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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 9:14:17 GMT
Frankly we've heard so little about the entire Elliott Harper Productions season since the initial announcements that I wouldn't be surprised to learn we really had hallucinated everything about it. I guess Marianne Elliott has been a little busy with other endeavours lately though...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 9:17:43 GMT
Frankly we've heard so little about the entire Elliott Harper Productions season since the initial announcements that I wouldn't be surprised to learn we really had hallucinated everything about it. I guess Marianne Elliott has been a little busy with other endeavours lately though... I mean it's only a *tiny* little play she's working on right now...what's she been doing all this time
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Post by stageyninja83 on Apr 3, 2017 9:27:19 GMT
Ah i stopped paying attention to Baz ages ago so that's probably why I missed it. Still, I'm excited
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 3, 2017 9:59:48 GMT
Maybe it's finally time for Next To Normal to come to London. A host of fringe theatres would bite your arm off to do Next to Normal including the Menier. The problem is that the rights are locked in with David Stone who produced this in the US, David Stone is earning millions from Wicked, so not worried what little money a fringe production of Next to Normal will earn him in London at the the moment. What I think he will do, will allow someone like the Menier or similar produce Next to Normal with a view of using this as a Broadway Revival, which then can launch a US tour, just like the Colour Purple today. If the Menier production tanks, then he can try again with a US regional theatre like the Papermill or the Signature Theatres. However it is way too early for a Next to Normal.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 10:50:02 GMT
Finger shot crossed for Salad Days. Or Camelot
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 3, 2017 12:38:01 GMT
Salad Days is so dated now, saw a production at the Riverside Studio, Hammersmith (wonder what happen to that venue), it would need a revamp like Half A Sixpence or Me and My Girl.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 3, 2017 13:41:34 GMT
Riverside - Major refurb with the building of trendy flats above suporting the three studio spaces below. Should be completed in a couple of years
Please do not bring back Salad Days!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 13:49:57 GMT
I LOVE Salad Days. It's incredibly daffy and warm-hearted and I don't think I could ever entirely trust anyone who didn't hold a certain fondness for it. But then it would be hard to beat the Riverside Studios production, so I wouldn't necessarily want the Menier to do it just because I love it.
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Post by PalelyLaura on Apr 3, 2017 14:12:42 GMT
I love Salad Days too! In one respect, yes it's dated, but in another it's kind of timeless.
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Post by nick on Apr 3, 2017 16:26:39 GMT
I would love it to be falsettos especially if it could have the recent Broadway Cast (although if it did they would probably not be in it) Or other ones I would like to see are pacific overtures,Godspell,Hedwig and the angry inch or side by side by sondheimMuch as I Much as I'd like to see Godspell, I can't see Menier doing it. I adored Pippin and saw it three times but I was in the minority buying up half price tickets. Compare that to last year's winter show - sold out in a flash.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 3, 2017 21:59:39 GMT
I'm another one who loves Salad Days, such warmth & joy. However the Tete a Tete Riverside production was so good (I saw it 5 times over 2 runs) that I don't want to see another one yet.
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 3, 2017 22:13:30 GMT
I'm another one who loves Salad Days, such warmth & joy. However the Tete a Tete Riverside production was so good (I saw it 5 times over 2 runs) that I don't want to see another one yet. I nearly forgive you for loving Salad Days, but if that is your pussycat on your profile picture it is bloody lush!!!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 4, 2017 7:06:09 GMT
I nearly forgive you for loving Salad Days, but if that is your pussycat on your profile picture it is bloody lush!!! Haha! No, it's a Scottish wildcat. Looks cute but stroking attempts not recommended! I took the photo at the Highland Wildlife Park a couple of years ago and, coming across it the other day, thought it'd make a nice avatar. It's also a play on my name as, being named Catriona, I'm sometimes called Cat for short.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 4, 2017 12:57:45 GMT
^And there was me thinking it was a selfie I leave that to you!
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Post by mallardo on Apr 4, 2017 13:01:24 GMT
^And there was me thinking it was a selfie I leave that to you!
Round one to Dawnstar!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 13:16:50 GMT
I was thinking about this recently, and with the announced release of the filmed performance, how likely would it be that a limited run of Newsies could appear?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 13:22:37 GMT
I would think Newsies would be too big of a show for the Menier unless they severely stripped down the choreography which would be a shame.
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Post by showtoones on Apr 11, 2017 15:12:40 GMT
For all of you theater kweens out there....STAR MITES
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Post by couldileaveyou on Apr 11, 2017 15:13:42 GMT
I would love a Pacific Overtures revival, possibly not with an all white cast...
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 11, 2017 15:24:52 GMT
PO is currently off Broadway in a 90 minute 'intermissionless' production - chrysanthemum tea is cut - reaches for my fan is disgust.is the chatter on American theatre forums
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Post by schuttep on Apr 23, 2017 9:16:59 GMT
Any firm news yet?
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Post by stagebyte on May 5, 2017 22:21:56 GMT
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole musical June-September-casting call gone out for children. Director Luke Sheppard This musical started life at The Curve Leicester in 2015
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 6, 2017 16:06:21 GMT
Good to hear they are staging a newish musical and not another revival
I loved the AM books as I was growing up
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Post by macksennett on May 6, 2017 21:40:10 GMT
I hope they have done a lot of work on it since Leicester as it was very disjointed with not very memorable songs. I was so disappointed having grown up on those books.
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Post by gra on May 6, 2017 23:26:48 GMT
I hope they have done a lot of work on it since Leicester as it was very disjointed with not very memorable songs. I was so disappointed having grown up on those books. I agree. I also saw it in Leicester and thought it was ok, but nothing special. The score was fairly bland.
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Post by phantom1986 on May 7, 2017 10:46:40 GMT
Urgh. Hated this when I saw it in Leicester. Like a bad Matilda re-hash with ballad, after ballad, after ballad. Too much focus on the parents divorce. Let's hope they've done a lot of work on it in the interim.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2017 10:58:05 GMT
Really? I didn't think the Chocolate Factory was into "kids musicals" (and I don't mean that in a derogatory way, I love Matilda, Oliver! etc.).
I didn't see the Curve production, but by the look of it there was only 6 adults and 4 children in the cast so I guess it could work.
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Post by martin1965 on May 7, 2017 11:38:32 GMT
Hope its not this as it sounds awful. MCF have a very up and down record.
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 7, 2017 18:07:40 GMT
Oh dear what a rubbish choice. First Chichesters Fiddler, and now this? (Weeps)
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2017 21:50:39 GMT
Really can't see that selling well.
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