Bonnie And Clyde - Drury Lane/Arts Theatre/Garrick/Tour

why wouldn't it? public pressure is quite effective, letting people who do need to see this see it, and do their part in improving their processes for next time

Oh agreed. They will have seen this coming, even if they had been working around the clock to save it. But all it takes is one huge component to say 'enough is enough' such as Paul Mathews refusing to deliver the set until their invoices have been paid and that then puts an immediate end to the whole thing very quickly.

Definitely sucks for the Cliffs in Southend, to be told literally last minute their next big pull has dropped out on them.

They're going to renovate sometime this year and it has not been doing the greatest business I believe. They were banking on this and JCS in July and other touring shows later on for even the littlest more money.

Catherine was taking a break but coming back for the autumn run.

I'm surprised she was planning to come back in the Autumn as The Good Ship Murder is filming at the moment and that will take more than 3 months. 

I think B'ham early Sept would have been her first week back so that would give her the 3 month plus window to film. But if that is filming now was she still doing B and C when it was pulled. I cannot recall what dates Daisy Wood-Davis was going to do. Poor Daisy has lost this role and had previously got the lead in Beautiful but lockdown stopped that.

There are contractual rules in the Equity, BECTU and MU contracts which state how an announcement for an early closing is to be handled.

Doing a press release first is nowhere near correct.

If the sets were loaded onto the lorries after the previous venue, at what point would the haulage company (who apparently hadn’t been paid), have notified the producers that they would refuse to unload the sets at Southend?

There’s the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday open for that.

And if the cast were informed by WhatsApp/email/social media of their termination on the Tuesday, how long had the producers known that unless paid they wouldn’t be returning their set to them?

There have been situations in the past where sets have been sat in trucks on the outskirts of cities (it’s usually easier and cheaper to park them overnight) and then refusing to deliver the sets until invoices have been paid.

An important question is who put it on social media? A company member who was early in the list of people being called or who had a more efficient agent? A media outlet? Was there an embargo that was broken?

The board members were spot on, the original Drury Lane show really is something special and a tour de force from all the cast who match the star performances from main leads Jeremy and Francis who both cover ballads or belters with superb vocal force and sound great together. (Wonderfully duo Natalie McQueen and George Maguire as Blanche and Buck Barrow give them a close run for the audience affections)

Fantastic we have the record of it for those not there for those shows and this is a high quality picture and sounding film which does a great job of capturing the staging but also uses the filming to enchance the story. It's really is one of the best filmed shows I have seen.

And as board members said at the time this is a full on production, fully costumed cast and considerable staging. The cast perform as earnestly as if it was a opening night and I amazed they did so much in what must have been very limited rehearsal time.

The songs and book does vary to make things a bit uneven paced (and the ending is a bit sudden) but this cast really overcome that and make it a very watchable show to stream.

Jeremy and Francis have star quality and have electric chemistry together and some very raunchy choreography.

Cost £13 to stream the ad free version which ran smoothly for the 2hours 5mins run time. 3 days to watch once you have started and I had no issue watching act one and two on separate nights, just needed to turn of the captions which seem to be default to run unless you want to sing along.

When they show the audience they are all in covid masks as think it was Jan 2022 so much more comfortable watching at home mask free and own armchair.


Recommended viewing.

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