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Post by AddisonMizner on May 16, 2024 20:24:02 GMT
The recent Broadway productions of both SWEENEY TODD and PARADE
HERE WE ARE (can’t wait for tomorrow’s album release, but I’m dying to see the actual production).
SUFFS (do we think this is a possibility? I would love to see it, as I do like Shauna Taub’s music)
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Post by joem on May 16, 2024 20:28:33 GMT
The Buddha of Suburbia from the RSC to London, even if it is Emma Rice, and the new James Graham, "Punch" please.
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Post by happysooz2 on May 16, 2024 21:42:39 GMT
Could we have Fun Home back, please and thank you. Rebecca Trehearn is now ready to play Helen so yes thanks. Inwas going to go original Young Vic cast but I fully support any recasting you suggest. |
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Post by Dave B on May 17, 2024 7:43:46 GMT
As I missed it first time round, Death of England (or any Roy Williams play for that matter!) would be very welcome! Well now Rory, I think you can take this as conclusive proof producers are reading! From this thread to the West End in around 36 hours! 
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Post by Rory on May 17, 2024 7:48:43 GMT
As I missed it first time round, Death of England (or any Roy Williams play for that matter!) would be very welcome! Well now Rory, I think you can take this as conclusive proof producers are reading! From this thread to the West End in around 36 hours!
Well there you go Dave B, top work mrbluesky! |
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Post by Jan on May 17, 2024 8:40:52 GMT
All RSC Shakespeare productions
All Bath Ustinov Studio productions
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Post by mrbluesky on May 17, 2024 10:18:50 GMT
Well now Rory, I think you can take this as conclusive proof producers are reading! From this thread to the West End in around 36 hours!
Well there you go Dave B, top work mrbluesky! Oh my goodness!! I am genuinely thrilled - Roy is one of my absolute favourite playwrights! Now, let’s also manifest Punch for Rory! (Nica, if you’re reading, it’s follow nicely into SohoPlace!) |
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Post by mrbluesky on May 17, 2024 10:20:00 GMT
All RSC Shakespeare productions All Bath Ustinov Studio productions A hard agree from me! Especially if it means we the RSC Dream from earlier this year and the Ustinov Deep Blue Sea and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf! |
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Post by solangelafitte on May 17, 2024 11:44:18 GMT
Chich's Assassins was far too on the nose for me - it went for the obvious and didn't make any particularly interesting choices which was a shame. Agree it went for the obvious, yet at the talkback I went to one of the cast spoke about their Republican American relatives who came to see the show and they commented to him that it was nice it didn't take a side politically 😂 |
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Post by Being Alive on May 17, 2024 11:52:36 GMT
Chich's Assassins was far too on the nose for me - it went for the obvious and didn't make any particularly interesting choices which was a shame. Agree it went for the obvious, yet at the talkback I went to one of the cast spoke about their Republican American relatives who came to see the show and they commented to him that it was nice it didn't take a side politically 😂 People are so weird 😂 |
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Post by blamerobots on May 17, 2024 12:55:29 GMT
Why are there so many "out of town" try outs that never make it into the West End? Lack of theatres being available? Too expensive to transfer? Not worth taking the chance it may not find an audience once it makes the journey into town? Excellent reviews mean nothing when thinking about a transfer? There's many reasons, but usually it comes down to how much money it made. In the case of Assassins, I think it was just a case of producers not wanting to risk it, compounded by the mixed reception and cost of running it there. Those three reasons are the most likely when any out of town tryout fails to mount on the West End. I second Kimberly Akimbo!! Was a West End transfer ever confirmed for it? |
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Post by kallyloo on May 17, 2024 16:58:16 GMT
Would love a Broadway transfer of Merrily We Roll Along with original cast.
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Post by theatreliker on May 17, 2024 17:26:07 GMT
Ooh yes Kimberly Akimbo. I loved it on Broadway.
Whoever said Death of England above, was it a coincidence it was announced today or were there whispers?
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Post by happysooz2 on May 17, 2024 23:06:51 GMT
As I missed it first time round, Death of England (or any Roy Williams play for that matter!) would be very welcome! Well now Rory, I think you can take this as conclusive proof producers are reading! From this thread to the West End in around 36 hours!
Given this appears to be akin to Cosmic ordering, can we also get a revival of His Dark Materials at three National? |
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Post by Jon on May 17, 2024 23:18:34 GMT
Would love a Broadway transfer of Merrily We Roll Along with original cast. We've already had that production in 2013. |
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Post by bordeaux on May 18, 2024 8:24:51 GMT
Would love a Broadway transfer of Merrily We Roll Along with original cast. We've already had that production in 2013. I'd be happy to see it again, this time with my late-teenage children. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 20, 2024 11:10:55 GMT
Romantics Anonymous,Buddha of suburbia, The hours (opera) and Punch
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Post by Sam on May 20, 2024 12:50:08 GMT
Three things I'd like to see in the UK that have been/are on elsewhere that haven't made it here yet: Hercules, Sing Street, and Anastasia.
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Post by thedrowsychaperone on May 20, 2024 13:18:39 GMT
Romantics Anonymous,Buddha of suburbia, The hours (opera) and Punch Desperate for Romantics Anonymous to resurface! (Even a cast recording would do!) |
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Post by blamerobots on May 20, 2024 17:00:05 GMT
Three things I'd like to see in the UK that have been/are on elsewhere that haven't made it here yet: Hercules, Sing Street, and Anastasia. Anastasia would be great. |
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Post by AddisonMizner on May 20, 2024 17:38:33 GMT
Romantics Anonymous,Buddha of suburbia, The hours (opera) and Punch THE HOURS would also be great! It would be perfect for ENO, but would probably need to be ROH to get the same cast or that of a similar calibre. I would also like to see Puts' opera, SILENT NIGHT. I know Opera North did this a few years ago, but I didn't get to see it. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 20, 2024 17:56:54 GMT
I'm also gutted I missed Silent Night. I think the Met are doing it in a few years time, hopefully we will get a cinema screening
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Post by viserys on May 21, 2024 7:32:59 GMT
Three things I'd like to see in the UK that have been/are on elsewhere that haven't made it here yet: Hercules, Sing Street, and Anastasia. Hercules was shredded at Paper Mill Playhouse and the German production is getting lukewarm feedback at most - and that's really saying something, coming from a very undemanding audience that eats up all sorts of nonsense. So I think once it closes in Hamburg, it'll be the end of the road for something that just didn't really work. Anastasia would deserve a run, yes, I enjoyed it surprisingly much in the Netherlands and I definitely hope that Sing Street will turn up sometime - maybe via Dublin? |
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Post by blamerobots on May 21, 2024 8:57:55 GMT
Three things I'd like to see in the UK that have been/are on elsewhere that haven't made it here yet: Hercules, Sing Street, and Anastasia. Hercules was shredded at Paper Mill Playhouse and the German production is getting lukewarm feedback at most - and that's really saying something, coming from a very undemanding audience that eats up all sorts of nonsense. So I think once it closes in Hamburg, it'll be the end of the road for something that just didn't really work. Anastasia would deserve a run, yes, I enjoyed it surprisingly much in the Netherlands and I definitely hope that Sing Street will turn up sometime - maybe via Dublin? It would seriously die the death in London, especially in somewhere like TRDL.
I could think of at least 5 productions that would probably make more money..! |
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Post by viserys on May 21, 2024 9:23:01 GMT
...try 50  I personally think THIS is the perfect time to bring Beetlejuice over with the new movie coming in autumn and stirring fresh buzz around the IP and it could possibly fill a barn like TRDL for a year or so. |
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