Support For New British Musicals?

I guess, it depends on: who saw that particular show and who wants to discuss or inform. For instance, I saw a musical called Something Something Lazarus in March at the king's Head. I didn't like it and decided it is not worth mentioning here.
And when "I saw the announcement of Jest End I created a topic (on the previous board) as it was something to my taste and something I wanted to share with others.
There is no point in mechanically creating new threads for all the fringe shows, maybe they won't interest anyone from here.
Maybe there is a need in a thread with "there is something small, fringe and short-run so don't miss it" with only announcements of what every member thinks worth visiting? And then if someone sees the show and decides it is worth discussing, he or she will create a separate thread?

There are two major issues: a new British musical in a tiny venue may only perform to as many audience members across its entire run as a major Broadway musical may perform to in a weekend, so already there are far fewer possible participants in a discussion, and a new British musical is often just not very good. I've heard brilliant things about Princess Caraboo, and anyone who's been here longer than this forum has will know how well-loved The Clockmaker's Daughter was, but when the state of the British musical is more often a Miss Atomic Bomb or an I Can't Sing, then the best will in the world can't support it more than it deserves.

I don't really know much about what opportunities there are for developing and supporting the development of new British musicals, but I feel like the UK needs more. As audience members, we really can only go so far.

Actually, one reason I don't see musicals as much as I'd like to is because, on the West End at least, they operate as far as possible as open-ended runs. When I see a play is coming and the closing date is BLAH, then I know I need to make space for it before BLAH comes around. The optimism of musicals means they don't open with a closing date in mind ("booking to" dates don't count), so I don't feel I have to worry about them too quickly, then by the time they realise they're not going to be extending beyond their next "booking to" date, I no longer have the spare time to fit them in. If they were more willing to sell themselves explicitly as a close-ended run, then extend if necessary, rather than hoping to extend but then not doing so, then I'd be much more proactive about getting to them. Miss Henderson Presents has come fairly close to that by saying "limited engagement" on the posters, but by leaving the announcement of the closing date to fairly recently rather than saying from the beginning "look, we're just not going past June 18th" from the off, the implication that they would have liked to extend just took some of the psychological pressure off, and here we have another new British musical that I just don't have time to see. No one will mind if you say "actually, we were wrong, we've been really successful so we're going to extend instead of closing", surely, rather than pussyfooting around the whole thing?

Funny you should mention ‘Princess Caraboo’ which I saw last week and thought it was an excellent musical of quality out on the fringe and I seriously hope it has a life after Finborough as it’s a rarely told story (there is a film that came out in 1994 but have not seen this).

I thought the songs were excellent throughout (memorable) and use of that tiny stage clever but I didn’t start a thread on it because currently due to the small size of the venue I don’t imagine the vast percentage of forum members will have seen it (admittedly if I had seen much earlier in the run in March, I would have likely set-up a thread to get some attention on it and say go see everyone if you can!).

It’s hard to judge, can be a little disheartening to set-up a thread and no one actually respond!! I’m lucky that I currently live in London and use it to my advantage to go see fringe when possible to do so (I have even travelled out to Zone 6, not every Londoner is prepared to do so to even see friends!!) but living out of London it is much harder to see and back when I lived in the burbs I admittedly came to see the bigger shows when I ventured into the big smoke!

I've actually set up a thread theatreboard.proboards.com/thread/581/princess-caraboo-finborough. Such a shame it has been pushed back so much in the last 9 days

There's plenty of shows I don't create threads about. I could talk about the productions at the Watermill Theatre if I wasn't the only person near enough to go regularly. On the other hand saw All-Star Production's Out of this World yesterday, but have no interest really to make a thread. An acceptable production but nothing I'd recommend anyone rushing up to Walthamstow for.

I'm all for new musicals being discussed,I see a lot of fringe theatre myself and will always start a thread if there isn't one for something I've seen - or even am thinking of seeing. But as they are often in small venues, audiences are very limited so not as many people join the discussion. So the thread drops down the list and takes some hunting out. That doesn't mean we should stop posting though, sometimes a conversation gains traction, and I for one am interested.

I'm kind of confused on what people talk about here because I've seen a few threads about films (not film adaptions of plays, just random topics about films, such as cinema credits going on for too long). Also don't know whether to start a thread about a closed show (I was thinking of starting a Sweeney Todd thread).

If you want to start a discussion thread, pick the most appropriate board, and get posting! The cinema ones tend to be in General Chat, or if the intent of the discussion is directly linked to Musicals I suppose they end up in Musicals, and as we have a General Chat board, there's literally no end of possible discussions. We could talk about marsupials or the Brexit or tea if we really wanted to, as long as we kept it in General Chat and kept it civil.

I'd even go further and say it's not only limited to UK theatre but any theatre. Yes, the vast majority of our users is from the UK so it's more likely that anyone else will have seen this production as well, but there are also a couple of other nations here.
Also, many of us fly regularly to New York, so if you've seen a (new) show on Broadway, I can only encourage you to start a new thread about it and post your thoughts. Similarly, if you've seen a (new) show in another country, post about it. Others will read it and maybe think "that sounds interesting, I need to see this".

I wanted to go with a friend but the date he proposed I am away in the Midlands for a production of 'Made in Dagenham' and Birmingham Pride so sadly missing out on this but it sounds lovely!