This was a gentle comedy about 2 couples who have known each other for decades and then over 3 acts secrets and resentment comes to the surface.
This was my first visit to Jermyn Street Theatre. It doesn’t have the same amount of discounted ticketd as other West End theatres, but the top price was £30. The seats are well tiered but the stage is the floor so you may miss things on the floor if you have people in front of you.
This is a film based around the creation of the first nuclear bomb and the ethics and morality (or lack of) surrounding it. It also looks at the witch hunts (or canceling) of those who had concerns about the implications and wanted to explore alternatives to capitalism.
It is 3 hours long and seemed to feature a lot of scientific theory, which if you are not a physicist makes it feel like it drags in those bits, and if you aren’t familiar with the historical and political events covered it can get a bit confusing. However, it had an interesting story with lots of well-known people in it.
This was my 5th time seeing this show. It is still hilarious. It included understudues or “thunderstudies” on as Annie, Jonathan, Sandra, Max and Dennis who did great as did everyone.
I got a reduced price stalls ticket from TKTS online.
This is a stage adaptation of the book that was also adaped into a film. It is described as a “play with music” rather than a play or music as it has a live band who play incidental music and songs a different points.
This is a love story about 2 sheep ranch hands in 1960s America who fall in love with each other at a time and place where that is considered wrong.
It is a short play (about 90 mins with no interval) and the theatre is “in the round” meaning sometimes performers have their back to you and sometimes props block your view.
Photography is banned in the auditorium for this production, but apart from issues anything “in the round” has the view was good.
This latest Pixar film is about a city where the characters are either sure, water, land/earth and air. It focuses on Ember from a fire family and Wade from a water family.
It looks at prejudice, not fitting in, imigrant/refugee families and overcoming hurdles.
It isn’t as fun or exciting as Pixar’s Toy Story but it was still an interesting story.
It is 1969, New York is celebrating man landing on the moon, and Prof. Indiana Jones is about to retire. Then his goddaughter turns up and he goes on one last adventure.
This film has sci-fi elements that aren’t in the previous 4 and we discover that the happy ending in the 4th film didn’t last, but it was an entertaining couple of hours.
I got a £25 Rush Ticket from to say is to see the second performance of this revival. It was a good seat slightly to the side a few rows from the front of the Royal Circle.
The munchkins were quite tall for munchkins, the special effects tended to focus on projectors with some limited scenery, and Toto had assistance from a puppeteer. However, it was still an entertaining show.
There were a couple of small possible mistakes. At one point when running around with her companions Dorothty appeared to fall over, and later in the second half in the melting scene, the victim clearly walked off stage rather than disappear through any trapdoor (but that was possibly linked to a bigger problem that occurred.
A couple of minutes into the second half there was a show stop. The problem was with the Wicked Witch of the West’s castle and she was left standing on it when it didn’t move like it should have done.
A man came on stage to say there was a technical problem. The auditorium lights stayed off, and the Witch walked off stage, then after a few more minutes, a company manager came on to say it was a problem with a piece of scenery that wouldn’t move and they were trying to get it working.
The lights came up a bit and then after a few minutes, Jason Manford came on still in his Cowardly Lion costume and did a bit of stand-up to entertain the audience for the next 10-15 mins until he was that the show could continue.
There was less scenery after that (not sure if that was how it was meant to be or if that was due to the problems) but it continued and Jason Manford got a well-deserved ovation at the end in addition to some possible in jokes added about how hard he had been working.
Second show of a 2 show day after getting a train direct from the matinee of Annie at Woking.
I saved over half the face value with an ATG offer for opening night.
It is adapted from the Roald Dhal story about a well-loved polite child who lives in poverty who wins a competition to tour Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory along with 4 spoilt rich kids. Wonka has devised tasks to choose a worthy child to win a valuable prize.
The special effects largely rely on computer graphics projected on a screen and the stage (which doesn’t help anyone in the stalls) and the audience’s pure imagination, with a glass elevator at the end on wires over the stage. In addition, the oompa loompas looked like human-sized budget cyborgs but the show was amusing.
