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Post by Rory on May 3, 2024 9:31:24 GMT
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Post by Rory on May 3, 2024 9:25:37 GMT
Lily Allen playing Hedda Gabler directed by Matthew Dunster.
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Post by Rory on May 3, 2024 7:59:06 GMT
5* rave in the Standard.
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Post by Rory on May 2, 2024 22:12:16 GMT
There have been some great announcements including transfers for Red Pitch and Boys from the Blackstuff, and returns for For Black Boys... and People, Places & Things, and some nice new musicals, but overall, a bit disappointing. Too many poor fillers.
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Post by Rory on May 2, 2024 21:24:20 GMT
Some of the recent West End announcements have been really underwhelming. This is definitely not a vintage year for the West End. Very few exciting play announcements.
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Post by Rory on May 2, 2024 12:24:07 GMT
Mods, this is fully staged so you might want to remove the concert reference in the heading.
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Post by Rory on May 2, 2024 11:37:52 GMT
Joe McFadden and Donna Air will be in the Gielgud cast.
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Post by Rory on May 2, 2024 8:46:34 GMT
People about to underestimate Japanese arts and culture popularity again Also great to see actual discounted previews Not underestimating it, as I said I know nothing about it, so was just asking the question really. It's a tough economic climate for musicals at the minute.
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Post by Rory on May 2, 2024 8:07:11 GMT
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Post by Rory on May 2, 2024 6:23:50 GMT
I know nothing about Manga, but can this sustain a 12 week run in the West End with a cast of unknowns? Good luck to them, but it seems a little niche to me.
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Post by Rory on May 1, 2024 22:59:32 GMT
But is it a concert or fully staged?
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Post by Rory on May 1, 2024 22:42:37 GMT
This is going into the Harold Pinter from 28th June until 21st September.
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Post by Rory on Apr 29, 2024 17:35:07 GMT
Surely there must be word soon of a transfer for this?
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Post by Rory on Apr 29, 2024 5:48:10 GMT
That announcement on Children in Need was totally misleading then.
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Post by Rory on Apr 26, 2024 18:21:22 GMT
She does ad lib though. A mobile went off when I saw it and she looked straight at the person and said "Is that for me?"
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Post by Rory on Apr 25, 2024 23:27:26 GMT
If you go back to my review of the show (at the top of this page!), you'll find there's a lot about the show I liked, and I wanted bits of it to be better because it's got bags of potential so I don't know where you've come up with the idea that I'm anti-Witches TBF. I'm just trying to explain that this show is enormous (the NT themselves literally acknowledged they made a show that can only fit into Drury Lane) and the Gillian Lynne does not have the capability to house it... Something else is filling at least some of that 7 months to be announced shortly. I see a social media rumour that The Lehman Trilogy may be coming back to the Lynne. It's a good show but it's been done to death, if true.
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Post by Rory on Apr 25, 2024 7:57:15 GMT
Imelda was on Radio 4 Today around 8.30am this morning, talking about being put through to Jerry Herman.
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 20:01:53 GMT
The Witches is the new Into the Woods from Bath. Everyone wants it to transfer but it isn't going to, by the looks of it.
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 19:42:54 GMT
Does anyone actually know which musical is apparently going into the Pinter then? So we don't have to endure Shaun Tossell going 'no, not any of those' for days on end.
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 19:15:08 GMT
I didn't realise Sonia Friedman was connected to Starter for Ten?
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 18:11:27 GMT
The Pinter doesn't feel like the right place for this - somehow I can't think of that as a venue for a popular musical - and I rather hope that the creative team is taking the opportunity after Bristol to tweak the show: although it was good, i don't think it was quite good enough yet for the West End and I'd love it to be even better if/when it comes to London. Sunny Afternoon had a good run at the Pinter
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 16:58:02 GMT
His posts are a total pain!
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 8:45:54 GMT
D'oh! I didn't read that too carefully!!! As you were! 😂😂😂
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Post by Rory on Apr 24, 2024 3:41:44 GMT
Is this a record for the number of West End theatres that a single production has used? I would have to check but I recall Bill Kenwright's production of An Ideal Husband kept popping up in different houses a lot also. Not as many as this though.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 20:49:33 GMT
Heathers. Probably, and starring Charlie Dimmock. Wouldn't surprise me after today's announcement.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 17:38:04 GMT
Wonder what will take the Gielgud between September and November? I'll cry if that crock of sh*te 2:22 goes back there a third time.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 17:36:28 GMT
Good instincts Rory, I think you have called this one more than once! Thanks Dave, but I think I called this wrong. I thought it would play the Gielgud!
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 12:29:02 GMT
Stacey Dooley as Jenny. Get ready for lots of sympathetic nodding . No worse than some of the other people who've done it Ffs! What a slap in the face to the Opening Night team to be replaced by Stacey Dooley. Has she even got an Equity card? I really hope after this run that this lame production disappears off the face of the earth.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 10:12:37 GMT
The Hills of California finishes in Pinter on 15 June. Macbeth starts 01 October. What goes in there in-between? I wonder if it could be The Lover / The Collection from Bath. Claudie Blakly has suggested on Instagram that it's possibly transferring.
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Post by Rory on Apr 23, 2024 10:11:06 GMT
Wonder if this will fill the gap at the Pinter?
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