The Band/Greatest Days - Tour/Theatre Royal Haymarket/Tour

Who the hell is going to see a musical about 16 yr old girls? Other than it being about 16 yr old boys I can't think of anything more boring. I'm assuming they r trying to go for the teenage audience but forgot GB/TT are/is so crushingly uncool.

I bet my left bollock it doesn't go into west end and quietly dies a death

Superfan of the tv series, oxfordsimon, must be distraught that his closest venue is Northampton.

And so the nay sayers come out in force, the same people who condemn virtually everything before it even hits the rehearsal room. There's a lot to hate about Gary Barlow isn't there, keeping all those theatre folk in work worldwide. I can see your point there. But of course the folks on here who resent that do so because they are not directly affected by that core point because they don't work in the industry. They are theatre wannabes who resent any success at all.

The Band doubtlessly will not be high art but it will be very successful because ladies book the tickets and they are standing by right now with their debit cards. They have all,watched the Tv series, as have all the nay sayers on here, and can't wait to see this. It will recoup on tour easily and the producers will bring it into the west end not caring if they make a bean because by then they won't need to. Simples.

Stop kicking Barlow you saddos, he is putting a lot of people in work in an industry you are meant to give a fig about.

Oh dear.

Junkyard (Headlong / Bristol Old Vic / Theatr Clwyd / Rose Theatre Kingston) (completely new / should be good)

I Capture the Castle (Watford Palace / Bolton Octagon / Oxford Playhouse) (completely new / more traditional)

Sinners Club (The Other Room / Theatr Clwyd / Gagglebabble) (completely new / excellent)

Tiger Bay (Wales Millennium Centre / Cape Town Opera) (completely new / sounds promising)

Everything at The Other Palace (mix of new and done!)

And there must be other new musical theatre

There is and has been an underlying air of snobbery about Mr Barlows work on here and previous boards since 'Finding Neverland' was first announced. It wouldn't take a lot of research to prove this. I have little interest in sitting through a full show but there are certainly several lovely tunes in both, and you cannot doubt his abilities as a songwriter. 'The Flood', 'Patience' and 'Rule The World' are all wonderful songs and to knock him for it (which I'm sure I have done in the past) is churlish. I don't think 'national treasure' is too strong a phrase....

I have nothing against The Girls. And neither do I have problem with Finding Neverland. Neither are shows I'm dying to see, but at least they offer something. The Band is one of the many junky jukebox musicals that manage to find their way in the UK and the West End. There's great appetite for these kind of junk especially in the UK. I don't see it that prevalent in other commercial theatre hubs.

I was actually browsing a website of musicals in Korea, and was so impressed by the variety and the volume of work that's running there.

I agree there has regarding Barlow. In fact the poster i responded to accused me of it over on The Girls thread. For the record though I like Finding Neverland as much as I dislike The Girls so certainly not an anti Barlow snob. He is a great songwriter without a doubt and I have nothing against him at all.

Back on topic though I would like to see this at some stage. Im not willing to travel to see it unless it reaches London though

I've heard this will make an appearance at Oxford

Why aren't people allowed to dislike Gary Barlow and/or his musical theatre work again?

I mean people on this board openly say they can't stand Sondheim's work who - inarguably - has done far more to advance the art form of musical theatre than Gary Barlow has ever done or will ever do.

Couldnt have put it better myself. Its a place for opinions. We all love theatre, actively say when we like something, should be welcome to say when we dont too.
Its not about wanting people to be out of work or for shows to fail.

You are of course allowed to dislike the work of GB or anybody for that matter, it would just be polite and rational if people disliked it after they had seen it not before it has even got to the workshop stage. Go back to The Girls thread and you will see that there are posts from people, and we all know who they are, who wrote it off as a terrible idea before it had been seen by anybody. As it turns out it is anything but a bad idea, the reviews continued on Sunday to be a producers dream, and it is finding an audience as of course it would. True not everybody loves Sondheim but we do usually give home rhe courtesy of presenting his new work to us before we slag it off and condemn it.

Yes mr Barlow has just enjoyed weeks of free publicity on the BBC but he is only enjoying a perk that two of our greatest theatrical producers have benefited from recently. Why would you not take this if offered by the nations broadcaster? Anybody would.

There are people, saddos, on here who use their negative default position as soon as a production is announced. Some of this comes from the dispiriting attitude that people adopt who intrinsically are Members of a self formed gang or clique. They fear any perceived outsider coming into the group from whatever angle, performer, writer, producer or new poster even. They will crush all innovation unless it comes from the gangs subconscious criteria of acceptability and peer group conformity, they hide in the shadows and assassinate from behind their barricade of anonymity. The theatre board equivalent of the road side bomb.