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Maybe they could make it longer by adding a seventh wife.
 
Finn said:
I like a good chunk of the Six cast recording (and fucking love the title song) but I've no urge to go and see it coz it's just that sung through concert style, right?
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Isn’t that true of most musicals and their soundtracks?
 
That the soundtrack is essentially the musical in order but with the talky bits taken out… yes.
 
Buuuuut Finn was saying it's just the songs in order with NO talky bits, so doesn't see the point in watching it. (Although as it turns out there are some talky bits in this show.)

And we don't call them soundtracks in musical theatre, darling!
 
Speaking of Six (which I LOVE) I didn't get around to the writing duo's follow-up which I was kind of sad about but having just watched the Olivier performance my FOMO is cured.

 
cwej said:
Which is my point... so it's the same as any other musical..
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Oy, Mista! You fick or summin'?

Six = the six queens as popstars, in a concert setting, like they're Girls Aloud or something

Other musicals = not essentially like seeing your favourite popstars in a concert. There are sets and different settings and scenes.

THAT'S ALL
 
GNL said:
Speaking of Six (which I LOVE) I didn't get around to the writing duo's follow-up which I was kind of sad about but having just watched the Olivier performance my FOMO is cured.

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No shade to Why Am I So Single, but this one seemed so obviously doomed to fail from the awful posters alone.

A they/them mullet musical never had a chance long-term in the West End. Most of the target audience (not a huge pool to begin with) ain't rich.

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I don't think I've heard of it before. But yes, I'm amazed it got run in the Garrick - presumably due to the pedigree of the writers. Had it had a limited season at the Menier or the Soho theatre it would have made sense.
 
We saw it.

It was a 7/10 and that’s not a great score considering it was basically made for our demographic- mid 30s LGBT. I actually wondered throughout how the older straights were holding up (I’m forever an empath) as so much of the content referenced things that would only be an experience for those of us who used MSN Messenger and know that Kelle Bryan was fired by fax.

Still, it was kinda nice in this climate to see a musical like that out on display.
 
Suomi said:
We saw it.

It was a 7/10 and that’s not a great score considering it was basically made for our demographic- mid 30s LGBT. I actually wondered throughout how the older straights were holding up (I’m forever an empath) as so much of the content referenced things that would only be an experience for those of us who used MSN Messenger and know that Kelle Bryan was fired by fax.

Still, it was kinda nice in this climate to see a musical like that out on display.
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Doesn’t Titanique do most of that too? Just without the terrible hair.
 
Ellie said:
Doesn’t Titanique do most of that too? Just without the terrible hair.
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It does, but Titanique is a juggernaut in comparison in terms of pace and humour.

Why Am I So Single? is basically just two friends talking on a couch.
 
Suomi said:
It does, but Titanique is a juggernaut in comparison in terms of pace and humour.

Why Am I So Single? is basically just two friends talking on a couch.
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Ah, OK. For a two-hander, Two Strangers Carry A Cake was excellent, and that was clearly well developed before transferring to the West End.

In fact I was surprised that Two Strangers… or Kathy & Stella weren’t nominated. Maybe they weren’t eligible since they didn’t technically premiere in 2024.
 
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I wasn't surprised at all that 'Why Am I So Single?' didn't have a lengthy run, but personally I had a great time watching it (though I thought the song performed at the Olivier Awards was one of the highlights, so anyone that didn't enjoy that, yeah I don't think you missed out for yourselves :D). I mentioned earlier in the thread and maybe it was a case of differing expectation levels going into them, but I enjoyed it a lot more than 'Titanique'.

Been a few years since I saw 'Six' (back when it was still at the Arts) but I LOVED it and keep meaning to get round to seeing it again, and introducing my mum and/or favourite niece to it as I think they would both be big fans.

I'm seeing 'Hadestown' tomorrow night, don't know much about it other than it being based around a Greek myth, and that it got loads of Tony Awards noms/wins. Is it one that anyone else has seen?
 
Jacques said:
I'm seeing 'Hadestown' tomorrow night, don't know much about it other than it being based around a Greek myth, and that it got loads of Tony Awards noms/wins. Is it one that anyone else has seen?
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The music is really incredible (and is what Benjamin Button should have been had they done it properly), but the story totally went over my head and I wasn’t really invested in it. I think I need to see it again, but I’m not in any rush right now.
 
Ellie said:
This is out now away from the West End, for something a bit leftfield. I’m seeing it next week:

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Supersonic Man | Southwark Playhouse Borough

Supersonic Man is a joyous and moving new musical inspired by the story of Peter Scott-Morgan, as depicted in 'Peter - The Human Cyborg'.
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This was not good. At all. But my friend liked it for some reason.

The theatre probably held about 100 people. They had an audience of just 18 last night (I was so bored it was easy to count).
 
jivafox said:
It’s FANTASTIC.

Careful where you sit though because random members of the audience are picked to play certain roles. I had to play DIANA’S DAD.
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Can you be more specific in your warning - this would be my nightmare

I still remember @VoR getting plucked out of the audience to be barebacked by a drag Julie Andrews in some gay pub edition of The Sound of Music
 
I'd like to see the Diana Untold thing when it's on here in June, but I can't watch anything with audience participation. I'll spend the entire time in abject fear. When I was selected at that children's magician show last year I just got up and left and apparently ruined his second half. That'll teach him (and me).
 
lolly said:
I'd like to see the Diana Untold thing when it's on here in June, but I can't watch anything with audience participation. I'll spend the entire time in abject fear. When I was selected at that children's magician show last year I just got up and left and apparently ruined his second half. That'll teach him (and me).
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@jivafox was it random audience or front row/aisle seats that got chosen?
 
When I went they pre-selected people from the front row/aisle seats before it started, and gave you a card with your "part" on, so not that scary because you could always say no!
 
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