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Post by learfan on Dec 15, 2018 12:36:15 GMT
Anyone heard anything for next year?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Dec 15, 2018 17:13:29 GMT
Yes, definitely having a festival season next year
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Post by Xanderl on Dec 15, 2018 17:22:07 GMT
Must be nearly time for them to start sending out emails announcing when they’re going to send out emails announcing the date they’ll be sending out the season announcement
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 16, 2018 1:39:42 GMT
Know nothing.
But someone on here did suggest they do Me and My Girl, which I thought was a great idea and the rest was history.
The two musicals done last year, were two that were done at Sheffield Theatres recently, so could they do My Fair Lady, However the Broadway production is rumoured to come over.
However I think it would be a great time to do another Sondheim show, as it has been 8 years since Sweeney Todd, could be a great place to also revive the promised Martin Guerre or something like Stop the World I want to Get Off or maybe the Boyfriend, nice to have an English musical.
Plays I have banged on and said it would be great to see more stuff by Neil Simon done, maybe The Caretaker needs doing and believe it or not I have never seen Don’t Look Back in Anger and Terrence Rattigan’s After The Dance or Man and Boy would be delightful.
Mourning Becomes Electra, Anna Christie and A Moon for the Begotten from Eugène O’Neil I have never seen, likewise the Night of the Iguana and Rose Tattoo From Tenesssee Williams I would welcome, Tenessee has been done recently at Chichester though, I wouldn’t grumble over anything by August Wilson.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2018 10:34:27 GMT
Having been a massive Chichester fan for years, since Daniel Evans took over I'm slowly losing faith in them, especially when it comes to musicals. Me and My Girl should have been a home run for them, it's incredible how they got it so wrong
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Post by learfan on Dec 16, 2018 12:36:00 GMT
Yeah, personal wish lists are no help. Im surprised Evans, who is a big Sondheim fan, hasnt programmed one of his shows yet. Passion would work in the Minerva i would have thought. Im still hoping for Camelot in the mainhouse.
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Post by alicechallice on Dec 17, 2018 13:48:24 GMT
Listening to an interview with him a while ago, Daniel Evans was asked about his reasons for reviving shows in Chichester that he'd previously programmed in Sheffield; namely Me and My Girl & Copenhagen. He mentioned that next year's season would involve him returning to something he'd directed before his time at Sheffield.
Looking at his credits, I'm thinking it may be a Peter Gill play, as he's directed In the Blue, Certain Young Men and Lovely Evening. That would fit with his probable intention of putting more gay writing on there. Probably something a bit less abrasive than Cock and will sell better.
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Post by jek on Dec 17, 2018 14:42:13 GMT
As I have just posted on the Performers and Creatives Thread Daniel Evans was the guest on Private Passions on Radio Three yesterday. Well worth a listen: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001m2b |
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Post by alicechallice on Dec 17, 2018 16:10:34 GMT
Oh and I just remembered this...
Not sure we really need another revival of The Deep Blue Sea to be honest.
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Post by learfan on Dec 17, 2018 17:58:55 GMT
Especially as Amanda Root played the lead at Chichester only a few years ago!
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Post by Polly1 on Dec 18, 2018 18:03:50 GMT
But ... Nancy Carroll 💗
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Post by wickedgrin on Dec 18, 2018 23:04:08 GMT
The big musical has usually been leaked by now. So far nothing. Hoping for something back to form after this years lack lustre Me & My Girl - a huge missed opportunity. No transfer for this either despite Matt Lucas's premature tweet "congratulating" the production on securing a transfer - perhaps he was being sarcastic!
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Post by learfan on Feb 3, 2019 9:30:04 GMT
We have had lots of chat on the Musicals thread about the shows that may be on in the Festival but the vast majority of the season in Chichester are revivals and new writing. Blithe Spirit has been mentioned in passing but does anyone know anymore?
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 3, 2019 9:57:28 GMT
We have had lots of chat on the Musicals thread about the shows that may be on in the Festival but the vast majority of the season in Chichester are revivals and new writing. Blithe Spirit has been mentioned in passing but does anyone know anymore? There's already a thread called 'Chichester 2019'. There's some info in there. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 3, 2019 21:18:56 GMT
Bath is doing Blithe Spirit , not Chichester.
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Post by RedRose on Feb 4, 2019 9:32:01 GMT
John Simm will do Macbeth.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2019 9:55:44 GMT
Oh how embarrassing, did they not get the memo that they were meant to do Macbeth last year? It's Midsummer Night's Dream that *everyone's* meant to be doing now!
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Post by alicechallice on Feb 4, 2019 10:09:03 GMT
So, they're doing Macbeth which they did in 2007, Oklahoma! which they did in 2009 and The Deep Blue Sea which they did in 2011.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 4, 2019 10:16:18 GMT
Merged
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 4, 2019 10:23:45 GMT
So, they're doing Macbeth which they did in 2007, Oklahoma! which they did in 2009 and The Deep Blue Sea which they did in 2011. A revival of a revial |
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Post by showgirl on Feb 4, 2019 10:37:55 GMT
If this is true, it's disappointing (to me), though means 3 productions I don't need to book for. Any more, however, & it won't be worth me renewing my membership.
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Post by rosmersholm on Feb 6, 2019 0:23:19 GMT
John Simm will do Macbeth. Dir. Paul Miller, who directed Simm in HAMLET at the Crucible. |
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 6, 2019 1:29:49 GMT
Can we just put a blanket ban on Macbeth for now? We’ve had too many productions and it needs to stop.
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Post by learfan on Feb 6, 2019 6:55:16 GMT
John Simm will do Macbeth. Dir. Paul Miller, who directed Simm in HAMLET at the Crucible. Presumably in the Minerva. |
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 6, 2019 10:37:59 GMT
Presumably in the Minerva.
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 6, 2019 10:58:56 GMT
Presumably in the Minerva. 😉
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Post by emsworthian on Feb 6, 2019 11:07:52 GMT
Why not Hamlet with John Simm in the Minerva? I can't remember Hamlet ever being on in Chichester?
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Post by Distant Dreamer... on Feb 6, 2019 11:56:49 GMT
Why not Hamlet with John Simm in the Minerva? I can't remember Hamlet ever being on in Chichester? I'm sure it will have been done at some point! I think we need a Macbeth AND Hamlet ban as they are done farr too much in place of other lesser Shakespeare plays such as Pericles. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2019 12:23:19 GMT
Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, As You Like It, and Midsummer Night's Dream. And maybe Twelfth Night and Antony & Cleopatra.
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Post by learfan on Feb 6, 2019 18:27:06 GMT
Why not Hamlet with John Simm in the Minerva? I can't remember Hamlet ever being on in Chichester? Shakespeare is one writer Chichester dont tend to go for. Productions were very few until recently when there was the Patrick Stewart Macbeth /12th Night. Kim Cattrall in Antony&Cleopatra and the two Minerva Lears. Don't think they have ever done Hamlet. |
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