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

But you're thinking about this purely from a fan point of view.

And to be honest, whilst people losing their jobs and finding out this way is horrific (no question there, before people start with the hate!), once context has been applied (well, as long as the information we learned in the Strallen live stream is 100% true,) this situation really isn't as insidious as it's being made out to be. 

Again, to emphasise: as long as everything in the Strallen video is 100% true, it genuinely sounds like rumours grew out of control, leading to anger within the cast, meaning that RUG had their hand forced and had to announce over the Bank Holiday weekend. Let's be real: there is no way that this was the plan. 

Yes agree. It is justified but you don’t want to burn bridges. If we all take a step back emotionally, an (ill advised) email was sent out yesterday on a Sunday. It’s BH Monday today. Who knows what will be said to the current /incoming cast tomorrow.
For all they know the incoming cast have been sacked from the WE show and going on tour with it! I mean I know that’s a silly assumption but better to keep your powder dry and wait for the full facts to emerge before joining in with the pitchforks. Particularly the graduates. I’m remembering the whole dissing of the boss during the ‘service industry’ debacle
It’s just a mess all round.

Awful news for the cast and all staff affected.

Tell Me On A Sunday? Please.

Yeah she was very careful not to completely throw ALW under the bus. And there is something to be said about how whilst ALW will of course been a big decision maker in closing the show, it isn’t really his job to then inform all of the people affected by the closing. I think Summer was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt that he may not have known that it was being handled in such a bad way.

I skipped forward a bit and landed on them chatting with Daisy who was gushing about being in love with Summer ever since she saw her as Cassie in A Chorus Line. Summer had to correct her. Awks! 😟

Gosh, if it does close even earlier they really won’t be helping with the terrible PR.

I'm booked for closing and can't see it making it that far (per the heavy hints from inthenose).
But the dilemma being, how to know which date to exchange for, I would like to see the final show if I possibly can.
If closing even earlier is it possible there will just be an announcement one day saying sorry guys, that was it, not opening tomorrow? Would be a shame if so.

Will be even more ugly if it comes off even earlier. Hopefully they can stretch it out until then. I have my front row ticket for 18/05 as well as hurriedly booked circle ticket for 12/06. I really hope that happens as I might not be so lucky in being able to ,a,e another date!

Should we be reading anything into the fact the school of rock tour is coming to an end? 🤔

That would just be the cherry on the cake for ALW to announce this is closing in June , and then bring it forward by 2 weeks.

I’m coming at this from an industry pov, not a fan pov: no, I really don’t think this will potentially harm their careers or make potential employers wary. They have a ton of support within the industry (and ALW, despite his vast success, is very much not liked on a personal level) and most people in the industry - which includes potential employers - have a huge amount of sympathy for the mostly unknown actors who have been so negatively affected by this.

As far as I’ve seen no one has done anything crazy, no one’s furiously ranting, or threatening to go and egg ALW’s house or anything. The actors are expressing their disappointment in mature but realistic ways. Obviously we can’t generalise but that isn’t likely to be something potential employers would consider a black mark, because the theatre industry has very different norms and standards from other industries.

Sometimes reading this forum, I get the sense posters think the theatre industry should work exactly the same and according to the same norms and standards as their office or whatever, but theatre really is a world unto itself.