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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 14, 2017 14:43:37 GMT
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Post by jgblunners on Apr 14, 2017 14:48:02 GMT
42nd Street probably has the largest cast on the West End at the moment, but I wonder what the record is?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2017 16:55:51 GMT
Not sure of the largest cast but, as an opening gambit, Max Reinhardt's 'The Eternal Road' (music by Kurt Weill), seen in New York in 1937 had 245 performers. I would imagine there are community productions that have gone well beyond that, though.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 14, 2017 18:08:31 GMT
If open air performaing counts then I'm sure numerous pageants with casts of hundreds if not thousands have taken place over the centuries.
42nd Street wouldn't have a record for cast size even out of current London productions. It may be the biggest in the West End but just up the road the ROH has a chorus of about 50 plus principals for most of its performances. Looking at the programme for the last opera I saw there, Les Contes D'Hoffmann, it lists 15 principals, the standard chorus of 49 and 26 extra chorus so that was 90 people on stage altogether. (Hmm, maybe this explains why I was less impressed by 42nd Street than many board mambers.)
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Post by jgblunners on Apr 14, 2017 18:42:11 GMT
Ahh of course - including ROH didn't cross my mind as I think of opera as an entirely different category to musicals. And for the record, I found the ensemble of 42nd Street extremely impressive despite having seen many productions at the ROH - watching 50 people tap dancing in perfect unison is completely different to watching 50 people standing still and singing! The Royal Ballet comes close, but I don't think I've seen a ballet production where there were quite that many dancing simultaneously.
Anyway, back on topic - what do people reckon the record for biggest flop would go to (in terms of money lost on the production)? The famous flop is Carrie, but did that have loads of money behind it? I know that Dance of the Vampires on Broadway had pretty massive set pieces and didn't run for very long...
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 14, 2017 18:54:16 GMT
Just a quick one on numbers of ballet dancers - the ENB Swan Lake at the Royal Albert Hall had 60 swans plus all the others. What the maximum on at any one time was, I am not sure.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 14, 2017 19:49:07 GMT
How many were in the cast for The Vote at The Donmar? There were quite a lot
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Post by joem on Apr 14, 2017 21:37:01 GMT
Paul Kieve may well hold another record - longest time in responding to an email. I got one from him about two years after I sent him an enquiry. To be fair he'd gone off to work on Broadway and at least he did reply.
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Post by ncbears on Apr 15, 2017 22:31:33 GMT
George Lee Andrews played Monsieur Andre in the US Phantom of the Opera for 9382 performances over 23 years (1988-2011).
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Post by Jon on Apr 16, 2017 0:17:42 GMT
Pretty sure "Spiderman" was the biggest ever flop, financially, in Broadway history? Most expensive theatre production ever at $75m. That show went seriously overbudget. |
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 17, 2017 7:44:06 GMT
The "record" for first theatre named after an actor (the Garrick) is not correct. It's not even the first named after Garrick. There was the Garrick Theatre in Leman Street Whitechapel which opened 59 years earlier in 1830. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2017 8:02:58 GMT
The "record" for first theatre named after an actor (the Garrick) is not correct. Good use of scare quotes. Some of the "records" are getting ridiculous. Everything that has ever been done was, at one point, done for the first time. If it's going to be treated as a record there should at least be some element of "not everybody could have done this" about it. I wonder what the record is for the most "Oh come on, now you're not even trying" entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2017 10:43:41 GMT
I wonder what the record is for most people on stage that have 'gender fluid' as their gender on Facebook?
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 17, 2017 11:02:47 GMT
A lot of gender fluid on stage is a devil to clear up.
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