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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2018 21:48:54 GMT
To add, bar long runners that have announced their closing dates, this time next year we will have waved goodbye to 42nd Street, Motown, Strictly Ballroom, Bat Out of Hell and we will have, by the end of 2019, closings announced for Thriller, Aladdin and (go with me on this one), Mamma Mia!
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Post by Jon on Jul 6, 2018 21:59:45 GMT
To add, bar long runners that have announced their closing dates, this time next year we will have waved goodbye to 42nd Street, Motown, Strictly Ballroom, Bat Out of Hell and we will have, by the end of 2019, closings announced for Thriller, Aladdin and (go with me on this one), Mamma Mia! I can't see Mamma Mia! closing anytime soon, think Thriller is likely though. I think The Comedy About a Bank Robbery will close next year as well. |
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Post by iamamazing on Jul 6, 2018 22:49:10 GMT
My predictions are . Mean Girls - (March/ August 2019) Savoy for Adelphi or Safsbury . The bands visit - (April 2020) (Prince of Wales theatre/ Piccadilly) book of mormon is touring next year if the rumours are true or London could run alongside the tour . Anastasia - Adelphi or Savoy (October. 2019) . Waitress - Piccadilly (Oct/ Nov 2019). . Dear Evan Hansen - Adelphi (March 2019) announcement will need to be made soon . Frozen - Drury Lane (May 2020/ June 2020 opening night) . Spongebob - Prince Edward/ Domion (march/April 2020) limited run though . Hello Dolly - Palladium (March 2019 till August 2019) . 2019 Panto Palladium . My fair Lady (March 2020 till August 2020) Tours . Book of mormon 2019 to 2020 . Wicked (3rd tour From Jan 2022) . Lion King (2nd tour from September 2020) . Billy Elliot ( 2nd tour from 2021) . Hamilton (from 2025) . Kinky Boots (2nd tour from Feb 2023) . Aladdin (December 2019 or 2020 two year tour) . Heathers (April 2019 into 2020) Heather's will hardly tour will it? I think it will do to the amount of success it's had and if they wait till this time next year to tour it. Put direct from the west end on the posters and maybe Carrie will be available this time next year to reprise her role to sell tickets. |
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Post by iamamazing on Jul 6, 2018 22:52:10 GMT
To add, bar long runners that have announced their closing dates, this time next year we will have waved goodbye to 42nd Street, Motown, Strictly Ballroom, Bat Out of Hell and we will have, by the end of 2019, closings announced for Thriller, Aladdin and (go with me on this one), Mamma Mia! Agreed Mamma Mia has had it's day I think they should just continue the show with the tour. but with the new film I think the show will make it to it's 25th at least. |
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Post by l0islane on Jul 6, 2018 23:44:53 GMT
Anastasia will not come to the West End. Not so sure about that, I had to do a survey for a UK theatre research company the other day about which Anastasia poster was most appealing so presumably it's going somewhere over here. |
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Post by musicalmarge on Jul 7, 2018 7:31:22 GMT
Have you all seen these shows or just making wild guesses? Lol.... I know the producers of Anastasia and A they aren’t happy creatively with the show/set/Kleb character and B they have no plans to bring it over!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 7:31:37 GMT
. Dear Evan Hansen - Adelphi (March 2019) announcement will need to be made soon Is this an educated guess or plucked out thin air? March 2019 is far too early for DEH, 2020 maybe. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 8:09:41 GMT
I think Dear Evan Hansen will come over sooner than expected. I won't be surprised and I don't understand these people saying it won't succeed or it will struggle to find an audience yet Come From Away is coming over and is arguably less well known than Evan Hansen and most seem to think it will do well so I don't see much a difference. I agree though, I would imagine late 2019, early 2020.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 8:31:51 GMT
. Dear Evan Hansen - Adelphi (March 2019) announcement will need to be made soon Is this an educated guess or plucked out thin air? March 2019 is far too early for DEH, 2020 maybe. Its been running on Broadway since 2016, two and a half years is hardly too soon, considering Come From Away opened March 2017 and is coming here in February next year. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 8:58:04 GMT
Is this an educated guess or plucked out thin air? March 2019 is far too early for DEH, 2020 maybe. Its been running on Broadway since 2016, two and a half years is hardly too soon, considering Come From Away opened March 2017 and is coming here in February next year. I don't mean too soon as in 'needs to find its place and settle' before it opens in the UK. I mean as a guesstimate in terms of booking, planning, casting. Logistically etc. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 9:03:39 GMT
Have you all seen these shows or just making wild guesses? Lol.... I know the producers of Anastasia and A they aren’t happy creatively with the show/set/Kleb character and B they have no plans to bring it over! The whole point of the thread is guesses - no need to be rude about it! Not everyone is fortunate enough to have insider knowledge, so being so dismissive of everyone who doesn't is not going to go down well with quite a few people on here. |
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Post by stevej678 on Jul 7, 2018 9:45:50 GMT
I'm going for Exposure the Musical to return and take the Palladium by storm. I can't wait to hear the iconic song, where Michael Greco sings about his manhood, performed as the opening number at the 2020 Olivier awards.
Other than that, I've heard that Frozen is destined for the Arts Theatre which in terms of irony is up there with Stretch Out the Musical opening at Trafalgar Studios.
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Post by richey on Jul 7, 2018 9:46:06 GMT
No predictions for Muriel's Wedding?
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Post by ali973 on Jul 7, 2018 10:27:46 GMT
Have you all seen these shows or just making wild guesses? Lol.... I know the producers of Anastasia and A they aren’t happy creatively with the show/set/Kleb character and B they have no plans to bring it over! ...and yet they've decided to open it in on the road in the US, Germany and Spain? All in the same year? Despite it being nearly sold out every single performance on Broadway? Are paying advertising companies to test potential marketing campaigns and branding for a West End audience? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 10:38:30 GMT
Another filler I could see going to the Savoy for a limited run is Officer and a Gentleman.
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Post by Rory on Jul 7, 2018 11:12:36 GMT
I wonder where Fun Home will transfer to? My guess is Wyndhams or Gielgud or possibly the Piccadilly if Strictly Ballroom doesn't extend further.
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Post by Jon on Jul 7, 2018 11:16:19 GMT
I wonder where Fun Home will transfer to? My guess is Wyndhams or Gielgud or possibly the Piccadilly if Strictly Ballroom doesn't extend further. Piccadilly would be far too big for Fun Home, it needs a smaller space. |
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Post by Rory on Jul 7, 2018 11:22:42 GMT
Playwise, the Ruth Jones play The Nightingales has yet to announce a theatre. I could see Jenny Topper booking Wyndham's for that one. It's all gone quiet on The Messiah with Hugh Dennis and Lesley Garrett. No theatres now free over Christmas. Thought it might have gone to Wyndham's but Bill Bailey got the slot.
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Post by Rory on Jul 7, 2018 11:26:45 GMT
I remember seeing The Birthday Party at the Piccadilly and that wasn't a massive set.
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Post by ali973 on Jul 7, 2018 11:34:22 GMT
Perhaps Fun Home could take over the Savoy for a brief period while a longer running show is announced. I think it will take a while for Mean Girls to transfer to London. Given that Dreamgirls is closing next year and a US tour of Mean Girls didn't even begin yet, it will take them a while to transfer it over. Very few Broadway to West End transfers are ever fast tracked to this point, and I would imagine it wouldn't be until late 2019 if not 2020 until Mean Girls transfers to the Savoy, if the speculations are right to begin with.
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Post by Mark on Jul 7, 2018 11:41:13 GMT
No predictions for Muriel's Wedding? No but it HAS to come over - the album is fantastic. It’s return engagement in Sydney is next July and I believe this will be followed by a production in Toronto (which was delayed from this year). That makes me think it could come here for 2020/2021 and take a mid sized house |
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Post by Jon on Jul 7, 2018 11:48:44 GMT
Perhaps Fun Home could take over the Savoy for a brief period while a longer running show is announced. I think it will take a while for Mean Girls to transfer to London. Given that Dreamgirls is closing next year and a US tour of Mean Girls didn't even begin yet, it will take them a while to transfer it over. Very few Broadway to West End transfers are ever fast tracked to this point, and I would imagine it wouldn't be until late 2019 if not 2020 until Mean Girls transfers to the Savoy, if the speculations are right to begin with. I think Me and My Girl transferring from February/March to say September would be good then Mean Girls in late 2019, it’s not unusual for a show to transfer straight away, Spamalot opened 18 months after Broadway and both Once and Beautiful transferred fairly quickly. Fun Home I can’t imagine doing more than 12-16 weeks in the West End and I think it would be very exposed in a 1100-1200 seat theatre |
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Post by ali973 on Jul 7, 2018 11:53:47 GMT
I agree on your assessment on Fun Home, and Me & My Girl could be a good filler..but Mean Girls has no reason (and might struggle to finance for a transfer this quick). Unlike a Spamlot, Once or Beautiful, it left the Tony Awards with nothing, not even a Best Book..To that end, I'd think that funding a West End transfer might be a bit tricky, especially since Sonia Friedman isn't specifically paying for all of it herself, and especially since Heathers, the other Mean Girls is in town or at least is for a limited period. I just think that the buzz around its transfer might be a bit too eager and ambitious and I don't see it happening this soon.
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Post by Rukaya on Jul 7, 2018 12:15:04 GMT
I find it really interesting that so many people are obsessed with the idea of Mean Girls going into the Savoy, and so quickly. I honestly can't see it going into that theatre and certainly not soon, considering the lack of Tony's and the general timeline of shows coming over!
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Post by Rory on Jul 7, 2018 12:44:13 GMT
Sonia can move a show pretty quickly when she wants. All things considered she didn't hang around getting stuff like Harry Potter and the Ferryman to Broadway.
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