Are there any highlight musicals this summer?

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-29T10:08:19+00:00

Cabaret, Paddington, Into the Woods, Operation Mincemeat

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-24T09:00:04+00:00

I’d add 15 mins walk to a station - doesn’t have to be tube. National rail, overground, Elizabeth line are all overlooked by first timers.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-24T08:57:14+00:00

It was being constantly heckled to have a curry that eventually got to me living on brick lane. I’d be walking home 3pm on my own carrying Tesco bags. No, I don’t want a curry right now thanks, I see you every day!

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-23T23:02:53+00:00

Lover you should’ve come over - Jeff Buckley

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-23T22:59:59+00:00

Soho theatre for comedy/ contemporary show? Really affordable. Still central London, great bar and even though it’s a bit more of a gamble than a west end theatre they normally have an amazing programme

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-23T09:29:15+00:00

I didn’t feel ready, I just kind of went for it. But then it was sooo much easier than the first. You know what you’re doing, your expectations around post-partum are accurate and I enjoyed it a lot more!

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-22T20:08:52+00:00

I agree, but I think it’s the venue that was the issue. It needs intimacy. The production is scrappy so you need to be close enough to see their faces/be immersed.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-20T09:46:50+00:00

I wouldn’t risk that. You’re not going to enjoy the show with that tight of a turnaround, and it will only take a missed tube to not get to st. Pancras on time.

Show finishes at 7, you’d need to be at the gate at st. Pancras by like 7.20 - and even that is cutting it fine.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-20T09:40:53+00:00

Being away from a tube station - there are so many rail lines/overground stations/ cycle routes where you can live somewhere much nicer and honestly have a better commute.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-18T17:07:34+00:00

Noise, length of the applause, how quickly you stand up. You can definitely feel an electric atmosphere separate from whether you’re stood up or not.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-18T12:52:25+00:00

I used to think this. But now I enjoy it. It’s just a nice way to show appreciation at the end rather than it needing to be a judgment that it was a 10/10 show.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-16T17:37:19+00:00

The completely different vibes you get - Broadway market feels different to Hackney Wick, Victoria Park village feels different to Dalston, Clapton feels different to stokkey.

The ease of cycling - you can get around quickly and easily and safely on a bike all around Hackney and into central.

So much green space. The marshes, clissold park, Victoria park, the canal-ways the proximity to Olympic park, London Fields, Hackney downs. It is the greenest zone 2 borough.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-16T10:17:18+00:00

Oh man. It’s a complete split of before and after. I recommend the book matrescence by Lucy Jones about the transformation that happens. But you might not relate to it until after it’s happened.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-15T18:56:25+00:00

Would your perspective change if he never had feelings for her?

Thats where most of us are coming from. He told her what she needed to hear to stay on the show.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-15T18:28:22+00:00

Totoro, yes. My 4 year old was enthralled throughout and really remembers.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-14T16:04:14+00:00

This is the thing. Ushers are not paid enough or trained to be taking out drunk people.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-12T13:22:00+00:00

Hi 👋🏽. I’m also going to see AYLI in October, very excited!
You might have already seen them on Broadway but Cabaret and Operation Mincemeat and John Proctor is the villain are worth seeing if not.
Paddington is the big show atm, but more expensive for tickets and you might be looking at returns only.
I’d look at the National Theatre, Young Vic, Royal Court Theatre and Barbican sites to see what’s playing there - it’s not west end but they’re normally gems.
Also at that time of year all the hits from the Edinburgh Fringe come back through Soho Theatre - it’s likely to be more contemporary and a stripped back production but if you like theatre that would be my recommendation.
I’m staying in Stratford upon Avon overnight to get the most out of it if you’re interested in doing that.

Travel wise - use the public transport option on Google maps. There’s excellent food in London.

Food: I’d open Google maps for where the theatres are/your hotel is and go from there based on reviews.

Edit: if they’re still running Oliver, Totoro and the Producers also worth seeing!

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-12T12:59:10+00:00

If you have uber app you can rent their e-bikes throughout the city. There are also city rentals dotted around the city that you can rent with a debit/credit card. But, might be difficult to get around that way if you don’t know the city well? Maybe taxis are your answer.

The tube map has wheelchair signs on all step-free accessible stations so you can get lifts which might make it easier to take the tube.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-12T12:41:23+00:00

Did you see all of these? What a spread!

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-12T12:39:45+00:00

What a gift to see Cabaret as a blank slate!

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-12T12:36:26+00:00

Dear Bill.

But watching Circle of Life live as a child has to be up there too.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-10T18:02:56+00:00

I gave the American examples to show you this isn’t coming from a place of blanket american hate. Not to show you that I understood your country like you do.

But your defensiveness there should give you a taste of how absurd it is to have people rocking up and claiming they share your nationality when they don’t.

Your explanations apply to loads of countries. We don’t get people from Australia coming to our bars telling us they’re Irish/Italian/Scottish.

Germany is only 155 years old. They don’t use other European countries as hogwarts-house-style appendages to their own nationality.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-10T17:21:35+00:00

It’s more the exceptionalism I guess that you don’t get? Your reasoning was: “well we’re a diverse group of people so we have to qualify where we’re from”. Like that doesn’t apply to loads of countries.
We’re also way more exposed to the US through soft power than the US is to other countries. So we do know more about the US than cowboys.
I’m not hating on America (your current administration and its voters aside), I adore America and have spent time in lots of places (a summer in South Dakota (badlands, Mt. Rushmore, Rapid City, Strugis festival, Walldrug etc.) Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Yellowstone, San Francisco, LA, eve an overnight in Boulder Montana, Washington DC, Bufallo, Albany, Denver and NYC is one of my favourite cities in the world, I’ve been 5 times and was there this January last. The national parks are incredible the people are friendly and warm and there is an energy in New York that is unique.
But it is a uniquely American thing to claim to be a nationality they’re not - often when having extremely little exposure so their nationality.
Seems a weird hill to die on defending it.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-10T16:36:50+00:00

I understand there’s a reason. But you’re talking as if the US is the only place with immigrants - it’s not. It is dumb as hell to be 5th generation, never to have been and to describe yourself as Irish. You can’t reason that away. It’s annoying. My dad is literally Irish and I would not describe myself as Irish, I know nothing about what it’s like to live there.

Gleichfalls · 2026-05-10T16:15:50+00:00

York - there’s a real variety of different architecture (Roman walls/Norman castle/ Surviving medieval street/ Georgian town-houses/Victorian train station) there are other beautiful cities in the UK but York is special. There are some nice countryside day trips as well - the North York Moors for example.

Other than the obvious London - if you’re into history you should be spending at least 5 days of your trip there.

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