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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 1, 2019 13:02:39 GMT
I seem to be in the minority @remark so don’t let me put you off.
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Post by sf on Apr 1, 2019 16:54:17 GMT
The themes are very relevant but this was lacking in so many respects . Unfortunately that's what happens when you take a show whose biggest asset is the score and then start hacking away at that score in order to make it fit into a brand new book. The title song in this version of Rags, for example, doesn't quite work, because most of it is being sung by a character it wasn't written for - originally it was mostly sung by Bella, Rebecca wasn't in it at all, and the lines Bella sings were sung by her father. I understand the impetus to make it into the Act One finale, because it's a really good song, and I understand the impetus to rewrite the show so that it's Rebecca's story first and foremost, because the reviews of just about every single previous version (and there have been many) have complained that the script tries to focus on too many plot strands, but that song is way out of character for Rebecca: it's not that it's implausible that she should be frustrated at living in poverty in a Lower East Side tenement, but that level of outburst is outside what has been established about her character by that point in the show. The song was written to be (mostly) sung by a teenage girl, not a woman who has watched her husband get murdered during a pogrom and then somehow found the strength to get her and her young son out of Russia and into the US despite not having enough money for the entry visa. In a similar vein, I understand the impetus to make Children of the Wind into Rebecca's big statement at the very end of the show, but it doesn't make a great deal of musical sense to let us hear the verse of the song halfway through act one and hold the refrain back until almost the end of Act Two - all that achieves is to make both parts of the song sound like there's something missing. This rewrite, which I think is now the definitive licenced version of the show, solves one problem (unfocused script), but creates several new ones. I liked it more than you did, but there are too many places in this version of the script where it's obvious you're watching a cut-and-paste job, and the actors don't entirely manage to paper over the cracks.
The recording, which was made a few years after the Broadway production flopped, and which features most of the Broadway cast with Julia Migenes replacing Teresa Stratas as Rebecca, is absolutely glorious. It could well be that this is one of those shows that's always going to work better in concert.
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Post by Theatre Fan on Oct 5, 2019 8:33:53 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 5, 2019 8:40:04 GMT
I wonder where this will go, Southwark, Charing Cross, O2 |
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Post by theatre241 on Oct 5, 2019 9:19:06 GMT
Fantastic news! I really enjoyed this has so much heart and had me in tears by the end!
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Post by ABr on Oct 5, 2019 9:24:19 GMT
This is great news! I really hope Rebecca returns to the role, as haven't seen her in anything since Show Boat, so would love to see her again!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 5, 2019 9:29:41 GMT
Pleased for the HM/Aria but I didn’t like it.
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Oct 5, 2019 11:09:59 GMT
Yes! Love this show and didn't get to see it in Manchester, excellent news!
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Post by Dr Tom on Oct 5, 2019 11:23:19 GMT
It's also advertised in Mame programme (Rags - London - 2020).
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Post by stevej678 on Oct 14, 2019 9:27:28 GMT
Transferring to the Park Theatre from 9th January to 8th February 2020.
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Post by fossil on Oct 14, 2019 9:31:00 GMT
Park Theatre. 09 January, 2020 – 08 February, 2020
Online booking for this event opens at 10:00 on 17 Oct 2019
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Post by Phantom of London on Oct 14, 2019 10:36:48 GMT
Great news, didn’t catch it in Manchester.
Hope Mill are having tremendous success with transfer, so good luck to them, Joseph and William have done a brilliant job!
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Post by raiseitup on Oct 14, 2019 10:45:20 GMT
Great news! Really want to see this musical.
Does this mean Rebecca won't be reprising her role though? She's in the Old Vic's Christmas Carol, which runs until 18th Jan.
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Post by learfan on Oct 14, 2019 16:56:07 GMT
Great news! Really want to see this musical. Does this mean Rebecca won't be reprising her role though? She's in the Old Vic's Christmas Carol, which runs until 18th Jan. Yes, i wondered about that, she is amazing |
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Oct 17, 2019 12:14:28 GMT
Bumped as this is now on general sale. Got a front row seat at first preview for a very reasonable £18.50.
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Post by ABr on Oct 17, 2019 12:16:35 GMT
Any news on casting?  |
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Oct 17, 2019 19:37:36 GMT
Any opinions in seating at this theatre? Never been there before!
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Post by ABr on Nov 1, 2019 7:59:45 GMT
With Rebecca being announced to be returning to City of Angels, and there is some time between these two, do you think it'll still be likely that she'll return with this as well?
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Post by sophie92 on Nov 1, 2019 10:05:42 GMT
With Rebecca being announced to be returning to City of Angels, and there is some time between these two, do you think it'll still be likely that she'll return with this as well? As previously mentioned, she’s in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic which runs until 18th Jan, so she’d need to be leaving that early to be in Rags. |
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Post by ABr on Nov 1, 2019 10:11:18 GMT
With Rebecca being announced to be returning to City of Angels, and there is some time between these two, do you think it'll still be likely that she'll return with this as well? As previously mentioned, she’s in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic which runs until 18th Jan, so she’d need to be leaving that early to be in Rags. Urgh completely missed that info! Sorry! |
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Post by raiseitup on Dec 2, 2019 11:39:58 GMT
Carolyn Maitland is replacing Rebecca Trehearn
Dave Willetts as Avram, Sam Attwater as Bronfman, Debbie Chazen as Anna, Alex Gibson-Giorgio as Sal, Rachel Izen as Rachel, Samuel Jones and Jude Muir as David, Martha Kirby as Bella, Oisin Nolan-Power as Ben and Jeremy Rose as Jack. Completing the cast are Arthur Boan, Angela Caesar, Adam Crossley, Drew Dillon, Matthew Gent and Natasha Karp.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 27, 2019 16:29:25 GMT
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Dec 27, 2019 21:20:41 GMT
Love Schwartz, but £60 is a lot to take a chance on with no cast announced yet. |
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Post by Dr Tom on Dec 28, 2019 20:55:04 GMT
Love Schwartz, but £60 is a lot to take a chance on with no cast announced yet. Is it not a cast of one? |
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Jan 1, 2020 15:29:33 GMT
Love Schwartz, but £60 is a lot to take a chance on with no cast announced yet. Is it not a cast of one? "Some of Stephen Schwartz's favourite compositions will be performed by artists from previous Aria Entertainment and Hope Mill Theatre productions" |
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