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Just wondering if anyone has a wish list for the final few months of Oh, Mary! After Jinkx?
My top three,

•Jane Horrocks
•Ncuti Gatwa
•Meera Syal

Hi! I accidentally bought two tickets through TodayTix on online rush for today at 2:30 (vs 7:30 as intended).

if anyone can use them, just DM me your email address and I will try to transfer them to you :-)

Please note I am not very technologically savvy. It looks like I can transfer the tickets from what I can tell….

Paid 180 each, grand circle row D center.

Unfortunately two of my party are unable to attend so hoping someone else is interested!

Literally just arrived in London. Here for Pride and to spend the 4th of July seeing comedy genius Catherine Tate in “Oh, Mary!” Figure that’s a near perfect way to celebrate America’s 250th.

Get to my hotel a little bit ago and suddenly got an email of ATG that Catherine Tate will be out tomorrow. I paid £100 ea for three tickets to see Catherine Tate. I’m sure this Georgie Lagden is a fine actress but I paid so much because it was Catherine Tate.

I’m only here until Sunday so it’s not like I can rebook. The email from ATG has no contact information. What are my rights/options here?

Side note: I have seen every Mary who has done it on Broadway. It’s a hilarious show. I’m just really annoyed to pay so much for an unknown understudy.

So looking for a new friend to go to a show with. Never been to one so hoping to meet someone with a like minded interest. Not a massive drinker so just there for good vibes. Looking for a friendship, if it turns into more then great if not then no problem.

i just can not pay £500 or £200, i want to take my sister for her 18th birthday this july, any ticket day will work just please under £100. i just need 1 ticket for her

Ok so a brief summary: I bought a Rush ticket for the 8.45 performance tonight, at the point of sale Catherine Tate is named explicitly on TodayTix as performing. This is at about 11am. At 1.30, I get an email saying that Catherine isn’t doing either the 5.30 or 8.45 shows, and when I look at the booking page on TodayTix all labelling is now gone as if they’d never said that to begin with.

Am I wrong for thinking that’s an outrageous withholding of information? Given how swiftly it was announced they must have known the cast change was happening by the time people were still booking tickets surely? I’ve been to dozens of plays including those with cast changes so this isn’t some newbie complaint thing, but I’ve never had it implemented in such a seemingly deliberately misleading way. Especially with this play in particular where they’re being so much more direct in saying who is performing due to the lead being swapped out for the various stints from Mason/Catherine/Cole.

What are my rights here? TodayTix say Rush tickets are ‘final sale’ so cant be transferred in-app. I imagine TodayTix and the theatre will just say it’s the others’ fault/problem on ticket conditions and/or cast changes. Has anyone had any luck selling on Rush tickets before? If so does anyone here want it at less than the £30 face value? 😂 The only consolation is I’ve heard very good things on this sub about the understudy, so hopefully it’ll still be fun if I go. These things happen I get that it just seems particularly misleading this time and I wondered if anyone else had something like this happen with Rush tickets and figured out a solution?

Hey everyone!

Looking to put together a Ewen Montague Costume (from Operation Mincemeat) for comic con this year- can anyone advise on where to look for things like the trousers/shirt/blazer?

Doing it on a budget so doesn’t need to be exact, but I’d love to get pretty similar!

Thank you!

hi all! i'm travelling to london with a friend soon, and i'm inviting her to see a show with me. she has never seen one before and because i am rly interested in cyrano de bergerac and thanks to its great reviews i'm thinking of bringing her to see it with me. we're running on limited budget lol so we're thinking of getting the £15 tickets in the grand circle but it seems far away. what i've heard of cyrano is its devastating performances so i guess what i'm asking is will sitting far away hinder/decrease the enjoyment of the performances? as in, would it still be as good even though you could barely see the performers? would it still have the same impact? i really want to be able to immerse myself in the story, and i want my friend to enjoy it too. the seat views that we are considering do not seem bad cause you can see the entire stage, it's not restricted, but it's just the distance that is making me ponder whether it's worth it or not. i wouldn't mind upgrading or going above the budget but i don't think my friend would feel the same way...

anyway, thanks in advance!

Hi

Heading to London in September for a week.

Previously I have seen and loved les Mis, wicked, phantom, Oliver!, bttf.

What shows have reasonable priced last minute tickets?

Hi!

I'm looking to book Heathers when it's in London, and I was wondering if anyone had photos of the view from slightly further back in the stalls at the theatre?

I've had a look on A View From My Seat and Seat Plan, but neither have any photos of the view, so I'm struggling to know if further back would be a good view

Thanks!

Edit - was not aware that Heathers will be the first show here, thank you for letting me know!

If you had to only pick one!

Palladium run:

• Jesse Tyler Ferguson 
• Richard Armitage 
• Boy George 
• Layton Williams 
• Julian Clary

 

Drury Lane run:

• Matt Bomer 
• Rob Brydon 
• Reece Shearsmith 
• Bob The Drag Queen 
• Michael Ball 
• Simon Russell Beale 
• Omid Djalili 
• Layton Williams

 

ANYTHING - Broadway, West End, Touring. Currently playing or closed.

Who has watched Cyrano at the Noel Coward theatre? Were you completely blown away and did you cry at the end??

I’m visiting London for the first time at the end of the month. What’s good? I’d love to see something not also playing in NYC since go to Broadway all the time! My preference is not for Juke box musicals (like moulin Rouge) unless it’s totally outstanding. What did you like or would want to see? Thanks in advance!

I missed the ticket sales for Electra/Persona with Cate Blanchett at the national theatre and all that are left are £92-120 tickets which are out of my price range unfortunately :(. I also missed out on 25 and under tickets , but on the 25U page it says "No tickets available now, but look out for future releases" - do the NT post about when they're doing additional releases?

Also, has anyone tried for Friday Rush tickets before? In case I don't manage to get any 25U, I may try my luck with Friday Rush. Do they hold some tickets back specifically for the rush, as many dates at the beginning of the run are sold out, or will they just not have any rush tickets for those dates? Thanks so much!! x

A regular Broadway goer seeks recs for London shows that aren’t likely to hit The Great White Way anytime soon. TIA!

hello! i’m from new york and a big broadway fan, and i was hoping to squeeze in 1-2 west end shows while i was in london for the first time! i will have time for a show july 3 & july 8. what should i see?

my favorite shows are maybe happy ending, merrily we roll along, sweeney todd. but i have seen 90% of the musicals on broadway rn and like most things (im the type to watch everything that’s nominated for the tony’s).

i’ve seen mincemeat/cabaret/oh mary/hadestown and i don’t want to see anything ive already seen. i would have loved to see paddington but that is very sold out, im waiting for it to transfer!

what im thinking about:

phantom: my theater obsession started a few months before phantom of the opera closed on broadway, so i never got to see it

les mis: i searched the sub and people seem to really love this production! i’ve never seen this on stage either

my neighbor totoro: love studio ghibli and everyone seems to really like this!

high society: i like the movie and i love helen george on call the midwife

anything i’m missing or should be considering? i was planning to just get tickets on todaytix once i got to london, but if anyone has any tips on that, it would be helpful as well!