ALW's Cinderella - Gillian Lynne / U.K. Tour (rumour)

Could they put ‘South Pacific’ in here as a filler?

It's already doing a London run at Sadler's Wells in the summer so it's unlikely.

I meant after that, but it would leave it dark for too long. Have ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ or ‘Beetlejuice’ got homes yet?

What ever happened to the Mean Girls west end transfer? I always thought I could picture Mean Girls in the Gillian Lynne.

I think Nica Burns is involved so more likely to go to one of her theatres than a RUG.

ALW doesn't across well if he didn't even inform the leading lady!

Yeah it seems like she was going to be playing the Queen

So bit more info from her live. She found out she got the part 2 months ago. She was in for a wig fitting 3 days ago. And now has found out from social media that the show is closing.

She said that her agent did receive an email today before the social media posts but as it is a Sunday naturally her agent wasn’t working and therefore didn’t see the email.

I'll take the minority view here and feel badly for ALW. He was in a lot of ways a one-man PR team for the show during the height of the pandemic when there was nothing to watch or go to or anything new, he dropped songs, videos about the process and gave people something to look forward to when there wasn't much at all. Then he shouldered a lot of the financial burden - the likes of which we'll never fully know - with COVID protocols, stop/go open/close over and over (which also had to affect ticket sales... I haven't been back to Broadway myself because of so much unpredictability among a lot of other things) Add a seemingly non-stop whine fest from ungrateful cast members complaining all the time, it's not shocking that it didn't quite make a year.

As a score I've enjoyed listening to it. Having not seen it, I'll concede that doesn't always means it works on stage. Here's hoping that some distance and perhaps a new team, they'll be able to find more potential for this work.

As a huge Sondheim fan, PLEASE (in response to the South Pacific comment)

This is undoubtedly sad for the staff, cast and crew. But they cannot have been that surprised.

Heavy discounts over the Easter holidays were a clear sign of a show in trouble.

Cinderella as a story (even when improved by Ms Fennell) is one that is tied to the panto season for the majority of UK theatregoers.

I know Aladdin has a similar link but the Disney version was so far removed from the panto that it didn't feel festive.

Cinderella in any version will have to work really hard outside of the November to January window. It would have to be really special. And this just wasn't special.

I couldn't finish listening to the recording. The music wasn't good enough to make me stick with it through to the end of the half.

The book, as described on here, just sounded lame and not a substantial improvement on the original tale.

The costumes looked ok. The set just looked flat.

There was nothing to entice me to see it.

I don't think it is salvageable unless a new book is written and the score massively revised. I don't believe ALW will achieve that.

I rate Stephen Ward as a better piece than this. And that is almost beyond redemption.

Yet only last week Carrie was saying she was leaving earlier than her original end date:
Something doesn’t add up