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Post by theatrefan62 on Jan 23, 2024 22:07:38 GMT
How well is Dolly selling? Could it/might it move to Drury Lane after its stint at the Palladium? If the cast could extend surely it would be easier to move the panto from the Palladium to Drury Lane this year. But I doubt Imelda will be able to extend. Elf is touring this winter again as no London run. Is there a second set already built?
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Post by demelza on Jan 23, 2024 22:11:33 GMT
How well is Dolly selling? Could it/might it move to Drury Lane after its stint at the Palladium? If the cast could extend surely it would be easier to move the panto from the Palladium to Drury Lane this year. But I doubt Imelda will be able to extend. Elf is touring this winter again as no long run. Is there a second set already built? There was an arena tour of the musical alongside the Dominion prod this christmas just gone so there's already two sets in existence
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Jan 23, 2024 22:12:28 GMT
You’ve been wrong before, as have I and others with the information we get. Last I heard was they’re workshopping it with changes, and I quote, “for modern audiences”, ahead of a planned TR:DL revival. The timing would line up as would the availability of the cast I’ve heard they’ve approached You need better sources 🤣. It’s dead. I’ve heard it’s had the full Lazarus with a new star…
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Post by fiyero on Jan 23, 2024 22:40:09 GMT
If the cast could extend surely it would be easier to move the panto from the Palladium to Drury Lane this year. But I doubt Imelda will be able to extend. Elf is touring this winter again as no long run. Is there a second set already built? There was an arena tour of the musical alongside the Dominion prod this christmas just gone so there's already two sets in existence The arena tour is not the same beast as the theatre show if what I saw a few years back is anything to go by!
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Post by SuperTrooper on Jan 23, 2024 23:08:07 GMT
Technology & me don't mix. I'm so old I can't multiple quote!
Oliver is happening, not at the Lane, or Wimbledon, or Noel Coward!
I've heard Elf as a filler.
Also, Totoro wants a West End home, but personally I think The Lane is too big an auditorium, almost twice the size of the Barbican..
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Post by A.Ham on Jan 23, 2024 23:31:15 GMT
MJ at the Prince Edward pretty much rules out Oliver! going there. The rumour was it's going to its first home. Yes. I thought that after I’d posted. I guess it depends how long they think MJ’ll run and when they want to open Oliver, but guessing MJ will run long enough that Oliver’ll need to find a different venue.
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Post by Jon on Jan 24, 2024 1:59:33 GMT
The Palladium and Drury Lane are very different so the chances of Hello Dolly! transferring is very slim but also I doubt they'd want the panto to move theatres.
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Post by theatreian on Jan 24, 2024 9:48:38 GMT
I couldn't imagine Beetlejuice being a big enough pull to fill Drury Lane, but we will have to wait I guess.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 24, 2024 11:14:07 GMT
I couldn't imagine Beetlejuice being a big enough pull to fill Drury Lane, but we will have to wait I guess. Don’t forget it would benefit from the release of Beetlejuice 2 which is in 2025
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Post by alicechallice on Jan 24, 2024 11:32:33 GMT
I couldn't imagine Beetlejuice being a big enough pull to fill Drury Lane, but we will have to wait I guess. Don’t forget it would benefit from the release of Beetlejuice 2 which is in 2025 It's sooner than that even, September 2024.
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Post by christya on Jan 24, 2024 12:09:57 GMT
I'd love to see Beetlejuice there, but my gut feeling is that it needs a smaller house. I've been wrong before though! I have zero interest in The Producers, less than zero if they rework it 'for modern audiences' (goes from 'wouldn't pay to see it' to 'wouldn't take a free ticket'), so I'd personally see using the theatre for that as a waste.
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Post by francistheatreboard on Jan 24, 2024 12:50:03 GMT
Got served an ad to sign up for Elf the musical updates today so it tracks.
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Post by theatreian on Jan 24, 2024 15:49:22 GMT
Don’t forget it would benefit from the release of Beetlejuice 2 which is in 2025 I didn't know about that... it sheds a different light on it.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 24, 2024 17:30:10 GMT
Elf has to be one of the worst efforts I’ve ever seen. Absolutely dreadful.
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Post by theatregod on Jan 26, 2024 0:27:43 GMT
Oliver! (In the round)
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Jan 26, 2024 4:01:02 GMT
Put in a production of The Boy From Oz, with Hugh Jackson playing Peter Allan. People wont care if hes not quite the right age for it, they'll go and see Hugh in anything. I'd pay big bucks to see him do that show again. Unfortunately he also makes it very hard to find someone of a similar level who could take over the role.
Lets have some new shows that have never played London and far less film to stage adaptations
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Post by alicechallice on Jan 26, 2024 10:59:56 GMT
Put in a production of The Boy From Oz, with Hugh Jackson playing Peter Allan. People wont care if hes not quite the right age for it, they'll go and see Hugh in anything. I'd pay big bucks to see him do that show again. Unfortunately he also makes it very hard to find someone of a similar level who could take over the role. Lets have some new shows that have never played London and far less film to stage adaptations That's a coincidence you bring up TBFOz, I was talking about it yesterday with a colleague who'd worked on the original production in Australia. She'd misremembered that it had eventually made it to the West End. He could totally pull it off still. It would be a good high-profile job to go alongside any special announcements that Hugh needed to get off his chest. You know, what we've been wondering for years... how much longer he's going to be playing Wolverine in the MCU, I mean. Of course.
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Post by Matt on Jan 26, 2024 12:51:43 GMT
Put in a production of The Boy From Oz, with Hugh Jackson playing Peter Allan. People wont care if hes not quite the right age for it, they'll go and see Hugh in anything. I'd pay big bucks to see him do that show again. Unfortunately he also makes it very hard to find someone of a similar level who could take over the role. Lets have some new shows that have never played London and far less film to stage adaptations That's a coincidence you bring up TBFOz, I was talking about it yesterday with a colleague who'd worked on the original production in Australia. She'd misremembered that it had eventually made it to the West End. He could totally pull it off still. It would be a good high-profile job to go alongside any special announcements that Hugh needed to get off his chest. You know, what we've been wondering for years... how much longer he's going to be playing Wolverine in the MCU, I mean. Of course. I would expect him to be involved with The Greatest Showman, even if it’s just workshopping, so I’m sure this would clash.
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Jan 26, 2024 13:13:04 GMT
I would expect him to be involved with The Greatest Showman, even if it’s just workshopping, so I’m sure this would clash. Unlikely to clash, seeing as TBFO would never happen now. I can't think of anyone else who could possiblu play Peter Allen. Mayb puttinghe Jonathan Bailey once his star rises. Looking at that list of shows at Drury Lane, Best Little Whorehouse is the most baffling. Such a massive theatre for a small show.
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Post by danb on Jan 26, 2024 13:24:41 GMT
Barrowman could’ve smashed it in his prime.
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Post by theatreian on Jan 26, 2024 16:27:02 GMT
I thought I'd post the complete list of shows from 1919!
Cinderella (1919) Rose Marie (1924–1927) Showboat (1928–1929) Noel Coward's Cavalcade (1931–1932) Three Sisters (1934) Oklahoma! (1947–1950)[93] Carousel (1950–1951)[3] South Pacific (1951–1953)[94] The King and I (1953–1956)[94] My Fair Lady (1958–1963)[46] Camelot (1964–1965)[3] Hello Dolly! (1965–1967)[3] Mame (1969–1970) The Great Waltz (1970–1972)[3] Gone with the Wind (1972–1973) Billy (1974–1976) A Chorus Line (1976–1979) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1980) The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1981–1983) 42nd Street (1984–1989) Miss Saigon (1989–1999) The Witches of Eastwick (2001) My Fair Lady (revival) (2001–2003) Anything Goes (revival) (2003–2004) The Producers (2004–2007)[96] The Lord of the Rings: The Musical (2007–2008)[97] Oliver! (revival) (2009–2011)[98] Shrek The Musical (2011–2013)[99] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013–2017)[100] 42nd Street (revival) (2017–2019)[102] Frozen (2021–2024)
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 26, 2024 17:25:29 GMT
Shall we all guess what was BurlyBeaR's first Drury Lane show? I'm going for the original production of My Fair Lady. Being so much younger, mine was the revival, in 2003. 😁 I can remember it as though it was yesterday. Tickets from the TKTS booth, then a quick McDonald's when it was on the corner of its current home, rather than the side.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 26, 2024 17:31:24 GMT
My first one at Drury Lane was A Chorus Line when I moved to London in 1977
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Post by theatrefan62 on Jan 26, 2024 17:39:21 GMT
Mine was the Anything Goes revival. I slightly depressed that was 20 years ago now haha
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Post by richey on Jan 26, 2024 17:49:40 GMT
My first was Miss Saigon in 1990. It was only my second encounter of a West End show. Can't believe it was over 30 years ago.
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Post by danb on Jan 26, 2024 18:37:58 GMT
Ours was Miss Saigon too, but I can’t remember if it was from the ropey side slips in the upper circle or the ‘fine for me/hopeless for my 5’2” wife’ front row of the balcony. Either way it was still one of the best bargains in town at the time. I don’t recall ever sitting in a decent seat here til ‘Anything Goes’ where we treated ourselves to side stalls seats. Sally Ann was more than worth it.
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Post by peggysue on Jan 26, 2024 19:08:31 GMT
Mine was Billy in 1974. Fantastic show with Michael Crawford and a very young Elaine Paige
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 26, 2024 19:10:19 GMT
Shall we all guess what was BurlyBeaR 's first Drury Lane show? I'm going for the original production of My Fair Lady. Being so much younger, mine was the revival, in 2003. 😁 I can remember it as though it was yesterday. Tickets from the TKTS booth, then a quick McDonald's when it was on the corner of its current home, rather than the side. Wrong! It was 42nd Street. The 2017 one! It was a treat for my 30th birthday 🙂
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Post by Peter on Jan 26, 2024 19:31:11 GMT
My first was Miss Saigon from the nosebleed seats up in the gods. A very formative experience in that I have never ventured into the balcony again…
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Post by theatrenerd on Jan 26, 2024 19:43:44 GMT
My first was Oliver! in 2009 (with a tour of the theatre the following day), followed by Shrek in 2012, then Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2014.
I am still yet to visit The Lane post-restoration, the pictures online look fantastic!
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