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Post by d'James on Aug 11, 2017 11:48:15 GMT
I assume he'll be presenting the German duet "Für Immer" for public consumption. And maybe something new as a present for the 30th anniversary. And maybe he just wants to suss out if there's enough interest to consider a bigger revival. We already had Für Immer as I Do on the last tour. I hope we get a new version of Only You. Would love it if they brought back Belle too. Some of the songs are too famous to change (I hope). |
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Post by viserys on Aug 11, 2017 11:56:43 GMT
I assume he'll be presenting the German duet "Für Immer" for public consumption. And maybe something new as a present for the 30th anniversary. And maybe he just wants to suss out if there's enough interest to consider a bigger revival. We already had Für Immer as I Do on the last tour. I hope we get a new version of Only You. Would love it if they brought back Belle too. Some of the songs are too famous to change (I hope). I would have assumed that "Only you" had been too famous to change/axe, too or "A Lotta Locomotion" or "There's Me". Or to replace the very popular version of "Starlight Express" we've had (which I think was first done on Broadway as it's on that strange Broadway Concept Album) with the original London version.... oh well, I stop right now. |
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Post by d'James on Aug 11, 2017 12:05:46 GMT
We already had Für Immer as I Do on the last tour. I hope we get a new version of Only You. Would love it if they brought back Belle too. Some of the songs are too famous to change (I hope). I would have assumed that "Only you" had been too famous to change/axe, too or "A Lotta Locomotion" or "There's Me". Or to replace the very popular version of "Starlight Express" we've had (which I think was first done on Broadway as it's on that strange Broadway Concept Album) with the original London version.... oh well, I stop right now. I suppose you're right. I'm sure there'll be a new Rap. Hopefully more like the original in that it tells a story better. |
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Post by jgblunners on Aug 11, 2017 12:20:28 GMT
The tour in the early 00s with the 3D films for the races was probably the first show I ever saw that really left a lasting impression on me - I can still remember how in awe I was, so I would absolutely love to see this return in a big, spectacular production a la Bochum. Unfortunately I can't make the workshop performances, but I would be intrigued to learn what changes are being made. It seems ALW has never really been happy with the show given how often changes have been made.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 13:11:21 GMT
PLEASE let them bring back C.B as the villain of the piece. There's Me was one of my favourites in the original score.
I havent seen it since the Apollo Victoria production. I used to pay £5 to stand at the back.
Has Ashley veen cut from the show? Is there still a smoking car?
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 11, 2017 13:16:56 GMT
Who doesn't love a Bochum fact on a Friday afternoon?
It's twinned with Sheffield.
Now everyone can impress their friends and colleagues!
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Post by d'James on Aug 11, 2017 13:33:21 GMT
PLEASE let them bring back C.B as the villain of the piece. There's Me was one of my favourites in the original score. I havent seen it since the Apollo Victoria production. I used to pay £5 to stand at the back. Has Ashley veen cut from the show? Is there still a smoking car? In Germany she's there. In the most recent UK Tour she was called Duvay and was a sleeping car. |
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Post by showbizkid on Aug 11, 2017 13:37:06 GMT
It is strange how they keep meddling with Starlight. One of the producers once said to me that it was to keep it fresh. Sometimes a rewrite works amazingly (think of the musical Working most recently at Southwark or Love Never Dies in Oz) but often like the recent change in Rum Tum Tugger in Cats or cutting Now That Ive Seen Her in Saigon it is a backwards step.
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Post by danb on Aug 11, 2017 13:40:01 GMT
PLEASE let them bring back C.B as the villain of the piece. There's Me was one of my favourites in the original score. I havent seen it since the Apollo Victoria production. I used to pay £5 to stand at the back. Has Ashley veen cut from the show? Is there still a smoking car? In Germany she's there. In the most recent UK Tour she was called Duvay and was a sleeping car. Used to love standing for a fiver (although the Apollo Vic obviously creates it's own breed of fans as I can remember similarly nightmarish people in the queue talking too loudly about their interactions with various cast members.) The show was always an experience in such an immersive environment and is one of my favourite memories of living in London. |
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Post by viserys on Aug 11, 2017 13:46:16 GMT
It is strange how they keep meddling with Starlight. One of the producers once said to me that it was to keep it fresh. I suppose the problem is (maybe?) that it was meant to sound contemporary when it opened in 1984. There was stuff like the "Rap" and "Right place, right time" and when you listen to "He'll whistle at me" it sounds incredibly 80-ish. So if they want to keep it fresh, they probably feel the need to adapt the sound again and again, although it rarely works. Some of the racing music sounds like cheap techno trash in Germany now. In the German production they also gave the German train Ruhrgold a new costume at some point to make him look like the (then new) ICE trains. I keep thinking that they might want to update ALL those costumes and add some of the new highspeed trains that have popped up all over the world. Why not turn Turnov from the Transsiberian Express to the Sapsan that runs between Moscow and St. Petersburg or the Italian train Espresso into the Frecciarossa? Am I overthinking this? Considering modern sensibilities I can definitely see a female Electra turn up (with new lyrics for AC/DC maybe?) - there was always some mild grumbling that the engines were all male, while the females were consigned to being coaches permanently in need of a male for some locomotion. |
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Post by d'James on Aug 11, 2017 13:51:47 GMT
I love Josie Aiello's version of AC/DC on the concept album. There was a female Electra costume in the original cast for Nancy Wood I think. I don't think she ever went on though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 14:00:15 GMT
Do we think he's dicked around with the score or something and wants some guinea pigs to reassure him? The arena tour idea is by far the strongest unless he's got a decent sized w/e house to put this in properly. Yes I'm worried there'll be too many changes/new songs. I'd be up for a female Electra though for example. Please dont let them do to Electra what they did to Rum Tum Tugger in Cats. Urgh! Nothing more cringeworthy than a middle class interpretation of someone 'street'. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 11, 2017 14:21:52 GMT
Please let the baddie be called Southern Trains
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 11, 2017 14:47:04 GMT
Who doesn't love a Bochum fact on a Friday afternoon? It's twinned with Sheffield. Now everyone can impress their friends and colleagues! Ah yes. Steel cities. Many a time time I've driven down the Bochum Parkway in Sheffield. I wonder if there's a Sheffield Autobahn in Bochum? |
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Post by d'James on Aug 11, 2017 14:55:51 GMT
Saturday's Sold Out. Fewer than five tickets left for Friday. Maybe ten left for Thursday.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 11, 2017 15:14:12 GMT
There was version of this done in a special needs school in Kent, my mum went to this (she is no theatre fan and hardly goes, she had a friend's child in the cast), however normally this is done with roller-skates but because of the children's disabilities this wasn't viable, but Starlight Express works equally as well in wheelchairs, my mums heart broke when the girl who played Pearl as she sung so beautifully and was even more saddening because of her disabilities.
At the end the headmaster done his speech and thanked the cast and everyone for coming and paid thanks to a chap sitting in the back row unnoticed, who has a beard and a love for JCB diggers, his name is Richard Stilgoe.
Thought I share that with you as my already high estimation in the man, went somewhat higher.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 11, 2017 15:29:17 GMT
What a lovley story
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Post by d'James on Aug 11, 2017 15:36:24 GMT
Only two seats left on Friday. Thursday sold out.
I have to say, I really like what they've done to the logo.
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Post by viserys on Aug 11, 2017 16:02:12 GMT
Who doesn't love a Bochum fact on a Friday afternoon? It's twinned with Sheffield. Now everyone can impress their friends and colleagues! Ah yes. Steel cities. Many a time time I've driven down the Bochum Parkway in Sheffield. I wonder if there's a Sheffield Autobahn in Bochum? There is, the Sheffield Ring, which is part of the ring road around Bochum. Fun fact on twin towns: My home town was twinned with Easington, Co. Durham, which is where Billy Elliott is set in the musical. First time I saw the musical, I really had to laugh when the big curtain with Easington Colliery on it came down. But Easington at some point decided to call it quits and my town has been mooning around England since, trying to find a new partner. But back to topic, I'm so glad this sold out so quickly - hopefully it means that a bigger revival is on the cards. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 11, 2017 16:25:24 GMT
Oh I bought the very last ticket for the whole run. |
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 11, 2017 17:36:52 GMT
Where I live doesn't have a twin town - though we do have a suicide pact with S****horpe. (trad). I just LOVE that the board software automatically starred out those 4 letters from S c u n t h o r p e!!!!! |
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Post by d'James on Aug 11, 2017 17:52:38 GMT
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 11, 2017 17:58:48 GMT
Oh that's really interesting! I hadn't heard of that before, so thanks for sharing! |
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Post by d'James on Aug 11, 2017 18:13:49 GMT
I hadn't read it all the way through before. My favourite thing is buttbuttinate haha.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 11, 2017 18:15:04 GMT
Where I live doesn't have a twin town - though we do have a suicide pact with S****horpe. (trad). On the cruise I was on some of the people on our dinner table came from S****horpe. Cue awkward conversation: "So where are you from?" "S****horpe" "....(as I fail to think of anything positive to say about S****horpe)". |
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