42nd Street at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Meh. Boring. But I haven't seen it and don't know much about it, so as long as they day-seat, I might check it out just for my own Broadway-classics education.
I saw a clip of the Tony Awards performance (in 2001) and it basically said nothing but that there's a lot of tapping. Which I found boring.

In Wimbledon, it certainly isn't that expensive. I saw Annie and Hairspray last year and both tickets were about £49.50 and they were for top price seats in the stalls. Sister Act isn't that expensive either but we don't get shows like Wicked, Mary Poppins etc.

I don't think weeing in a bottle is THAT secret

You can't compare tours to West End shows as the running costs are likely lower. I get that ticket prices are expensive especially on the top end but its commercial theatre and these productions aren't cheap to run so ticket prices are set to try and at least recoup if not make a profit

I kid you not. £68.40 plus £4 booking fee. ATG card members get a fiver off... Big deal. That's premium seats but not the ones with a glass of warm plonk and a bag of twiglets, it's just for the seat itself. 

I was more shocked at Dirty Dancing to be honest. 

Anyhow, to George's point it is no longer £50 max for a top price seat in the regions. 

well I am really looking forward to this as love classic musicals and dancing a, esspecilay tap. I think this will be a wonderful show that will just put a smile on your faces and a show like this is what the west end needs.

Also do not want to be controversial but there is nothing's like classic songs. Modern musicals songs will never be as good as classics 40-60s songs with witty rhymes and great music.
Don't get me wrong some newer musicals have excellent scores  but nothing compares to the originals.

for all it's razzamatazz, is this likely to set the West End on fire......I read that they thought the original Broadway production was too black and white, and this will be technicolor. Crikey, I thought that production was gaudy, with a lot of pink backstage brickwork as I remember. I guess this could be exciting if a director took it on and gave it some real angle and depth, but I suspect this will be out and out showbiz judging from the last revival, of which this seems to be born.

I was originally looking forward to this — 42nd Street was the first West End musical I saw, and at Drury Lane too — but the rumours of star casting have put me off. The whole point of the story is that an unknown can carry the show and do better than a celebrity. An attitude of "what we really need to do is cram this full of famous names" does little to convince me that the show is in good hands.

Who was smoking what when they decided to OK this? 42nd at the Drury... disaster. I'm not a fan of dance anyway, but the times I've really enjoyed it have always been in 1000- capacity theatres - theatres where you can see the feet so to speak...

Who's casting?

Is it gonna be possible to see this from the gods? Or should I hope out for comps?

who?