Pro-shot recommendations?

[cronker]

I really enjoyed Company. Great cast, orchestra and production. Can’t believe I haven’t seen this on stage before, it’s a great show.

[Someone in a tree]

Glad you enjoyed it cronker which one did you watch as at least 3 pro shots are about
Sam Mendees -Donmar Warehouse
John Doyle's - actor musican on Broadway
Lonny Price - NY Phil

[blamerobots]

I rewatched the Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds live show the other day and it's great. It's in concert and it isn't really a conventional musical (the 70's were weird) but it's a phenomenal score, and there's video segments with actors.

It's on Youtube as well.

[danb]

One of the most bonkers evening’s entertainment I have ever attended! The stuff you do for your (Fletcher-loving) kids. Great when it was good, but with endless stretches of twiddliness. Needs seeing once though.

[cronker]

I watched the Lonny Price 🫠

[blamerobots]

Jul 26, 2024 7:27:05 GMT danb said:

One of the most bonkers evening’s entertainment I have ever attended! The stuff you do for your (Fletcher-loving) kids. Great when it was good, but with endless stretches of twiddliness. Needs seeing once though.

I went to the immersive theatre thing in London and CHF is in that as a hologram. She doesn't sing though, and gets smacked off the virtual stage literally 2 minutes after showing up! Great fun though.

[curiouskc]

Described as a play with music rather than a musical, but I thoroughly recommend checking out the pro-shot of Wise Children on Digital Theatre. I saw it when it was on tour and am now a devoted fan of Emma Rice. The pro-shot of her Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (on the same platform) is well-worth a look too. 

[FairyGodmother]

Miss Saigon is good, and if you buy the DVD you get the anniversary celebration bit too with lots more singing. (And Alistair Brammer and Lea Salonga both taking full advantage of a choreographed snog )


Some of the live filmed-for-tv ones (Grease, The Sound of Music and Hairspray but there might be more) pop up every so often and are quite fun. TSoM Live was on the television only a couple of weeks ago.

[anthony40]

I forgot about Newsies. You can stream Newsies.

[anthony40]

Jul 25, 2024 16:04:42 GMT Arcana said:

Jul 25, 2024 9:09:50 GMT anthony40 said:

On the National Theatre's YouTube channel you can see a pro-shoot of The Little Big Things

Did you mean ntathome.com?
Cause I couldn't find it on YouTube. 

www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whats-on/the-little-big-things-a-new-musical/

[cronker]

Thanks anthony40 for that. I have seen the Newsies pro. I think the dancing was awesome. The plot is perhaps a little thin and Jeremy Jordan spends quite a bit of time selling to the back row but there’s some good spots/songs.
I find it a bit odd that they keep reprising the same couple of songs for much of the early part of Act One - maybe they were trying to really cement the music themes early on.
Overall pretty good, and very well filmed.

[andrew]

My favourites have to be Miss Saigon, Les Mis 10th anniversary (really a concert though not a pro-shot musical) and what I see as the Sondheim proshot trilogy - Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, Sunday in the Park with George.

I showed Miss Saigon to my partner during lockdown and he really got into it despite having never seen it before, I think it's a really well done recording of a phenomenal cast.

[cronker]

I too have watched a proshot of Saigon, and it was great because it was the same production and cast that I had just seen on stage when the tour came through my city!

[Someone in a tree]

Below is some youtube links that i dont think have been mentioned

Another Sunday

And below is some retro ones - enjoy

[partytentdown]

There is a pro shot of Grey Gardens?!

[BurlyBeaR]

Bootlegs removed. 

By all means direct members to relevant youtube channels but please don’t post unauthorised full length clips on the forum.