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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 13, 2023 16:26:14 GMT
I would welcome a full scale production of Victor Victoria. I saw it on Broadway a couple of weeks before Dame Julie left for her operation.
It is a great score and a pretty funny book.
With the right leading lady, it would make a fun night out
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2023 20:22:12 GMT
Ute Lemper would be an interesting choice for this role.
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Post by danb on Aug 13, 2023 20:29:17 GMT
Ute Lemper would be an interesting choice for this role. I know it was 25 years ago in November, but damn how good was Ute in ‘Chicago’? Her performance elevated it far beyond the quality of the material. Stunning. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2023 21:06:54 GMT
Ute Lemper would be an interesting choice for this role. I know it was 25 years ago in November, but damn how good was Ute in ‘Chicago’? Her performance elevated it far beyond the quality of the material. Stunning. She was amazing in that and still had a fine voice when I saw her doing her Marlene Dietrich concert in early 2020. She is 60 now but Dame Julie played the part when she was older than this so that shouldn't be an issue. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 13, 2023 21:38:18 GMT
I have been listening to her Berlin Cabaret album recently. Outstanding in both languages
Das Lila Lied is still so relevant.
Not sure about her for Victoria.
But she would make me book to see her as Fraulein Schneider. That role, for me, has always been the real emotional core of Cabaret.
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Post by theatrenerd on Aug 14, 2023 23:03:17 GMT
I've been reading Frank Losser's biography in the Guys & Dolls programme at the Bridge and it mentions "A new stage version of his classic film Hans Christian Andersen, is currently in development."
Seeing as it was already adapted for the stage by Tommy Steele (who also starred) and Beverley Cross at the Palladium in the 70's, it sounds like that this could be more of a reinvention rather than a revival like Stiles, Drewe and Fellows' Half a Sixpence.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 14, 2023 23:39:45 GMT
I've been reading Frank Losser's biography in the Guys & Dolls programme at the Bridge and it mentions "A new stage version of his classic film Hans Christian Andersen, is currently in development." Seeing as it was already adapted for the stage by Tommy Steele (who also starred) and Beverley Cross at the Palladium in the 70's, it sounds like that this could be more of a reinvention rather than a revival like Stiles, Drewe and Fellows' Half a Sixpence. I grew up listening to the Steele cast recording. "The King's New Clothes" "The Inch Worm" "I'm Hans Christian Andersen" "Wonderful Copenhagen" "Thumbelina" "The Ugly Duckling" "Anywhere I Wander" "No Two People" So many great songs for a family audience. Amazing how Jenny Lind features in this and Barnum. Can't be many real life characters who are featured in more than one musical It would need a great book rewrite and clever staging to bring it to life for modern audiences. But it would be good to see it in stage |
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Aug 15, 2023 5:36:15 GMT
Great. Now i will have Inch Worm in my head all day... thanks oxfordsimon lol When I was a kid, everyone knew the songs from Hans Christian Anderson. They're classics! But I imagine young people today have barely heard of them, let alone sing them. The Greatest Showman is probably todays Hans Christian Anderson |
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Post by peggysue on Aug 15, 2023 7:00:49 GMT
I've been reading Frank Losser's biography in the Guys & Dolls programme at the Bridge and it mentions "A new stage version of his classic film Hans Christian Andersen, is currently in development." Seeing as it was already adapted for the stage by Tommy Steele (who also starred) and Beverley Cross at the Palladium in the 70's, it sounds like that this could be more of a reinvention rather than a revival like Stiles, Drewe and Fellows' Half a Sixpence. I grew up listening to the Steele cast recording. "The King's New Clothes" "The Inch Worm" "I'm Hans Christian Andersen" "Wonderful Copenhagen" "Thumbelina" "The Ugly Duckling" "Anywhere I Wander" "No Two People" So many great songs for a family audience. Amazing how Jenny Lind features in this and Barnum. Can't be many real life characters who are featured in more than one musical It would need a great book rewrite and clever staging to bring it to life for modern audiences. But it would be good to see it in stage I still have the cast recording of this show on vinyl. Saw the show many times with Tommy Steele. Lovely family show |
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Post by margoc on Aug 15, 2023 7:57:20 GMT
Billy elliot
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2023 14:45:19 GMT
Hans Christian Andersen was a great show and would be a wonderful star vehicle for the right performer.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 15, 2023 17:48:01 GMT
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Post by david on Aug 15, 2023 17:58:16 GMT
Toxic Avenger
Saturday Night Fever (London Palladium version)
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Post by danb on Aug 15, 2023 20:39:17 GMT
Toxic Avenger Saturday Night Fever (London Palladium version) I’d love an even bigger revival of SNF. I think they could actually make it pay with the right people & going bigger instead of smaller. I loved it at the Palladium then it just got smaller & smaller & smaller. I’ve just been down a ‘Carrie’ rabbit hole on youtube and would love a chance to see a decent crack at this too. |
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Post by ptwest on Aug 15, 2023 20:43:51 GMT
Every time I go to the Crucible in Sheffield it makes me want them to revive Chess. That stage would make a perfect chess board!
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Post by alece10 on Aug 16, 2023 10:49:06 GMT
Urinetown.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 16, 2023 11:43:44 GMT
Every time I go to the Crucible in Sheffield it makes me want them to revive Chess. That stage would make a perfect chess board! I love the score to Chess. I've only it once and that was that terrible thing at ENO. Cheated and robbed! After the success of Saigon perhaps we petition Sheffield to give us the blockbuster musicals |
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Post by QueerTheatre on Aug 16, 2023 12:07:29 GMT
Chess is coming back to broadway with Lea Michelle supposedly - though rumours abound that she's now too busy and they're holding off for a few seasons til she's available.
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 21, 2023 12:39:54 GMT
Nine
(I may have said this before) Parade
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Post by anthony40 on Sept 10, 2023 14:10:34 GMT
Ghost- never caught this the first time round
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Post by darreno on Sept 10, 2023 15:21:06 GMT
I'd love to see Ride the Cyclone. I think it could be great on a limited run, marketed to the generation of fans brought up on Heathers etc. From what I know of it, it would be easy enough to adapt to pretty much any stage size.
Urinetown as mentioned previously, as I've not seen it.
I'd also LOVE another outing for Yeast Nation but I fear the poor reviews (TOTALLY unfair in my opinion as I LOVED it at Southwark) will keep it on ice for a while.
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Post by theatreliker on Sept 19, 2023 21:26:35 GMT
I've just discovered William Finn's A New Brain and it's got some cracking songs in it. Listened to And They're Off and I'd Rather Be Sailing about 5 times this evening.
Has it ever been done in the UK?
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Post by theatrefan62 on Nov 27, 2023 21:04:34 GMT
I'd love to see Heathcliff revived, with an age appropriate cast and a fresh vision. I think its got some great songs and has potential away from being a Cliff Richard vanity project.
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Post by Boob on Nov 27, 2023 21:41:41 GMT
Another vote for Kiss of the Spiderwoman… with La Scherzinger please!
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Post by backtothetheatre on Nov 27, 2023 22:34:51 GMT
Big Fish for me!
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