Eurobeat Cometh - Eurobeat Tickets Here
This post will introduce a generation to the unique entertainment bonanza that is Eurobeat. For those of you that want to get Eurobeat Tickets now, scroll to the bottom of this post. Let us begin:
When I was just a slip of a little lad there was one special night every year that would often cause me just as much excitement as Christmas Eve, and that’s really saying something because Christmas Eve would send me spasmodic!
The sacred and holy night of which I speak was the extra special evening when a super-sarcastic Terry Wogan would expand my musical pallet into new European territories that had once seemed unimaginable. As the perceptive little tykes among you know, I’m clearly talking about the genius concept that is The Eurovision Song Contest.
Excitement for Eurovision would boil and simmer for months before, kicking off with “A Song for Europe” in which the benevolent governments of the day would grant the British public our democratic right to vote on the power melody that would hopefully elevate us to the heady heights of musical glory. Although it would always frustrate me when inevitably my countrymen would make a hideous gaff and our song would turn out to be, well……….poo!
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West End Theatre Tickets Business Thrives Despite The Credit Crunch
From Google News last week………
London’s West End theatreland is thriving despite the credit crunch, according to theatre tickets specialist discounttheatre.com, but price savvy audiences are now looking to the Web to save money on seats and meals.
Echoing the Society of London Theatre report that showed London Theatre is currently going through a boom time, Discount Theatre has seen the demand for popular West End shows increase by 20% during May and June demonstrating that people want to forget all the gloomy economic predictions with a night out at the theatre.
Said Discount Theatre Marketing Director Chris Ryan: “Our figures are in-line with the holiday industry in showing that people are so fed up with the doom mongers that they are determined to have a good time. But they still want a bargain. The average customer is a lot more price savvy now and they know that top theatre tickets for a hit West End show don’t have to cost £60 - and they needn’t spend a lot of money on dinner either”.
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Funny business: can we take comedians seriously in London’s West End?
It’s the ultimate question currently facing mankind, a gargantuan question of morals and continence with such ramifications for humanity that it’s set the scholars and wise men of the globe into increasingly heated debates, which will no doubt leave them at loggerheads for years to come.
So what is this biblical, neigh apocalyptic question that’s on the lips of every thinking man in the modern world I hear you ask? Well if you’re very sure you can take it, here goes, but remember - with great power comes great responsibility:
**Can a TV comedian cross the boundaries of light entertainment on the goggle box and be taken seriously in the infamously harsh and critical world of serious London theatre?**
It’s quite a poser, I think you’ll agree vehemently. So to try and find an answer to the question that has flummoxed the worlds top minds, I have put together three case studies that should be able to tip the scales one way or tuther as granny would say.
Case Study 1 – Rob Mitchell in Fat Pig
The first of these three proactive comedians to take the tentative steps into live action theatre is Rob Mitchell who plays the drug toting, mother debasing looser Jeremy in the (in my opinion) hilarious Peep Show. I think the rules state that I’m allowed to give my opinions as this is not currently election time.
This production of FAT PIG sees Robs character falling in love with a Jolly FAT Bird (so many rules broken there) only to find that his so called friends mock him viscously.
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Out of Britain’s Got Talent and Into The Hoods
If you’re anything like me and there’s really nothing to suggest that you would be, but if you are anything like me you will be a telly addict for the find-some-talent-make-a-buck TV shows on ITV. The most recent of these which has super glued me to my television set in recent weeks is the now infamous Britain’s Got Talent in which the plucky Ant and Dec travel the length and breadth of the country in search of the aforementioned talent in a noble quest to make amends for all the talent that goes undiscovered in Britain each year. (The country is currently in the grip of a horrendous ‘Talent Crunch’ running at a massive 75% undiscovered talent in July alone! The stats speak for themselves!)
But when these quality pieces of televisual entertainment reach climax then go to sleep, our lives seem a little less worth living and a burning feeling begins in the stomach then moves to the forefinger (something like hunger but not quite starvation). Who or what can fill this cavernous void that’s been etched into my blackened heart?
And we’re off…….
My name is Benjamin Smyth III and on behalf of DiscountTheatre.com I would like to say a big fat welcome. You’re currently reading the first historic post of the long awaited (by us) Discount Theatre Blog, where you will learn about all things London Theatre, filtered through my own personal worldview. (I was deliberately vague there to leave room for veering off at strange tangents.)
It feels great to be jabbing at these little keys talking to you for the first time and I would Appreciate / Encourage / Demand with a stick that you feed back on anything we deliver in the following posts. Even if you think I’m being an old trollop!
So what can you expect from this blog?
After many all-night brainstorming sessions and piles of chocolate-covered coffee beans eaten in the vain attempt to stay alert and virile, we have decided to focus the offerings here around the following interesting and alluring parameters:
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*Bonus Post* I met Jim Robinson!
Yes Spamalot Theatre fans it’s 100% true, and I’m very excited. First let us remind ourselves of the role that made him famous:
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It all started like this
Alan Dale, who played the iconic Jim Robinson when Neighbours used to get 19 million viewers came into DiscountTheatre.com HQ to give us all Swedish chocolates and have his pictures
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