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Post by bellatheatre on Dec 23, 2023 23:12:47 GMT
Major revival heading to Chichester Festival Theatre in 2024, before transferring to the west end! Cameron Mackintosh to produce!
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Post by Dave B on Dec 24, 2023 8:49:54 GMT
I can't find the post anymore but a while ago had a poster suggesting it was going into the Noel Coward. If so,that would make it a short run between Player Kings and Dr Strangelove or following the latter in January 2025.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 24, 2023 8:59:47 GMT
Major revival heading to Chichester Festival Theatre in 2024, before transferring to the west end! Cameron Mackintosh to produce! Is this different to the Leeds playhouse production? |
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Post by normasturban on Dec 24, 2023 12:42:22 GMT
Major revival heading to Chichester Festival Theatre in 2024, before transferring to the west end! Cameron Mackintosh to produce! Is this different to the Leeds playhouse production? Sadly yes by all accounts. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 24, 2023 12:45:44 GMT
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 24, 2023 22:03:30 GMT
Is this different to the Leeds playhouse production? Sadly yes by all accounts. I wouldn’t be so sure. Cameron saw this in Leeds and absolutely adored it by all accounts. |
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Post by showtoones on Dec 24, 2023 22:34:17 GMT
Sadly yes by all accounts. I wouldn’t be so sure. Cameron saw this in Leeds and absolutely adored it by all accounts. Mr. B - when do you think it would transfer? In time for the festive season next year like Cam Mack did for Half A Sixpence? |
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Dec 24, 2023 23:32:03 GMT
Very excited if this is true - I’ve wanted to see a professional production of Oliver! for ages!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 25, 2023 8:46:21 GMT
I wouldn’t be so sure. Cameron saw this in Leeds and absolutely adored it by all accounts. Mr. B - when do you think it would transfer? In time for the festive season next year like Cam Mack did for Half A Sixpence? I don’t know about the transfer- but certainly Chichester will be announced in February. It will be the main musical opening in July |
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Post by normasturban on Dec 25, 2023 10:15:21 GMT
Sadly yes by all accounts. I wouldn’t be so sure. Cameron saw this in Leeds and absolutely adored it by all accounts. Would be VERY pleasantly surprised in that case. |
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Post by alicechallice on Dec 25, 2023 11:28:07 GMT
How would this work though if plans were already in place for Chichester's own production? If Justin Audibert was planning to direct, for example, or if the designer or musical director were already in place.
Does that all just get thrown out?
We've been talking about it on here for a few months so a lot must have been in the planning stages.
Happy Xmas everybody, btw.
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Post by theatregod on Dec 25, 2023 11:49:38 GMT
The playhouse production will be taken to Chichester next summer with adjustments, then, transferring in after starlight express, some time in 2025..
That’s my prediction..
The Leeds production could also just transfer, it’s so good and worthy of a home in London.
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Post by ceebee on Dec 25, 2023 12:07:32 GMT
To me, it would be a no-brainer to transfer the Leeds production. It's fantastic, absolutely superb.
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Post by FrontrowverPaul on Dec 25, 2023 12:11:54 GMT
A few weeks after I booked my ticket for Oliver at Leeds I was informed that the staging would now be "in the round" with the option to request a change of seat if I wished.
That would certainly link to a potential transfer to Chichester rather the two separate but similarly staged productions. A significant cost saving too.
Best production of Oliver I have ever seen, ready-made gold-plated sure-fire crowd-pleasing hit wherever it goes next !
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 25, 2023 12:43:05 GMT
Given that Cam Mack controls the rights for this show, he won't allow any professional productions within at least 100 miles of London
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Post by ShoreditchTom on Dec 25, 2023 12:44:55 GMT
Also if Chichester have lost a fortune with Crazy for You in London could be very cost effective to go with existing Oliver this season??
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Post by Jon on Dec 25, 2023 12:49:06 GMT
Also if Chichester have lost a fortune with Crazy for You in London could be very cost effective to go with existing Oliver this season?? Chichester didn't produce solely CFY, it had commercial producers. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 25, 2023 13:15:16 GMT
Also if Chichester have lost a fortune with Crazy for You in London could be very cost effective to go with existing Oliver this season?? Chichester didn't produce solely CFY, it had commercial producers. Chichester wouldn’t have had any liability at all with the west end run. |
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Post by ShoreditchTom on Dec 25, 2023 13:29:04 GMT
Chichester didn't produce solely CFY, it had commercial producers. Chichester wouldn’t have had any liability at all with the west end run. Ah cool that is good to know! |
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Post by jay on Dec 25, 2023 23:53:06 GMT
Chichester wouldn’t have had any liability at all with the west end run. Ah cool that is good to know! Cam Mac will produce Oliver next year - first in Chichester in the summer of 2024 and will then transfer the production to the West End in Jan 2025. The production will have no links at all with the Leeds Playhouse production. That production will close at the end of its Leeds run. The director of the new production will be someone already with links to the last outing of the West End production in 2009- and will not be directed by the director of the Leeds production. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 26, 2023 10:11:27 GMT
Matthew Bourne is directing Chichesters one I believe
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 26, 2023 10:22:55 GMT
So its going to be a very camp one then?
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Post by mrbarnaby on Dec 26, 2023 10:40:09 GMT
So its going to be a very camp one then? That’s a bit unfair! |
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Post by Boob on Dec 26, 2023 11:30:01 GMT
Matthew Bourne is directing Chichesters one I believe If he is, I hope he’s allowed to do something brand new with it, rather than just a scaled down version of the Mendes original/Goold revival. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Dec 26, 2023 11:50:20 GMT
The most important thing is they don't cast Matt Lucas as Fagin
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