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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 4:10:10 GMT
Coming next year, reports Baz
(As noted in the replies, he's wrong about "first revival")
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Post by theatrelover123 on Oct 20, 2017 6:54:45 GMT
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Post by ali973 on Oct 20, 2017 7:33:05 GMT
Are there any musicals booked for Southwark between now and May? I've been checking their website since The Life and it looks like they've cut back on musicals.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 20, 2017 7:48:44 GMT
Yay. Fantastic news 😄
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Post by jgblunners on Oct 20, 2017 7:59:14 GMT
Are there any musicals booked for Southwark between now and May? I've been checking their website since The Life and it looks like they've cut back on musicals. Just the new Bananaman musical I think |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 8:21:25 GMT
Hoorah! Bring back Chita and Liza. And Liza's plastic hips.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 20, 2017 8:48:28 GMT
Thrilled as I'm always harping on about it never being done over here.
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Post by stevej678 on Oct 20, 2017 9:14:05 GMT
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Post by Boob on Oct 20, 2017 10:31:12 GMT
Putting this out to the universe...
Anita Louise Coombe as ANNA
Rebecca Trehearn as ANGEL.
I thank you.
Boob, CDG
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Post by frankubelik on Oct 20, 2017 10:58:49 GMT
Linzi played Angel at the Leicester Haymarket with a fabulous performance from Kathryn Evans as Anna. There was a poor production at the Orange Tree in Richmond with Gay Soper. Good to see it resurface.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 11:00:14 GMT
As seen at the Forum Theatre Wythenshawe! Where the tickets cost about £2.50! Those were the days! The Rink! The Rink!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 11:02:38 GMT
I've said many times that this is the perfect space for The Rink and i was listening to it just last week!! Linzi Hateley could definitely play Anna this time  Ive booked for the last preview |
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Post by ali973 on Oct 20, 2017 13:08:23 GMT
Linzi H also crossed my mind. But Anita and Rebecca are great names too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 14:52:39 GMT
Ruthie Henshall singing 'Chief Cook and Bottle Washer' would be heaven.
Laura Pitt Pulford can play Liza. Terrific!
Boom. Casting done.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 16:11:28 GMT
Thanks for the heads-up on this. That's one of the resons I like this board. Booked and looking forward to it.
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Post by sf on Oct 20, 2017 18:08:53 GMT
On the one hand, I'll go and see it, and suppress the urge to giggle during Fred Ebb's worst-ever lyric ("We can make it, we'll survive/Danny, you're too stoned to drive!"). That line aside, I love the score, although the show isn't perfect by any means.
On the other... it's a show about the relationship between two women. Were there really no women available to direct or choreograph?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 19:07:12 GMT
On the one hand, I'll go and see it, and suppress the urge to giggle during Fred Ebb's worst-ever lyric ("We can make it, we'll survive/Danny, you're too stoned to drive!"). That line aside, I love the score, although the show isn't perfect by any means. On the other... it's a show about the relationship between two women. Were there really no women available to direct or choreograph?
Is this the new line to trot out? Let’s just enjoy it, shall we? Don’t worry, it’ll be safe in Adam Lenson’s hands.  |
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Post by sf on Oct 20, 2017 19:27:35 GMT
On the one hand, I'll go and see it, and suppress the urge to giggle during Fred Ebb's worst-ever lyric ("We can make it, we'll survive/Danny, you're too stoned to drive!"). That line aside, I love the score, although the show isn't perfect by any means. On the other... it's a show about the relationship between two women. Were there really no women available to direct or choreograph?
Is this the new line to trot out? Let’s just enjoy it, shall we? Don’t worry, it’ll be safe in Adam Lenson’s hands. No, this isn't the "new line to trot out". It's an old, old story that does nobody much credit. Let's just consider for a moment how criminally underrepresented half the population still are in creative posts in theatre in this country, shall we? I'm sure it'll be safe in Adam Lenson's hands, and I certainly intend to see it, but it's a valid point. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 19:31:06 GMT
I’m just wondering... d’you reckon they considered some women, saw some even, for the jobs you mention, but at the end of the day the best people for the positions were men?
Or maybe they really wanted to appoint a woman, two even, but the woman/women they wanted were tied to other projects.
I’m just wondering...
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Post by sf on Oct 20, 2017 20:20:38 GMT
I’m just wondering... d’you reckon they considered some women, saw some even, for the jobs you mention, but at the end of the day the best people for the positions were men? In the immortal words of Neil Tennant: Oh, pur- lease. Some individual jobs, sure - but then look at how many directing jobs go to women. Look at how many directing jobs go to people whose heritage isn't white Anglo. Look at how many women are running institutional theatres up and down the country. Aside from artistic directorships, look at how many women are represented on those theatres' boards of directors/trustees. Then look at how many women hold theatre degrees, directing degrees and all the rest of it, and look at how many women are in the audience. There's a big representation problem in theatre in this country, and the "best man for the job" argument isn't going to explain it away. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 20:38:18 GMT
Your avatar just about sums up how I feel reading this... Of all the people in the world to quote, and you quote Neil Tennant.
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Post by benny20 on Oct 20, 2017 21:03:02 GMT
As seen at the Forum Theatre Wythenshawe! Where the tickets cost about £2.50! Those were the days! The Rink! The Rink! Yep. Saw it in sunny Wythenshawe in the day. Paul Kerryson, one of his great shows, Pacific Overtures etc. Happy days |
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Post by sf on Oct 20, 2017 21:30:29 GMT
Your avatar just about sums up how I feel reading this... Of all the people in the world to quote, and you quote Neil Tennant.
Instead of coming back with a cheap jibe, how about actually addressing the point I made? No? Never mind. |
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Post by firefingers on Oct 20, 2017 22:22:40 GMT
There is a hell of a lot of sexism at the top on the big leagues, proper boys club. And there are certainly rolls within the industry where women seem to get preference. It goes both ways. Though woman are preferred in minor roles and men in the big ones, creatively speaking.
But we don't know the particulars guys. A director is often key in pushing a show to happen, talking to a producer and convincing them the show would be a good idea. They have may have seen or worked with other creatives (choreo, lighting anything) and gone "That fits my vision perfectly. This is it!" We can't stiffle the creative process and say "You've got to pick a female choreographer" when someone who happened to be male produced work work fitted what the project required in the director's or producer's head. It is an artistic creation, no one has the exact same style or qualification.
To decide that anyone shouldn't be directing a story because it is centred on people of the opposite gender is absurd anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 22:22:51 GMT
As seen at the Forum Theatre Wythenshawe! Where the tickets cost about £2.50! Those were the days! The Rink! The Rink! Yep. Saw it in sunny Wythenshawe in the day. Paul Kerryson, one of his great shows, Pacific Overtures etc. Happy days Pacific Overtures was my other visit to the Forum Theatre Wythenshawe - on a coach trip with Bristol Old Vic Theatre Club! It was very much the furthest they'd travelled for a show - uncharted territory for Bristolians -and the organiser had carefully selected the pre-matinee, luncheon pub location on the information that the Forum Theatre Wythenshawe was close to the airport. In the course of lunch, worried conversation with the coach driver and an urgent phone call to the Forum Theatre Wythenshawe led to the unhappy realisation that the pub was in fact close to the wrong airport. The theatre agreed to hold the curtain for fifteen minutes as our coach hurtled through the vast territories of Greater Manchester.
When I arrived at the theatre for The Rink (under my own steam) who should also be there but Mark Shenton ... !
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