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What's the best live stage production you've seen?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I'm off to see American Idiot - a musical using Green Day songs for those who don't know - tonight, and although it's just an amateur production it should be good.
What's the best stage show you've seen? I'm torn between The Rocky Horror Show & Woman In Black, which was in a 100 seat theatre and was pretty terrifying at points! |
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By *lue NarwhalMan
over a year ago
Iceland, but Aldi is closer.. |
The Blues Brothers was great, everyone up dancing and singing,
Dirty rotten scoundrels with Robert Lindsay was really funny and the Producers was laugh out load but because it was so wrong...
Spamalot, well it's monty python, what more d'ya want.. But the best show I've seen by a mile has to be Aladin..
The stage changes and costume changes were seamless, the effects amazing and the Genie was just great.. Disney at its absolute greatest... |
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Phantom of the Opera is my most favourite, before it had even finished in knew I'd want to see again.
Our house - the Madness musical was very good too, one of the most energetic shows I've seen, plan on seeing it again when it tours later this year. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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I'm not sure. Wicked with Idina Menzel when it first came here, Avenue Q, Hamlet (David Tennant) The Book of Mormon, Les Mis and King Lear (Ian Mckellen) and a production I saw of Festen at the Fringe a couple of years ago. I can't decide, apologies.  |
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"I'm not sure. Wicked with Idina Menzel when it first came here, Avenue Q, Hamlet (David Tennant) The Book of Mormon, Les Mis and King Lear (Ian Mckellen) and a production I saw of Festen at the Fringe a couple of years ago. I can't decide, apologies. "
Wicked at the Victoria? Yep, me too. The comes a close second. And Warhorse. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Chitty chitty bang bang was very good when I watched it a few years back although my favourite remains the rolling stones at Maine road many many years ago...
Shit venue though  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm not sure. Wicked with Idina Menzel when it first came here, Avenue Q, Hamlet (David Tennant) The Book of Mormon, Les Mis and King Lear (Ian Mckellen) and a production I saw of Festen at the Fringe a couple of years ago. I can't decide, apologies. "
I love Idina Menzel. Very jealous that you saw it with her . Wicked is one of my favourites even though she wasn't in it when I went |
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In the last year few months I've seen Tristan and Isolde, The Barber of Seville, The Caretaker and No mans land.
T&I was visually stunning but the one that stuck with me was The Caretaker. |
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I'd have to say warhorse , the puppetry was stunning
The lion king too was amazing , I took a friend last year and she loved it too.
Oh And a woman in black, only 3 in the cast. I was sitting in an aisle seat and properly shat myself when she walked past me |
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"I'm off to see American Idiot - a musical using Green Day songs for those who don't know - tonight, and although it's just an amateur production it should be good.
What's the best stage show you've seen? I'm torn between The Rocky Horror Show & Woman In Black, which was in a 100 seat theatre and was pretty terrifying at points!"
I saw American Idiot twice in London and once on its UK tour. Was pretty good ... my teenager is now obsessed with Green Day.
War Horse probably had most impact for me ... every last movement was so realistic you forgot they were puppets. I just bawled all the way through it though  . |
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Last production at theatre was Chitty Chitty.. Knew guy who made her fly...
Two come to mind.. Take That.. Progress tour.. Not my thing but boy do they put on a show!
And Cirque du Soleil .. Mind blowing! |
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Opera Norths production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore and their production of Queen of Spades were stunning - stagecraft and musically superb.....and a few years back we saw a Damon Albarn musical as part of Manchester International festival - that was unexpecyedly amazing, m x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My one surprise was how great Faith Brown was in Sunset Boulevard
I really enjoyed Chicago with Ute Lemper
Would love to see her own one woman show
Gutted I never got to see Victoria Wood
Gutted I never got to see Miriam Margolyes do her Dickens Women show |
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"Oh, also Danny Boyle's Frankenstein! 
I quite like theatre.  "
This was the best one we've seen. We saw it when Johnny Lee Miller was the monster, he was fantastic. Cumberbatch was ok as the doctor. |
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