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Follies
Aug 21, 2017 21:55:02 GMT
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 21, 2017 21:55:02 GMT
I think considering the amount of old middle class white pensioners who will see this I think it is cruel not to have an interval! Two hours is just too long...... plus a G&T and gossip mid show is fun. (Sad face)
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 21, 2017 21:52:33 GMT
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
There are 30 other musicals I wish they were doing but this one...
That said I feel like paying just to see the high wire act hahahaha...
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 21, 2017 20:04:56 GMT
nothing is sewn up at the end Presumably, if everything had been sewn up at the start, the affairs wouldn't have happened anyway? [ My point is there is no real ending or resolution in the book or plot and you leave the theatre with the feeling that it was not complete. Think of most shows and remove the last 10/15 minutes. That's what waitress feels like. Fun show, nice music, odd story, unresolved plot.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 21, 2017 14:44:02 GMT
Ugh...... the recent tour was boring. Such an odd choice after Chichester too.
Shame they didn't go for Me and My Girl.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 20, 2017 12:06:45 GMT
The people on Broadway world chat rooms are going CRAZY about this (and NOT in a good way) Disney you have well and truly "Let it Go!l (((
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 20, 2017 11:44:29 GMT
I'm soooooooo disappointed!!!!!!!!! DISNEY ARE YOU READING THIS COMMENT?!
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 20, 2017 7:15:27 GMT
How much are tickets - anyone know yet?
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 20, 2017 7:09:21 GMT
The show is basically a tedious story about everyone having affairs and nothing is sewn up at the end. It's a shame as some of the music is very nice
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 20, 2017 7:06:04 GMT
Ok the costume change is good but just a sparkly cloth backdrop and her singing centre stage? DISNEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!! The theme park version at the Hyperion in California is better!!! It needs an ice palace, projections of shooting snow, fireworks, hydraulics, the whole theatre to be transformed, ice crystals rising from the stage, a huge blue chandellier lowering down and that STAIRCASE!! ANY STAIRCASE! Did anyone else think this?!! Aaarrgghhhhh!!!!
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 19, 2017 17:05:01 GMT
The buzz around this show seems unprecedented. So many pictures and videos popping up. And it's been open like two days and there's already a full audio recording of it. It's not open it's still in previews and from reading about it, the show needs workkkkkkk. Fingers crossed they get it right - if it hits the spot it could run for decades.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 19, 2017 17:00:35 GMT
I'm disappointed they don't have any kind of staircase. Sorry. The theme park Hyperion version in California is pretty amazing with the huge ice crystal that comes down into the audience too. This looks tame in comparison and it should be better!
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 18, 2017 6:15:54 GMT
I saw this show last night. What suddenly came to me was - if this show was staged now for the first time would it be banned?? I've seen JCS so many times in so many productions but society changes, terrorism changes us. To see a bloody Jesus being crucified to rock music (gold glitter aside) for the first time shocked me. I almooooost thought it was offensive or crass (and I'm an atheist!). It's become a global hit very much because of its time and I know it was controversial then. But last night the authenticity and raw direction of the piece really opened that up. Oh there were HUGE protests outside the Palace Theatre when it originally opened. Every night! Times change thank goodness. I'm aware of the huge protests years ago, yes. It interests me what would happen if it opened today. We do live in a far more PC, religiously sensitive world.. it's fascinating! I think we just see it as a rock opera and accept that rock torture death and the bible can all go together.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 17, 2017 14:17:14 GMT
I saw this show last night. What suddenly came to me was - if this show was staged now for the first time would it be banned?? I've seen JCS so many times in so many productions but society changes, terrorism changes us. To see a bloody Jesus being crucified to rock music (gold glitter aside) for the first time shocked me. I almooooost thought it was offensive or crass (and I'm an atheist!). It's become a global hit very much because of its time and I know it was controversial then. But last night the authenticity and raw direction of the piece really opened that up.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 17, 2017 13:04:11 GMT
I saw Jesus Christ Superstar last night and it made me think - they aren't changing the characters, music or plot in that. Why fix it if it's been so successful for decades? As someone said above perhaps after all it really is vanity... How would you change the plot? Have Jesus get a last-minute reprieve? Seriously though, ALW tinkered with very few shows - Evita, Phantom or Cats have changed very little since they first opened. Starlight Express has been fiddled with several times - from London via Broadway to Bochum, the big overhaul in the early 90s, the constant changes in the German version and so on... Why? Good question... Actually mr sarcastic there are many ways they could change Evita or JCS by adding new characters, expanding others, cutting songs, adding new ones. My point is that some shows seem to be rock set in stone. Others are played around with for decades and in my opinion they don't need to be.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 17, 2017 10:07:42 GMT
I saw Jesus Christ Superstar last night and it made me think - they aren't changing the characters, music or plot in that. Why fix it if it's been so successful for decades? As someone said above perhaps after all it really is vanity...
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 14, 2017 21:54:14 GMT
I personally think it all sets down to these will the new songs be as good or even better? We've all seen the Hyperion Disney show version - the Let It Go sequence is fabulous, and that's just a theme park production! I can't see how they can better that! We all know the story works and the book is super. It's all about the new material.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 14, 2017 5:42:07 GMT
I think it's annoying but also great, because it means that a young girl logging on with one computer in Chicago for example has the same chance as a computer whizz kid (or rip off merchant) who has cheekily generated 100 devices in Denver. Annoying but fair.
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Evita
Aug 14, 2017 5:36:27 GMT
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 14, 2017 5:36:27 GMT
So apparently the Australian remount is the third stop on an international tour. It'll first open in South Africa (Johannesburg then Cape Town), Tokyo and finally in Sydney. Prince wants to take it to Broadway. Given that the Broadway revival did so so around 2012, I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up there in 2019 or so. But Hal Prince beware- this time Evita needs to be played by a beltress. Essentially, he'll have to cast a Patti LuPone clone for this to work in New York. Jackie Burns? That would make sense! Che, Eva & Peron have been cast already according to the Cape Town info page. Emma Kingston is playing Eva (as has been previously mentioned I believe) who was apparently "personally chosen" by ALW, Tim Rice & Hal Prince. She's done a bit in London; Les Mis, In The Heights & currently in Fiddler in Chichester. She has quite the voice on her, I'm sure there'll be quite a bit of her singing on YouTube if you fancy a listen. If she's been personally chosen, would she be the one to be taken to Broadway, I wonder? If it comes to fruition, of course. www.whatsonincapetown.com/post/evita-artscape-theatre/Isn't every actress in a show "personally chosen?" Trevor Jackson, Pippa Allion, Debbie O'Brien, Jill Green or David Grindrod are in theory just office admin!
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 13, 2017 12:55:28 GMT
For the first people that see a show even in its 17th year it is opening night. Of course it is still theatre!!! Just a very successful show that has an open ended run do to popular ticket sales. In this social media age shows can become cult hits online such as Hamilton or Harry Potter and these become multi billion dollar hits and huge brands. Lion King is another example. 7.6 billion dollars later - it is still theatre.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 12, 2017 11:26:43 GMT
Wow!!!!
When is this in Madrid?
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 12, 2017 11:25:18 GMT
Glad to see more bold programming in this venue for new musicals... I'm sure ALW would never have found anywhere else to support his brave, experimental piece without the visionary programming of The Other Palace. Alongside such up and coming talents like Alan Menken and Frank Wildhorn, it's great to see a fledgling writer getting the support this venue has declared it wants to provide. I agree! The guy Burt Bacharach sounds interesting too! Haha
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 11, 2017 22:20:04 GMT
I presume Ashley the smoking car will be gone. As for the 80 Euro trashy style pop music - isn't that why we love Blood Brothers and Starlight?? Some things are best left alone?
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 11, 2017 13:37:06 GMT
It is strange how they keep meddling with Starlight. One of the producers once said to me that it was to keep it fresh. Sometimes a rewrite works amazingly (think of the musical Working most recently at Southwark or Love Never Dies in Oz) but often like the recent change in Rum Tum Tugger in Cats or cutting Now That Ive Seen Her in Saigon it is a backwards step.
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Evita
Aug 9, 2017 7:58:19 GMT
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 9, 2017 7:58:19 GMT
Saw this last night. I actually preferred it to the 2008 Elena Rogers ALW revival. Sure the cast are too young and it's not a A list standard production but I thought the cast was terrific. Emma Hatton however played the role most unlikeable and her characterisation of the role just ended up coming across as too hard. We need to love Eva and be charmed by her. That said she sang it well. Worth seeing - one of ALW's best scores! 7/10.
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 8, 2017 15:11:22 GMT
OMG RIP!!!
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 5, 2017 23:08:01 GMT
Every papering agency I've belonged to or got tickets from has always had very strict rules about not talking about the shows involved - and for good reason, too. I totally agree. I've been given numerous comps over the years but I am respectful enough to NOT mention it!!!
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 2, 2017 23:42:01 GMT
I didn't say there was an incident I simply said there was a show stop in the second act which was correct! It is rare that a stage manager had to come out on stage and stop everything in Act 2 when most of the cast are on stage! It seems they had to improvise the lyrics as they were missing Mitch! Such talent!
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 2, 2017 11:37:24 GMT
Does anyone know why there was a show stop in the second act last night?
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 2, 2017 11:03:21 GMT
I think this could go both ways in a place like Russia. Not that I know the theatre market there too well, but it's a recent new market for large-scale commercial musicals from Broadway. They've had Phantom, Tanz der Vampire, Notre Dame De Paris (and perhaps Cats?). So we know that there is appetite. However, given the newness of the genre and scale to the market, I'm not sure the audience would be too critical of Anastasia that for all intents and purposes is entertaining, but has a lot of historic and book problems. The only issue I see it having with the Russians is the historical elements. Not worried about the way Londoners will receive it. The West End loves anything that comes from America, and with the American tone of the show, it will do well. There isn't much of an American tone to the show - I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Russians will not like it in its current format, Russians are very particular with what shows they like. It's a totally different market. They had Cats, Mamma Mia, Singing in the Rain, Zorro, Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast, Phantom - some failed while others did well. The main issue with Anastasia is that its factually inaccurate and has so many bad or stereo typical references to the revolution, the people, the Bolsheviks and indeed the story itself. That said having spoken to the Russian Stage Ents team I doubt it will transfer to Moscow. (At least without the vast changes it needs).
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 2, 2017 0:05:49 GMT
Jon is HORRIBLE IN THE ROLE and loves himself. That accent and characterisation is just vile
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