It could have been so different if......

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A thread for moments when Musical Theatre makers could have zigged but they zagged - with either delightful or disastrous consequences.

I'll start, with:

It could have been so different if.....ALW had (with BBC or ITV) created not only an audio-recorded musical '(Bad)Cinderella' as he did, but a made for TV musical, as a feel-good lockdown escapist treat for the nation. It would even have followed the path of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Cinderella' in being TV first.  A lot of people would have loved him/it for that. Amateur stagings would have followed and a few professional ones for Christmas.  A 'gift to the nation'* would have been remembered, rather than an acrimonious flop.

*okay, I've gone a bit OTT there, lol.

[oxfordsimon]

I can see the appeal of that approach.

But it wouldn't have dealt with the awful book and music that doesn't really rival ALW at his best.

But we will never know!

There is always the what if speculation of what would have happened of ALW and Tim Rice hadn't parted company.

What shows could they have created together?