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Post by TallPaul on Jun 22, 2020 17:44:57 GMT
ALW has posted another 30 second music excerpt on his Facebook page, and on Twitter too.
Lockdown must be so much easier if you're a multi-millionaire with a large retinue. 🙂 Just think how much bigger his country estate could have been if he hadn't signed away a 75% interest in TPOTP! 😉
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 14:35:03 GMT
Postponed until next year - previews from 21 March 2021, opening night 7 April.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 17:04:43 GMT
Postponed until next year - previews from 21 March 2021, opening night 7 April. Not unexpected really and makes sense - if usual flu season ends in March, previews are basically starting as soon as realistically possible. I hope ALW has never had such a delayed opening before, so I hope he/they take the time to really keep working on the show and make it as perfect as it can be - it could really work in the shows favour and who knows, maybe even give him that elusive hit that started life this side of the Atlantic. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jul 8, 2020 21:57:20 GMT
Postponed until next year - previews from 21 March 2021, opening night 7 April. Not unexpected really and makes sense - if usual flu season ends in March, previews are basically starting as soon as realistically possible. I hope ALW has never had such a delayed opening before, so I hope he/they take the time to really keep working on the show and make it as perfect as it can be - it could really work in the shows favour and who knows, maybe even give him that elusive hit that started life this side of the Atlantic. More time to work on something isn’t necessarily a good thing. It’s easily done to keep messing with something good and make it worse. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 8:01:10 GMT
Not unexpected really and makes sense - if usual flu season ends in March, previews are basically starting as soon as realistically possible. I hope ALW has never had such a delayed opening before, so I hope he/they take the time to really keep working on the show and make it as perfect as it can be - it could really work in the shows favour and who knows, maybe even give him that elusive hit that started life this side of the Atlantic. More time to work on something isn’t necessarily a good thing. It’s easily done to keep messing with something good and make it worse. A lot of his later musicals could have done with a lot more time to be developed before being unleashed on the public. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 12:23:49 GMT
maybe even give him that elusive hit that started life this side of the Atlantic. Like JCS, Evita or Cats? I presume you mean more recently. I hope he can get it seen by an audience of some kind before next year. You can only really judge a show properly when you get a proper reaction from an audience and 2.5 weeks of previews isnt much for a new show, especially given ALW's temprement during that period! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 12:29:07 GMT
Hasn't everything ALW has ever written other than JCS and School of Rock premiered this side of the Atlantic?!
Anyway - no great surprise I guess. I had a preview ticket which hopefully will be transferred over to a date I can make :-)
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Post by steve10086 on Jul 9, 2020 12:38:13 GMT
Hasn't everything ALW has ever written other than JCS and School of Rock premiered this side of the Atlantic?! Anyway - no great surprise I guess. I had a preview ticket which hopefully will be transferred over to a date I can make :-) Whistle Down The Wind opened in Washington DC two years before a revised version opened in London. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 12:39:06 GMT
Hasn't everything ALW has ever written other than JCS and School of Rock premiered this side of the Atlantic?! Anyway - no great surprise I guess. I had a preview ticket which hopefully will be transferred over to a date I can make :-) Whistle Down The Wind opened in Washington DC two years before a revised version opened in London. Oh yeah, that's true - forget about that production! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 13:01:38 GMT
maybe even give him that elusive hit that started life this side of the Atlantic. Like JCS, Evita or Cats? I presume you mean more recently. I hope he can get it seen by an audience of some kind before next year. You can only really judge a show properly when you get a proper reaction from an audience and 2.5 weeks of previews isnt much for a new show, especially given ALW's temprement during that period! I probably didn’t explain it right - ALW made comments a few years ago that he was aware he hadn’t had a hit in London for a very long time. This isn’t the right quote, but he says as much in 2015: I’m fairly sure he did an interview saying School of Rock going to Broadway first was a way of giving it a better chance of becoming a hit, because all of his shows that had ‘recently’ opened in London had flopped... because it’s harder to open a musical in London than it is on Broadway (and make it a hit). Which of course is reasonably true - it’s not impossible nor the rule, but the majority of musicals on the west end seem to be imports that have enjoyed Broadway success. SOR was of course a hit - and started life outside the UK. Coincidence? Maybe, but let’s see what happens with Cinderella. |
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Post by musicalmarge on Jul 9, 2020 15:21:16 GMT
ALW hasn’t had a hit in years because the shows were all dreadful or had the wrong set (LND and WIW).
The pink and dark gray design for Cinderella is dreadful and the new photos I saw today look amateur.
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Post by westended on Jul 9, 2020 17:14:44 GMT
ALW hasn’t had a hit in years because the shows were all dreadful or had the wrong set (LND and WIW). The pink and dark gray design for Cinderella is dreadful and the new photos I saw today look amateur. Where did you see these new photos ? |
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Post by danb on Jul 9, 2020 18:51:08 GMT
If only the revised LND had opened in London. Much more coherent & tuneful and borderline enjoyable.
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Post by 42ndBlvd on Jul 9, 2020 21:58:10 GMT
If only the revised LND had opened in London. Much more coherent & tuneful and borderline enjoyable. If Cinderella flops like Love Never Dies... |
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Post by 42ndBlvd on Jul 9, 2020 21:59:29 GMT
ALW hasn’t had a hit in years because the shows were all dreadful or had the wrong set (LND and WIW). The pink and dark gray design for Cinderella is dreadful and the new photos I saw today look amateur. Where did you see these new photos ? I think they're talking about the advertisement photos that were released.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2020 22:13:53 GMT
I quite like it! Though preferred the blue and pink....
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 10, 2020 7:47:43 GMT
Where did you see these new photos ? I think they're talking about the advertisement photos that were released. I look at rhe pic and think Big Bum! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 8:32:43 GMT
Where did you see these new photos ? I think they're talking about the advertisement photos that were released. That's horrendous! The pink makes me think of &Juliet, not Cinderella! |
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Post by musicalmarge on Jul 13, 2020 23:28:11 GMT
Worst colours for a musical poster award goes to.........
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 14, 2020 20:17:37 GMT
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Post by stuartmcd on Jul 14, 2020 20:57:05 GMT
When they announced the show was delayed it mentions that they still have casting to do so I’m guessing it won’t be a full cast recording of the show. It might be a few songs to market the show and generate some interest. Whatever it is I’m looking forward to some new musical theatre content! |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 14, 2020 20:58:32 GMT
He has recorded cast albums with a different cast to the one that reached the stage.
Or it might be sold as a concept album - like in the good ol' days
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Post by danb on Jul 14, 2020 21:10:13 GMT
Smoke & Mirrors & time travel I reckon...that lovely song that they were listening to through a window was clearly backed by a full orchestra. Hopefully we will be getting that (plus more hopefully).
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Post by westended on Jul 15, 2020 9:46:28 GMT
Smoke & Mirrors & time travel I reckon...that lovely song that they were listening to through a window was clearly backed by a full orchestra. Hopefully we will be getting that (plus more hopefully). Nope! The scores of music on the stands clearly have 13th-14th July 2020 on them! |
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