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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 11, 2024 16:05:14 GMT
Not so, according to Lauren King at Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre when I was in touch with her today... 🤣 |
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Post by solangelafitte on Sept 11, 2024 16:20:35 GMT
Well, there goes that dream...
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Post by 42ndBlvd on Sept 12, 2024 18:50:18 GMT
Not so, according to Lauren King at Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre when I was in touch with her today... Really? I was told by a good source. Funny enough I was also told that they would be doing WSS as the first of their 2025 season but I wasn't so sure when people kept saying the National were thinking of doing it. |
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Post by ceebee on Sept 12, 2024 19:12:49 GMT
West Side Story every time.
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Post by kit66 on Sept 12, 2024 19:52:06 GMT
I just love how unsubstantiated rumours can be posted here.
PS I've heard on good authority the next summer's musical at the Coliseum will be The Sound of Music on ice with the nuns on trapezes.
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Post by kit66 on Sept 12, 2024 19:55:24 GMT
Not so, according to Lauren King at Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre when I was in touch with her today... Really? I was told by a good source. Funny enough I was also told that they would be doing WSS as the first of their 2025 season but I wasn't so sure when people kept saying the National were thinking of doing it. The NT sent out a questionaire last year testing the water in what audiences wanted and what they would pay for.WSS was one of the examples they used.They also used Idris Elba doing Macbeth.This hasn't happened either although early starts for performances did eventually come into fruition. |
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Post by danb on Sept 12, 2024 20:19:21 GMT
I just love how unsubstantiated rumours can be posted here. PS I've heard on good authority the next summer's musical at the Coliseum will be The Sound of Music on ice with the nuns on trapezes. For every unsubstantiated rumour there are fifty actual facts, or at least half facts from board members. Nobody wants to put their name to fantasy because they know they’ll be called out on it. Things very often change at short notice, normally where money or rights have fallen through, so that what was fact, no longer exists. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 12, 2024 20:55:31 GMT
WSS and Night Music in the same season at the same theatre could work but its not even a Sondheim centenary year
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 12, 2024 20:57:19 GMT
Not so, according to Lauren King at Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre when I was in touch with her today... Really? I was told by a good source. Funny enough I was also told that they would be doing WSS as the first of their 2025 season but I wasn't so sure when people kept saying the National were thinking of doing it. WSS was the title I had heard so I was surprised when you said ALNM - WSS is also much more McOnie's bag as a choreographer (he's not much of a director...) |
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Post by PineappleForYou on Sept 15, 2024 21:06:23 GMT
Shaun Tossell says that this isn't planned for Regent's Park but it is connected in some way. Is this a hint for the Donmar seeming as Tim Sheader now runs that?
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Post by 42ndBlvd on Sept 16, 2024 0:21:35 GMT
Shaun Tossell says that this isn't planned for Regent's Park but it is connected in some way. Is this a hint for the Donmar seeming as Tim Sheader now runs that? Yep it is the Donmar after all. It seems my source got it mixed up because of the artistic director. They apparently have a big star for Madame Armfeldt. |
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Post by showtoones on Sept 16, 2024 6:55:58 GMT
Shaun Tossell says that this isn't planned for Regent's Park but it is connected in some way. Is this a hint for the Donmar seeming as Tim Sheader now runs that? Yep it is the Donmar after all. It seems my source got it mixed up because of the artistic director. They apparently have a big star for Madame Armfeldt. When is this happening? Next Christmas? |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 16, 2024 8:04:55 GMT
Shaun Tossell says that this isn't planned for Regent's Park but it is connected in some way. Is this a hint for the Donmar seeming as Tim Sheader now runs that? Yep it is the Donmar after all. It seems my source got it mixed up because of the artistic director. They apparently have a big star for Madame Armfeldt. Lesley Joseph? |
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Post by danb on Sept 16, 2024 8:38:36 GMT
Not that big!! C’mon be realistic. Is it Kidman again? 😂
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Post by ladidah on Sept 16, 2024 8:53:26 GMT
Not Jane McDonald again!
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Post by A.Ham on Sept 16, 2024 11:42:48 GMT
Surely the Donmar is too small a venue for a musical revival like this? Or am I being naive as to the likely demand?
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Post by alece10 on Sept 16, 2024 11:45:01 GMT
Surely the Donmar is too small a venue for a musical revival like this? Or am I being naive as to the likely demand? It's about the same size as the Menier who did the last revival. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 16, 2024 11:48:05 GMT
How many ALNM rumour threads currently exist on this site?
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Post by kit66 on Sept 16, 2024 12:44:48 GMT
How many ALNM rumour threads currently exist on this site? Send in the rumour clones. |
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Post by SilverFox on Sept 16, 2024 13:40:15 GMT
Later, Always later ....
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Post by SuttonPeron on Sept 16, 2024 13:45:57 GMT
I don´t think the Donmar is the adequate venue for ALNM... but happy to be proven wrong. How I wish it had been the ENO summer musical, even with their prices.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 16, 2024 14:23:00 GMT
I like the Donmar, but it can be total pain in the arse to get tickets
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Post by singingbird on Sept 16, 2024 14:38:04 GMT
Where Regent's Park was perfect, the Donmar doesn't feel right to me for this. It's too cramped. And surely it's a show that warrants something larger. But I will happily see it again, wherever it is.
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Post by shorn on Sept 16, 2024 15:08:29 GMT
A big name as Madame Armfeldt?
Assume it's one of the great acting Dames. And a big name id say limits it to Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren or Judi Dench. Seems a great full circle moment for it to be Judi.
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