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Post by wickedgrin on Feb 16, 2017 18:20:35 GMT
I suspect getting the rights to shows is a nightmare and must restrict hugely what they can produce.
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Post by martin1965 on Feb 16, 2017 18:52:38 GMT
I was hoping for Camelot but that is so rarely revived, maybe there is a rights issue.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 22:22:33 GMT
Also, Fiddler is a GREAT show. I've long had a dream of the National doing it in the Olivier. Can you imagine a beginning with the cast coming down the centre aisle, led by a solo fiddler playing the overture, up onto the stage. He does a forward roll while playing (old vaudeville trick), hits his mark and Anatevka rises out of the stage floor to make him the "Fiddler On The Roof." Then at the end, the stage lighting divides in two - half red, white and blue, as some head for America, and half yellow, with dry ice, as the rest head for the concentration camps and gas chamber. Truthful and dramatic, I'd hope. Jesus, I hope this is a joke because that sounds AWFUL lol |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 23:11:04 GMT
Yes, Fiddler is a great classic show. However, it is not one of my favourites, and like most classic shows I have seen it umpteen times and would have preferred something that isn't revived quite as often. Please remind us how often it has been revived in Chichester. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 23:16:34 GMT
Id love a Me and my girl revival at Chichester Daniel Evans did that as his first Crucible Christmas musical and it could risk being stale if he revisited it. |
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Post by Mr Snow on Feb 17, 2017 8:35:24 GMT
I was hoping for Camelot but that is so rarely revived, maybe there is a rights issue. Saw this at The Open Air Theatre a few year’s ago. What a disappointment. Love L&L and somewhere in it there's the great tragic part of the King who can't hold it all together, but it's a last run out for classic sexist nonsense. Spent the whole time squirming.... Pal Joey never gets a mention and I REALLY enjoyed the Kings Head Pub production that transferred to the WE years ago. Made a star of Dennis Lawson and Sian Phillips was fantastic. But I recall Hytner saying it's book was unsolvable? Funny I saw the same production 5 times and it made sense to me. |
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Post by mallardo on Feb 17, 2017 8:57:39 GMT
Pal Joey never gets a mention and I REALLY enjoyed the Kings Head Pub production that transferred to the WE years ago. Made a star of Dennis Lawson and Sian Phillips was fantastic. But I recall Hytner saying it's book was unsolvable? Funny I saw the same production 5 times and it made sense to me.
I saw the last Broadway incarnation of Pal Joey with Stockard Channing in the lead and, alas, I'm afraid I agree with Hytner. There was some song swapping and character combining trying to make things more playable but it ultimately floundered. Perhaps if there had been a truly charismatic Joey it would have helped but the character seems impossible to solve. Of course, Gene Kelly created the role and was apparently sensational in it but no one else has been able to find what he found in it. Still. it's a fascinating failure.
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Post by thebearofwestend on Feb 17, 2017 10:39:30 GMT
If only there was a recent broadway production . And if only if the actor who played the main part could do it again
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 11:25:32 GMT
I REALLY enjoyed the Kings Head Pub production that transferred to the WE years ago. Made a star of Dennis Lawson But Denis Lawson isn't enough of a star that his fans can spell his name correctly. |
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Post by ctas on May 3, 2017 22:40:47 GMT
Cast now on the CFT website. Some great picks there.
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Post by theatremadness on May 3, 2017 22:53:49 GMT
Cast now on the CFT website. Some great picks there. Aah just went to have a look but as far as I can see they're still only listing Omid & Tracy-Ann. Who's in it?? Haha |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 22:55:27 GMT
Cast now on the CFT website. Some great picks there. Was this meant to be for the casting update for CFT's The Country Girls and The House They Grew Up In? I don't see anything for Fiddler on the Roof other than Omid and Tracy. |
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Post by lou105 on May 4, 2017 7:22:34 GMT
How odd. Seems like someone jumped the gun and they weren't ready to announce yet.
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Post by ctas on May 4, 2017 7:40:05 GMT
Whaaaaat?? I looked yesterday afternoon and there was an almost full cast there minus photos. I thought it was weird no one had discussed it here. It's gone now, how strange!
Most notable (and interesting) name was Louis Maskell as Perchik. I'll try remember who else was there if anyone wants?
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Post by CG on the loose on May 4, 2017 8:59:33 GMT
Maybe they jumped Baz's gun! (that sounds vaguely filthy, but you get my drift)
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Post by jgblunners on May 25, 2017 10:40:07 GMT
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Post by ctas on May 25, 2017 10:48:20 GMT
Ah, finally. Someone definitely put it on the website by accident a few weeks ago.
Emma Kingston is always good as a lead but stomped around the ensemble of Les Mis looking bored. But then I feel like half the ensemble do that, so...
Looking like a good cast overall!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 11:22:42 GMT
I really hate the thought of schlepping to Chichester for this but I *do* love a nice fiddle on the roof.
Love Tracy-Ann Oberman too.
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Post by alicechallice on May 25, 2017 12:17:06 GMT
I really hate the thought of schlepping to Chichester for this but I *do* love a nice fiddle on the roof. After the show, perhaps? |
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Post by jocie89 on May 26, 2017 23:35:22 GMT
Emma Kingston is always good as a lead but stomped around the ensemble of Les Mis looking bored. But then I feel like half the ensemble do that, so... I would put this down to her having a great voice but zero acting chops. I think she always looks bored and vacant, its just less of a problem when you are listening to her sing (solo)! |
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Post by frosty on Jul 11, 2017 8:49:11 GMT
I got some last minute tickets to the first preview of this last night and enjoyed it immensely. Omid Djalili is perfect as Tevye. At the start, Daniel Evans came out to say that the actor who was playing Lazar had been taken seriously ill and a stand had had less than 24 hours rehearsal (Gareth Snook), but it all went well, no fluffed lines or technical issues that I could see. I saw the touring version 4 years ago, and this one is far superior IMHO. A young and energetic cast kept things lively, it got a well deserved standing ovation. After the 'meh' Sweet Bird of Youth, it was great to see something more appropriate on the big stage.
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Post by westendwendy on Jul 11, 2017 14:11:42 GMT
Did it feel 4 hours long like the recent Liverpool production? I am not a Fiddler fan..
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Post by frankubelik on Jul 12, 2017 14:21:07 GMT
Yes. It is also a piece which has eluded me over the years and four productions seen. This is dull, dreary and not helped by a wildly unimaginative staging (when one knows what the space can yield) and lacklustre performances. The two leads are fine but are devoid of any kind of singing ability and the supporting players woefully undercast and poorly directed. None of the numbers "live" or deliver joy. Not good.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 20:09:08 GMT
Fiddler has had a bad run as of late. The 2007 revival with Henry Goodman was dire, this production doesn't seem to click, and neither of the last 2 Broadway revivals have managed to appeal to anyone - 2004 with Alfred Molina and 2016 with Danny Burstein. Where are people going wrong with this classic, beautifully written show?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2017 13:03:43 GMT
^ I saw it and thought it was god-awful.
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