Like I said, two consecutive nights at the theatre to see Merlin stars; after the lead actor last night, tonight the cast regular who doesn't even get his name in the credits: Rupert Young takes on the lead role of Bobby in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company. There's other familiar faces (to me at least) in the cast - Avenue Q's final West ( Read more... )

I usually do a roundup of my week's tweets every Wednesday, but Twitter hasn't been letting me on since Tuesday night so I couldn't access them. Eventually I ended up clearing my cache which solved it, but in a rather unexpected way - the godawful #newtwitter was gone and I was back to the old version, which doesn't have all the bells and whistles ( Read more... )

Well it's third time unlucky I guess, and after two previous "final performances" Avenue Q ended its four-and-a-half year West End run tonight, and once again I was there, as was Evil Alex, who's been at both the previous ones with me; Richard, who joined us at the last Gielgud show; and Vanessa who was there at the first "last" night with us, plus ( Read more... )

It must be the Bank Holiday just gone, I nearly forgot it was Wednesday today. Not that I've tweeted a lot in the last week, but this weekly roundup does include what may be my most bad-taste tweet yet, at the news that Daniel Boys has joined Gregg Lowe in the cast of WolfboyIf people are so worried about the cost of us doing the Olympics, why are ( Read more... )

Yes it's now into double figures for me with Avenue Q as last night was the final performance at the Gielgud Theatre, and my first visit since Daniel Boys left. Of course, it's just under a year ago that I was at the show's last-ever performance again, so it's perhaps not the world's biggest surprise that next week it'll be returning, very close to ( Read more... )

So a mix of bits and pieces to end the week. First up, hey, remember when me and Evil Alex and some other people went to see the final performance of Avenue Q at the Noël Coward Theatre last year? Only it wasn't the final performance after all 'cause it then re-opened at the Gielgud. Well, this year, me and Evil Alex and a different combination of ( Read more... )

Yes, after my 8th trip to Avenue Q was the absolutely last one ever, the show only went and reopened so this is the third (and, surely, final) annual trip for me and Evil Alex to the late Friday matinee. We've been going on or near my birthday ever since Daniel Boys joined the cast, our first trip together being in his first week in the role. Which ( Read more... )

Before going to meet vanessaw at the theatre on Friday, I took a detour to Shaftesbury Avenue to have a look at the Gielgud, since it would already be decked out in its new Avenue Q gear. As it happens I had trouble getting a decent pic - there's roadworks on the opposite corner which is the best place to take a photo from. Still I thought some of you ( Read more... )

Yeah, it sounds a bit like "Kuwait" but what it actually means is Avenue Q is now officially the show I've seen more times than any other. And of course it still may go up because contrary to the initial announcement which was the whole bloody reason I organised this trip but never mind, last night wasn't the final performance of AQ in London. ( Read more... )

It's a good job triomakesmehot enjoyed Avenue Q on Broadway - looks like she'll be making another trip when she's next in London (any news on when that is yet?) D-Boys' email database doesn't seem to like my address 'cause nothing's graced my inbox, but happily catnip25 was a bit luckier, and got a newsletter thingy: Daniel Boys will be rejoining Avenue Q from its ( Read more... )