7,175 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Jon on Jan 22, 2016 18:26:17 GMT
Currently the hottest ticket on Broadway and rumoured to be coming to London in 2017. Having seen it a few months back, I think it's the best show I've seen in a while and haven't stopped listening to the cast recording.
|
|
2,452 posts
|
Post by theatremadness on Jan 22, 2016 18:29:41 GMT
On my 3rd listen of the cast recording as of today (with many, many more to come!) and it just keeps getting better and better. I love re-visiting all the parts of the album that I adore and discover more and more with each listen. Just brilliant! Hope it does come to London. Don't care whether it works here or not (many said Mormon would flop here), but just want a chance to see it! And it would be wonderful if the Ham4Ham tradition carried on over here with mini-performances with special guests outside the theatre during the lottery!
|
|
7,175 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Jon on Jan 22, 2016 18:34:49 GMT
On my 3rd listen of the cast recording as of today (with many, many more to come!) and it just keeps getting better and better. I love re-visiting all the parts of the album that I adore and discover more and more with each listen. Just brilliant! Hope it does come to London. Don't care whether it works here or not (many said Mormon would flop here), but just want a chance to see it! And it would be wonderful if the Ham4Ham tradition carried on over here with mini-performances with special guests outside the theatre during the lottery! Ham4Ham will likely depend on what theatre they go to. I think it would be good if they did it inside the theatre rather than outside |
|
840 posts
|
Post by Steffi on Jan 22, 2016 18:55:52 GMT
Ham4Ham in London might be a problem if it becomes too popular. They have been struggling with the amount of people turning up on Broadway. There's probably not enough space outside most London theatres.
|
|
5,053 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Phantom of London on Jan 22, 2016 20:02:36 GMT
Didn't Andrew Lloyd Webber say on his recent Radio 2 stand in for Elaine Paige "that Hamilton was annoyingly the best new musical since Oklahoma".
|
|
330 posts
|
Post by charliec on Jan 24, 2016 12:20:45 GMT
Apparently a new Broadway booking period will be opening shortly for anyone keeping an eye on these things.
|
|
4,803 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Mark on Jan 24, 2016 12:50:55 GMT
I am so infuriated by whats happened to this show in terms of touts. Hundreds and hundreds of tickets to ever performance remaining unsold with obscene price tags. I wish the venues would put an end to it.
|
|
163 posts
|
Post by Scots UK Theatre on Jan 24, 2016 15:27:18 GMT
Apparently a new Broadway booking period will be opening shortly for anyone keeping an eye on these things. They go on general sale 2 February. Unfortunately American Express pre sale prior to that. |
|
1,013 posts
|
Post by talkstageytome on Jan 26, 2016 0:36:05 GMT
Having planned out my schedule for my trip to NY, the chance I'll even have time to enter the lottery is looking very slim, so I've been listening to the cast album incessantly (again) instead. I'm thrilled that this show is all but confirmed for a West End transfer, but 2017 feels so far away! As far as casting goes, I'd love for the whole cast to come over, but if not, I've been trying to dream up a hypothetical UK cast. I'm thinking Rachel John (yep, I'd cast her in anything and everything!), Lily Frazer, and Lucy St. Louis for Angelica, Eliza and Peggy respectively!). Just a bit of fun really, but still, it's exciting to think of this show coming over at some point. Hopefully as soon as possible!
|
|
|
|
Post by firefingers on Jan 26, 2016 0:39:01 GMT
I wonder if any drama schools are considering adding rap to the syllabus, given the popularity of this show?
|
|
5,053 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Phantom of London on Jan 26, 2016 0:41:50 GMT
Read on BWW that there are 'bots' automatically snapping up tickets, therefore denying real fans.
The new premium tickets are eye watering too.
|
|
26 posts
|
Post by Adara on Jan 26, 2016 3:10:41 GMT
I am so infuriated by whats happened to this show in terms of touts. Hundreds and hundreds of tickets to ever performance remaining unsold with obscene price tags. I wish the venues would put an end to it. It should, eventually, put an end to itself. Which is to say: if you bought up a few hundred tickets intending to sell them at a massive profit, and they ended up going unsold, you would rethink your strategy. The problem is that there are, at present, some people who will actually PAY THOSE PRICES (think businesspeople trying to impress clients with last-minute tickets to the hottest show in town). But that's going to be a small segment of the market, and hopefully the touts and the bot-operators will have lots of tickets on their hands they'll have to unload at face value (if at all). We all have to Just Say No to buying those tickets, and the touts will stop. It's hard for the venues to stop it -- short of instituting a no-transfer policy and making everyone show ID at the door. |
|
2,041 posts
|
Post by 49thand8th on Jan 26, 2016 4:51:12 GMT
One of the panels at BroadwayCon that I went to addressed the issue of premium seats. They didn't offer any solutions (the panelists were Robert Viagas and Peter Filichia), but they did basically say that. The prices ARE those prices because there are always going to be people out there willing to pay it. Which is a huge shame.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 9:01:06 GMT
People are paying the obscene mark-up prices though. www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/arts/for-those-with-hamilton-tickets-a-storm-of-disappointment.html Some people can afford to pay more for the convenience of not having to wait a year, or they don't mind splashing out as a special one-off treat, and I wouldn't be surprised if - because people expect Broadway tickets to be awfully expensive - some people simply don't realise how ripped off they're getting. I don't mind premium seats, because the more expensive seats for a show will subsidise the cheaper seats I like to sit in, but this secondary market is nothing short of criminal exploitation. |
|
330 posts
|
Post by charliec on Jan 26, 2016 14:16:30 GMT
US national tour announced starting in San Francisco in March 2017, then on to LA in August.
|
|
2,041 posts
|
Post by 49thand8th on Jan 26, 2016 15:18:18 GMT
|
|
7,175 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Jon on Jan 26, 2016 15:55:32 GMT
A London annoucment probably won't be too far off although depends when they decide to open it and at what theatre. |
|
|
|
Post by firefingers on Jan 26, 2016 19:13:08 GMT
It would make sense for Lin-Manuel Miranda to leave the Broadway company, direct and open the tour and then move swiftly over to the UK to open it here (or maybe even before?!). But yeah, next summer would be the latest I'd expect Hamilton over here.
|
|
7,175 posts
Member is Online
|
Post by Jon on Jan 26, 2016 21:16:24 GMT
It would make sense for Lin-Manuel Miranda to leave the Broadway company, direct and open the tour and then move swiftly over to the UK to open it here (or maybe even before?!). But yeah, next summer would be the latest I'd expect Hamilton over here. If it's opening at the Victoria Palace then i think it'll be around May or June since the refurbishment is going to take a year but they'll still need to load in the set and rehearse with the cast in the theatre |
|
2,041 posts
|
Post by 49thand8th on Jan 26, 2016 21:57:14 GMT
I can't imagine LMM would do Broadway and London AND one of the longer tour stops. I'd think it'd be one of the two. He's already worn out and seems to be calling out more and more these days. It is a BEAST of a role and he's always working on 56 other things all the time anyway. (Plus he has a wife and new baby.)
|
|
|
|
Post by firefingers on Jan 26, 2016 23:44:26 GMT
I can't imagine LMM would do Broadway and London AND one of the longer tour stops. I'd think it'd be one of the two. He's already worn out and seems to be calling out more and more these days. It is a BEAST of a role and he's always working on 56 other things all the time anyway. (Plus he has a wife and new baby.) I don't think he'd do either London or the tour IN THE CAST. But he will direct both of them. I suspect he will leave Broadway, direct the tour company, open that, then move to London to rehearse in that company. Probably leave the Broadway company in September so he can start running auditions for both of them. Once all 3 productions are open he'll then move onto something new. |
|
2,041 posts
|
Post by 49thand8th on Jan 27, 2016 0:10:41 GMT
He's not the director. That's Thomas Kail.
|
|
|
|
Post by firefingers on Jan 27, 2016 0:34:05 GMT
He's not the director. That's Thomas Kail. Sorry, didn't mean director. But as creator of book, lyrics, score etc he won't want a major production happening without overseeing it himself. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 9:01:01 GMT
As a theatre professional, I'm pretty sure he's willing to trust other theatre professionals to do their jobs. He hasn't even been to see the London production of In The Heights, let alone insisted on overseeing things. (And yes, I know it's probably a different scale to a Hamilton tour, but still. When one is busy, one is busy.)
(Also there'll be two tours so two tour casts, all the more reason to not get involved in personally supervising all of the productions!)
|
|
330 posts
|
Post by charliec on Jan 27, 2016 10:03:13 GMT
Someone suggested somewhere that Lin Manuel Miranda might come over and open as Hamilton in London for 3 months. I quite like that for plausibility!
|
|
