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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 17, 2022 21:09:34 GMT
Opening early next year … one of his earlier musicals.. starring someone who has a history with the same show…
Opening on Shaftesbury Avenue..
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Post by lilyshepard on Mar 17, 2022 21:16:06 GMT
Opening early next year … one of his earlier musicals.. starring someone who has a history with the same show… Opening on Shaftesbury Avenue.. & One of his actual musicals or one he produced like Oliver / Wizard of Oz etc…?
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Post by Rory on Mar 17, 2022 21:16:34 GMT
Tell Me on a Sunday with Marti Webb at the Lyric or Apollo?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2022 21:17:59 GMT
Aspects of Love with Michael Ball as George?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Mar 17, 2022 21:18:26 GMT
Such a tease
Joseph - won't be that JCS - seems unlikely Evita starring EP as Peron...? By Jeeves - not a chance Starlight - again not a chance Phantom - still running Aspects - I could see this returning with Mr Ball as George rather than Alex
After that we aren't really in early years ALW
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Post by ceebee on Mar 17, 2022 21:18:42 GMT
Starlight Express with a holographic Lon Satton?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 17, 2022 21:20:07 GMT
It's not Cats is it ?
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Post by cezbear on Mar 17, 2022 21:20:56 GMT
Aspects of Love with Michael Ball as George? Was about to guess exactly that! I can't decide how I would feel about it, other than old.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 17, 2022 21:24:11 GMT
Directed by someone who’s done a couple of musical revivals
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Post by mrbarnaby on Mar 17, 2022 21:26:08 GMT
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Post by Rory on Mar 17, 2022 21:30:22 GMT
Directed by someone who’s done a couple of musical revivals Laurence Conner? Personally I hope it's JCS.
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Post by fiyerorocher on Mar 17, 2022 21:32:05 GMT
Doubt Les Mis or Cursed Child are going anywhere, so that leaves the Apollo, the Lyric, the Gielgud and the Shaftesbury? Unless they're going the pie shop route and building a space, but probably unlikely. I hope whatever it is isn't destined for the Shaftesbury. I know it's selling pitifully, but I really wouldn't want & Juliet to close.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 28, 2022 17:44:13 GMT
Any more news?
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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 28, 2022 18:37:36 GMT
Starring 2 of our leading musical performers who have both lead 2 of the major Sondheim revivals London has seen recently …
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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 28, 2022 18:38:05 GMT
Doubt Les Mis or Cursed Child are going anywhere, so that leaves the Apollo, the Lyric, the Gielgud and the Shaftesbury? Unless they're going the pie shop route and building a space, but probably unlikely. I hope whatever it is isn't destined for the Shaftesbury. I know it's selling pitifully, but I really wouldn't want & Juliet to close. Apollo…
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 28, 2022 18:49:31 GMT
Those clues would indicate a possible Company connection...
Aspects with Rosalie Craig as Rose...?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 28, 2022 18:53:26 GMT
I don't think the 2012 Ball/Staunton Sweeney counts as recent enough to mean MB would be George but it is not impossible
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Post by steve10086 on Apr 28, 2022 19:42:42 GMT
Is it Evita, with LuPone playing Eva’s mother?
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Post by cezbear on Apr 28, 2022 19:45:16 GMT
Please be Aspects. Although, I wonder how well it'd sell....
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Post by steve10086 on Apr 28, 2022 19:45:17 GMT
mrbarnaby You haven’t made the classic mistake of thinking ALW wrote Chess, have you?
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Post by Jon on Apr 28, 2022 19:55:57 GMT
Doubt Les Mis or Cursed Child are going anywhere, so that leaves the Apollo, the Lyric, the Gielgud and the Shaftesbury? Unless they're going the pie shop route and building a space, but probably unlikely. I hope whatever it is isn't destined for the Shaftesbury. I know it's selling pitifully, but I really wouldn't want & Juliet to close. Apollo… So Jamie's not returning to the West End anytime soon. Based on the hints, I think it's between Aspects of Love, By Jeeves or Tell Me On a Sunday/Song and Dance.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 28, 2022 19:56:45 GMT
mrbarnaby You haven’t made the classic mistake of thinking ALW wrote Chess, have you? Absolutely not!
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Post by theatremiss on Apr 28, 2022 21:04:20 GMT
Aspects of Love with Michael Ball as George? My immediate thought
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Post by inthenose on Apr 28, 2022 21:15:58 GMT
I'd be very surprised at Aspects of Love being a success, even with Michael Ball as the draw. The term "major" is the key thing here. Aspects bombed on tour with David Essex last time it got a full staging. "Major" makes me think a prominent theatre, large cast. Whilst Aspects did perfectly fine (and was quite good) at the Southwark Playhouse a few years back, the show has frankly never done that great.
I could see it, or Love Never Dies, being done somewhere like the Charing Cross Theatre ala "The Woman in White", but I'd not class that as "major revival".
Woman in White also sold poorly unfortunately.
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Post by showtoones on Apr 28, 2022 21:39:02 GMT
mrbarnaby You haven’t made the classic mistake of thinking ALW wrote Chess, have you? Absolutely not! Mr B - will Baz have this tonight? S
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