Rescheduled theatre performances

[Mottie]

In February I booked to see Tim Vine in May this year. Obviously that was cancelled due to lockdown. We had a notification in July that it had been rescheduled to March 2021. I’ve just had another email telling me it has now been rescheduled yet again to September 2021. I might have gone off of him by then!

Anyone else had a theatre booking rescheduled?

 

[Deleted2797112]

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[dontbelieveawordofit]

tough.

 

[Dangee]

Same with me. Booked show at the Hammersmith Apollo. Was meant to be July 21st. Been postponed for exactly same dates next year. Tickets were £160 each!

 

[Ihavenojob]

Multiple concert and theatre bookings. Some postponed 2/3/4 times. Some cancelled all together. Heartbreaking for the performers and venues. Some are teetering on the brink.

They could get a job at Tesco

 

[conny]

Tickets booked for Frozen II at Drury Lane for January 2021 but been postponed until July 2021.

Before you start, my granddaughter and her mum, love Frozen and my wife used to be a lighting designer for for a company called Pulsar who did/do the lighting for top groups such as U2, Quo, Spandau Ballet etc and she was also involved in Live Aid. (If you watch Queen at Live Aid the camera pans up to the top right hand side of the wings and you get a brief glimpse of a bloke and a woman sitting high up on scaffolding. That was my wife and her boss). My wife wants to go to see the lighting arrangements after seeing a video of the American Broadway show.

 

[conny]

They could get a job at Tesco

So could you but then you would have to change your username.

 

[Mottie]

tough.

Much tougher on the employees of these small theatres.

 

[Dangee]

Mine was Sister Act. (My missus loves it) Bought surprise tickets. It's got (had) Whoppi Goldberg Jenifer Saunders etc in it. Gutted.

 

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[Ihavenojob]

Some of them have:

"Lord Lloyd-Webber: I have an example of that. I am sure the Musicians’ Union will have something to say about this, but one of the finest viola players I know, who has played the Walton Concerto, I saw her the other day and I said, “What are you doing?” and she said, “I am working in a supermarket” and this is beyond everything now. We simply have to get our arts sector back open and running. Britain is the leader in world theatre in many ways, in my view, and we have to use this opportunity not only to say that we want to get our sector open, but to demonstrate to the world how it can be open. I think we are now at the point of no return."

https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/819/html/

Good on her. Instead of moaning and expecting everyone else to bail her out, she had the gumption to get out and earn money, and possibly some respect.

 

[JohnD]

As Lloyd-Webber knows, the difference is that, instead of 98% of the people in theatre and performing trades being out of work, or inTescos, as is usual, this year, an extra 1% are out of work or in Tescos.

It is a precarious trade with little chance of making a decent living.

It's nice to know that he is concerned about the affected 1% of workers.

I'm sure the cut in his own earnings and royalties never entered his mind.

 

[dontbelieveawordofit]

lockdown has highlighted so many things that the human race invented that didn’t need inventing.

 

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[Mottie]

You are talking out of your rear end.

Careful, that chip on your shoulder is about to topple you again.

I've always thought of JohnD as a well balanced individual. He has a chip on each shoulder....