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Post by Mark on Jun 6, 2023 9:07:12 GMT
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Post by ladidah on Jun 6, 2023 9:37:12 GMT
chitty on tour sounds awful!
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Post by johnie21 on Jun 6, 2023 9:51:30 GMT
chitty on tour sounds awful! It went out on tour before with Carrie as truly and worked wonderfully. |
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Post by theatrenerd on Jun 6, 2023 10:00:36 GMT
Very excited by this as Chitty was the show that made me fall in love with theatre. Didn’t manage to catch the 2016 tour, but saw the original Palladium cast and the 2006 tour, so looking forward to a new production! As it’s produced by Crossroads, I imagine we’ll see some star casting from their pantomimes or Michael Harrison productions.
EDIT: Purely for the purpose of being nostalgic at this delightful news, here is “The Making Of…” documentary with some of the songs from the original production. I must have watched that DVD a thousand times!
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Post by alicechallice on Jun 6, 2023 10:01:38 GMT
This is TRENDING on Twitter! Does that often happen with UK theatre tours?
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Post by ladidah on Jun 6, 2023 10:34:44 GMT
chitty on tour sounds awful! It went out on tour before with Carrie as truly and worked wonderfully. Sorry, I meant the name! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 6, 2023 16:27:32 GMT
 A new thread for this new production directed by Thom Southerland, with choreography by Karen Bruce, set and costume design by Morgan Large, orchestrations and musical supervision by George Dyer. The production will open in Southampton and visit Woking, Wimbledon, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Bromley, Milton Keynes, Belfast, Torquay, Llandudno, Glasgow, Inverness, Norwich, Oxford, Liverpool, Stoke, Leicester, Eastbourne and Bournemouth with more dates tba. |
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Post by sph on Jun 6, 2023 17:16:55 GMT
This is TRENDING on Twitter! Does that often happen with UK theatre tours? I sometimes wonder about the things I see trending - the column on the right showing "trending" on my twitter usually includes a few theatre-related things, presumably because of the algorithms based on the people I follow and the tweets I interact with. It probably doesn't display as "trending" for a football fan for example. |
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 6, 2023 18:43:36 GMT
Produced by Curve and Michael Harrison - looking forward to the car projections!!!
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Post by theatrenerd on Jun 6, 2023 19:05:58 GMT
Produced by Curve and Michael Harrison - looking forward to the car projections!!! Curve is a venue on the tour but I don’t think it’s them producing. Also it’s David Ian and Crossroads Live so (contrary to what I said earlier) I don’t think Harrison has any involvement (although he is head of the Crossroads Pantomime devision so I could be wrong). |
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 6, 2023 19:09:44 GMT
Oh wow even worse
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Post by anthony40 on Jun 6, 2023 20:14:37 GMT
May I ask a general question?
I very well could be wrong but it's my understanding there were 5 cars used for the movie- one with propellers, one with flotation devices, etc and because of the value of each of these vehicles now, and the fact that they're a collectors item, they have recreated the car, but a smaller version for the stage show.
Can someone please clarify? Thanking you all in advance.
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Post by theatrenerd on Jun 6, 2023 21:35:36 GMT
May I ask a general question? I very well could be wrong but it's my understanding there were 5 cars used for the movie- one with propellers, one with flotation devices, etc and because of the value of each of these vehicles now, and the fact that they're a collectors item, they have recreated the car, but a smaller version for the stage show. Can someone please clarify? Thanking you all in advance. The car from the original Palladium production (which if I'm not mistaken was the same size as the film car) was made so it could do all 3 - fly, float and "drive around" on stage. It cost £750,000 which at the time (not sure if it still does) held the Guinness World Record for the most expensive stage prop, and the famous Palladium drum revolve was taken out especially so that it could be stored under the stage. The subsequent 2005-2007 UK tour used the same car which travelled to bigger venues for longer runs (3-4 months in each venue) and I believe some of them even had to make holes in the stage to accommodate the mechanism (but not store the car underneath like the Palladium could). The subsequent tours used smaller cars I'm assuming to reduce costs and so it could tour to smaller venues for short 1-2 week runs. |
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Post by carmella1 on Jun 7, 2023 18:41:43 GMT
chitty on tour sounds awful! Not to those of us who saw it. It was very well done and enjoyed. |
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Post by willjam39 on Jun 8, 2023 9:14:28 GMT
There is a company who have also built two Chittys to hire to Amdram companies when they do the show. They recently had the Broadway car in for restoration, i wonder if this will be the car used?
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Post by ladidah on Jun 8, 2023 14:05:50 GMT
chitty on tour sounds awful! Not to those of us who saw it. It was very well done and enjoyed. Sorry, I did clarify earlier - I meant the webpage name! |
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Post by solangelafitte on Nov 16, 2023 14:08:02 GMT
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Post by danb on Nov 16, 2023 17:27:59 GMT
I love Adam Garcia but this is the MT-role equivalent of recording a Christmas album. I guess middle age gets us all.
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Post by ilovewemusicals on Nov 16, 2023 18:59:31 GMT
Only up to and including Liverpool |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Nov 16, 2023 20:15:02 GMT
Lullaby Mountain is gonna be… rough.
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Post by Being Alive on Nov 16, 2023 20:17:04 GMT
Go watch him do a nice dance to Ole Bamboo and then leave before Hushabye Mountain.
Home in time for Corrie.
Lovely.
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Post by theatrenerd on Feb 18, 2024 15:41:38 GMT
Liam Fox (Dan Spencer from Emmerdale) as Grandpa Potts
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Post by toomasj on Feb 19, 2024 11:28:48 GMT
Weirdly, they are using the above named soap opera chap on all the posters/banners and blurb for most venues - and not even a passing mention of Adam Garcia. I wonder if he’s doing the whole tour - I suspect he might only be doing the bigger venues. I haven’t heard of him personally but then I haven’t seen Emmerdale in my life.
This little fluff video did give me a chuckle though, Thom and Karen Bruce all but said “FINALLY someone who can sing, dance and act”. And not, say, Brian Conley, Kevin Kennedy or Aled Jones
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Post by theatrenerd on Feb 19, 2024 11:55:58 GMT
Weirdly, they are using the above named soap opera chap on all the posters/banners and blurb for most venues - and not even a passing mention of Adam Garcia. I wonder if he’s doing the whole tour - I suspect he might only be doing the bigger venues. I haven’t heard of him personally but then I haven’t seen Emmerdale in my life. Adam Garcia is only doing up to Liverpool (8-20 October) whereas Liam Fox must be staying on afterwards. |
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Post by toomasj on Feb 19, 2024 12:08:08 GMT
Weirdly, they are using the above named soap opera chap on all the posters/banners and blurb for most venues - and not even a passing mention of Adam Garcia. I wonder if he’s doing the whole tour - I suspect he might only be doing the bigger venues. I haven’t heard of him personally but then I haven’t seen Emmerdale in my life. Adam Garcia is only doing up to Liverpool (8-20 October) whereas Liam Fox must be staying on afterwards. Damn it, guess I’m going to Southampton then! Thanks for the info. He’s probably booked for panto. |
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