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

This.

Carrie was fine in ‘Heathers’ until they added ‘I Say No’ and the weather turned more autumnal. The combo of another huge song along with virus season knocked her sideways. They just need to look after her.

Yes but that should mean illness not scheduled days off.
You can’t advertise on the strength of a ‘name’ and then dupe fans into buying a ticket, fall back on that old chestnut and not expect backlash.

No. She has a very active niche following on social media which she puts a lot of effort into maintaining. However when she was on that itv show the other day you could almost hear the country saying “who?”.
The fact that ALW considers himself to be “launching” her suggests that he feels the same. 

I really hope this is the case. 💓

School of Rock employed an alternate two days a week as it was demanding physically and vocally for the leads.
Perhaps this could be Andrew’s new thing.
Some of her songs do sound ‘difficult’ to maintain across 8 shows.

Isn't the only person above the title - Andrew Lloyd Webber?

Interestingly enough on Broadway they didn't have a scheduled alternative Dewey until a few months into the run - when I guess they realised what a demanding part it was.

Likewise the original production of Evita - where Elaine Paige began doing eight shows a week before moving down to six early in the run - with Susannah Fellows who was understudied the role playing the others. When, after about nine months, Marti Webb was brought to provide holiday cover and then remained as a billed alternative Eva - it was billed as "Special Guest Appearance by Marti Webb as Eva at certain performances" which was probably an attempt to assuage those who had been expecting to see the much heralded and publicised Paige.

Perhaps we will see a succession of 'special guest appearances' in Cinderella! Not that there's anything at this stage to suggest that the title role will require an alternative or that Carrie Hope Fletcher has a spotty attendance record (she hasn't). People may dislike her social media persona but she's more than paid her theatrical dues.

It’s expensive because there are lots of people who can afford such seats and don’t think it’s expensive. Such new mega musicals cost millions to produce and run and with royalties the producers need clear profit. On Broadway world and playbill they list the box office receipts from Broadway and musicals make over a million dollars a week but have huge running costs.

There are dozens of corporate events companies from the City who will take clients to such events as well as rich tourists who will also buy premium seats (Americans). Also note that the West End is half the price of Broadway seats and there are hundreds of seats under 40 pounds still. I also think they will do some day lottery or house seats as they did with School Of Rock.

I think pricing will go down over the next months - it will be hard to entice people back to the theatres anyway and foreign tourists with more spending money than sense will stay away for a while longer. From what I've gathered the enforced stop over many months has also made many people realize that it was all too much, including hobbies like theatre-going. And corporate w- bankers and their ilk might go to a show that gives them bragging rights like Hamilton or something like Chicago or Moulin Rouge that's a good excuse to ogle scantily clad dancers, but they wouldn't darken the doors of a show like Cinderella. So what's left? More of a local audience that has PLENTY of activities to choose from this summer and may want to catch up on other things they went without for so long.

If I were you, I would just wait a bit longer, Roxie. Right now they hope to make full money on all those who can't wait to be back at the theatre, finally planning days/weekends out in London again, etc. But when they have plenty of seats to fill a few days before the performance, there'll be offers galore - especially during the weeks of the European football championships I predict

I agree. ATG pricing for the top musical tours (Les Mis/Phantom/Lion King/Wicked), certainly pre rona, often exceeded West End. And no deals around for love nor money!

Well at least the book is written by an Oscar winner!

Though this tweet does possibly confirm the type of production it's going to be.
Like the panto version, maybe there will be some lines that go straight over the heads of the younger members of the audience?

I've been very surprised that the marketing for this show hasn't featured her name more prominently. Arguably she is 'flavour of the month' right now, in a way ALW hasn't been since the late 70s/early 80s. It feels like the team behind this have been massively missing a trick.