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Post by curiouskc on Apr 24, 2024 16:41:38 GMT
Do we know (or can we guess) what months/time of year this will be on?
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Post by Dave B on Apr 24, 2024 16:45:13 GMT
A composer, high on MDMA, reads a chapter of Tolstoy's War & Peace, tells everyone "Hold my beer" and comes up with a crazy electropop adaptation that fuses synthizers with Russian folk music and the audience gets to eat Russian dumplings. I've gone from zero interest to a whole lot of interest! |
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Post by Mark on Apr 24, 2024 16:45:15 GMT
For those of us who haven’t seen it, how would you describe the show? After the first 5 minutes, I thought, wow this is going to be bloody great. And then I just couldn't click with it. It is crazy. The opening number is brilliantly done. |
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Post by Scswp on Apr 24, 2024 16:47:40 GMT
Later this year? Any dates?
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Post by danb on Apr 24, 2024 16:51:03 GMT
A composer, high on MDMA, reads a chapter of Tolstoy's War & Peace, tells everyone "Hold my beer" and comes up with a crazy electropop adaptation that fuses synthizers with Russian folk music and the audience gets to eat Russian dumplings. Oh you are good! You should write the blurb on dvd cases (twenty years ago 😂). |
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Post by elfman1 on Apr 24, 2024 17:02:00 GMT
And you know who has a rumour
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 24, 2024 17:15:23 GMT
Consider me...shocked.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Apr 24, 2024 18:17:56 GMT
Was not a fan of the show State Side but the production design as well as sound design (considering most of the ensemble were actor muso) was the best I’ve ever seen and outs a lot of shows to shame. I’m curious to see how it would work in a smaller space.
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Post by singingbird on Apr 24, 2024 18:45:59 GMT
Soooo excited by this. I've never been able to click with the OBC but have loved all three Dave Malloy shows I have seen (Witches, Preludes and the incredible Ghost Quartet) so I have high hopes that this will fall into place when I finally see it on stage.
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Post by max on Apr 24, 2024 19:13:45 GMT
With the Broadway version quite immersive (in terms of action/walkways in and out of the audience) if it was a big hit here then it could be good for the reconfigured Playhouse, if 'Cabaret' has lost steam by then. However, I'm more than a bit previous with talk of a transfer! Also, if 'Cabaret' doesn't do as well as hoped on Broadway, any investors in common between West End and Broadway may want to get the remaining life out of the production that soared.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Apr 24, 2024 19:32:00 GMT
max you have reminded me of how I felt when. I first saw the Kit Kat Club in previews!!! It was a throwback to GC 🤣
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Post by max on Apr 24, 2024 20:29:41 GMT
max you have reminded me of how I felt when. I first saw the Kit Kat Club in previews!!! It was a throwback to GC 🤣 It was only when I looked (this evening) at a bootleg video of the NYC show on youtube that I thought of the current Playhouse as similar; but then I did wonder if the debt is the other way around and 'Great Comet' influenced what they did with 'Cabaret'. Despite all that, when I read your post just now on "a throwback to GC" my first thought was: "GC?...GC....um....Gemma Collins?" lol |
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Post by Courfeyrac on Apr 25, 2024 13:24:39 GMT
Well that's exciting! Really hope the dates can work for me. The Donmar's really been providing on the musicals front recently with finally getting Next to Normal in the UK as well.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Apr 25, 2024 16:28:26 GMT
Assuming its true, then its fantastic news "im going to drink tonight" to celebrate
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Post by bellatheatre on Apr 26, 2024 20:02:46 GMT
Playing December 24 to January 25!
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Post by AddisonMizner on Apr 26, 2024 20:10:00 GMT
I didn’t like PRELUDES when I saw it at Southwark. I never got to see GHOST QUARTET, as the performance I was meant to be going to was cancelled due to a technical fault.
I am interested in GREAT COMET though. Sounded really interesting when it was in New York, though I can’t imagine they will replicate that staging at the Donmar. Can they do immersive there due to the size of the space?
Hopefully this is true.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2024 20:17:55 GMT
Playing December 24 to January 25! That seems a very short run |
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Post by Sean on Apr 26, 2024 20:32:39 GMT
Playing December 24 to January 25! Christmas Eve seems a very unusual day to start performances. |
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Post by Jon on Apr 26, 2024 20:33:28 GMT
Playing December 24 to January 25! That seems a very short run Beginning of December to the end of January is similar to Macbeth's run so not unfeasible. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2024 20:54:05 GMT
That seems a very short run Beginning of December to the end of January is similar to Macbeth's run so not unfeasible. But the 24th isn't the beginning of December? A month run seems short |
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Post by jamesd123 on Apr 26, 2024 20:54:53 GMT
Still not official though right? Wonder when they will announce?
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Post by theatre2023 on Apr 26, 2024 21:09:39 GMT
They are going to have a hard time competing with the Broadway version - which was phenomenal! Staging was insane ... especially the immersive on stage seating.
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Post by Jon on Apr 26, 2024 21:12:11 GMT
Beginning of December to the end of January is similar to Macbeth's run so not unfeasible. But the 24th isn't the beginning of December? A month run seems short I think they meant December 2024 to January 2025 which is feasible for an 8 week run. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2024 21:13:07 GMT
But the 24th isn't the beginning of December? A month run seems short I think they meant December 2024 to January 2025 which is feasible for an 8 week run. Ah yeah, read it the other way but yeah that would make more sense |
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Post by Sean on Apr 26, 2024 21:14:55 GMT
I think they meant December 2024 to January 2025 which is feasible for an 8 week run. Ah yeah, read it the other way but yeah that would make more sense Read it the other way also. This makes a lot more sense. My bad! |
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