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Post by Seriously on Feb 2, 2023 16:54:05 GMT
Maybe he's busy?
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Post by angie on Feb 2, 2023 18:33:57 GMT
I'm stll holding on to the hope I will eventually see him in Moulin or Cabaret and or Miss Saigon. 😁 |
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 2, 2023 21:32:51 GMT
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Post by richey on Feb 2, 2023 21:40:17 GMT
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Post by steve10086 on Feb 2, 2023 22:21:31 GMT
Bogyo was awful in Moulin Rouge. Definitely waiting for offers on this show, not paying full price. Could be the first major ALW production in London that I haven’t seen in over 30 years.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 2, 2023 23:34:38 GMT
Never seen Aspects of Love. Unless some decent offers come up nearer the time, with these prices it will stay that way!
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Post by christya on Feb 2, 2023 23:37:46 GMT
Saw the latest casting and my instant reaction was "Oh, no!" The prices are hideous anyway, but I'm certainly not paying them now.
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Post by Seriously on Feb 2, 2023 23:59:04 GMT
That last note sounded like he'd trodden on a plug.
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Post by lonlad on Feb 3, 2023 5:35:38 GMT
Um, sorry to add to the gloom and doom but the unfortunate fact is that Rosalie HAS dropped out of this. Meanwhile, Jamie's performance in MOULIN ROUGE was one of the worst West End debuts I've ever seen, so the indices on this aren't great.
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Post by danb on Feb 3, 2023 6:41:05 GMT
Eeek, why so low? Is that for Balls’ sake or Jamies? And as for that last note; you’d think he’d know about support after 18 months belting out ‘Come What May’.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Feb 3, 2023 7:47:24 GMT
Um, sorry to add to the gloom and doom but the unfortunate fact is that Rosalie HAS dropped out of this. Meanwhile, Jamie's performance in MOULIN ROUGE was one of the worst West End debuts I've ever seen, so the indices on this aren't great. Was Rosalie ever actually in this? It was just a rumour floated here. Plus she played it at the Menier. To fairly bad reviews |
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Post by cezbear on Feb 3, 2023 9:11:11 GMT
Oh... well, that started well enough but deteriorated quite a bit by the end. It sounds like it's arranged for a concert rather than an actual production to my ears, which bugs me more than a little.
Alarmed by Jamie's casting but also feel he's probably been give a rough job here, playing what has been quite famously Michael's role alongside Michael with Michael taking the 'big song' for himself. I wonder who the alternate for George will be.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 3, 2023 9:39:19 GMT
Do I misremember or was it said somewhere that this was being set in the present day?
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Post by karloscar on Feb 3, 2023 9:50:14 GMT
The social attitudes of the piece were dated enough when it was first done in the eighties,never mind setting it now. Things have moved on too much for it to stand up to scrutiny.
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Post by zephyrus on Feb 3, 2023 11:16:18 GMT
I'm totally baffled by the casting of Jamie Bogyo in this. The buzz around his performance in Moulin Rouge was mostly negative, so why anyone would even go near him for another West End lead role is a mystery to me.
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Post by distantcousin on Feb 3, 2023 11:39:36 GMT
Bogyo was awful in Moulin Rouge. Definitely waiting for offers on this show, not paying full price. Could be the first major ALW production in London that I haven’t seen in over 30 years. Same! Especially since really quite enjoying the Southwark Playhouse version, and that was only 4 years ago. I'm not going just for La Ball! (good as he is), but I find it hard to see him as anything other than Michael Ball - the broadcaster and partner of Alfie Boe. |
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Post by angie on Feb 3, 2023 14:49:45 GMT
Well, after reading comments on here I am glad Rob Houchen is not doing it especially after the main song is being taken off the Alex character and sung by the father.
I saw the original production and I did enjoy it but I feel this is just going to be the Michael Ball show.
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Post by cezbear on Feb 3, 2023 15:06:54 GMT
Well, after reading comments on here I am glad Rob Houchen is not doing it especially after the main song is being taken off the Alex character and sung by the father. I saw the original production and I did enjoy it but I feel this is just going to be the Michael Ball show. My worry also. And with him not doing all performances that's leaving his off days... tricky. |
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 3, 2023 15:41:35 GMT
Strikes me as a Ball vanity project.
If the big song for a man in the show has been given to Michael Ball, maybe they struggled to get top tier young leading men to take the part.
Or maybe, being very cynical, Ball didn’t want someone too talented to compete with him both on stage and to be better in the role than he was
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 3, 2023 15:49:34 GMT
Strikes me as a Ball vanity project. If the big song for a man in the show has been given to Michael Ball, maybe they struggled to get top tier young leading men to take the part. Or maybe, being very cynical, Ball didn’t want someone too talented to compete with him both on stage and to be better in the role than he was I suspect the latter |
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Post by karloscar on Feb 3, 2023 20:44:02 GMT
Surely George is far too cynical and experienced to sing the twee and naive Love Changes Everything. Next you'll be telling me he doesn't drop dead at the thought of his underage daughter shagging his nephew.
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Post by christya on Feb 3, 2023 21:14:49 GMT
Even Michael sounded shaky on that one, though I did like that he backed off from the old 'changES' pronunciation he used to do. But there is no excuse for the wobbling/cracking going on from Boygo at the end. A West End leading man, at those prices? Nope.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Feb 4, 2023 6:29:29 GMT
“Reimagined”. This announcement from last year is why I was thinking it would be present day. I wonder how it will be re-imagined? |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 4, 2023 7:51:20 GMT
Maybe the casting of an absolutely useless leading man is ‘reimagining’ the show? It’s certainly a very bold move.
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Post by Scswp on Feb 4, 2023 8:29:11 GMT
I suspect there may be something in the fact that MB does not wish to be ‘out-shone’ in the production. To my mind, his performance as Javert in the Les Miserables concerts was, by far, the weakest in the cast and he was likely cast in the role due to his name.
Leading stars, I’m guessing, can be quite insecure. I remember reading back in the nineties that Bernadette Peters was in talks as a replacement Norma Desmond in the original production of ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and that she wanted to decide who her cover/understudy would be. This particular casting never happened for whatever reasons, but I suspect the ‘Aspects’ circumstances may be quite similar.
It’s very common for stars to support younger stars and perform the actions of ‘giving them the limelight’ in front of the audience (eg, Michael Ball’s support of Bradley Jaden at the end of the Les Mis concerts), but it’s quite likely that if the younger ones become a ‘threat’ to them or if they begin to ‘pull focus’ in a more significant way, then the older stars - who might feel past their peak - may wish to ‘create circumstances where they don’t feel threatened’.
To an extent, it’s easy to empathise with this, but it’s not fair on the paying public, who deserve to see the best performer.
Having said all of this, just because Bogyo was panned in Moulin Rouge doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be ‘bad’ in Aspects of Love.
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