Amour - Charing Cross theatre

Ooooo this is exciting! Using the same layout as Violet too so guess its here to stay!

Am I right in saying this only ran on Broadway for a little over a month?

It actually only ran officially 17 performances on Broadway, which would only equal around just over two weeks of performances.

It did run 31 previews though.

It's a lovely show. Very quirky with some beautiful music.

Saw it twice when the Royal Academy students performed it about three years ago.

Brilliant news!

Cast announced.
www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/anna-obyrne-gary-tushaw-amour-charing-cross_48801.html

I'm going in May

In theory they should be the same if it's staged well in traverse.

Row K (if I've got this right) is the "normal" stalls side, and row A is the bank of seats where the stage used to be. To get to Row A you have to walk over the stage so Row K has an advantage in that you'll get to the bar/ toilets more quickly!

I'd booked already but really pleased with this casting news. She was fab in The Woman In White.

Love this score! Have always wanted to see the show. And the cast that has just been announced is pretty stunning. I have booked to see it twice!

Amazing, this is actually one of my favourite musicals - always thought it was a shame that it never succeeded in Broadway. Brilliant to see it in London - sure it'll be a great show

Has anyone seen any deals advertised? Wanting to book for next week, but might be worth holding off if there are deals on later dates.

Tonight appears to be going ahead (though I've wimped out of going for various reasons including that I doubt whoever was too ill yesterday to perform will have recovered quickly enough to give an ideal performance 24 hours later).

Cast member Daniel Stockton is still ill, but the show went on with understudy Jack Reitman.  

They only have one understudy for all the male parts and one for all the female parts. The performance on Thursday was cancelled because Reitman hadn't had enough rehearsal time.  Considering the circumstances he did a great job this evening.

It's very nice and charming show with a lovely score.  At times it reminded me of Romantic Anonymous although not as good.

It's quite well acted and some parts are quite funny. 

It needs a little bit of ironing here and there before the opening night, especially with the lighting as there were moments with the actors singing in complete dark.  Hopefully everything will be sorted during previews.

Overall it was a very pleasant evening and I recommend the show.

Although it was interesting to see the theatre with its new layout, I don't think the staging added anything to this performance; indeed, the actors often sang two lines facing one way, then completely reversed to sing the next two lines, so half the audience was often looking at a back! They should take a leaf out of Southwark Playhouse's (and many other director's) book and keep the actors moving, or performing sideways on. It seemed like the director kept trying to create pretty, static tableaux, which would have been much better on a proscenium stage.

It's much more fun if you do give in to the silliness. A really interesting piece that - some aspects of the staging aside - I really enjoyed. Recommended.