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Anastasia
Apr 16, 2017 19:23:54 GMT
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Post by forb4 on Apr 16, 2017 19:23:54 GMT
Agreed- this isn't groundbreaking theatre. The target audience is 12 year old girls, 30something women and showqueens who grew up watching the movie (raises hands!). No Russian history buff is out here to see this. So if it's culturally sloppy, it's pretty much what I can expect from American musical theatre. After all, it's in the same town where Miss Saigon and Aladdin are playing. Cultural sensitivity or accuracy is not the forte of commercial Broadway musicals. PS- I don't think you're a PR troll, btw. You don't exhibit the traits of a PR person, a troll, or a PR troll  Well isn't Miss Saigon a British musical? I'd say big musicals in general are not really putting accuracy over entertainment haha PS- Thanks |
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Post by ali973 on Apr 16, 2017 19:45:35 GMT
Hard to nail down..the Miss Saigon writing team are British, French and one of the writers American |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2017 20:31:57 GMT
I saw it a couple nights ago and I had the opposite reaction haha. Thought it was magical! It's getting a very good word of mouth. I'm sure there are PR trolls on this site. Or just people who - shock horror - have different opinions and talk to different people than you do. They do exist, you know. |
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Apr 17, 2017 0:30:13 GMT
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Post by westendwendy on Apr 17, 2017 0:30:13 GMT
I'm sure there are PR trolls on this site. Or just people who - shock horror - have different opinions and talk to different people than you do. They do exist, you know. Of course people are allowed and do have different opinions, that's what we all cherish on here! As for being historically or culturally inaccurate - I'm sure that's not what any director wants. Oh and I know it's not a Disney show, it was a reference to the standard in production that Anastasia fails to reach. |
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Post by ali973 on Apr 24, 2017 20:42:44 GMT
Trailer is out.
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Post by westendcub on Apr 25, 2017 12:51:12 GMT
Oh that trailer is good, makes me wish this will my Broadway show next month but it's going to be a weekend & seems it's a hot ticket!!
It's between 'Waitress' & 'Come From Away' (the latter I plan to Day seat).
I can't wait for the cast recording, one of my favourite scores and can't wait to hear the additional songs made for the stage version.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2017 15:30:26 GMT
Somewhat surprised to see Anastasia receive 13 nominations at the Outer Critics this morning... the season high, more nominations than Hello Dolly!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Apr 25, 2017 19:00:24 GMT
Somewhat surprised to see Anastasia receive 13 nominations at the Outer Critics this morning... the season high, more nominations than Hello Dolly! Especially considering that the critics have just trashed it |
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Apr 25, 2017 20:39:12 GMT
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Post by forb4 on Apr 25, 2017 20:39:12 GMT
Somewhat surprised to see Anastasia receive 13 nominations at the Outer Critics this morning... the season high, more nominations than Hello Dolly! Especially considering that the critics have just trashed it It was mixed reviews...both positive and negative |
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Anastasia
Apr 25, 2017 20:41:11 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Apr 25, 2017 20:41:11 GMT
Especially considering that the critics have just trashed it It was mixed reviews...both positive and negative The ones that matter were negative |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2017 20:53:29 GMT
Well to be fair, no reviews matter for a show like this. It's doing exceedingly well at the box office and will likely continue to for a good while.
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Anastasia
Apr 26, 2017 0:00:04 GMT
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Post by westendwendy on Apr 26, 2017 0:00:04 GMT
I knew the important reviews for this would be mostly negative. The film in the 90s was amazing - the stage show I saw last week varied from great to bad to a big mess. Such a shame as the cast is very good just the production, book and direction generally poor. It needs a lot of work - there is a great show in there somwwhere! Has anyone else apart from me seen it on here?
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Post by forb4 on Apr 26, 2017 14:25:13 GMT
It was mixed reviews...both positive and negative The ones that matter were negative The one's that matter kept making Trump references and talked down to teen girls bc, hey they're teen girls. Even looking at the comments on the NYT review, most are disagreeing with Brantley. Anyway, like someone's already said, it doesn't matter what the reviews are, it's doing really well. |
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Post by forb4 on Apr 26, 2017 14:25:53 GMT
I knew the important reviews for this would be mostly negative. The film in the 90s was amazing - the stage show I saw last week varied from great to bad to a big mess. Such a shame as the cast is very good just the production, book and direction generally poor. It needs a lot of work - there is a great show in there somwwhere! Has anyone else apart from me seen it on here? As I've mentioned, I've seen it. |
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Post by aine on Apr 30, 2017 9:40:42 GMT
Agreed- this isn't groundbreaking theatre. The target audience is 12 year old girls, 30something women and showqueens who grew up watching the movie (raises hands!). No Russian history buff is out here to see this. So if it's culturally sloppy, it's pretty much what I can expect from American musical theatre. After all, it's in the same town where Miss Saigon and Aladdin are playing. Cultural sensitivity or accuracy is not the forte of commercial Broadway musicals. PS- I don't think you're a PR troll, btw. You don't exhibit the traits of a PR person, a troll, or a PR troll See that's my issue with this show. I essentially grew up with the movie, but as a massive history buff, I now cringe at a lot of the inaccuracies (same goes for Pocahontas, which I grew up knowing every word of). I'm probably going to pick the soundtrack up when it comes out, but if it did happen to come to the West End (to be honest, I'd rather see Waitress and The King & I transfer first), I'd have to go in with the mindset that it's based more off the movie than any kind of historical accuracy. I definitely understand a lot of it being targeted at an American audience, who may not pick up on the errors. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 10:41:51 GMT
Agreed- this isn't groundbreaking theatre. The target audience is 12 year old girls, 30something women and showqueens who grew up watching the movie (raises hands!). No Russian history buff is out here to see this. So if it's culturally sloppy, it's pretty much what I can expect from American musical theatre. After all, it's in the same town where Miss Saigon and Aladdin are playing. Cultural sensitivity or accuracy is not the forte of commercial Broadway musicals. PS- I don't think you're a PR troll, btw. You don't exhibit the traits of a PR person, a troll, or a PR troll See that's my issue with this show. I essentially grew up with the movie, but as a massive history buff, I now cringe at a lot of the inaccuracies (same goes for Pocahontas, which I grew up knowing every word of). I'm probably going to pick the soundtrack up when it comes out, but if it did happen to come to the West End (to be honest, I'd rather see Waitress and The King & I transfer first), I'd have to go in with the mindset that it's based more off the movie than any kind of historical accuracy. I definitely understand a lot of it being targeted at an American audience, who may not pick up on the errors. To be fair, they have tried to make it more historically accurate than the animated film. I've seen people say it's a combination of that film and the Ingrid Bergman film. But I guess they have to find a way to fit the well-known songs in, because that's the real selling point, and most of the songs do contain historical inaccuracies. |
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Apr 30, 2017 16:30:09 GMT
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Post by catqc on Apr 30, 2017 16:30:09 GMT
This is very random and unimportant but just wondering - is the normal American pronunciation of Anastasia "Anastasha"? (not sure how to write it - but if you watch any of the opening night videos for example that's how they all pronounce it, whereas I would pronounce the S as an S and not a "sh")
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Anastasia
Apr 30, 2017 16:35:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2017 16:35:41 GMT
I always thought it was pronounced how they say it.
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Post by aine on Apr 30, 2017 17:09:48 GMT
This is very random and unimportant but just wondering - is the normal American pronunciation of Anastasia "Anastasha"? (not sure how to write it - but if you watch any of the opening night videos for example that's how they all pronounce it, whereas I would pronounce the S as an S and not a "sh") I get what you mean, there's two pronounciations of Anastasia, (or probably more to be fair), I'm assuming they're going with the same pronouncation from the movie as that's how I would expect most Americans to pronounce it. |
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Post by Mark on May 5, 2017 12:28:54 GMT
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Anastasia
May 5, 2017 18:02:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 18:02:02 GMT
Such a vague press release... But exciting nevertheless. Can we have Ramin back over here, please and thank you?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 18:05:35 GMT
Such a vague press release... But exciting nevertheless. Can we have Ramin back over here, please and thank you? I noticed this tweet from the actor that plays Dmitri: Could be interpreted as the original cast will be travelling with the show? I know Christy loves playing Anastasia. |
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May 5, 2017 18:08:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 18:08:37 GMT
Well spotted!! Reading into that I would assume the same as you |
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Post by aine on May 5, 2017 18:22:55 GMT
I'd love to see this come to the UK 🙈, especially with most/some of the original cast
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May 5, 2017 18:26:59 GMT
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Post by forb4 on May 5, 2017 18:26:59 GMT
I hope the original cast goes to London. Christy is amazing in the role and I hope she could get an Olivier nom (and maybe a win) as she was snubbed for a Tony nom.
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