Legally Blonde - Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Absolutely the bosses at OAT have to take a share of the responsibility for this.

But at the end of the day Moss is responsible for her own choices. It may well be that she should have been supported through the process and that might be a failure of mentoring.

In the end she and her team took the decisions to cast the show this way and to style it in this way. They took the decision to use humans in furry suits as the dogs rather than using real dogs or puppets. They took the decision not to rearrange the score so that it accommodated the vocal range of the NB performer they cast.

These are decisions that may well do reputational harm to those involved. So be it.

People make their mistakes and it is whether they learn from them that matters.

Would Ms Moss have been responsible or even involved in the “glow up” of Six since it’s conception to what it is now? 

Even accounting for budget the early look of that show suggests someone with little concern for the aesthetic. 
www.rachaeldickzen.com/blog/2020/4/10/the-early-costumes-of-six-the-musical

Maybe she just can’t see it with LB and because she is who she is nobody said anything about the impending disaster. 

He’s gone from nothing (about 3000 subs) to almost 18,000 subs in a very short space of time. Maybe six months? But he was getting invited to review shows when he was on 3000 which I
found odd. 3k subs is hardly a influencer but they’re getting free tickets to shows? 

Nobody has ever offered TheatreBoard a ticket to send someone to review a show. People can draw their own conclusions from that. 

ETA That’s not a read on Mickey Jo, his channel is very entertaining. I’m a fan.

let's put this in context - giving a revival to a tony-nominated director is not a gamble. it's one tony nom more than Sheader has had. SIX had its glow-up when Moss and Jamie Armitage took the reigns from another external director. So she definitely knows how to make something work.

If a show doesn't work for you that doesn't mean it doesn't work full stop. It might just mean it wasn't made with you in mind. Personally feels like a show and an aesthetic that lands squarely in the Gen Z camp: which, let's face it, we'll need to see occasionally for our art form to survive.

Gen Z as an aesthetic is fine as long as it works within the context of the piece. And it seems clear that it doesn't. Having no visible difference between the California look and the Harvard look ignores the significant divide that exists between the two sets of characters. It shows a lack of understanding of the role costuming plays in helping shape narrative.

That is something you might learn as part of being an Assistant Director or doing a MFA in directing.

But creating one show, no matter how successful, is insufficient grounding to tackle bigger, more complex pieces

I also don't think you can compare Moss with Sheader, he's a very experienced director who's worked on a wide range of shows and just because he hasn't been nominated for a Tony doesn't mean anything if he hasn't had the chance to work on a Broadway production.

Haha yes
I was commenting on the fact that the previous poster said this production is aimed at Gen Z
It’s a shame that this version is offered up as the standard that they should expect that’s all.

No help but my birthday is June 7th, I'm 60 this year and I think it's only rained once on my birthday. Slightly more seriously early June has been generally quite dry with rain hitting later - The Wimbledon Effect

What time does the show typically end? I have tickets for the evening show on Saturday and need to plan my journey home!

I wasn’t out until 10:25 after an early preview but they were very late letting us in so the show started late and I think the interval went on a bit longer. If the show actually ran on time you should be out by 10:15.

That would make the show 2 hours 15 including interval, I’m sure it’s longer than that.