Follies

[loureviews]

I've been following Philip Quast ever since Sunday in the Park more years ago than I care to remember; if he has done his final musical performance here I will be sad but have so many happy memories ... then again if he comes back for another Follies run I will be there

Remember South Pacific at the NT too.

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He's played the Judge a few times in Sweeney, but I think it's CRIMINAL that we never got to hear him as Todd. Matched with someone of Julia McKenzie's ability, think how definite that would've been. Quast has won the Best Actor in a Musical Olivier three times - for The Fix, Sunday in the Park, and the NT South Pacific in which he was quite brilliant. I can't imagine the NT re-mounting Follies without his participation but who knows?

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Where have these rumours of a rreturn come from, I'm so confused haha! I don't usually follow this thread that much. Is this a confirmed thing? I'd be willing to give this one a second chance, I wish I had rewatched it first time around as I couldn't tell you half the stuff that happened on that stage in hindsight.

[nialld]

Saw an NT Live Encore screening of Follies tonight - Peter Forbes was also in the audience!!

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Jan 15, 2018 22:46:45 GMT @anthonyhope said:

He's played the Judge a few times in Sweeney, but I think it's CRIMINAL that we never got to hear him as Todd. Matched with someone of Julia McKenzie's ability, think how definite that would've been. Quast has won the Best Actor in a Musical Olivier three times - for The Fix, Sunday in the Park, and the NT South Pacific in which he was quite brilliant. I can't imagine the NT re-mounting Follies without his participation but who knows?

I saw him do a concert version of Sweeney as the Judge at the RFH years ago. He after being killed he spent a good portion of time under a sheet at the side of stage...and when he was finally able to subtly escape (as subtly as a man of his stature can) he got a bonus round of applause...

[theatremadness]

It's coming back!

Speaking at the Critics' Circle Awards in London, Cooke said: "We are going to bring Follies back. We think it'll be around this time next year but we aren't sure. We don't know who's going to be cast, everything is up for grabs. It'll be at the National, and the hope is that it'll go somewhere afterwards but at the moment we're focussing on the Olivier.



"It gives us the chance to go back and rework things, and rediscover things, and creatively that's a real privilege."

Full article on WoS:

www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/national-theatre-follies-2019_45658.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=30jan2018

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Dominic Cooke has confirmed they have every intention to revive Follies next year, though too early to say anything more concrete, including casting. www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/national-theatre-follies-2019_45658.html

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Get your rustling sweet wrappers and ice filled drinks ready...Imelda is waiting

[couldileaveyou]

I don't know why, and I'd be glad to be proved wrong, but I have the feeling she won't come back

[Being Alive]

So happy about this!
I’d be incredibly surprised if Imelda comes back for this - although I wouldn’t fall out with it if she did!

[martin1965]

I would go again and it would be interesting with a different cast.

[theatremadness]

I loved the 'original' cast for this, but it would also be a brilliant opportunity for a brand new cast and take on this production and it would 100% get me back again! Wouldn't particularly feel any need to see it again with the same cast, as much as I absolutely adored it.

[couldileaveyou]

If they recast can we have Joanna Riding as Sally and Haydn Gwynne as Phyllis?

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Oooh, is this where the 'Bring Back Anita Dobson as Stella' campaign starts?

[zak97]

I’d really like to see Claire Moore as Sally, Joanna Riding as Carlotta, and Sophie Louise Dann as Phyllis.

[zak97]

Thinking about Anita Louise Combe would be a good Phyllis.

[TallPaul]

Imelda Staunton is on The Graham Norton Show on Friday night. Although unlikely, maybe she'll reveal some exclusive news.

(I wonder if she'll decline to have a drink with her on the couch?)

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Jan 30, 2018 14:02:15 GMT zak97 said:

I’d really like to see Claire Moore as Sally, Joanna Riding as Carlotta, and Sophie Louise Dann as Phyllis.

Oh smashing, if danieljohnson14's theory is correct, the show will open on Monday and close by Friday leaving the theatre free for something else to come in.

One of those nice plays by Bill Kenwright with Martin Shaw and/or Jenny Seagrove or something like that.

[Being Alive]

I’d like to see Jo Riding as Phylis actually - I don’t know how suitable people think she is, but I think she’d be great.
And I don’t want anyone as Carlotta about from Tracie Bennett.

[theatremadness]

Cast recording will be released later this year, apparently!

Cooke added that a cast recording had taken place shortly after the production closed, which will be released later this year.

“We did it straight after we finished. It was so was so nice to finish that way, to record what the actors did on stage – which was brilliant – and manage to recreate that in the studio.”

www.thestage.co.uk/news/2018/follies-return-national-theatre-release-cast-recording/

[showtoones]

Jan 30, 2018 14:06:40 GMT @ryan said:

Jan 30, 2018 14:02:15 GMT zak97 said:

I’d really like to see Claire Moore as Sally, Joanna Riding as Carlotta, and Sophie Louise Dann as Phyllis.

Oh smashing, if danieljohnson14's theory is correct, the show will open on Monday and close by Friday leaving the theatre free for something else to come in.

One of those nice plays by Bill Kenwright with Martin Shaw and/or Jenny Seagrove or something like that.

If Jenny Seagrove is there, than so am I .

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Jan 30, 2018 14:08:49 GMT Being Alive said:

I’d like to see Jo Riding as Phylis actually - I don’t know how suitable people think she is, but I think she’d be great.
And I don’t want anyone as Carlotta about from Tracie Bennett.

She'd be fantastic, her Charlotte in ALNM was extraordinary and these two characters have a lot in common.

[Someone in a tree]

Hopefully they can get things right on a second attempt!

[Oleanna]

Would be more interested in seeing a different cast (apart from Quast).

Love Joanna Riding, but she doesn’t have the voice for this.

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Jan 30, 2018 14:06:40 GMT @ryan said:

Jan 30, 2018 14:02:15 GMT zak97 said:

I’d really like to see Claire Moore as Sally, Joanna Riding as Carlotta, and Sophie Louise Dann as Phyllis.

Oh smashing, if danieljohnson14 's theory is correct, the show will open on Monday and close by Friday leaving the theatre free for something else to come in.

One of those nice plays by Bill Kenwright with Martin Shaw and/or Jenny Seagrove or something like that.

She is most definately the black widow of new musicals. If a revival opens with her in and flops, then she really is just a lost cause.