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Post by ali973 on May 20, 2016 14:48:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2016 16:34:17 GMT
That looks like her face has been photos hopped onto someone else's body
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2016 17:46:01 GMT
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Post by ali973 on May 23, 2016 3:45:12 GMT
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Post by westendwendy on May 23, 2016 13:18:47 GMT
Now THIS needs to come to the West End!
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 14:52:28 GMT
Now THIS needs to come to the West End! YESSS!! Please! I think it would do well in a theatre like the Noel Coward
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Post by ali973 on May 23, 2016 19:05:54 GMT
I don't remember if I responded to hopeful wishes of a West End transfer, but I think we could be as cynical about CP registering with London audiences the way we question Hamilton's London appeal.
CP means a lot to Americans. Especially African American mainstream, which is the majority of the audiences at the CP, in stark difference to the other audiences attending Broadway shows. The novel and film are a big part of African American consciousness across generations, and the film has iconic lines in AA lexicon. It made a star of Oprah and young Whoopie Golderg. When I saw the original tour in Chicago, heaps and heaps of church congregations (not your everyday Broadway theatre-goer types) were arriving in big groups to see it. The demographic that is keeping CP going in America would see Tyler Perry theatre, not not Broadway theatre, and yet they are the ones who are keeping the box office alive.
Danielle Brooks, now a rising star because of Orange is the New Black and JHud were only the icing on the cake to add name recognition and making it "hot" to the younger crowd. But the title alone, and big Mama O's endorsement to the production is enough to make it a hit. (Is Oprah producing this production too or was she just producer in the original Broadway version?).
I just don't see it having such a wild mass appeal if it were in the West End. It did well at the Menier because of the size and because it's the Menier. I don't see the show having such a huge mass appeal if it will cross-over to the West End and have the automatic buy in the US has.
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Post by ali973 on Jun 2, 2016 14:52:16 GMT
She sounds great
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Post by bren on Feb 12, 2017 23:08:43 GMT
Any idea if there are plans to bring this to the West End?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 23:15:37 GMT
Any idea if there are plans to bring this to the West End? I hope so but would need to be done in an intimate theatre
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 12, 2017 23:16:12 GMT
Baz would have tweeted.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 23:18:08 GMT
Does he usually tweet rumours then as well as confirmed transfers?
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Post by Honoured Guest on Feb 12, 2017 23:19:54 GMT
Yes, unconfirmed plans are also tweeted by Baz. They don't all materialise. It's what his tweeting fingers were made for.
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Post by poster J on Feb 12, 2017 23:28:53 GMT
Any idea if there are plans to bring this to the West End? Cynthia's been very open about the fact that she doesn't see herself doing the show again (which I guess is no surprise after doing the Menier and over a year on Broadway), so I suspect not given she was John Doyle's only choice to play Celie on Broadway... If they were going to transfer the Menier production to the West End they would have done it ages ago, but they chose to take it to Broadway instead, and it's now won Tonys and a Grammy, so I doubt they think they could top that by redoing it in the West End!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2017 23:34:14 GMT
But if it's been winning TONYs and Grammys abroad, wouldn't that be an incentive to move it into a playhouse in London like the Noel Coward, Harold Pinter or Duke of Yorks?
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Post by bren on Feb 12, 2017 23:35:23 GMT
^ I can only live in hope!
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Post by poster J on Feb 12, 2017 23:43:53 GMT
But if it's been winning TONYs and Grammys abroad, wouldn't that be an incentive to move it into a playhouse in London like the Noel Coward, Harold Pinter or Duke of Yorks? Not if you can't get the Tony and Grammy-winning cast! Cynthia's doing films for the next year, Danielle's filming Orange is the New Black and Jennifer is doing The Voice, so none of them are available, and Cynthia's said directly that she won't be bringing the show to London. The cast was as much the reason for that show being successful as the show itself, and we've already had the stripped-down version of the show at the Menier, so the cast would be the draw. I agree with the comments earlier in the thread as well about it probably not being as much of a draw to audiences here as American audiences, where it really resonates. I don't want to put a downer on it (especially as I missed the Menier production and only got to see it once on Broadway!), I'm just being realistic based on what I know certain cast members have said!
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Post by infofreako on Feb 12, 2017 23:52:44 GMT
I really cant see this on the West End. As others have said without the cast its not going to have much of a life here. I managed to see it once on Broadway, the cast made it for me. A fairly average show performed by people well suited to their roles and at the top of their game.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 15:16:30 GMT
If they bring it, I only wznt them to bring it with Cynthia. I would have little interest in seeing it without her in the role, she has made it an iconic role.
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Post by poster J on Feb 13, 2017 16:31:35 GMT
If they bring it, I only wznt them to bring it with Cynthia. I would have little interest in seeing it without her in the role, she has made it an iconic role. I think that probably sums it up for quite a few people, and therefore explains why it's unlikely to happen as she doesn't want to do it. If she'd wanted to then I suspect they may have made it happen, but she's understandably taking advantage of the profile raise she's got in the US from being a Tony (and now also Grammy) winner.
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