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Post by andypandy on Nov 6, 2022 13:47:12 GMT
Here are my predictions (some already confirmed)
Pacific Overtures / Menier
Oklahoma / Wyndhams
Bake Off /Noel Coward
Crazy for You / Savoy
Mrs Doubtfire / Shaftesbury
Ain’t too Proud / Prince Edward
Tammy Faye / Haymarket
Into the Woods / Phoenix
Emojiland / Other Palace
Next to Normal / Donmar
Standing at the Sky’s Edge / National
Sylvia / Old Vic
Dirty Dancing (ugh) - Dominion
Spongebob SquarePants / Festival Hall
Aspects of Love / Lyric
Operation Mincemeat / Fortune
Any more?
Bednobs and Broomsticks? The Witches? Wizard of Oz? What’s new Pussycat? Jagged Little Pill?
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Post by Rory on Nov 6, 2022 13:55:20 GMT
Operation Mincemeat at the Ambassadors or Fortune.
The Band's Visit to transfer?
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Post by Jon on Nov 6, 2022 13:57:44 GMT
Ain't Too Proud can't really be a prediction if it's already confirmed....
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Post by Mark on Nov 6, 2022 15:53:39 GMT
Predictions -
Wizard of Oz - Palladium (from mrbarnaby)
Sister Act - I recon back at Hammersmith or a West End venue.
Billy Elliot - Barbican
Totoro - Gilly Lynne
We Will Rock You - Heard a rumour this is coming in for a season.
Hadestown
Devil Wears Prada - London before Broadway (as suggested in the variety article)
Will we finally get Mean Girls? Jagged Little Pill? From the new Broadway season I recon Some Like it Hot could be the next big hit show.
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Post by og on Nov 6, 2022 17:51:30 GMT
Also Confirmed:
Pacific Overtures - Menier
Oklahoma - Wyndhams
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Post by mrnutz on Nov 6, 2022 18:07:20 GMT
This time last year we had two huge West End openings in Cabaret and Moulin Rouge. 22/23 so far is lacking somewhat in comparison!
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Post by danb on Nov 6, 2022 18:12:57 GMT
A bit of ‘Mean Girls’ popped up on my shuffle on the way home from work reminding me that I do really want to hear those songs live sometime soon.
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Post by jaggy on Nov 6, 2022 18:24:57 GMT
Groundhog Day - Old Vic
The Witches - National Theatre
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Post by hadeswasking on Nov 6, 2022 19:17:42 GMT
Big out-of-left-field prediction.
Beetlejuice - Manchester tryout before transferring to the west end in 2024
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Post by catw on Nov 6, 2022 19:32:45 GMT
Big out-of-left-field prediction. Beetlejuice - Manchester tryout before transferring to the west end in 2024 Why would it need to tryout? Broadway is enough I would have thought. |
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Post by hadeswasking on Nov 6, 2022 19:36:37 GMT
Big out-of-left-field prediction. Beetlejuice - Manchester tryout before transferring to the west end in 2024 Why would it need to tryout? Broadway is enough I would have thought. Was just basing it off what seemed to a recent trend. Plus you never know how UK audiences are going to perceive it in comparison to American audiences. I think it has a lot of similarities to Doubtfire, which also had a Manchester Tryout. Also, it's latest broadway run isn't selling that well. |
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Post by theatreliker on Nov 6, 2022 19:52:19 GMT
Too early but I'd love for Kimberly Akimbo to come over. Maybe at the Young Vic like Fun Home was.
Wizard of Oz at the Palladium wouldn't surprise me.
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Post by danb on Nov 6, 2022 20:00:58 GMT
Is it the same Lloyd Webber produced WOO as before or a different production?
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Post by LaLuPone on Nov 6, 2022 20:39:08 GMT
Is it the same Lloyd Webber produced WOO as before or a different production? I think it’s the same production as far as same book and score including the new songs but a different set and director, probably a smaller production if it’s starting in Leicester and possibly touring. |
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Post by ceebee on Nov 6, 2022 21:59:22 GMT
Local Hero - Soho Place.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 6, 2022 22:50:02 GMT
The Wizard of Oz IS going to the palladium next summer.
It’s very slim pickings for exciting openings in the coming months.
Beetlejuice has absolutely no plans to come here anytime soon.
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Post by Jon on Nov 6, 2022 22:59:31 GMT
It's a bit unfair to say nothing exciting has opened, play wise we had To Kill A Mockingbird and Prima Facie as well as Good and My Neighbour Totoro all which have sold really well. Keep in mind the development cycle was disrupted in 2020 and 2021 so it'll take time for big musicals to come into fruition.
Musical wise, I probably say Mincemeat will transfer either to the Ambassadors or the Fortune and Tammy Faye to either the Phoenix or the Apollo. Play wise, Totoro will transfer but I'm unsure on theatre, the Gillian Lynne is the most obvious but perhaps it could go to one of the musical houses
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Post by Being Alive on Nov 6, 2022 23:40:29 GMT
It reads that they're going to be working in house from As You Like It onwards - I can't see it taking a transfer, and it's entirely the wrong space for it |
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Post by Being Alive on Nov 6, 2022 23:41:15 GMT
Operation Mincemeat at the Ambassadors or Fortune. The Band's Visit to transfer? Mincemeat to neither of those. Bands Visit looking to transfer to Ambassador's from what I understand |
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Post by ceebee on Nov 7, 2022 0:06:39 GMT
It reads that they're going to be working in house from As You Like It onwards - I can't see it taking a transfer, and it's entirely the wrong space for it In your view. Personally, I don't believe in such a thing as "the wrong space", and certainly not "entirely the wrong space". But I'm a realist - it won't happen. Or perhaps it might. I'll keep looking to the skies in the hope that my comet will reappear. |
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Nov 7, 2022 8:25:46 GMT
Prada isn’t going to london yet
Also Pillowman - DOY
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Post by og on Nov 7, 2022 8:31:25 GMT
Why would it need to tryout? Broadway is enough I would have thought. Was just basing it off what seemed to a recent trend. Plus you never know how UK audiences are going to perceive it in comparison to American audiences. I think it has a lot of similarities to Doubtfire, which also had a Manchester Tryout. Also, it's latest broadway run isn't selling that well. The "recent trend" only really exists for new productions. &Juliet, Bat out of Hell, Back to the Future. All first iterations of the production where a 'tryout' made sense before going into a West End run. Doubtfire was a bit of of an exception to the rule in that it had run on Broadway but was being redeveloped in parts. Plenty have transferred without needing to dip their toes in Manchester first - Moulin Rouge, Dear Evan Hansen, etc. I suspect Beetlejuice is safe enough to be able to dive straight in. |
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Post by alicechallice on Nov 7, 2022 9:32:05 GMT
I think the only Covid-usurped West End run which hasn’t rescheduled yet (bar Pillowman which we know is coming) is Laura Wade’s The Watsons.
Do we think that could slot a run in somewhere? I’m assuming it would need to be done when Samuel West isn’t busy with All Creatures Great and Small.
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Post by Rory on Nov 7, 2022 9:42:31 GMT
I think the only Covid-usurped West End run which hasn’t rescheduled yet (bar Pillowman which we know is coming) is Laura Wade’s The Watsons. Do we think that could slot a run in somewhere? I’m assuming it would need to be done when Samuel West isn’t busy with All Creatures Great and Small. I would love it if Sonia Friedman rescheduled The Watsons. I had been so looking forward to seeing it and they had great artwork/ website all ready to go. It's also the type of show which would provide much needed merriment and escapism in these dreary times. The other two shows drastically affected by covid were Sunday in the Park with George (now consigned to 'what might have been' wistfulness) and City of Angels which had literally just started. I am hoping Josie Rourke and Nica Burns can resurrect that. |
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Post by Being Alive on Nov 7, 2022 10:44:54 GMT
It reads that they're going to be working in house from As You Like It onwards - I can't see it taking a transfer, and it's entirely the wrong space for it In your view. Personally, I don't believe in such a thing as "the wrong space", and certainly not "entirely the wrong space". But I'm a realist - it won't happen. Or perhaps it might. I'll keep looking to the skies in the hope that my comet will reappear. A strange view to have as there have been many times show are put into the wrong space - the current production of the Crucible at the National is a prime example of 'show in the wrong space', and I'm not sure how you'd turn a show that is in a fairly traditional set up into the round without entirely redesigning it - so I think Soho Place is the wrong venue for it unfortunately. |
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Post by TallPaul on Nov 7, 2022 10:53:01 GMT
I thought @sohoplace had been designed with an element of flexibility?
Hello Dolly! was another COVID cancellation, I think.
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Post by Being Alive on Nov 7, 2022 11:33:38 GMT
If it had I wasn't aware of that, I thought it was solely in the round, and in which case I retract the statement about Local Hero!
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Post by alicechallice on Nov 7, 2022 11:46:31 GMT
Hello Dolly! was another COVID cancellation, I think. It's been mentioned that it's happening Summer 2024 at the Palladium, after Imelda is finished with The Crown. |
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Post by alicechallice on Nov 7, 2022 11:49:52 GMT
I think the only Covid-usurped West End run which hasn’t rescheduled yet (bar Pillowman which we know is coming) is Laura Wade’s The Watsons. Do we think that could slot a run in somewhere? I’m assuming it would need to be done when Samuel West isn’t busy with All Creatures Great and Small. The other two shows drastically affected by covid were Sunday in the Park with George (now consigned to 'what might have been' wistfulness) and City of Angels which had literally just started. I am hoping Josie Rourke and Nica Burns can resurrect that. Forgot about Angels, but I had consigned Sunday to the bin pile too :-( Hopefully all the producers are reading this thread and thinking "oh yes, I'm meant to be putting that on at some point!" |
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Post by Jon on Nov 7, 2022 12:48:57 GMT
I suspect The Watsons' moment to come into the West End has probably passed.
The Robert Icke Oedipus is still undated, I would imagine that'll be one for @sohoplace
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