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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 9:18:27 GMT
This might have been mentioned before but does anyone remember Murderous Instincts at the Savoy? I think it was maybe 3 weeks in the West End after a short run in Norwich.... Special highlights were 'It's So Much Fun to be Gay' in Act 2 which was camper than camp and Nicola McAuliff doing the finale in a blond updo wig that was astonishing.... Another bizarre story behind that one. In the end I actually enjoyed (as opposed to liked) it, as I got the impression that, after all of the chaos and bad reviews, the cast just dumped what they were told and played the show that they wanted. For those who weren’t tuned in, here’s a rundown from The Independent, the maddest of a series of mad happenings maybe being Mickey Rooney’s son being appointed as its ninth(!) director, not being allowed a work permit and then trying to direct over the phone from Paris. www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/impresarios-murderous-instincts-kill-off-show-after-just-a-week-five-days-in-5351277.html |
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Post by stuartww on Aug 13, 2018 12:22:50 GMT
On Napoleon, the main thing that I recall is the whole stage lifting up at one point. The dramatic purpose for which I cannot recall. I recall a huge mirror at an angle toward the audience was suspended above the stage when Napoleon was showing Josephine how he was going to conquer wherever he was trying to conquer - they had a massive map almost covering the entire stage which the audience could then see in the massive mirror |
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Post by distantcousin on Aug 13, 2018 14:43:51 GMT
Marguerite?
I liked the storyline and the drama of it all, but couldn't connect with the music that much. It was a bit forgettable and hard to care about anyone, despite the stellar leading cast (La Henshall, Alexander Hanson and Julian Ovenden)
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 13, 2018 15:37:40 GMT
Oh gosh I’d forgotten about that one. It unfortunately wasn’t very good
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 0:41:00 GMT
As promised a rundown of the eighties, for those of us who were around then (and those who have seen some of them revived!)
WEST END FLOPS (250 performances or under, not including Broadway/Off Broadway shows, biomusicals and revues)
1980
Barnardo
The Biograph Girl
Colette
One Night Stand
The Streets of London
Worzel Gummidge
1981
Eastward Ho!
The Mitford Girls
1982
Andy Capp
Wild, Wild Women
Windy City
1983
Dear Anyone
Marilyn
Poppy
Y
1984
Blockheads
The Hired Man
The Importance
Peg
1985
None
1986
Cage Puccini
The Gambler
1987
Girlfriends
Spin of the Wheel
Up on the Roof
1988
Ziegfeld
Budgie
Winnie
1989
Metropolis
Sherlock Holmes
LIMITED RUNS – WEST END AND OFF WEST END
1980
None
1981
Chorus Girls
Mrs Tucker’s Pageant
Restoration
Suburban Strains
The Swan Down Gloves
1982
Masquerade
Mata Hari
Nightingale
1983
Abbacadabra
Any Minute Now
Jean Seberg
Our Day Out
Swan Esther & the King
1984
Bashville
Hi-De-Hi
Humpty Dumpty
The Ratepayers’ Iolanthe
1985
The Mr Men Musical
Songs for Stray Cats
1986
Jeanne
The Old Man of Lochnagar
The Ragged Child
1987
None
1988
Lyle
1989
Apples
The Wicked World of Bel-Ami
ALL MUSICALS RUNNING LONGER THAN 250 PERFORMANCES
Cats 8949
Starlight Express 7406
Buddy 5140 (Biomusical)
Miss Saigon 4264
Return to the Forbidden Planet 1516
Aspects of Love 1325
Chess 1209
Slice of Saturday Night 827
Song and Dance 781
Time 777
Mutiny 526
Underneath the Arches 515 (Biomusical)
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole c. 497
Tomfoolery 400 (Revue)
Are You Lonesome Tonight? 354 (Biomusical)
Bugsy Malone 300
Lennon the Musical c. 280 (Biomusical)
Blondel 278
STILL RUNNING
Les Miserables c. 13,300 so far
Phantom of the Opera c. 13,000 so far
Blood Brothers was a flop in 1983, running 224 performances yet its revival five years later ran for over fourteen years.
Carrie never got past Stratford in the UK, playing its season there before transferring to, and flopping on, Broadway.
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Post by profquatermass on Aug 14, 2018 8:17:59 GMT
Is this meant to be a comprehensive list? Follies ran over 600 perfomances. Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods were both flops according to this criterion
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 10:03:57 GMT
Is this meant to be a comprehensive list? Follies ran over 600 perfomances. Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods were both flops according to this criterion :Confused: Follies isn’t on the list, it’s from the seventies and was a successful Broadway show before coming to London in the eighties (also successfully). The other two would need a separate list of Broadway/Off Broadway shows that flopped in London, neither Sweeney or ITW ran for longer than six months. What surprises me about the eighties is how Mutiny managed to run over a year and Time nearly two years! |
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Post by profquatermass on Aug 14, 2018 10:26:26 GMT
Ah, I see, it's only shows that originated in London? Or is it? Blood Brothers was certainly performed outside London first and I guess Les Mis started life in France. I was confused by your mention of Broadway shows as I thought you meant transfers I guess you've seen this thread (it may have been your source.Or you may have devised it ) www.broadwayworld.com/westend/board/readmessage.php?thread=1035652&boardid=3 |
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Post by karloscar on Aug 14, 2018 10:31:25 GMT
Blood Brothers original run seems to have been mismanaged. Barbara Dickson was its main attraction, but surely a headline star could have been found to replace her once she wanted to leave. She herself says she wasn't really suited to an eight shows a week long run. And the show itself got far better reviews than Les Miserables did at the time. It seems odd that they didn't manage to market it well at all. (It played to packed houses on tour for ages with Rebecca Storm, before the Kiki Dee tour brought it back to the West End.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 11:06:52 GMT
Sadly I never saw it, but "Dear Anyone" has a lovely mellow score. I remember getting the LP concept album in HMV for 50p the December after it closed. I think someone even charted with "Orange County" from the show. Even more successful was the song I’ll Put You Together Again, sung by Hot Chocolate. Like Mistletoe and Wine a song that people don’t realise is from a musical (that’s from a show called Scraps. Based on The Little Matchgirl, there’s a TV version of that with Roger Daltrey). The album came before the show and Jack Rosenthal wrote the book around it, somewhat similar to his TV comedy show with Maureen Lipman ‘Agony’. Both of them were about advice columns in newspapers/magazines or ‘agony aunts’ as they were called (do they still exist in the days of the internet?) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 11:15:07 GMT
Ah, I see, it's only shows that originated in London? Or is it? Blood Brothers was certainly performed outside London first and I guess Les Mis started life in France. I was confused by your mention of Broadway shows as I thought you meant transfers I guess you've seen this thread (it may have been your source.Or you may have devised it ) www.broadwayworld.com/westend/board/readmessage.php?thread=1035652&boardid=3As a cast album collector anorak I have more books, recordings, scripts etc. than is probably good for anyone. In trying to make sure they are all catalogued, lists like this are an inevitability! There are a number books that are invaluable for this but Adrian Wright’s wonderful Must Close Saturday has drawn a lot of them together. Kurt Ganzl’s two volume set on West End musicals is amazing but stops in the mid eighties, an excellent website that gathers together a lot of material year by year is overthefootlights.co.uk |
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Post by gra on Aug 14, 2018 14:43:36 GMT
Marguerite? I liked the storyline and the drama of it all, but couldn't connect with the music that much. It was a bit forgettable and hard to care about anyone, despite the stellar leading cast (La Henshall, Alexander Hanson and Julian Ovenden) ....and Annalene Beechie! |
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Post by sf on Aug 14, 2018 14:50:22 GMT
...which is coming to the Bishopsgate Institute for three performances in November, courtesy of the (wonderful) London Musical Theatre Orchestra: Girlfriends - LMTO
I saw the first production at the Oldham Coliseum in 1986, which starred Maria Friedman, Jenna Russell, Elizabeth Morton, Gareth Snook, Andrew C. Wadsworth, and Clare Burt.
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Post by dazzerlump on Aug 14, 2018 15:11:40 GMT
Peggy Sue got married was a bit of a flop wasn't it. As a star vehicle for Ruthie it showed off what she could do and I actually quote enjoyed it
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 21:52:47 GMT
So here's one with American shows playing here, 1980 to the present day. West End Flops first, then Limited Runs, then Shows running over 250 performances. A number are approximate as theatres tend not to publicise the official performance count.
US SHOWS
1980
On the Twentieth Century 165
Sweeney Todd 157
1981
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 204
I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road 62
Billy Bishop Goes to War c. 45 (actually a Canadian show)
1985
Gigi 240
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 41 (a return the next year after a tour ran 196 performances)
1987
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 68
March of the Falsettos 29
1988
The Baker’s Wife 56
The Rink 38
Nite Club Confidential 29
1990
Into the Woods 167
1991
70, Girls, 70 112
1992
Grand Hotel 136
Some Like it Hot (Sugar retitled) 108
1994
Once on this Island 145
1996
Passion 215
1997
Romance Romance 54
1999
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 69
2000
Pageant 71
Hedwig & the Angry Inch 55
Personals 52
2001
The Secret Garden 111
2002
Contact 221
My One & Only 183
2003
Ragtime 101
2004
Batboy 181
2005
High Society 120
2006
Movin’ Out 56
2007
The Drowsy Chaperone 69
2009
Spring Awakening 82 (plus around 45 at the Lyric, Hammersmith)
2014
Urinetown c. 115 (plus around 60 at the St James)
US SHOWS LIMITED RUNS
1982
Destry Rides Again 40
1984
The Wiz c. 45
1985
Peter Pan – the Musical c. 65
1987
What About Luv 29
Pacific Overtures (in ENO rep)
1989
Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down 45
1990
Sunday in the Park With George 186
1992
Assassins 84
1996
Nine c. 100
2000
Merrily We Roll Along c. 100
2004
The Black Rider c. 35
2005
Tick Tick...Boom c. 100
2006
The Last Five Years 18
2007
Caroline, or Change (in NT rep)
Parade c. 70
Take Flight c. 65
2010
The Human Comedy c.8
2011
Spelling Bee c. 45
2011
Road Show c. 85
2012
American Idiot c. 15
2013
The Color Purple c. 80
2014
Here Lies Love c. 110
Dessa Rose c. 35
2015
The Scottsboro Boys c. 155 (plus around 60 at the Young Vic)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown c. 130
Elf c. 75
2017
Bubbly Black Girl Shed her Chameleon Skin c. 35
2018
Fun Home c. 85
US SHOWS OVER 250 PERFORMANCES
1980s
42nd Street 1823
Singin in the Rain 894 (returned for another 164 after a tour)
Little Shop of Horrors 813
They’re Playing Our Song 667
Barnum 655 (a return run a few years later also ran over a year)
Follies 645
Snoopy – the Musical 479
Pump Boys & Dinettes 397
Blues in the Night 397 (Revue)
Nunsense 342
La Cage aux Folles 301
1990s
The Lion King c. 7600 (still running)
The Jersey Boys c. 3700 (Biomusical)
Crazy For You 1240
Smokey Joe’s Cafe 813 (Revue)
Carmen Jones 730
Rent 614
Fame 526
Tommy 391
Kiss of the Spiderwoman 390
Mack & Mabel 270
City of Angels 255
2000s
Wicked c. 4700 (still running)
Avenue Q 1725
Let It Be c. 1065 (at three different theatres)
Hairspray 1005
Spamalot 928
Rock of Ages c. 920
The Producers 920
Fosse 383 (Revue)
Footloose 372 (239 then returned after tour for an extra 123 performances)
The Full Monty 295
Thoroughly Modern Millie 287
2010s
The Book of Mormon c. 2300 (still running)
Kinky Boots c. 1275 (still running)
Motown: the Musical c. 1070 (Biomusical)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical c. 1040 (Biomusical)
Legally Blonde 974
Aladdin c. 950 (still running)
Once c. 830
Dreamgirls c. 750 (still running)
Shrek the Musical 715
In the Heights c. 450
Memphis c. 435
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels c. 395
Young Frankenstein c. 370
An American in Paris c. 335
Million Dollar Quartet c. 285 (Biomusical)
Hamilton c. 285 (still running)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 21:59:48 GMT
Nearly there....
Shows generally considered as revues or biomusicals (in this case playing people who sing songs as a profession).
I'll just go back and tidy up any omissions/anomalies after this.
Seeing as I've given the performance count on this one, I may also go back once the thread has wound down and just add those in, just in case anyone googling is looking for such a resource.
Where does Off West End stop and fringe begin? I've tended to include the Menier, Donmar and not Southwark Playhouse, St James/Other Palace, for example, but others may put the line somewhere different.
ALL REVUES, BIOMUSICALS UNDER 250 PERFORMANCES
1980
One Mo Time c. 420
Only in America 20
1982
Yakety Yak c. 100 (very minimal book)
Boogie, Woogie, Bubble & Squeak (very short run)
1983
Jukebox 172
Dancin’ 88
1985
Look to the Rainbow c. 30
Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood c. 50
1986
Judy 46
1987
Lady Day 100
1988
Re: Joyce 173
Sugar Babies 127
Stop in the Name of Love 104
1989
Noel & Gertie 220
Forbidden Broadway 85
1991
A Swell Party 204
Sophisticated Ladies 24
1992
The Cotton Club 173 (very minimal book)
Spread a Little Happiness 24
1993
Forever Plaid 127
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens 32
1994
Hot Shoe Shuffle 175 (very minimal book)
1995
Mama I Want to Sing 187
1996
Ferry Cross the Mersey 32
Disgracefully Yours 21
1999
Soul Train – the Musical 95
Great Balls of Fire 85
Four Steps to Heaven 72
2001
All You Need is Love 111
2003
Cliff – the Musical 69
2005
The Genius of Ray Charles c. 60
Some Girls are Bigger than Others c. 20
2010
The End of the Rainbow c. 210
Fela (in NT rep) (Limited Run)
2011
Shoes c. 55
2012
Soul Sister c. 40 (Limited Run)
2015
Close to You (What’s It All About?) c. 150 (plus around 70 performances at the Menier)
2018
Spamilton c. 70 (Limited Run)
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Post by distantcousin on Aug 14, 2018 22:02:04 GMT
thanks for all your work Cardinal Pirelli - this has really fired up my memory banks of things I've seen or never got round to seeing due to their short stays!
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Post by Oleanna on Aug 15, 2018 0:08:36 GMT
So here's one with American shows playing here, 1980 to the present day. West End Flops first, then Limited Runs, then Shows running over 250 performances. A number are approximate as theatres tend not to publicise the official performance count. US SHOWS 1980 On the Twentieth Century 165 Sweeney Todd 157 1981 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 204 I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road 62 Billy Bishop Goes to War c. 45 (actually a Canadian show) 1985 Gigi 240 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 41 (a return the next year after a tour ran 196 performances) 1987 The Mystery of Edwin Drood 68 March of the Falsettos 29 1988 The Baker’s Wife 56 The Rink 38 Nite Club Confidential 29 1990 Into the Woods 167 1991 70, Girls, 70 112 1992 Grand Hotel 136 Some Like it Hot (Sugar retitled) 108 1994 Once on this Island 145 1996 Passion 215 1997 Romance Romance 54 1999 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 69 2000 Pageant 71 Hedwig & the Angry Inch 55 Personals 52 2001 The Secret Garden 111 2002 Contact 221 My One & Only 183 2003 Ragtime 101 2004 Batboy 181 2005 High Society 120 2006 Movin’ Out 56 2007 The Drowsy Chaperone 69 2009 Spring Awakening 82 (plus around 45 at the Lyric, Hammersmith) 2014 Urinetown c. 115 (plus around 60 at the St James) US SHOWS LIMITED RUNS 1982 Destry Rides Again 40 1984 The Wiz c. 45 1985 Peter Pan – the Musical c. 65 1987 What About Luv 29 Pacific Overtures (in ENO rep) 1989 Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down 45 1990 Sunday in the Park With George 186 1992 Assassins 84 1996 Nine c. 100 2000 Merrily We Roll Along c. 100 2004 The Black Rider c. 35 2005 Tick Tick...Boom c. 100 2006 The Last Five Years 18 2007 Caroline, or Change (in NT rep) Parade c. 70 Take Flight c. 65 2010 The Human Comedy c.8 2011 Spelling Bee c. 45 2011 Road Show c. 85 2012 American Idiot c. 15 2013 The Color Purple c. 80 2014 Here Lies Love c. 110 Dessa Rose c. 35 2015 The Scottsboro Boys c. 155 (plus around 60 at the Young Vic) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown c. 130 Elf c. 75 2017 Bubbly Black Girl Shed her Chameleon Skin c. 35 2018 Fun Home c. 85 US SHOWS OVER 250 PERFORMANCES 1980s 42nd Street 1823 Singin in the Rain 894 (returned for another 164 after a tour) Little Shop of Horrors 813 They’re Playing Our Song 667 Barnum 655 (a return run a few years later also ran over a year) Follies 645 Snoopy – the Musical 479 Pump Boys & Dinettes 397 Blues in the Night 397 (Revue) Nunsense 342 La Cage aux Folles 301 1990s The Lion King c. 7600 (still running) The Jersey Boys c. 3700 (Biomusical) Crazy For You 1240 Smokey Joe’s Cafe 813 (Revue) Carmen Jones 730 Rent 614 Fame 526 Tommy 391 Kiss of the Spiderwoman 390 Mack & Mabel 270 City of Angels 255 2000s Wicked c. 4700 (still running) Avenue Q 1725 Let It Be c. 1065 (at three different theatres) Hairspray 1005 Spamalot 928 Rock of Ages c. 920 The Producers 920 Fosse 383 (Revue) Footloose 372 (239 then returned after tour for an extra 123 performances) The Full Monty 295 Thoroughly Modern Millie 287 2010s The Book of Mormon c. 2300 (still running) Kinky Boots c. 1275 (still running) Motown: the Musical c. 1070 (Biomusical) Beautiful: The Carole King Musical c. 1040 (Biomusical) Legally Blonde 974 Aladdin c. 950 (still running) Once c. 830 Dreamgirls c. 750 (still running) Shrek the Musical 715 In the Heights c. 450 Memphis c. 435 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels c. 395 Young Frankenstein c. 370 An American in Paris c. 335 Million Dollar Quartet c. 285 (Biomusical) Hamilton c. 285 (still running) Great list! Seems worth mentioning that Jersey Boys was ‘00’s, not ‘90’s, and that High Society initially ran at Regent’s Park before transferring to the Shaftesbury (believe there was a short tour in between). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 0:36:28 GMT
Yes, Jersey Boys got stuck in the wrong decade there.
The previous West End ‘High Society’ had a book by National Theatre head, Richard Eyre, it ran longer than the Broadway version but I preferred the latter.
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Post by waybeyondblue on Aug 15, 2018 12:13:19 GMT
So here's one with American shows playing here, 1980 to the present day. West End Flops first, then Limited Runs, then Shows running over 250 performances. A number are approximate as theatres tend not to publicise the official performance count. US SHOWS 1980 On the Twentieth Century 165 Sweeney Todd 157 1981 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 204 I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road 62 Billy Bishop Goes to War c. 45 (actually a Canadian show) 1985 Gigi 240 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 41 (a return the next year after a tour ran 196 performances) 1987 The Mystery of Edwin Drood 68 March of the Falsettos 29 1988 The Baker’s Wife 56 The Rink 38 Nite Club Confidential 29 1990 Into the Woods 167 1991 70, Girls, 70 112 1992 Grand Hotel 136 Some Like it Hot (Sugar retitled) 108 1994 Once on this Island 145 1996 Passion 215 1997 Romance Romance 54 1999 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 69 2000 Pageant 71 Hedwig & the Angry Inch 55 Personals 52 2001 The Secret Garden 111 2002 Contact 221 My One & Only 183 2003 Ragtime 101 2004 Batboy 181 2005 High Society 120 2006 Movin’ Out 56 2007 The Drowsy Chaperone 69 2009 Spring Awakening 82 (plus around 45 at the Lyric, Hammersmith) 2014 Urinetown c. 115 (plus around 60 at the St James) US SHOWS LIMITED RUNS 1982 Destry Rides Again 40 1984 The Wiz c. 45 1985 Peter Pan – the Musical c. 65 1987 What About Luv 29 Pacific Overtures (in ENO rep) 1989 Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down 45 1990 Sunday in the Park With George 186 1992 Assassins 84 1996 Nine c. 100 2000 Merrily We Roll Along c. 100 2004 The Black Rider c. 35 2005 Tick Tick...Boom c. 100 2006 The Last Five Years 18 2007 Caroline, or Change (in NT rep) Parade c. 70 Take Flight c. 65 2010 The Human Comedy c.8 2011 Spelling Bee c. 45 2011 Road Show c. 85 2012 American Idiot c. 15 2013 The Color Purple c. 80 2014 Here Lies Love c. 110 Dessa Rose c. 35 2015 The Scottsboro Boys c. 155 (plus around 60 at the Young Vic) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown c. 130 Elf c. 75 2017 Bubbly Black Girl Shed her Chameleon Skin c. 35 2018 Fun Home c. 85 US SHOWS OVER 250 PERFORMANCES 1980s 42nd Street 1823 Singin in the Rain 894 (returned for another 164 after a tour) Little Shop of Horrors 813 They’re Playing Our Song 667 Barnum 655 (a return run a few years later also ran over a year) Follies 645 Snoopy – the Musical 479 Pump Boys & Dinettes 397 Blues in the Night 397 (Revue) Nunsense 342 La Cage aux Folles 301 1990s The Lion King c. 7600 (still running) The Jersey Boys c. 3700 (Biomusical) Crazy For You 1240 Smokey Joe’s Cafe 813 (Revue) Carmen Jones 730 Rent 614 Fame 526 Tommy 391 Kiss of the Spiderwoman 390 Mack & Mabel 270 City of Angels 255 2000s Wicked c. 4700 (still running) Avenue Q 1725 Let It Be c. 1065 (at three different theatres) Hairspray 1005 Spamalot 928 Rock of Ages c. 920 The Producers 920 Fosse 383 (Revue) Footloose 372 (239 then returned after tour for an extra 123 performances) The Full Monty 295 Thoroughly Modern Millie 287 2010s The Book of Mormon c. 2300 (still running) Kinky Boots c. 1275 (still running) Motown: the Musical c. 1070 (Biomusical) Beautiful: The Carole King Musical c. 1040 (Biomusical) Legally Blonde 974 Aladdin c. 950 (still running) Once c. 830 Dreamgirls c. 750 (still running) Shrek the Musical 715 In the Heights c. 450 Memphis c. 435 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels c. 395 Young Frankenstein c. 370 An American in Paris c. 335 Million Dollar Quartet c. 285 (Biomusical) Hamilton c. 285 (still running) Great list! Seems worth mentioning that Jersey Boys was ‘00’s, not ‘90’s, and that High Society initially ran at Regent’s Park before transferring to the Shaftesbury (believe there was a short tour in between). Now attempting the record length inconsiderate quote post - did I win? |
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Post by Oleanna on Aug 15, 2018 15:02:23 GMT
Great list! Seems worth mentioning that Jersey Boys was ‘00’s, not ‘90’s, and that High Society initially ran at Regent’s Park before transferring to the Shaftesbury (believe there was a short tour in between). Now attempting the record length inconsiderate quote post - did I win? Is there a competition? |
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Post by waybeyondblue on Aug 15, 2018 15:10:51 GMT
Now attempting the record length inconsiderate quote post - did I win? Is there a competition? Looking at you darling...no. |
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Post by Oleanna on Aug 15, 2018 15:20:01 GMT
Looking at you darling...no. I’m sorry...what are you talking about? |
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Post by Oleanna on Aug 15, 2018 15:20:39 GMT
Yes, Jersey Boys got stuck in the wrong decade there. The previous West End ‘High Society’ had a book by National Theatre head, Richard Eyre, it ran longer than the Broadway version but I preferred the latter. Yes that’s right, thanks for reminding me! |
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Post by barrowside on Aug 16, 2018 9:34:27 GMT
Didn't La Cage Aux Folles flop at the Palladium in the early eighties? I see it had 301 performances but I don't think it recouped.
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