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Post by bellatheatre on Jul 21, 2023 21:10:13 GMT
Major revival coming spring/summer 2024
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 21, 2023 21:15:19 GMT
Squeak.
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Post by danb on Jul 21, 2023 21:29:52 GMT
Oh I love this. If it just goes one notch better than the last tour I’ll be in heaven.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2023 21:32:16 GMT
The greatest musical score ever IMO so I'll keep an eye out for when this comes around.
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Post by n1david on Jul 21, 2023 21:38:52 GMT
The Leicester Curve production in 2019 was terrific. I was sorry I missed the Ivo Van Hove revival in NYC - I'm not sure it was great but I was curious, had tix but Covid put paid to that.
Interested to see what another production does to it now...
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Post by SuttonPeron on Jul 21, 2023 21:52:17 GMT
I´m guessing at the Coli (hopefully not!) or CFT. Curious as to how they´ll handle the casting, given the usual difficulties to cast this show authentically in the UK. But it´s such a stunning score I´m glad it may come back.
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Post by Being Alive on Jul 21, 2023 22:42:03 GMT
Just don't let Nikolai Foster anywhere near it after the phenomenally bland revival they did at Curve
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 22, 2023 6:24:43 GMT
I´m guessing at the Coli (hopefully not!) or CFT. Curious as to how they´ll handle the casting, given the usual difficulties to cast this show authentically in the UK. But it´s such a stunning score I´m glad it may come back. The recent van hove did not use traditional casting. I recall it got lots of praise for the dynamics that this brought. |
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Post by theatregod on Jul 22, 2023 6:38:58 GMT
Sheffield summer show?
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Post by SuttonPeron on Jul 22, 2023 10:46:24 GMT
I´m guessing at the Coli (hopefully not!) or CFT. Curious as to how they´ll handle the casting, given the usual difficulties to cast this show authentically in the UK. But it´s such a stunning score I´m glad it may come back. The recent van hove did not use traditional casting. I recall it got lots of praise for the dynamics that this brought. If "traditional" casting is a caucasian non-Latin American cast playing the Sharks, then it obviously didn´t. But it was authentic casting, since all Sharks were latino. It is true some of them, including María, were Afro-Latinos. |
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Post by frazzlemonkey on Jul 22, 2023 12:29:22 GMT
I’ve heard whisperings of the NT. Could be wrong though. |
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Post by j0shwaterfield on Jul 23, 2023 15:47:26 GMT
very unlikely but i would love the chance to see the original choreography back on a stage. curve was my first time seeing this show and ofc it wasn’t but looking back on youtube, the og choreo is what makes this show special to me.
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Post by danb on Jul 23, 2023 15:50:19 GMT
Is/was there only WSS and A Chorus Line that are choreographically ‘protected’? Do any other shows have any sort of covenant on performing the original choreo?
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Post by aweillperson on Jul 23, 2023 16:29:08 GMT
Is/was there only WSS and A Chorus Line that are choreographically ‘protected’? Do any other shows have any sort of covenant on performing the original choreo? Fiddler as well. In general, Robbins was notoriously tight with legalities regarding his work. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2023 16:41:30 GMT
Robbins allowed the film some freedoom but if he wished to protect his vision then he was entitled to do so. With WSS why change perfection.
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Post by danb on Jul 23, 2023 16:42:36 GMT
Is/was there only WSS and A Chorus Line that are choreographically ‘protected’? Do any other shows have any sort of covenant on performing the original choreo? Fiddler as well. In general, Robbins was notoriously tight with legalities regarding his work. Think we may have been sailing close to the wind with our 5th year production. We spent all our time marvelling at the flying rig & glowing make up for Fruma Sarahs ghost. |
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Post by nick on Jul 23, 2023 22:06:14 GMT
Is/was there only WSS and A Chorus Line that are choreographically ‘protected’? Do any other shows have any sort of covenant on performing the original choreo? I’ve got something in the back of my head that there’s some control over parts of Pippin. But I could be totally wrong. |
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Post by Being Alive on Jul 23, 2023 22:25:19 GMT
One of the big problems with Curves productions of WSS and ACL was the incredibly sub-par choreography
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2023 22:25:24 GMT
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Post by Fleance on Jul 24, 2023 1:18:16 GMT
I loved the Ivo van Hove production. It closed due to the pandemic and then didn't reopen partly due to the impending new film (which I also loved), as well as other problems.
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Post by mrnutz on Jul 24, 2023 11:27:18 GMT
TEN YEARS since I saw this at Sadler's Wells? 10? TEN?!
Surely some mistake.
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Post by usbuzzer on Jul 24, 2023 11:36:44 GMT
Hit me up if you know anything about auditions for this!  |
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Post by angie on Jul 24, 2023 12:48:57 GMT
Is it too much to ask that Rob Houchen will finally play Tony in full musical. Keeping everything crossed
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Post by danb on Jul 24, 2023 13:23:01 GMT
Is it too much to ask that Rob Houchen will finally play Tony in full musical. Keeping everything crossed It isn’t often that someones voice brings me to ‘tears’, and not a discreet trickle but full on sobbing (swells of emotional music…yes…songs with emotional attachments…yes, but voices not so much) but Houchen singing ‘Maria’ was one of the most beautifully perfect things I have ever heard. To hear him sing Tony fully would be completing life. |
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Post by HereForTheatre on Jul 24, 2023 18:34:40 GMT
I don't know because I thought the Curve production was coming back in some capacity. That's what I assumed recently from an interview with Nikolai Foster where he all but confirmed that, it seemed to me. I can't imagine there would be another revival and that one though, although there were two WSS's in that year that Curve and RX did it, so i guess it could.
I do hope one of their more acclaimed shows would get a further life, it's a bit disheartening to see Grease and Oz be the ones when they have much better more acclaimed work. I don't think I ever heard anyone ever wish for either of those shows to transfer particularity unlike the wish by many for WSS and BE, yet that's what happened. Interesting indeed.
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