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Post by TallPaul on Sept 23, 2019 13:02:03 GMT
Nottingham Playhouse announces its new season tonight. This is part of the teaser email they've sent out:
Unless Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice are getting back together, who could it be? Stiles and Drewe, maybe?
What I do know is Nottingham Playhouse has just appointed its first ever producer, so I assume they'll be hoping it has a commercial life beyond the East Midlands.
Whatever it is, and whoever it's by, I suppose we'll find out tonight, from about 7.30pm!
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Post by ceebee on Sept 23, 2019 13:06:04 GMT
It's called "Martin Gruyere"- a cheesy new musical from Blubrie and Schomembert.
(No genuine ideas about what it might be, sorry!)
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 23, 2019 13:41:21 GMT
I know Brunger and Cleary have got several things that have been workshopped recently.
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Post by xanady on Sept 23, 2019 14:02:08 GMT
Great news,Tall Paul...thanks for bringing this to our attention...already seeing Assassins soon in Notts...great venue...will tune in later to find out and very intrigued.
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Post by Dr Tom on Sept 23, 2019 14:55:49 GMT
Gary Barlow must be due a new musical about now.
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Post by AddisonMizner on Sept 23, 2019 16:18:26 GMT
I saw this the other day, and was going to post about it. I am presuming Stiles and Drewe - what other celebrated writing teams are there that aren’t Rice and Webber?
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Post by tw on Sept 23, 2019 16:26:35 GMT
I wonder if it's their (Stiles & Drewe) latest musical "Becoming Nancy"? It premieres in Atlanta this month, but as it's set in London I imagine they have their eye on a UK premiere somewhere?
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Post by AddisonMizner on Sept 23, 2019 16:50:12 GMT
I doubt it would be that. I imagine the trajectory they want for that piece is the out of town tryout in America, with the eventual aim of going to Broadway, and then if successful, London. Plus, Jerry Mitchell is involved. I think it is very much a passion project of his, so I would imagine any production we get would be his.
Saying that, I don’t know what other stuff if anything they have been working. I know George has had recent health problems, so that has probably affected any work they have done.
So probably not Stiles and Drewe, but what other writing teams are there?
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Post by learfan on Sept 23, 2019 16:52:06 GMT
Great news,Tall Paul...thanks for bringing this to our attention...already seeing Assassins soon in Notts...great venue...will tune in later to find out and very intrigued. im going to Assassins there too. Hoping for some good stuff in the announcement later. |
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Post by princeton on Sept 23, 2019 17:08:02 GMT
It doesn't say that the songwriting team is from the UK - just that the director is - so perhaps it's a wider pool that it seems at first (and the phrase songwriting team is unusual too)
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 23, 2019 17:22:37 GMT
We don't have much longer to wait...
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Post by showgirl on Sept 23, 2019 17:54:57 GMT
Wishing it could be a (the?) new Marlow & Moss...
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Post by xanady on Sept 23, 2019 18:16:15 GMT
I think showgirl might have got it!
15 mins ....and counting!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2019 18:31:53 GMT
I think showgirl might have got it! 15 mins ....and counting!! Disappointing if so. I shall contain my excitement for another time now 😂 |
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Post by theatrelover123 on Sept 23, 2019 18:33:35 GMT
www.whatsonstage.com/nottingham-theatre/news/playhouse-jenna-russell-parent-trap-musical_49955.htmlA new musical, Identical, will have its world premiere at Nottingham Playhouse from 31 July. Co-produced by the venue and Kenny Wax (The Play That Goes Wrong, Six), the show is based on Erich Kastner's book Lottie and Lisa (which was adapted into the Disney film The Parent Trap). It has music and lyrics by iconic duo Stiles and Drewe, with a book by Stuart Paterson. Running until 22 August, the production is adapted by Trevor Nunn and has plans to transfer to the West End.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 23, 2019 18:40:09 GMT
Interesting.
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Post by dippy on Sept 23, 2019 18:42:37 GMT
I love Lottie and Lisa and some of the adaptations of it, I may have to go and see this.
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Post by xanady on Sept 23, 2019 18:47:11 GMT
Erm....🤔
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 23, 2019 18:49:11 GMT
I didn't like what I heard of the music in Soho Cinders so I'm very tentatively interested in this but I'm in Nottingham so I'll probably go anyway.
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Post by HereForTheatre on Sept 23, 2019 18:59:25 GMT
Well this isn't going to be easy to cast is it?
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Post by westended on Sept 23, 2019 19:35:51 GMT
There was a workshop for this show back in May.
I wonder if any of the workshop cast will be involved with this full production?
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Post by AddisonMizner on Sept 23, 2019 20:16:58 GMT
Well, for me as a Nottingham resident this is exciting. I’ve also been listening to a lot of Stiles and Drewe stuff recently (since the rumours of SOHO CINDERS at Charing Cross first started), and can’t wait to hear a new score from them. Count me in!
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Post by Mark on Sept 23, 2019 20:34:05 GMT
Really pleased we are about to get another new Stiles and Drewe score! Now if only we could finally get the Kristin Chenoweth led “Soapdish” too.
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Post by tmesis on Sept 24, 2019 13:59:10 GMT
Much as I'm no fan of Stiles and Drewe I'm sufficiently intrigued by this one to leave leafy Surrey and catch it. I always enjoy visiting Nottingham Playhouse - in fact I can go back along way with the place as my uncle used to manage the restaurant in the 1960s and some of my very first theatrical experiences were there, including seeing Wilfred Bramble in Scrooge. I recall seeing him later in the restaurant bar completely p***ed.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jan 1, 2020 11:01:37 GMT
Parent Trap is on C4 now
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