To ask which theatre shows you’ve seen this year?

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This year, I’ve seen:

Pride: The Musical
Phantom of the Opera in London
Under Milk Wood
I also streamed National Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest at home, but not sure if it counts.

I also have these booked for this year:

Oliver! In London
Operation Mincemeat
Owain and Henry

Touring production of Miss Saigon earlier this year. Les Miserables on Saturday in the West End - seen it numerous times - just love it. Got tickets for A Man for All Seasons with Martin Shaw in the autumn

The Tempest

To Kill a Mockingbird

Witness for the Prosecution

I saw Road at the exchange as well.
I loved how they made use of the whole auditorium.

My mum and I do our best to see at least one musical each year. We’ve been to Priscilla Queen of the Desert this year and we also have Cats booked for December.

I also volunteer in a local am-dram theatre although I’ve recently had a break due to medical reasons. But through there I’ve watched our dress rehearsals of Steel Magnolias and The Diary of Anne Frank this year. Our next production is the youth group doing The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and the next adult production is The Full Monty so I’m hoping I can get along to support both of those. We have 39 Steps and Frankenstein coming later in the year (I should hopefully be back helping by Frankenstein at the latest) then our panto is Dick Whittington so quite a mix of shows.

Prima Facie and One Day.

Also went to Murder Trial: Death of a Landlord, which I think counts.

So far...

Ballet Shoes
Operation Mincemeat
Moulin Rouge (again)
Mary Queen of Scots (ballet)
Mayerling

Coming up...

La Fille Mal Gardée
Flamenco Gala at Sadlers Wells
Matthew Bourne's new "Carman" ballet
Jesus Christ Superstar

I gave up smoking last year which is how I can afford tickets.

Greatest showman
kinky boots
waitress
Harold fry

Have the following booked for later in the yeer

heathers
legally blond
paddington

Six
Miss Saigon

Off to see Moulin Rouge in a few weeks.
Waitress in Spetember.

How does stream plays compare to the real thing? My local theatre shows national theatre plays and I’ve been unsure whether it’s worth viewing them like that

I’m desperate to see The Cherry Orchard. I really hope it tours next year, but I doubt it will. 🤞🏽

Edit: Sorry, pressed send too soon.

It’s nowhere near as good as the real thing, but it’s well worth it if it’s the only way you can watch the play.

We loved The Importance of Being Earnest, but I wasn’t fully engrossed in the show because I watched it at home.

Theatre is an experience shared between the cast and audience, so we miss that element via steaming.

I really enjoy them. They are reasonably cheap at our community cinema, seats are comfortable and it’s very local so we can get to them mid week after work. I often see things that I probably wouldn’t have thought to see at the theatre, so it is broadening the range of plays I see

Paddington
Hamlet streamed into local cinema
Ballet Shoes streamed at home
Various local am dram shows as DS is a young actor. We have a lot of great stuff on in our town that can be of a very high standard in spite of being amateur.

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club- excellent
Macbeth (Bolton Octagon) excellent performance and venue. went for the teenager as it's on the GCSE exam but loved it it
Road at the Royal Exchange Manchester - enjoyed it
Priscilla Queen of the Desert Manchester - the entire party thought it was awful. Peter Duncan (blue Peter ) cannot act.

Seeing later in the year - Othello at the Royal Exchange and we are going to London in August so will book to see something - teenager will want Hamilton but we've seen it a few times.

Mary Poppins
The Beekeeper of AleppO
Miss Saigon
Macbeth
The Signalman
Going to watch To Kill a Mockingbird this weekend.
so a bit of a mix, but I didn’t like Macbeth, too high brow for me !

Saw Legally Blonde

Also saw James Acaster on tour and going to see Take That:The Circus next month.

moulin Rouge
wicked
Cabaret

all I have seen before ,
moulin Rouge is not as good as it was when I saw it in 2022 or 2024 , Cabaret is outstanding!something new every time I go and that be more then a few And wicked now looks like a school play after the big money movie .. also seen Oliver which was better then I thought it would be ,Ava Brennan who plays Nancy is fabulous ( I’ve seen her in Hamilton too )
next to see is
Paddington Bear and into the woods .. both will be for the first time

Legally Blonde
Paddington
Stranger Things
Various local productions so far.
We have Mean Girls booked for the summer, and I’m sure we’ll fit a few more in!

Agree, I have seen two Macbeths and Vanya with Andrew Scott and I thought they were really good. I saw them at our local Everyman, not cheap but I suppose half way between cinema and theatre.

Went to see The Lion King again a little while ago, was just as wonderful as the first time 😊

I saw Road. I liked standing to Jonny Vegas at the bar - it dragged a bit at the end and I wasn't invested in the teenagers in the bed - I wanted the end to come for them!!

Miss Saigon
Moulin Rouge
The Bodyguard
Devil Wears Prada
Choir of Man
Mary Poppins
Mean Girls

Possibly a couple of others that I have forgotten, I go a lot.

Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works (live streamed ballet); American Psycho at the Almeida (brilliant); Hamlet (touring RSC production). Lined up I have Gentlemen Jack the ballet at Sadlers Wells, Operation Mincemeat, Playboy of the Western World (livestream),then a gap until Pride in August.

Dracula

I like the live shows in the cinema. It's cheaper and you get a much better view of the performance than you'd get in the cheap seats.