Disney’s Aida - West End 2024 Rumour

Having been very closely involved in a production of it, I still have much affection for it, but really Verdi made a better job of it, though the final scene, for all its emotion is still pushing the suspension of disbelief......stopping singing when you are suffocating in a tomb!

It’s not wrong though is it? 😂Stick it in the Coliseum with a huge orchestra could make it a touch more thrilling. Not a lot, but that score...woof!

Would also love this one to finally make it to the UK :-)

If they don't cast Danielle Steers as Aida I'll riot.

The music is fantastic, but the spoken scenes in between are not very well written (and acted). I wish it would be sung through. That would lift this show to another level I think.

Personally I love this show and thrilled at this news.

I saw the original cast on Broadway on 2000 on our last night. I was travelling with a friend. We bought a ticket on a whim, with no idea about the show, who was in it, the music or the story.  

All I know was that it was an opera. But this is a stage musical

I remember when we bought the tickets- we were in the 'Gods", so high up we need to catch an elevator- well it Elton John and Time Rice, how bad could it be? And it was great! It is show that I (truly) have never forgotten.

The way 'My Strongest Suit' was stages was just sensational!

The original cast recording is, along with many, many, other shows on my playlist in my phone, so 20 years later I'm still listening to it.

theatrefan.co.uk/elton-john-tim-rices-aida-revival-west-end-plans-revealed/

Another great cast recording/score lumbered with a thankless book. Great visuals and the John/Rice pedigree will give it extra mileage. I‘d expect it to take a slot at the ENO if theres a space between Hairspray and actual Opera next year starring the magnificent Danielle Steers hopefully. This is great news.

2004. I didn't really know much about the show itself, only that Deborah Cox was in it, and she had recorded a dance version of 'Easy As Life', remixed by Tony Moran, probably my favourite DJ ever. A track that had me on the dance floor all that year. I still listen to that remix and it brings me such joy, remembering all the great times that went with it. Songs from musicals rarely work as a dance track, but for me, this ticks all the boxes.

I saw it when I was in college with the original cast. Heather Headley was a force to be reckoned with. The score is terrific (great treadmill music, btw), the concept was fabulous, and it was incredibly fresh and original back in the day.

I didn't really take much notice of the book back then, but having seen bits and bobs recently on YouTube, it seems pretty clunky and cringe. It could use a bit of a new pair of eyes. There's a bit of white-redemption, white savior complex AND magical blackness going on around here. It could easily go haywire and be outdated if not treated with someone who is in touch with the cultural shift we're experiencing right now. Appointing Schelle Williams as director was the right thing to do from the get-go.

I echo viserys when it comes to the casting of Danielle Steers. There's no point in casting sub-par singers in this show. I also think that a West End premiere, though possible, is in no way certain at all. It was announced and confirmed for Papermill prior to a US tour. And if that kind of programming is off the table, I would not hold my breath for an off the cuff remark from an interview. It seems to be confirmed that Germany is going to be the premier. I'd focus on where in Germany as a next milestone instead of holding my breath for London news.

Nothing has been announced. It's a line in an extensive interview with Schele Williams, who was meant to direct the revival at Papermill Playhouse, which has come to nothing due to Corona. 

" The new Aida was supposed to start at Paper Mill, then do a national tour, and then go to Germany (and hopefully Broadway and the West End). Because of COVID-19, the first two places are out so they’re aiming to premier in Germany."


www.playbill.com/article/director-schele-williams-gives-an-update-on-the-aida-revival

It's not even certain that it will come to Germany - Stage Entertainment have their hands full with new shows postponed due to Corona such as Frozen and Wicked in Hamburg and in what I can only describe as the most spectacularly stupid decision in a long row of stupid decisions are presently preparing a German-language production of Hamilton. So where and when Aida might even fit in, is everyone's guess.