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David Pugh

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4 years

Got sad news today. After 7 years of medical training, my good friend has been struck off after 1 minor indiscretion. He slept with 1 of his patients & now can no longer work in the job he loves. What a waste of time, training & money. A genuinely nice guy, and a brilliant vet..

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David Pugh

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4 years

My 94 year old dad just telephoned to say he’s just seen himself on the television, dancing at Trafalgar Square on VE day with a lady he didn’t know and then asked me if I thought she might still be around?

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David Pugh

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5 years

It’s always worth repeating

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David Pugh

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3 years

In lockdown when your dad works in special effects...

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David Pugh

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4 years

I am a theatre producer so I should produce theatre and so I am. From August 18 I will produce Willy Russell’s glorious @EducatingRitaUK starring @StephenTompki19 and @JessJohnson2015 at the beautiful open air @minacktheatre in Cornwall and you’re all invited

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David Pugh

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4 years

Theatre will happen again and sooner than you think so in meantime shall we shut the fuck up until we know how and when and stop scaring our audiences

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David Pugh

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4 years

The ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme would also be a great success if adapted to help theatres reopening @RishiSunak #justathought

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David Pugh

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2 years

Now that really is theatre

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David Pugh

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2 years

We won! The ⁦ @OlivierAwards ⁩ ⁦ @pandpsortof ⁩ #thankyou

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David Pugh

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4 years

I’m producing four shows next year don’t know what but I am

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David Pugh

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4 years

Fuck it. I am just going to open a new show

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David Pugh

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4 years

There we go, seventeen sold out performances, only one lost, all the incredible reviews but most importantly, we brought theatre back and audiences rushed back Willy Russell’s @EducatingRitaUK @minacktheatre

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David Pugh

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4 years

Sitting at the stage door awaiting opening night @EducatingRitaUK @minacktheatre

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

I need an assistant who wants eventually to be a theatre producer but before that there’s everything I did … long hours, drink pouring, shit days and laughs… If interested please send a letter about yourself and what shows you’ve loved to me at 12 skinner place london sw1w 8hh

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David Pugh

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David Pugh

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3 years

Theatre should be accessible for everyone

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

For fucks sake... @OfficialALW is really trying to help move theatres reopening forward and to all those criticising I ask, what the hell are you doing about it?

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David Pugh

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4 years

Do you think it’s time and as soon as we can to get @TheBandMusical back together @takethat @GaryBarlow @HowardDonald @robbiewilliams @OfficialMarkO

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David Pugh

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3 years

A theatre producers job is to provide entertainment to as many people as possible & I know I’ve banged on about this before lockdown but please even more so now, can we keep theatre ticket prices down as this will only help make theatre more accessible & you know that it’s right

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David Pugh

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2 years

I feel very very very sad today as @pandpsortof has to close in the West End. Plan b & omicron greatly reduced audiences & the losses were untenable. I’m incredibly proud of the production, cast, company, creatives, glorious reviews & the 120 standing ovations #wewillbeback

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David Pugh

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3 years

Today I will have been in Showbusiness for 40 years and I’m still here

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

Producers meeting @TheBandMusical @HowardDonald @GaryBarlow #Dafydd Rogers @davidsoho1 @OfficialMarkO @robbiewilliams

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David Pugh

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4 years

For those producers who have tried so hard to produce we were right to try and we must try again. Our job is to produce to entertain people and at the moment that’s more important than ever.

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David Pugh

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3 years

Anybody else finding it even more difficult at the moment you’re not alone it’s best to help each other

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

What if the theatres aren’t open at full capacity? We still do it What if it rains? We still do it What if people don’t come? We still do it What exactly are we doing? We still do it But why? Our job is to entertain people

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David Pugh

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3 years

Two years ago today my mum died. She liked daffodils so each year I plant them in all the window boxes at home and the office so that they bloom about now

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David Pugh

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8 months

Sheridan Smith played 120 performances as Shirley Valentine where there was not one empty seat or standing position The production recouped it’s costs and made a profit of 96.4%. Seats were priced fairly, everyone got a rise on recoupment and investors were happy #transparency

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David Pugh

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4 years

I just had a pro trump taxi driver so I stopped the cab, got out and walked in the rain. It’s the least I could do.

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

Very proud of opening a new british musical in London's West End @thegirlsmusical

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Producers are often asked what they actually do, so let me give you an example, today I bought every role of cling film within 30 miles of the @minacktheatre to wrap 9000 books that make up the glorious set of @EducatingRitaUK to waterproof it

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David Pugh

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4 years

We will be back

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Just wrote to my 188 theatrical angels (investors) & sent them a cheque for their share of profit on @EducatingRitaUK at the @minacktheatre it’s not enough for dinner at the Wolseley it’s more KFC but hey it’s somethings & you tell me who else in the world is paying a dividend

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

They stood They cheered Theatre is back and it feels great @EducatingRitaUK @minacktheatre

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

Tonight was extraordinary, it is why Daf and I produce

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Had a painter and decorator round, he’s been furloughed, he’s a Virgin Atlantic pilot, made a lovely job of the landing

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

1 year

I need to explain something very important. These seats on sale are not my seats. The production and no one connected to it earns anything from their sale. ATG takes it all. I would never sell theatre tickets at £180 each. It’s immoral. It creates elitism ⁦ @shirleyonstage ⁩

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

2 years

I am incredibly sad to say that @pandpsortof will have to close at the @CriTheatre on February 6th. Since plan b was introduced by the government audiences stopped coming to the West End and we can no longer sustain the enormous losses. Please come and see us before we close

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

We just broke more records last night with @TheBandMusical at the @mayflower theatre Southampton than we dreamed were possible

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

2 years

I am very proud to announce my new West End production #pleaseretweet

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

When it comes to theatre a lot of people glorify the West End... theatre is important everywhere so is the experience so is the price of admission

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

We have to keep trying

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

We are losing half of our theatre audiences out of confusion

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Opening soon

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Is anyone aware that social distancing was stopped in the Isle of Man? Therefore their theatre can open to full capacity & that will happen now with a local production of Calendar Girls & as soon as the borders open so will our production of Willy Russell’s @EducatingRitaUK

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

2 years

We’d won we’d tested negative we were pissed ⁦ @OlivierAwards ⁩ ⁦ @isobel_mcarthur ⁩ ⁦ @pandpsortof ⁩

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

I am over the mirror ball to tell you that I am producing the sensational Pride and Prejudice #sortof in London’s soon to be glittering West End at the Criterion Theatre from October 1 for an open ended run ⁦ @pandpsortof ⁩ ⁦⁦ @TronTheatre ⁩ #scottishtheatreatitsbest

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

2 years

Better day today cause I thought fuck it, I’m going to fill these seats again

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

We just broke the box office record at the @minacktheatre Willy Russell’s @EducatingRitaUK

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

Anyone else feel they’ve aged seven years in the last one?

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 months

The UK theatre/equity weekly touring allowance comes no where near the standard of living issues we have to face and so we will now henceforward pay £400 a week

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

I’m very excited to tell you I’m producing a new production for an open ended run in London’s glittering West End in November that I love so so much but can’t tell you more until tomorrow or my Press Rep the glorious @AmandaMalpass will kill me #justwaittilyouseetheticketprices

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

My mum is 92 today & she will be at @TheBandMusical opening on Tuesday her only condition is that @takethat perform!

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David Pugh

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4 years

Set building in progress. 9000 + books with pic taken from backstage @EducatingRitaUK @minacktheatre

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David Pugh

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2 years

Two vaccinations, a booster and tested positive yesterday and today I feel very rough. Please take care everyone look after yourselves and others

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David Pugh

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7 years

We have laughed a lot and now we are smiling a lot @HowardDonald @GaryBarlow @OfficialMarkO

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

Sunday 9am & Daf & I start on a new musical it's called 'The Band' our coproducers are @takethat its written by Tim Firth & it's brilliant

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David Pugh

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2 years

Filming ⁦ @TheBandMusical ⁩ today or now known as ⁦⁦Greatest Days the movie ⁦ @takethat ⁩

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

The @minacktheatre sold a lot of tickets today, not bragging, just saying that’s a great sign for the future of theatre, if audiences want to see something they are going to come back #optimism

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David Pugh

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3 years

Christmas morning PCR test negative so off to Stoke to cook lunch for my soon to be 95 year old dad

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

Rehearsals with my coproducers @takethat when two of them decide to nick @TheBandMusical costumes!

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

6 months

This year Sheridan Smith played every one of the 120 performances as Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine, every seat was sold, every standing position filled & at sensible prices so never having to discount & the production made profits for its investors #vproud

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

April 2nd is a workshop performance for 100 people of #TheBand written by Tim Firth with the music of @takethat retweet to win 2 seats

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

What do you do when your guest star in The Play What I Wrote gets COVID at the last minute you ring the wonderful Sue Holderness our Marlene from Fools and Horses and she gets in her car drives to Birmingham and does it #totalstar

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

2 years

Proud of my 95 year old dad…yesterday a lady telephoned him saying she was from his bank & needed to renew his household insurance. He explained his papers were upstairs & could she call back. He called the bank… they’d never heard of her. She rang back & he told her to sod off

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

What I’ve never understood is why touring theatre productions should be any less better than West End ones

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

1 year

Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine starring Sheridan Smith has just broken the box office record at the Duke of Yorks Theatre opening tonight to a box office advance of over four million pounds

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

6 years

21 years ago daf & I met and have been together ever since when I say together I don't mean together together although god I've tried. This is the official portrait released today to celebrate the occasion by the Palace Theatre Attercliffe courtesy of @JohnSwannell

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David Pugh

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4 years

Standing ovation at todays matinee @EducatingRitaUK @minacktheatre

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David Pugh

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7 years

Tonight

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

6 years

Next Monday march 19 in London the producers and cast of @TheBandMusical will be holding a q & a please follow and retweet to win the chance to attend

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

This is what a full house giving a standing ovation and cheering now looks like and it’s still bloody marvellous @EducatingRitaUK @Rosetheatre

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Well done to everyone watching and working on @EducatingRitaUK tonight at the @minacktheatre where the audience were soaked, the actors were soaked and the set was soaked but the show was performed in full and the audience stood and cheered and dripped #theshowwillgoon

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David Pugh

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4 years

Working away

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David Pugh

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7 years

Coproducers @TheBandMusical

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

2 years

I cannot tell you the messages of support I have received for actually re establishing the policy of printing the full range of ticket prices on an advert #knowwhatyouarepaying

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

I’m taking two weeks off...I’m done in...it’s not the work...it’s the uncertainty that’s done me in...

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

6 years

17th November 1977, the first show I ever produced, Leek Grand Cinema, tickets £1, sold out in an hour, the audience howled, the Star came off stage at 12.20am and got paid £250 cash. Thank you Ken Dodd

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David Pugh

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2 years

Met with three different fellow commercial theatre producers today and they all felt we are fucked for the next two years and they may be right but I’m going to keep trying

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Pls retweet to win two seats at the opening sometime very soon

David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Do you think it’s time and as soon as we can to get @TheBandMusical back together @takethat @GaryBarlow @HowardDonald @robbiewilliams @OfficialMarkO

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David Pugh

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4 years

The view just taken of the @minacktheatre by Adam our wonderful company manager of @EducatingRitaUK as we head to our last performance here tomorrow its been a triumph in so many ways and our team have loved it here but are definitely dreaming of a roof

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

3 years

A producer said to me on the phone today “I don’t think I can do this anymore” I know those feelings. I know now of three successful producers who over the last year have called it a day #wehavetokeeptrying

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David Pugh

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1 year

I am delighted to announce that the tour of @pandpsortof has, despite its run being curtailed in London’s West End due to the pandemic, recouped its production costs and is making profits for my investors who I’d like to thank for their trust @OlivierAwards

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1 year

⁦ @pandpsortof ⁩ or could read “what do you mean there’s an empty seat?”

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David Pugh

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7 years

42% of the audiences that have seen @TheBandMusical so far, have never been to the theatre before and I’m incredibly proud of that

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

Did we mention its opens in Manchester on September 8?

David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

Sunday 9am & Daf & I start on a new musical it's called 'The Band' our coproducers are @takethat its written by Tim Firth & it's brilliant

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David Pugh

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David Pugh

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7 years

Tomorrow in a secret place in London a 3 week workshop of #TheBand begins we test the script & the choice of songs

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

7 years

our first ever audience give a standing ovation to the final run thru in the rehearsal room

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

2 years

In NYC three meetings down three to go all about ⁦ @pandpsortof ⁩ ⁦ @OlivierAwards ⁩

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

6 years

I got the bus @GaryBarlow #daf @HowardDonald @takethat

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David Pugh

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3 years

Last day on the Llangollen canal

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

2 years

So so so pleased that ⁦ @pandpsortof ⁩ has been nominated for three Olivier Awards #thankyou

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

5 years

Tonight is the final performance of Calendar Girls....9 years on, of being on the stage somewhere and I doff my cap to John Baker whose untimely death inspired those wonderful ladies to do so much

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

11 months

41 years as a theatre producer. 84 Charing Cross Road. Bread. The Blues Brothers. Art. Equus. Brief Encounter. God of Carnage. The Play What I Wrote. Rebecca. Calendar Girls. Full Monty. Educating Rita. Pride and Prejudice Sort Of. Shirley Valentine… all made a profit

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

6 years

This Wednesday if we make it daf & I will have worked together for 21 years so we are giving away 21 pairs of tickets across all our shows so just FOLLOW all: @BE_onstage @TheBandMusical @FullMontyPlay @thegirlsmusical @ARTtheplay @davidsoho1 and then RETWEET #Competition

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

Make a wish... @EducatingRitaUK @minacktheatre #theatrewillbeback

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David Pugh

@davidsoho1

4 years

I’m a producer just trying to produce but some days it’s hard as you’re speaking to lots of people you have to try and lift off the floor #wewillbeback

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