best revival however not sure it will alter my current view that Evita was robbed.
 
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I so detest online theatre fandom.

You've got theatreboard where they will moderate you to oblivion and you can't talk about anything even if cast/creatives have put it on their own socials, and also the self appointed forum police who have decided when you simply can't not like a show, like that weirdo ceebee in the Starlight thread...

Then you've got the Musical Theatre Appreciation Society on Facebook and oh my gosh. There was the most benign critique of Oliver! ever but the poster was instantly set upon for being mean and hurtful to the cast. All they really said was Nancy belts too much and that Bill Sykes looks dfferent to how he usually does, that was it. The reaction was ridiculous, absurd. People need to understand that you cannot turn the internet into your own personal hugbox or play nanny to a bunch of strangers who, if they can't stop googling themselves, need to take responsibility for their own well being. Be kind? Yes. I would not want to see anyone torn into or humiliated when they are a working professional doing their best... but I don't really ever see that kind of critique anymore so I don't know why these melts freak out just because person A disliked something person B enjoyed. Also, this is the same place where I've witnessed in real time them bully an austistic poster because as much as they fawn over William Fairchild (in a way I find quite patronizing, honestly), they will happy make fun of others.

You can't really have actual, real discussions about the arts anymore. It's always "but people worked hard on this" or "be kinnnnnd" and it's a shame.
 
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MTAS won’t allow any critique as a lot of the actors are in there and heaven forbid they read anything less than favourable about themselves! 🙄
 
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MTAS won’t allow any critique as a lot of the actors are in there and heaven forbid they read anything less than favourable about themselves! 🙄
It's pathetic. I am not your nanny. I will be mindful of your feelings as I would attempt with anyone because I don't like to be mean, but if someone is in the public eye they need to exercise restraint in both trying to read about themselves and trying to control the narrative.

I find the really talented, famous people don't engage this way. If they ever put a statement out about anything in the media it's once in a blue moon and usually about something very serious, not some rando on a webpage mildly criticising their performance.

And why shouldn't the audience have a voice? Ticket prices are insane and for many it takes a lot of time and effort to even get to the theatre in the first place. As long as peple aren't personal or nasty, what's the problem? Professional critics back in the day used to be way worse than most online are but nobody said much about that at the time.

Where has this thing that we all need to be each other's emotional support system come from? I hate it.
 
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