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Post by ceebee on Jan 22, 2024 13:18:45 GMT
Oh good. This [Frozen closing] must be to make way for Martin Guerre.
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Post by wanderingranger on Jan 22, 2024 13:28:26 GMT
Oh good. This must be to make way for Martin Guerre. I would be dumbfounded if they put Martin Guerre in Drury Lane. It’s Schoenberg’s best score but it’s got a tumultuous history to say the least. Do we know they’ve finished whatever version of rewrites they’re working on? |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 22, 2024 13:30:57 GMT
Oh good. This must be to make way for Martin Guerre. This isn’t going to Drury Lane 🤣 |
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Post by ceebee on Jan 22, 2024 13:35:02 GMT
Oh good. This must be to make way for Martin Guerre. This isn’t going to Drury Lane 🤣 I know. I live in hope that this flawed show will find its natural home. But Drury Lane definitely isn't it.  |
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Post by ceebee on Jan 22, 2024 13:36:32 GMT
Oh good. This must be to make way for Martin Guerre. I would be dumbfounded if they put Martin Guerre in Drury Lane. It’s Schoenberg’s best score but it’s got a tumultuous history to say the least. Do we know they’ve finished whatever version of rewrites they’re working on? Me too - I was joking. I love the show and know it is flawed, but even if it does get a fifth (?) life, I don't see it playing to more than 1000 people per night. In terms of the rewrites, last I'd heard was the common knowledge info that it was being workshopped at the OV with a view to a possible run this year. People on here with their finger on the pulse will surely know if/when MG will eventually return. |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Jan 22, 2024 14:19:19 GMT
I could do without another west end musical where we all laugh at the camp limp wristed gay guy. Until representation improves I don't really want The Producers back personally.
Frozen has done incredibly well really. I'm sure it will tour eventually, probably after Aladdin has finished its tour and a suitable set from the US or Australia is available.
I'd love ther hercules rumour to be true. It has great potential as a stage musical
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Post by showtoones on Jan 22, 2024 15:22:57 GMT
Oh good. This must be to make way for Martin Guerre. This isn’t going to Drury Lane 🤣 Mr B - where is Martin Guerre going? And do they already have the next show sorted that going to the Drury Lane? Thanks as always! |
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Post by shownut on Jan 22, 2024 15:57:43 GMT
This isn’t going to Drury Lane 🤣 Mr B - where is Martin Guerre going? And do they already have the next show sorted that going to the Drury Lane? Thanks as always! My guess is AIDA. It was the intended theatre for a Broadway transfer of the original (which obviously never happened) and would be ideal for a show that size....and keep Disney on the property. |
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Post by SuttonPeron on Jan 22, 2024 16:06:13 GMT
If it´s the awful new Schele Williams-directed Aida, it won´t last for a month!
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Post by shownut on Jan 22, 2024 16:11:39 GMT
If it´s the awful new Schele Williams-directed Aida, it won´t last for a month! According to a recent post, the show is being re-hauled after the recent, disastrous Netherlands production. Looks like the creative team know the changes were a misfire so lets hope they harken back to the original which was flawed but highly entertaining. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 22, 2024 16:12:57 GMT
This isn’t going to Drury Lane 🤣 Mr B - where is Martin Guerre going? And do they already have the next show sorted that going to the Drury Lane? Thanks as always! The Old Vic were developing and workshopping Martin Guerre, so the plan was for it to go there. No idea of the status of it anymore. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2024 16:27:23 GMT
Interesting take. Thanks  …and I don’t so much mean the Nazi stuff. I mean more the role of the women in the show, and the prehistoric Dick Emery style gay stereotypes. Painful. Was truly painful sitting through the most recent tour. The Nazi stuff was funny enough in context (though even that's outdated "teehee, Nazis silly") but it hardly opened doors for women or queer rep, let's put it that way... |
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Post by danb on Jan 22, 2024 16:38:07 GMT
…and I don’t so much mean the Nazi stuff. I mean more the role of the women in the show, and the prehistoric Dick Emery style gay stereotypes. Painful. Was truly painful sitting through the most recent tour. The Nazi stuff was funny enough in context (though even that's outdated "teehee, Nazis silly") but it hardly opened doors for women or queer rep, let's put it that way... I don’t feel uncomfortable with a Jew writing satire about Nazi’s. I do feel uncomfortable with the female lead being reduced to just a dumb blonde pair of breasts and 2 of the worst gay stereotypes ever committed to stage…in 2024. |
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Post by elfie1984 on Jan 22, 2024 17:21:36 GMT
I could do without another west end musical where we all laugh at the camp limp wristed gay guy. Until representation improves I don't really want The Producers back personally. Frozen has done incredibly well really. I'm sure it will tour eventually, probably after Aladdin has finished its tour and a suitable set from the US or Australia is available. I'd love ther hercules rumour to be true. It has great potential as a stage musical Hercules was tried out at Papermill Playhouse last year and a German production is opening in March this year in Hamburg. What rumours have you heard - potential of this coming to London? I’d love to see it done well - needs big sets and effects though which the German production seems to be aiming for (also being directed by Casey Nicholaw who also directed Aladdin). They interestingly describe it as the world premiere production so maybe Stage Entertainment have plans for a bigger life, if all goes well. www.hamburg.com/explore/musicals/17207678/hercules/ |
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Post by Stephen on Jan 22, 2024 17:22:55 GMT
I would love to see that big ol' production of Hunchback of Notre Dame go in to Drury Lane!
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Post by elfie1984 on Jan 22, 2024 17:24:41 GMT
I would love to see that big ol' production of Hunchback of Notre Dame go in to Drury Lane! Me too. Would love to see this, though I think it’s unlikely. |
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Post by Stephen on Jan 22, 2024 17:32:34 GMT
In my head though I always pictured it at the Prince Edward. That being said it's only marginally smaller seats wise.
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Post by elfie1984 on Jan 22, 2024 17:34:07 GMT
I could do without another west end musical where we all laugh at the camp limp wristed gay guy. Until representation improves I don't really want The Producers back personally. Frozen has done incredibly well really. I'm sure it will tour eventually, probably after Aladdin has finished its tour and a suitable set from the US or Australia is available. I'd love ther hercules rumour to be true. It has great potential as a stage musical Hercules was tried out at Papermill Playhouse last year and a German production is opening in March this year in Hamburg. What rumours have you heard - potential of this coming to London? I’d love to see it done well - needs big sets and effects though which the German production seems to be aiming for (also being directed by Casey Nicholaw who also directed Aladdin). They interestingly describe it as the world premiere production so maybe Stage Entertainment have plans for a bigger life, if all goes well. www.hamburg.com/explore/musicals/17207678/hercules/Just found this video - Interesting that Thomas Schumacher and Alan Menken are involved in this production and its development. Hopeful now for more productions of this in the future if they get it right. |
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Post by normasturban on Jan 22, 2024 18:19:38 GMT
I seem to have stumbled down a weird Twitter black hole of people hoping that Beetlejuice will come to Drury Lane. Beetlejuice in that old barn of a theatre?!
Surely whatever they have lined up will be another mainstream crowd pleaser.
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Post by Being Alive on Jan 22, 2024 18:25:30 GMT
I seem to have stumbled down a weird Twitter black hole of people hoping that Beetlejuice will come to Drury Lane. Beetlejuice in that old barn of a theatre?! Surely whatever they have lined up will be another mainstream crowd pleaser. Theatre fans on Twitter putting out all sorts of stupid names for shows to go in here just proves how little they actually know... |
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Post by Stephen on Jan 22, 2024 18:27:56 GMT
I mean it was in a fairly large and very famous Broadway house.
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Post by theatrefan62 on Jan 22, 2024 18:41:13 GMT
The sequel is being released in the autumn so I suppose it's not such a stupid idea. But drury Lane still seems a bit ambitious for beetlejuice.
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Post by danb on Jan 22, 2024 19:01:29 GMT
‘Witches of Eastwick’ seemed a bit ambitious for TRDL and that ran for (a)month(s). Folks love to throw money down big holes to have their names on them. Don’t rule BJ out. I’d heard the Dominion initially which is why I wouldn’t rule out another barn.
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Post by theatrenerd on Jan 22, 2024 21:36:21 GMT
The restoration of Drury Lane has allowed it to have flexible staging so I'd love to see something go in that's either in-the-round or on a thrust stage. If the Oliver! rumour from Chichester is true, then maybe that could be a contender...or possibly even the Leeds Playhouse production seeing as it sounds like people would rather see that!
...or failing that... BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE!
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Post by shownut on Jan 22, 2024 22:09:51 GMT
The restoration of Drury Lane has allowed it to have flexible staging so I'd love to see something go in that's either in-the-round or on a thrust stage. If the Oliver! rumour from Chichester is true, then maybe that could be a contender...or possibly even the Leeds Playhouse production seeing as it sounds like people would rather see that! ...or failing that... BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE! Well if we are dealing with the wishes that are likely impossible...I'll throw in JAGGED LITTLE PILL. One can dream.... |
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