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Post by cartoonman on Sept 10, 2023 14:46:55 GMT
There is a rumour that the NT will do West Side Story. Can anyone confirm? I would happily pay extra, as with Follies, to see it.
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Post by Dave B on Sept 10, 2023 14:52:53 GMT
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Post by cartoonman on Sept 10, 2023 18:35:03 GMT
Thank You Dave B & Kit66. Some of the shows mentioned, such as Nye, the NT will stage so I'm hopeful that WSS may come to pass.
I do like a Hollywood musical. I saw Carousel this summer, at the Royal Academy of Music, and it was superb. I do hope they do another. With a big young cast Grease would be good.
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Post by Fleance on Sept 10, 2023 18:57:08 GMT
Ivo van Hove's production of West Side Story opened on Broadway in February 2020 (previews from December 2019), closing in March 2020, due to the Covid closings. I loved it, although many purists didn't, and there were personnel problems as well. It might have reopened as Covid abated, but the film opened in late 2021. It's a shame -- it was an interesting production, and deeply moving. I wonder if the NT production will be van Hove's?
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Post by Rory on Sept 10, 2023 19:04:49 GMT
I wonder if they just picked this as a big musical example for the survey, in terms of what people would be willing to pay to see a big musical show etc
Not too sure this and Idris Elba's Hamlet are actual planned productions but time will tell.
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Post by toomasj on Sept 10, 2023 19:38:49 GMT
Please not Ivo Van Hove.
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Sept 10, 2023 20:00:19 GMT
I doubt the NT would bring over a Scott Rudin show, given everything that happened. Plus a homegrown production would probably do then more for the NT’s optics |
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Post by marob on Sept 10, 2023 20:04:00 GMT
It could just be an example, but there is also this thread from July where it’s mentioned as a possibility theatreboard.co.uk/thread/10884/west-side-story-2024Really hope this does happen. I would love to see the NT’s resources go into doing this with a big cast on a huge set in the Olivier. |
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Post by toomasj on Sept 10, 2023 20:04:12 GMT
I doubt the NT would bring over a Scott Rudin show, given everything that happened. Plus a homegrown production would probably do then more for the NT’s optics I believe and hope you’re right. I’d just hate for this huge opportunity to get into the wrong hands. |
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Post by bobby on Sept 10, 2023 22:03:25 GMT
Just wondering if it could be the production that opens in Paris in a few weeks at the Théâtre du Châtelet (This new version of "West Side Story", directed by Lonny Price, will be performed from October 20 to December 31, 2023). It says on their website the production is then due to tour, Asia and some of Europe. Doesn’t mention London, but might be a possibility that the NT have their eyes on this one.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 10, 2023 22:09:00 GMT
This isn't happening.
They sent out a survey trying to gage if people would want (and pay) for another Follies style revival (amongst other things)
Someone saw that and took it to mean they're doing it.
They aren't.
Next.
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Post by jgblunners on Sept 10, 2023 22:38:43 GMT
Well, as a contrast to the previous post, I’ve heard that it is happening 😂
Apparently things were uncertain for a while because they were in discussion with the rights holders regarding whether they would be allowed to use new choreography instead of the Jerome Robbins, but that has now been resolved (I don’t know which way it went).
Olivier in Spring next year is what I’ve heard.
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Sept 10, 2023 22:43:06 GMT
the olivier next spring is already a bit busy no?
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Post by theoracle on Sept 10, 2023 22:46:49 GMT
the olivier next spring is already a bit busy no? Maybe Jamie Lloyd wants to do it in the Dorfman  |
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Post by jgblunners on Sept 10, 2023 22:50:14 GMT
the olivier next spring is already a bit busy no? My assumption is that it would go in between Nye and Coriolanus, but I have nothing more concrete to go on. |
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Post by Fleance on Sept 10, 2023 22:52:59 GMT
Well, as a contrast to the previous post, I’ve heard that it is happening 😂 Apparently things were uncertain for a while because they were in discussion with the rights holders regarding whether they would be allowed to use new choreography instead of the Jerome Robbins, but that has now been resolved (I don’t know which way it went). Olivier in Spring next year is what I’ve heard. Much as I loved the van Hove West Side Story, I felt that the choreography was its weakness. (They didn't use Robbins). (Btw, I'd take van Hove over Lonny Price any day. But hopefully a British director will get the gig, if the NT do it.) |
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Post by adamkinsey on Sept 11, 2023 16:38:01 GMT
West Side Story doesn't really need the resources the NT has. I'd rather they chose something they could be far more creative with (as when they did Candide in 1999/2000).
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Post by Alejo on Sept 11, 2023 16:56:20 GMT
This isn't happening. They sent out a survey trying to gage if people would want (and pay) for another Follies style revival (amongst other things) Someone saw that and took it to mean they're doing it. They aren't. Next. Wait...is this like your (now deleted) Starlight Express, "This is not a thing", post? |
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 11, 2023 21:38:35 GMT
You know sometimes we get bad intel, right?
Very happy to not say whenever I hear anything if that makes you feel better 👍
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Post by Alejo on Sept 12, 2023 5:36:23 GMT
You know sometimes we get bad intel, right? Very happy to not say whenever I hear anything if that makes you feel better 👍 To be honest, I'm not bothered about your intel (or lack of, in the case of Starlight Express). It was more your condescending response (ie, "Next") when someone else says they heard a rumour that you haven't heard. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2023 6:42:46 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me given Norris has been pitch rolling with his comments about America "taking musicals more seriously". Probably he recalls the critical abuse heaped on Trevor Nunn at NT when he programmed classic musicals which pretty much stopped them ever doing that again.
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Post by cartoonman on Sept 14, 2023 7:46:27 GMT
It was Trevor Nunn's Hollywood musicals that got me into the NT habit. He did them so well. I took my aged parents to see one of them and they spotted him in the foyer. They thanked him for putting them on and he was so charming. It would be great if he could do WSS.
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Post by cartoonman on Sept 26, 2023 8:02:45 GMT
I was at the NT last night to see the excellent Father and the Assassin and asked some of the front of house staff if they had any knowledge of WSS. No one had so I'm thinking this is just a rumour but it would great if the NT did perform it.
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Post by Being Alive on Sept 26, 2023 8:25:22 GMT
Front of house staff are usually the last people to learn about anything in theatre so to be honest, that isn't much of a Barometer on whether it's happening or not.
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