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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 16:04:51 GMT
I am really excited for this! As a massive fan of the TV show, I hope they manage to get it to work on stage. But I am wondering why it’s Grandad and not Uncle Albert. Even though I preferred Grandad, Albert is definitely the more iconic - AND Raquel and Cassandra didn’t appear until long after Grandad had died. Unless there’s a surprise appearance from Uncle Albert (could Whitehouse play both - a mere guess)...just think of the ‘During the War’ eleven o’clock number they’d be missing out on. They need Uncle Albert - he could play each in different acts. No mention of Damien... love a bit of Rodney getting terrorised, but I suppose Del has that covered for years. |
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Post by sirdaniel on Oct 8, 2018 16:13:02 GMT
I am really excited for this! As a massive fan of the TV show, I hope they manage to get it to work on stage. But I am wondering why it’s Grandad and not Uncle Albert. Even though I preferred Grandad, Albert is definitely the more iconic - AND Raquel and Cassandra didn’t appear until long after Grandad had died. Unless there’s a surprise appearance from Uncle Albert (could Whitehouse play both - a mere guess)...just think of the ‘During the War’ eleven o’clock number they’d be missing out on. They need Uncle Albert - he could play each in different acts. No mention of Damien... love a bit of Rodney getting terrorised, but I suppose Del has that covered for years. Yeah just seems really odd to me to do it without him, and also Raquel and Cassandra must rule out a prequel...unless they’re just gonna be in separate scenes all alone which seems unlikely. |
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Post by martello736 on Oct 8, 2018 16:52:17 GMT
Given he's writing it, composing it, staring in it, seems a bit....  ...Dennis Waterman? Write the theme toon, sing the theme toon and all that?  Okay, the video genuinely didn't load before I quoted your tweet (as me just pointing out what was in the video would have been pointless), I'm really shocked we said the same person  You must have thought I was being really self-congratulatory there, haha |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 17:57:17 GMT
They need Uncle Albert - he could play each in different acts. No mention of Damien... love a bit of Rodney getting terrorised, but I suppose Del has that covered for years. Yeah just seems really odd to me to do it without him, and also Raquel and Cassandra must rule out a prequel...unless they’re just gonna be in separate scenes all alone which seems unlikely. Probably end up all being someone’s day dream when Albert’s doing one of his ‘during the war’ speeches. |
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Post by alece10 on Oct 8, 2018 18:12:51 GMT
Big PR push today. Double page advert in tonight's Evening Standard and Paul Whitehouse on the London evening news.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 18:57:13 GMT
...Dennis Waterman? Write the theme toon, sing the theme toon and all that? Okay, the video genuinely didn't load before I quoted your tweet (as me just pointing out what was in the video would have been pointless), I'm really shocked we said the same person You must have thought I was being really self-congratulatory there, haha Haha all good. I thought you were just clarifying to be fair as theres a generation on here now that may not have understood what I (or indeed you) were referring too. Then again I doubt the millennia would not have even opened this thread as its not about Wicked or a Broadway import. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 18:59:37 GMT
This already appears to selling extremely well for the first weeks of the run well into March. Perhaps we are looking at an unlikely smash hit with this one?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 19:36:34 GMT
This already appears to selling extremely well for the first weeks of the run well into March. Perhaps we are looking at an unlikely smash hit with this one? Well it’s selling on the name alone at this point. Which doesn’t surprise me at all. |
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Post by squidward on Oct 9, 2018 0:19:00 GMT
I’m very surprised this isn’t going to have a regional run before the west end.
Hard to work out who the target audience is for this, aside from fans of the original show, but if that’s the case, how are those fans going to feel about seeing the characters reimagined by different actors?
Theatrically I’m not sure how big a draw Paul Whitehouse is either.
I don’t know if the Father Ted musical is a real thing or not but again, as a huge fan of the original, I wouldn’t want to see the four iconic lead roles played by anyone else.
OFAH looks like a gigantic cash-in project to me ( anyone know who’s producing it?).Good luck to them, but seeing Del Boy falling through the bar the first time didn’t do much for me ,neither did seeing it repeated 99 times on various clips shows over the decades, so adding a song to that moment of hilarity wouldn’t entice me to buy a ticket.
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Post by squidward on Oct 9, 2018 0:24:52 GMT
I know it's sacrilege to say it but 'Only Fools and Horses' kind of passed me by and I can't say the times that I have seen it have made me laugh that much. At least the great unwashed will all be flocking to see it so they might not be at any of the other theatres in London's glitzy West End so every cloud and all that. ‘The great unwashed’? Wow.Please tell us that was a jest and not a genuine statement. |
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Post by SageStageMgr on Oct 9, 2018 1:36:21 GMT
I know it's sacrilege to say it but 'Only Fools and Horses' kind of passed me by and I can't say the times that I have seen it have made me laugh that much. At least the great unwashed will all be flocking to see it so they might not be at any of the other theatres in London's glitzy West End so every cloud and all that. ‘The great unwashed’? Wow.Please tell us that was a jest and not a genuine statement. If meant as it reads in that quote, it does seem a little unkind and dismissive. I’m a theatre bod and I happen to also really like Only Fools and will see this - but I wash regularly. I’m assuming a joke or something got lost in translation because Ryan wouldn’t mean to be offensive 👍 |
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Post by alece10 on Oct 9, 2018 8:03:40 GMT
Have to say I'm not very excited about this and doubt I would go unless the feedback is great or there is an offer.
I think it stems from the fact I lived overseas for all of the 80s and early 90s so have only caught the programme on re-runs and the later episodes and apart from the set comedy pieces I didn't find it that funny.
However I think that advance bookings will do really well for this on name alone.
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Post by elliott on Oct 9, 2018 8:32:14 GMT
So sad about this it actually makes me want to leave the industry. Not everything has to be made into a musical.
If it's done brilliantly, high production values, hilarious and a great night out then fine although it feels more tour than town to me- but if not and it's just a question of selling off the title by turning it into a 'musical' version with little thought, I'm not sure what making it a musical will add to it at all. Not my cup of tea to be fair as I never was into the TV series. Let's see.
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Post by martello736 on Oct 9, 2018 9:11:19 GMT
Something ensued between Darren Bell and Dianne Pilkington this morning but a lot of tweets have been deleted so I can't tell what, did anybody see it?
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Post by QueerTheatre on Oct 9, 2018 9:45:23 GMT
*I'm buying my dad tickets to this for his birthday (and im secretly a little bit intrigued myself to see it!) but can anyone voice for the front row of the upper circle? It says they're restricted due to a 'perspex safety screen' which i've never seen before.... i don't mind a safety rail, but is the perspex very distracting?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 9:58:47 GMT
*I'm buying my dad tickets to this for his birthday (and im secretly a little bit intrigued myself to see it!) but can anyone voice for the front row of the upper circle? It says they're restricted due to a 'perspex safety screen' which i've never seen before.... i don't mind a safety rail, but is the perspex very distracting? Have you tried looking at www.seatplan.com? You can select seats and there are photos of the view for many of them which should give you an idea. If I recall correctly, the glass screen is directly at the bottom of the stairs in the upper circle (probably to stop the ice cream person falling backwards and covering people in mint choc chip). I don't think it distorts the view but it's either there in your eyeline (rather like a pair of bi-focal spectacles I should imagine) or you're looking through it like you're watching the show through the drawing room window. I don't remember it being all the way along the front of the row but perhaps @theatremonkey can elaborate? |
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Post by QueerTheatre on Oct 9, 2018 10:08:23 GMT
Thanks Ryan! It sounds like the seats are good value from Seatplan!
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Post by wickedgrin on Oct 9, 2018 10:16:32 GMT
Something ensued between Darren Bell and Dianne Pilkington this morning but a lot of tweets have been deleted so I can't tell what, did anybody see it? I caught something on Twitter this morning (which seems to have disappeared) showing a newspaper article by Paul Whitehouse launching the show in which the headline said something like "it's not another poncey West End show" which seems to have alienated the entire industry. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 11:18:06 GMT
Sun ArticleThis makes it sound as bonkers as I Can’t Sing. God I hope this is good!
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Post by shady23 on Oct 9, 2018 12:00:05 GMT
Did someone actually say that line though or it just The Sun newspaper with their usual sensational (stirring) headlines?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 12:22:08 GMT
Did someone actually say that line though or it just The Sun newspaper with their usual sensational (stirring) headlines? Paul explains: “The average Only Fools and Horses fan probably doesn’t go to some poncey West End musical." |
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Post by david on Oct 9, 2018 12:33:22 GMT
Did someone actually say that line though or it just The Sun newspaper with their usual sensational (stirring) headlines? Paul explains: “The average Only Fools and Horses fan probably doesn’t go to some poncey West End musical." What an absolute plonker. |
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Post by ceebee on Oct 9, 2018 12:33:58 GMT
I'll fetch the suitcase from the loft...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 13:00:24 GMT
Interesting that the story is going to be set in 1989 when Cassandra and Raquel first appeared but Granddad is also going to be in it and his character died in 1984/85. I wonder if they will blur the timelines as I'd think Uncle Albert would have to be featured and it would be fun to see him and Granddad together.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2018 13:00:57 GMT
Paul explains: “The average Only Fools and Horses fan probably doesn’t go to some poncey West End musical." What an absolute plonker. But is he wrong? The average 'Only Fools and Horses' fan, the person who avidly watched the series, laughed hysterically at the funny lines, quotes the show and probably watches the re-runs (and these are most likely the people they will be relying upon to go and watch the show) probably don't go to a West End musical. And they probably think that those shows are "poncey" too. He's playing to his audience surely? Hence the interview in 'The Sun'. |
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You must have thought I was being really self-congratulatory there, haha
