Company

It was the Donmar production which you saw at Albany/Noel Coward Theatre. As did I!

And where as yes I think gender swapping casts are in vogue at the mo I think it's far from ridiculous. Won't it be marvellous to look back in a decade or so and go 'wow, do u remember when all those fabulous women played those fabulous parts in the west end?? Wouldn't happen now!'

Personally I'm holding out hope that in a decade or so we'll be going "remember when people made such a fuss about all those fabulous women playing those fabulous parts, when it's just the norm now"?

Says it all really.

OR AM I? *laces fingers together, peers over the top of them, waggles eyebrows in your general direction*

I don't see why, people have felt pretty free and easy to spread their negative opinions of Glenda Jackson's Lear all over the board. Valid reasons will always support valid critique.

Haha. And yes fair comment about Glenda Jackson! Well I hope so - I might all work & I might enjoy it! It's an interesting enough concept to get me to see it, but I do just wonder 'why?'.

Could someone copy and paste the text - as I refuse to open the daily hate website

Please and ta

Love Company and will definitely see this. Now top of my list for 2017



As an Opera lover I'm amazed about how the 'fans' want every production preserved just as THEY imagine the composer wanted it done. (Thats said you do get too many downright 'Silly' Opera productions).





Keen to see this it will help us see how times have changed, Or not.



However I do feel the arrangements have always seemed like weak Disco, admittedly of their time. I hope they will be simalarly bold with those.



Yes I think they can have some fun with this...





Pardon me, is everybody here? Because if everybody's here, I

Want to thank you all for coming to the wedding, I'd appreciate

Your going even more, I mean you must have lots of better things

To do, and not a word of this to Paula, remember Paula, you know,

The woman I'm gonna marry, but I'm not, because I wouldn't ruin

Anyone as wonderful as she is--

Thank you all

For the gifts and the flowers,

Thank you all,

Now it's back to the showers,

Don't tell Paula,

But I'm not getting married today.

Listen, everybody, look, I don't know what you're waiting for,

A wedding, what's a wedding, it's a prehistoric ritual

Where everybody promises fidelity forever, which is

Maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard of, which is

Followed by a honeymoon, where suddenly he'll realize he's

Saddled with a nut, and wanna kill me, which he should--

Thanks a bunch,

But I'm not getting married--

Go have lunch,

'Cause I'm not getting married--

You've been grand,

But I'm not getting married--

Don't just stand there,

I'm not getting married--

And don't tell Paula,

But I'm not getting married today.

Go, can't you go?

Why is no-

Body listening?

Goodbye

Go and cry

At another person's wake

If you're quick

For a kick

You could pick

Up a christening

But please

On my knees

There's a human life at stake!

Listen everybody, I'm afraid you didn't hear, or do you want to

See a crazy lady fall apart in front of you, it isn't only Paula

Who may be ruining her life, you know we'll both of us be losing

Our identities, I telephoned my analyst about it and she said to

See her Monday, but by Monday I'll be floating in the Hudson with

The other garbage--

I'm not well,

So I'm not getting married--

You've been swell,

But I'm not getting married--

Clear the hall,

'Cause I'm not getting married--

Thank you all,

But I'm not getting married--

And don't tell Paula,

But I'm not getting married today.

Go, can't you go?

Look, you know

I adore you all

But why

Watch me die ,

Like Eliza on the ice?

Look, perhaps

I'll collapse

In the apse

Right before you all,

So take

Back the cake,

Burn the shoes and boil the rice.

Look, I didn't wanna have to

Tell you, but I may be coming

Down with Hepatitis, and I

Think I'm gonna faint, so if

You wanna see me faint, I'll

Do it happily, but wouldn't

It be funnier to go and watch

A funeral, so thank you for the

Twenty-seven dinner plates,

Thirty-seven butter knives,

Forty-seven paperweights,

Fifty-seven candleholders--

One more thing--

I am not getting married!

But I'm not getting married!

Still I'm not getting married!

See, I'm not getting married!

That I'm not getting married

Today!



Still sung by Amy of course.

Basically says that it's not as believable in 2016 that a man in his thirties would have all of his friends pressuring him to get into a relationship. However, it is more believable for a woman, due to the notion of the 'body clock' etc., so they believe it will make the material more effective to switch genders for the main character. Sondheim wasn't enthusiastic at first but then they sent him a video of what they'd done and he really enjoyed it/Rosalie and gave them the permission.

The nub seems to be that Marianne Elliott has said she believes that the original plot was credible to its original audience but today many people just respond to it in puzzlement that Bobby's friends think it so imperative that he should marry. However, by presenting Bobbie on the brink of losing her biological ability to easily start a family, Marianne Elliott has persuaded Sondheim that the show can once more be believed by its audience, as originally intended. This seems to me to be a restoration of the show, and not a gimmick.

Other theatres could be maybe the Garrick or Vaudeville but the season seem to me to appeal to a non West End Audience.