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Post by AddisonMizner on Aug 13, 2024 12:04:06 GMT
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Post by jr on Aug 13, 2024 12:09:52 GMT
I hope so! It's one of the two major Sondheims I haven't seen on stage (the other being Sunday).
Along with Sweeney Todd it is sometimes done in opera houses. Maybe ENO or ROH?
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Post by solangelafitte on Aug 13, 2024 12:18:19 GMT
🕯️ Prayer circle for Joanna Riding as Charlotte 🕯️
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Post by flouise on Aug 13, 2024 13:25:07 GMT
Bizarrely I've had A Weekend in the Country stuck in my head all day despite not having listened to it in months! Spooky.
I think that Laura Pitt-Pulford has played Petra a couple of times in concert versions, I'd love to see her in a full scale production.
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Post by theatremiss on Aug 13, 2024 13:58:15 GMT
Bizarrely I've had A Weekend in the Country stuck in my head all day despite not having listened to it in months! Spooky. I think that Laura Pitt-Pulford has played Petra a couple of times in concert versions, I'd love to see her in a full scale production. I think she was in the Alex Parker concert version in Guildford a number of years back. If my memory serves me right I think there was a v v young Langford/Strallen in it as the young girl.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Aug 13, 2024 14:16:01 GMT
Regents Park should be doing this.
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 13, 2024 14:27:39 GMT
Regents Park should be doing this. Agree
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Aug 13, 2024 14:28:21 GMT
funny you should say that
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Post by distantcousin on Aug 13, 2024 14:29:15 GMT
Would La Waddingham reprise it?!
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 13, 2024 14:32:27 GMT
Would La Waddingham reprise it?! At Regents Park? I think not.
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Post by unseaworthy on Aug 13, 2024 14:42:59 GMT
Who would we like for Desiree?
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 13, 2024 14:44:17 GMT
She can't really sing (as shown in Sweet Charity) but nor could Judi Dench and she's definitive, so I'd throw Anne Marie Duff's name into the ring.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Aug 13, 2024 14:46:48 GMT
No to both of those suggestions.
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Post by theatrefan62 on Aug 13, 2024 15:05:53 GMT
Could Dame Judi play Madame Armfeldt? Would be a great, possibly final, role for her.
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Post by unseaworthy on Aug 13, 2024 15:13:34 GMT
Could Dame Judi play Madame Armfeldt? Would be a great, possibly final, role for her. I think she said she wasn't going to act anymore as her eyesight is too poor to read the scripts. What about Bonnie Langford?
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Post by theatrefan62 on Aug 13, 2024 15:18:15 GMT
Could Dame Judi play Madame Armfeldt? Would be a great, possibly final, role for her. I think she said she wasn't going to act anymore as her eyesight is too poor to read the scripts. What about Bonnie Langford? She did, but that's why I thought this could work as its a show she already knows somewhat, can be in a wheelchair and (from memory) doesn't have loads of scenes/lines and could learn the songs audibly. Plus would be a nice link to when she did it at the national. If she could be tempted back to any role now, it just seems like this could be the one
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Post by rosscoe on Aug 13, 2024 15:24:49 GMT
We still need Toni Collette to be Desiree somewhere in the world.
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Post by SilverFox on Aug 13, 2024 15:35:59 GMT
ALNM is one of those shows which is often cast with older-than-written performers. Much as I love JD, I thought she was miscast in the National production, and that they went way overboard with the set in the Olivier, especially in Act 1. WYP and Opera North did a super production last year in Leeds (I believe a revival of a covid hit production from earlier).
That said, I agree that JD would make an interesting Madame Armfeldt.
The Sondheim at 80 prom at the Albert Hall has a wonderful "Weekend" performance. YouTube available.
Also in age related miscasts, check out the skit from the National where JD does "16 Going 17" from SoM if you have not already seen it - superb!
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Post by stitcher on Aug 13, 2024 15:54:27 GMT
Regents Park would be a gorgeous setting for this!
Talking of Madame Armfeldt, it’s a shame it’s a role that Julia Mackenzie never got to play, I reckon she’d have been stunning in it.
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Post by theatrefan62 on Aug 13, 2024 15:57:48 GMT
Diana Rigg would have been a great Madame Armfeldt too. She was about the best thing in the movie version
Michelle Dockery as a possible Desiree?
Regents Park would be a great setting for. Or if they can get big names, the ENO or Palladium summer shows.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 13, 2024 15:58:48 GMT
Haydn Gwynne would have wonderful in this but sadly not to be.
I don't know whether it would appeal to her, but Pippa Nixon would act the hell out of Desiree
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 13, 2024 18:05:21 GMT
Someone I have never seen perform on stage, she has been on stage in years - but could well imaging being a wonderful Madame Armfeldt and that is Maria Friedman.
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Post by Talisman on Aug 13, 2024 18:15:12 GMT
Saw her in first London production of Passion. Although she was very impressive, I couldn't make the piece work for me despite seeing it twice.
Also the excellent in Sunday in Park
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Post by SilverFox on Aug 13, 2024 18:41:55 GMT
Saw her in first London production of Passion. Although she was very impressive, I couldn't make the piece work for me despite seeing it twice. Also the excellent in Sunday in Park Me too Talisman. I am a huge Sondheim fan, but Passion is the exception. Three different productions and I cannot find my way into it - I just dislike the characters so much. MF is usually fantastic though.
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Post by jr on Aug 13, 2024 18:49:07 GMT
I have seen Maria Friedman twice in concert/cabaret. Both times I left at the interval. Also I didn't like her in the Sondheim gala as Mrs Lovett.
On the other hand, her direction in Merrily we roll along (London) was amazing.
Maybe she could direct?
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