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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 27, 2023 18:31:54 GMT
Opening in the autumn.
Seems a very boring and odd choice to me.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Feb 27, 2023 19:01:46 GMT
Shaw is now out of copyright. Surprised we aren't seeing a lot more
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Post by Rory on Feb 27, 2023 19:17:47 GMT
Presumably a different production to the Tim Pigott Smith / Michelle Dockery Bath production from a few years ago which played at the Old Vic.
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Post by cavocado on Feb 27, 2023 19:18:27 GMT
I wondered if Shaw was coming back into fashion, as I saw Arms and the Man (Orange Tree) and Mrs Warren's Profession (Richmond) last year. Not a bad thing IMO. I'll definitely book for Pygmalion.
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Post by nottobe on Feb 27, 2023 19:40:22 GMT
I assume as it is out of copyright and we only just had My Fair Lady, that this could be a radical version. Maybe genderbent of relocated to 21st century?
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Post by lou105 on Feb 27, 2023 22:33:08 GMT
There was a Headlong version about 5 years ago with digitised voice swapping and scenes in glass boxes as I recall.
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Post by theatrefan77 on Feb 28, 2023 1:24:41 GMT
A revival of Pygmalion sounds like a very dull idea.
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Post by zahidf on Feb 28, 2023 9:37:09 GMT
Wonder if it has a big name attached
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Post by cavocado on Feb 28, 2023 9:57:53 GMT
I suppose I'm feeling a bit jaded by a series of disappointing new plays - promising ideas that were badly executed - so almost any revival of a decent-ish play seems like a good idea at the moment.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 28, 2023 22:19:21 GMT
Wonder if it has a big name attached 2 of our finest stage actors- not big film stars |
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Post by theatreliker on Feb 28, 2023 22:43:59 GMT
Les Dennis and Patsy Ferran.
I enjoyed the Headlong version from 2016ish.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 28, 2023 22:45:50 GMT
Les Dennis and Patsy Ferran. I enjoyed the Headlong version from 2016ish. One of those may be correct… |
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Post by nottobe on Feb 28, 2023 23:06:12 GMT
Ooo would love to see Patsy as Eliza. Maybe Bertie Carvel as Higgins if stage star?
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 28, 2023 23:18:40 GMT
Ooo would love to see Patsy as Eliza. Maybe Bertie Carvel as Higgins if stage star? Well my dear…. |
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Post by emmy on Mar 1, 2023 0:12:00 GMT
Ooo would love to see Patsy as Eliza. Maybe Bertie Carvel as Higgins if stage star? I’m pretty sure this would be my ideal Pygmalion cast, here’s hoping! |
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Post by cavocado on Mar 1, 2023 9:41:12 GMT
I really hope it's Patsy Ferran.
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Post by profquatermass on Mar 1, 2023 12:33:17 GMT
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Post by Jon on Mar 1, 2023 14:42:08 GMT
Bertie Carvel would be good as Higgins although I think he has filming commitments for another series of Dalgliesh but I can't remember when they film that.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 1, 2023 19:59:09 GMT
Bertie Carvel would be good as Higgins although I think he has filming commitments for another series of Dalgliesh but I can't remember when they film that. Well he must have worked that out… |
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Post by Rory on Mar 1, 2023 20:23:54 GMT
Bertie and Patsy will blow the dust off this old War Horse.
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Post by Rory on Apr 11, 2023 23:02:22 GMT
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 11, 2023 23:13:17 GMT
They must be hoping for a transfer with that cast
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 11, 2023 23:19:03 GMT
They're going to be fabulous.
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Post by teamyali on Apr 11, 2023 23:33:10 GMT
Oohh…they timed it really well! Patsy’s back again! And Bertie’s going all out as Tony Blair in the final season of The Crown, which is scheduled to air before the year ends (most likely a November release). If this goes out really well, another potential hit in the cards.
The Old Vic just posted now on their socials:
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Post by zahidf on Apr 12, 2023 6:50:49 GMT
Priority booking opens from today with general onsale on Tue 18 Apr at 12 noon.
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Post by foxa on Apr 12, 2023 7:41:35 GMT
Wonderful cast. But I still haven't forgiven the director Richard Jones for his Once in a Lifetime at the Young Vic.
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Post by jek on Apr 12, 2023 7:43:33 GMT
I grew up in Stepney, East London and still have the accent. When I was a kid at a local comprehensive the school arranged for us to go and see a production of Pygmalion at Toynbee Hall, which was a local settlement organisation set up for Oxford graduates to come and do good in the East End. It continues to have a rather nice theatre. I think our teachers sold the trip to us via its connection to My Fair Lady. You can imagine how disappointed we were that there were no songs! I don't think any of us came out of it wanting to 'speak proper' but it still makes me smile to think of how the theatre company were playing to a room full of Elizas most of whom had never seen a play before. Now approaching 60 I hope I manage to get tickets for this production - which I think I will appreciate a bit more!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 12, 2023 7:58:48 GMT
With Richard Jones directing this wont be going into the West End ...
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Post by Jan on Apr 12, 2023 8:02:35 GMT
With Richard Jones directing this wont be going into the West End ... Agree. Great cast but totally the wrong director with his day glo off-kilter sets and cartoon characters. He has his place but this isn't it. |
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Post by londonpostie on Apr 12, 2023 10:43:09 GMT
Given the usual Christmas fare here, the OV could be virtually sold out from September to January.
Going to be a slight mental adjustment given, the last time I saw these two at the Old Vic, one was a sort of American Nazi and the other was .... Donald Trump* <cough>
*Camp Siegfried and The 47th
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