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Post by Someone in a tree on Jan 31, 2019 11:57:04 GMT
Just had an e mail to say programme will be announced on 14th Feb. Something romantic then? |
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Post by learfan on Jan 31, 2019 12:50:00 GMT
Just had an e mail to say programme will be announced on 14th Feb. Snap |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 31, 2019 13:33:15 GMT
If they have chosen to do a show about a brand new state, it will need a stellar cast to stand any chance of a transfer.
It is a show that really doesn't sell without names these days - as the last tour showed
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 31, 2019 13:39:22 GMT
Well, Chichester did Oklahoma in 2009 - 10 years ago, although it does not seem as long as that. It just shows that the number of guaranteed box office shows are very few and far between! Although I would have thought that Chichester audiences would have supported something that hadn't been done - especially with a name or two!
Although interestingly the last London production was the NT production back in 1998 with Hugh Jackman and Maureen Lipman! SO perhaps they are looking to a West End transfer as it has not been seen in the capitol for 20 years!
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Post by alece10 on Jan 31, 2019 15:37:28 GMT
Gotta be Oklahoma! And on their current form, no-one outside of Chichester will see it! Where have all the tours/transfers gone? Could also mean Annie get your gun. Or 50 shades of grey the musical! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 17:01:08 GMT
Gotta be Oklahoma! And on their current form, no-one outside of Chichester will see it! Where have all the tours/transfers gone? Could also mean Annie get your gun. Or 50 shades of grey the musical! Lasso could also indicate Calamity Jane. |
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Post by alece10 on Jan 31, 2019 17:06:24 GMT
Could also mean Annie get your gun. Or 50 shades of grey the musical! Lasso could also indicate Calamity Jane. I did think of that but wasn't sure if it was just a film or if there was a stage version of it too. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 17:45:03 GMT
I'll be surprised and disappointed if it is Oklahoma again. 10 years really isn't that long for a theatre like Chichester.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 31, 2019 17:52:18 GMT
Annie Get Your Gun was done at the Crucible in 2016. No exclamation mark though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2019 18:12:48 GMT
Lasso could also indicate Calamity Jane. I did think of that but wasn't sure if it was just a film or if there was a stage version of it too. There is a stage version. It did very well on tour a few years ago with Jodie Prenger & Tom Lister.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jan 31, 2019 20:45:31 GMT
Surely this has to be something Evan's Hasn't directed before? Dear EVAN Hansen? |
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Post by Phantom of London on Jan 31, 2019 20:56:00 GMT
I think everyone in the UK should be banned from staging Oklahoma! until we've had Daniel Fish's production transfer from New York. Maybe that is the reason, why the rights aren’t available, if the New York production intends to come over. Also never really understood why Chichester is just a summer programme and why they don’t do a big Christmas musical as well? Also said on another thread they should do a Sondheim, as they haven’t done one since Sweeney Todd, completely forgetting they did the Olivier award winning Gypsy recently. They have never done a Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Chichester crowd would go for that, however a lot of Lloyd Webber is being done elsewhere. |
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Post by mrmushnik on Feb 1, 2019 8:35:49 GMT
Also never really understood why Chichester is just a summer programme and why they don’t do a big Christmas musical as well? Also said on another thread they should do a Sondheim Chichester has a thriving and very well supported youth theatre who stage an annual Christmas production. They have just done Sleeping Beauty which ran from 15-30 December. This has been going on for years and I think it would be a very brave/foolish Artistic Director who would move them to one side. Having said that, it’s such a hugely successful theatre where practically everything sells out and that audience is still around in the winter months. Daniel Evans is very shrewd and it may well be in his long term plan to introduce a big Christmas musical, but I can’t see it happening at the moment. The youth theatre at Chichester is no small affair, there are around 800 members and a waiting list, apparently! Re a Sondheim, I would absolutely love to see a reworked revival of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. The last big revival of this at the National was so disappointing. |
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Post by meister on Feb 2, 2019 10:24:06 GMT
It has a ! In the title... And vowels at either end! |
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Post by pianowithsam on Feb 2, 2019 21:06:26 GMT
When is it announced?
Honestly, if it's Something Rotten, I'll scream.
Edit: Just seen that it's 14th February it gets announced.
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Post by rosmersholm on Feb 2, 2019 23:19:28 GMT
It is OKLAHOMA!
And there will also be a new musical in the season...
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Post by pianowithsam on Feb 2, 2019 23:44:50 GMT
It is OKLAHOMA! And there will also be a new musical in the season... Is this confirmed? |
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Post by rosmersholm on Feb 3, 2019 1:35:22 GMT
It is OKLAHOMA! And there will also be a new musical in the season... Is this confirmed? Information is reliable, yes. |
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Post by showgirl on Feb 3, 2019 4:58:07 GMT
Oh shame. Still, one I don't need to book for and maybe I'll find the new musical more appealing.
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Post by alece10 on Feb 3, 2019 8:24:40 GMT
If it is Oklahoma can we start a Robert Fairchild campaign?
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Post by apubleed on Feb 3, 2019 9:10:31 GMT
Will the Oklahoma be from New York or are all Chichester productions typically in-house?
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Post by theatrenewbie on Feb 3, 2019 10:04:14 GMT
It is Oklahoma...period
And not the boujii American sit on a haystack and eat chilli version, do you reckon Doris from Bognor Regis wants to hear some acoustic version of lonely room? NO
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Post by apubleed on Feb 3, 2019 10:10:07 GMT
Haha. Would Dorris even know that “Lonely Room” exists given it wasn’t in the movie?
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Post by theatrenewbie on Feb 3, 2019 10:30:45 GMT
Haha. Would Dorris even know that “Lonely Room” exists given it wasn’t in the movie? touché 😜😂 glad someone gets my sense of humour on here |
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Post by wickedgrin on Feb 3, 2019 11:34:55 GMT
It will be an in house production.
I hope it will be better than their last production of the show. It was directed by John Doyle and it was his classic "stripped back" approach. They abandoned the classic opening of Aunt Eller alone on stage listening to Curly (off stage) beginning to sing "Oh what a beautiful morning" - (which broke the mould of musicals at the time which always started with a big chorus number) to the ensemble coming on and throwing apples all over the stage which then had to be subsequently picked up so no-one tripped on one! The dream ballet was a Freudian nightmare! It was decidedly lack lustre and did not transfer.
Michael Xavier played Curly. Craige Els played Judd and Natalie Casey played Ado Annie
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