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Post by danielwhit on Feb 11, 2016 12:47:31 GMT
Bill Kenwright version planned for Blackpool 2025 The sneaky man with the spray cans made my week.
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 11, 2016 12:50:34 GMT
One question is how they handle Olaf - there are three obvious methods. Allow me to offer a fourth option.
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Post by 49thand8th on Feb 11, 2016 16:56:16 GMT
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Post by Dave25 on Feb 11, 2016 16:59:15 GMT
Yes - I just got an email about it too. What are the bets of them installing Idina Menzel for the opening run? I know she's significantly older than Elsa is meant to be but.. Disney. I don't think even Disney could get away with that. I don't think Menzel could get away with that, vocally that is.
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Post by djp on Feb 11, 2016 18:25:03 GMT
Dream casting for west end..? Sabrina Aloueche for Elsa. She looks still young enough, but has the voice to sing the part. Had to buy a ticket for Canterbury panto because Sabrina was in it , and that was the year much of the WE top female talent was singing Let it Go in panto. Sabrina sounds great singing it. Amy Lennox has the look and hair though, looks like she could play any age from 18 -30, and she was mightily impressive singing it in Wimbledon the same year. She can really belt too. And there's also Carrie and I would love to hear Katie Hall sing it.
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Post by Michael on Feb 11, 2016 18:32:47 GMT
I see Katie Hall more as a potential Anna, but I'm happily proven wrong
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Post by bjorne on Feb 11, 2016 21:10:48 GMT
Carrie Hope Fletcher is working with Disney on youtube lately so... I won't say that she'll probably be in the cast but I think she is on pole position.
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Post by harveyjunior on Feb 12, 2016 8:17:29 GMT
Maria Coyne (cover Glinda Wicked 2015) and Sabrina Aloueche do a smacking job here tbh, really spot on!
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Post by Anniek on Feb 12, 2016 8:27:09 GMT
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Post by Michael on Feb 12, 2016 11:35:34 GMT
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Post by westendcub on Feb 12, 2016 13:57:20 GMT
OK I will admit I am going off-topic but it is connected to Disney and we no longer have the Off-West End section but I finally got around to seeing a production at 'Arts Educational School' in Chiswick last night and it was a glorious production of 'Beauty and the Beast'.
I have seen this on the West-End and on Broadway but last night the whole production (from the choreography, direction and performance) out-shown those productions. I was in awe on the clever uses of staging and direction when a production does not have half the budget a big professional show does, it was also free to be less Disney ('Gaston' had lot more adult themes going on with the ensemble in the tavern. 'Gaston', 'Be Our Guest' and 'Human Again' were the big highlights. It will certainly be a theatre highlight of 2016 for me.
I really hope they snap on the rights for 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
Anyways back to 'Frozen';-)
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Post by ali973 on Apr 20, 2016 15:12:15 GMT
Betsy Wolfe (Drood revival, Bullets Over Broadway, Last Five Years revival, Side Show revival workshop, Everyday Rapture) is cast as Elphaba, I mean Elsa.
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 20, 2016 15:21:49 GMT
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Post by viserys on Apr 20, 2016 15:54:16 GMT
That link made me think that Diane Kruger got the part. How dare you frighten me like that.
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Post by ShoesForRent on May 3, 2016 14:49:24 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on May 3, 2016 14:53:25 GMT
The St. James rumor was floating around, but I didn't realize it was official either.
I can't wait to see how the FREEDOM OF DISCUSSION unfolds. Hahahaha!
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Post by Michael on May 3, 2016 14:56:53 GMT
...and I hadn't even noticed that Betsy Wolfe was cast as Elsa.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 23:14:54 GMT
For anyone interested, here are some highlights from the new Frozen show that replaced Aladdin (which was there for 13 years!) at the Hyperion Theater in Disneyland California which opened yesterday I believe. Maybe the musical will be inspired from it? But then again, the Aladdin musical doesn't look like it was inspired that much from the Disneyland show.
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Post by The Matthew on May 28, 2016 5:58:05 GMT
I like the way they do Olaf and Sven. Not keen on the changes to the words.
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Post by Michael on May 29, 2016 6:58:29 GMT
I like the way they do Olaf and Sven. Not keen on the changes to the words. So it seems as if Simon Lipkin was set to play Olaf once Frozen transfers to the West End (which it surely will)
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Post by avenueqresident on Sept 24, 2016 13:46:01 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2016 20:08:41 GMT
Must be heading for the Noël Coward then...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 28, 2016 11:32:52 GMT
The full Disney 1 hour show: With some polishing and actors that can sing, it's bound to look like this. The princesses costumes look terrible. Especially the transformation in in Let It Go. Very un-fabulous.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 28, 2016 21:59:14 GMT
That woman playing Elsa is dreadful!!
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Post by westendwendy on Sept 28, 2016 22:51:54 GMT
Some parta of that show are wonderful and I hope they keep - bridge, puppets, magic etc
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 21:54:11 GMT
To be fair that show does look quite good for a Disneyland production. They would just need to up the set a lot (not rely on projections as much) and get good singers and the show will work well like that!
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Post by thebearofwestend on Mar 13, 2017 4:47:03 GMT
I am very stupid but would Annaleigh Ashford be good?
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Post by ali973 on Mar 13, 2017 7:26:32 GMT
I think Annaleigh could actually do so much better. Give it to the brainless belters. Caisey Levy is a fantastic performer and this seems to be right up her alley.
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Post by thebearofwestend on Mar 13, 2017 7:39:10 GMT
Maybe they should do a legally blonde revival I think Annaleigh could actually do so much better. Give it to the brainless belters. Caisy Levy is a fantastic performer and this seems to be right up her alley.
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Post by ali973 on Mar 13, 2017 8:50:10 GMT
She's too overqualified for this at this point. Though I can imagine people wanting to see her in a concert version. She did go on just once in Legally Blonde.
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