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

He has said he intends to do a gig at Pizza Express no sorry he'll be waiting the tables during a gig there.

This has been the new "Will Jessie be on tonight" we now only have the diverese recasting of the new version of Legally Blonde to go on about.

I’m getting offended and outraged just waiting to be offended and outraged by JLP.

I’m here for it.
Think some of the cast clearly have their own agenda with ALW

Was thinking the same but the next one has to cover Evita, Sunset and Phantom,
Think this will be Volume 3 all on its own

I think when he released his autobiography a few years ago, and had several shows running concurrently in the WE he was pretty golden on here. There was a lot of positivity about him. 
Seems that Cinderella and the changes to POTO have undermined much of that good will.

And we (as a society) do enjoy building people up and knocking them down if we think they’re getting too big for their boots don’t we? 

Sadly it’s got to the point where some of the arguments against him are just tired repetition. Some folk have taken against him and are apparently never going to give him a break on anything now. It’s a shame really. 

Exactly this. From my armchair position, it seems like there's been some pretty shocking behaviour on both cast, management and creative sides, but I won't comment on any individuals because, honestly, no one who wasn't in the room actually knows - and those who are in the room are only in one of many rooms at a given point, so only know one side of a many-faceted story.

We're being fed gossip by social media platforms, sometimes by people who are excellent at it, other times by people who are trying hard but use the platforms inelegantly or clumsily - and everyone is being whipped up into a frenzy. It's like gossip being passed around a school playground - enjoyable but ultimately just a lot of hot air. People just love to build folks up and then knock them down, forgetting every single one of these people is a person, with feelings, family and a private life. I honestly don't know how anyone - creative or performer - survives in showbusiness, and it's getting worse year by year. Can you imagine how Judy Garland, say, would have coped if social media had been around during her career? 

God knows, I have many problems with this show from an artistic standpoint, but it feels like the show itself has almost become secondary to every other consideration. But ALW is so interesting - he has almost no ability to gauge what's a good idea and what's a bad one - both in terms of his public persona and, certainly since the turn of the century, in as to what works on stage. He, and his shows, have veered between being critically reappraised in a very positive way, with him being seen as a semi national treasure, to being vilified, with him as the real-life equivalent of a pantomime villain. Someone people love to hate. The fact he brings it on himself is so strange - I wonder if he has the ability to sail through anything relatively oblivious and unscathed. If so, he's lucky!

I think that's a big problem with many shows. No matter how high your opinion of yourself or your work, there's no substitute for getting feedback from people who are seeing it for the first time. I get the impression that some creatives think themselves too important to open in the mere regions with all the nobodies.

I'm fascinated about the way Summer Strallen has become part of this, though; she was his Chosen One for a while (the whole Hollyoaks set-up before going into The Sound of Music, and then so much of the Love Never Dies promo was centred on her). She must know him pretty well.

What... what is he doing?! Trying hard to imagine any of the talented, established performers I actually respect carrying on like this. Even CHF - God bless her - with her often problematic social media use, doesn't carry (hah!) on like this.