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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 22:11:28 GMT
Maybe Baz will announce it on Friday mrbarnaby please let the Strictly Ballroom rumour be true, that would make me very happy! |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 22:15:29 GMT
The show booked into the Phoenix has already been on.. Was a Baz Luhrman film... OMGosh! 'Australia'  |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 22:17:57 GMT
Cannot tell a lie, I'd love a version of Baz' Romeo & Juliet, which is one of my favourite films from the first time we watched it in school! So fabulous and dramatic, its great!
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Post by Oleanna on May 31, 2017 22:19:26 GMT
Cannot tell a lie, I'd love a version of Baz' Romeo & Juliet, which is one of my favourite films from the first time we watched it in school! So fabulous and dramatic, its great! They already did a musical of that. It's called West Side Story. |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 22:20:45 GMT
Cannot tell a lie, I'd love a version of Baz' Romeo & Juliet, which is one of my favourite films from the first time we watched it in school! So fabulous and dramatic, its great! They already did a musical of that. It's called West Side Story. Oh I don't want a musical version of it, I want the play but how it is styled and done in the movie! |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 22:22:37 GMT
Cannot tell a lie, I'd love a version of Baz' Romeo & Juliet, which is one of my favourite films from the first time we watched it in school! So fabulous and dramatic, its great! Wasn't Jane McDonald in that one? I think she played Claire Danes but I can't be sure . . . |
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 22:24:51 GMT
Cannot tell a lie, I'd love a version of Baz' Romeo & Juliet, which is one of my favourite films from the first time we watched it in school! So fabulous and dramatic, its great! Wasn't Jane McDonald in that one? I think she played Claire Danes but I can't be sure . . . Didn't she play the Nurse or something in a musical version at the Piccadilly back in the day?
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Post by danb on Jun 1, 2017 4:06:50 GMT
Wasn't Jane McDonald in that one? I think she played Claire Danes but I can't be sure . . . Didn't she play the Nurse or something in a musical version at the Piccadilly back in the day?
Cheek! It wasn't that far back in the day...whatever happened to Lorna Want & Andrew Beavis? |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 1, 2017 10:27:45 GMT
Lorna Want won an Olivier for her performance in Beautiful- I think she's still in it? Didn't she play the Nurse or something in a musical version at the Piccadilly back in the day?
Cheek! It wasn't that far back in the day...whatever happened to Lorna Want & Andrew Beavis? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 10:30:46 GMT
Lorna Want won an Olivier for her performance in Beautiful- I think she's still in it? Cheek! It wasn't that far back in the day...whatever happened to Lorna Want & Andrew Beavis? She was in the show from the beginning, but left for materinity shortly before the closure announcement so unless she comes bck for say the final week or something, she won't have any more performances. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 11:42:24 GMT
Not sure this has already been touted but Strictly Ballroom is wot I've 'erd is going into the theatre where films that are turned into musicals go into to flop. 4th time lucky, eh
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 11:44:22 GMT
And if it is true the theatre owners are LOSERS. Why put in ANOTHER musical adaptation of a film no one saw and no one remembers fondly?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 11:44:44 GMT
Not sure this has already been touted but Strictly Ballroom is wot I've 'erd is going into the theatre where films that are turned into musicals go into to flop. 4th time lucky, eh That theatre does really need some holy water and a prayer doesn't it. |
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Post by Mark on Jun 1, 2017 11:45:18 GMT
Or just put Blood Brothers back in!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 11:47:59 GMT
Or just put Blood Brothers back in! I mean, toward the end it was haemorrhaging money, but its cheaper to run than most of these flops that have gone in, has a small cast, barely any set that needs maintaining, and if the costumes look a bit grubby it actually works for the piece.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 11:59:49 GMT
Damn it Gary, just put Finding Neverland on already!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 12:30:50 GMT
Not sure this has already been touted but Strictly Ballroom is wot I've 'erd is going into the theatre where films that are turned into musicals go into to flop. 4th time lucky, eh I don't think Once could be deemed a flop! |
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Post by zak97 on Jun 1, 2017 12:46:33 GMT
Not sure this has already been touted but Strictly Ballroom is wot I've 'erd is going into the theatre where films that are turned into musicals go into to flop. 4th time lucky, eh I don't think Once could be deemed a flop! I think they mean Guys and Dolls |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 12:55:25 GMT
Not sure this has already been touted but Strictly Ballroom is wot I've 'erd is going into the theatre where films that are turned into musicals go into to flop. 4th time lucky, eh I don't think Once could be deemed a flop! But at less than 2 years (discounting previews) it wasn't exactly a hit, in musical terms |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 12:58:50 GMT
I don't think Once could be deemed a flop! I think they mean Guys and Dolls No coz Guys and Dolls is a musical not a musical based on a film |
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Post by daniel on Jun 1, 2017 13:10:42 GMT
Or just put Blood Brothers back in! I mean, toward the end it was haemorrhaging money, but its cheaper to run than most of these flops that have gone in, has a small cast, barely any set that needs maintaining, and if the costumes look a bit grubby it actually works for the piece. I wouldn't say Blood Brothers was hemorrhaging money at all...in fact, it was the fact that it wasn't which stopped the owners from evicting it for so long! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 13:13:52 GMT
I mean, toward the end it was haemorrhaging money, but its cheaper to run than most of these flops that have gone in, has a small cast, barely any set that needs maintaining, and if the costumes look a bit grubby it actually works for the piece. I wouldn't say Blood Brothers was hemorrhaging money at all...in fact, it was the fact that it wasn't which stopped the owners from evicting it for so long! Either/Or, they should bring it back. |
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Post by Jon on Jun 1, 2017 13:35:30 GMT
No to bringing Blood Brothers back, the West End doesn't need tired museum pieces clogging up theatres.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 14:59:47 GMT
Either/Or, they should bring it back. Do you not think it's healthier for the West End to have new writing coming into the West End? It saddens me Daniel that you are happy for a production that ran 20 or so years to return to London. Just because a show has film origins it doesn't mean to say it's destined for failure. If Strictly Ballroom does come into London then I think it will do well considering Strictly Come Dancing took it's title from Baz's film and there is a huge appetite for Ballroom and also feel good shows in our Brexit/Trump uncertain world. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 15:03:37 GMT
Either/Or, they should bring it back. Do you not think it's healthier for the West End to have new writing coming into the West End? It saddens me Daniel that you are happy for a production that ran 20 or so years to return to London. Just because a show has film origins it doesn't mean to say it's destined for failure. If Strictly Ballroom does come into London then I think it will do well considering Strictly Come Dancing took it's title from Baz's film and there is a huge appetite for Ballroom and also feel good shows in our Brexit/Trump uncertain world. Its not that I'm happy to see an old show come back, its that I'm happy to see a show return which can keep a theatre and actors working rather than have several shows fail consecutively at the same venue, therefore causing disruption to the work of actors, backstage and front of house staff. Not just Blood Brothers then, but maybe the best way to go forward for the time being would be a revival or bringing something back until something more guaranteed success can come in. Maybe Strictly Ballroom is that show, I don't know, I've never seen it or the movie. But I'd hate to see yet another movie to musical fail there. |
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