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Post by ilovewemusicals on Jun 30, 2024 6:39:51 GMT
According to sweatyoracle, a new production directed by Marianne Elliot is coming to London starring Andrew Garfield
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Post by takeabow on Jun 30, 2024 7:17:08 GMT
According to sweatyoracle, a new production directed by Marianne Elliot is coming to London starring Andrew Garfield They mentioned it a month or so ago - is this an update or confirmation?? |
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Post by Dave B on Jun 30, 2024 7:18:46 GMT
According to sweatyoracle, a new production directed by Marianne Elliot is coming to London starring Andrew Garfield Floated on here back in March! |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 30, 2024 7:51:18 GMT
Please let this happen. i know a bootleg is not the best way to judge a performance but Sarna Lapine's production was lacklustre. Elliot's direction will be great, im sure
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Post by jr on Jun 30, 2024 8:01:38 GMT
Marianne Elliot is by far my favourite director. Company was great and Sunday should be even better!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 30, 2024 8:34:03 GMT
A new production, star and director = new thread
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Post by AddisonMizner on Jun 30, 2024 11:45:32 GMT
I really want this to happen! I've seen the Original Broadway Cast and Chatelet production filmings of SUNDAY, but have never seen a production live. It is one of my favourite Sondheim's though. I find it so incredibly emotional, but have no idea why? I just find myself crying at the music, no matter how many times I've heard it. Garfield should be a good George, and Marianne Elliot did a fantastic job with COMPANY, so hoping she will do the same with SUNDAY. Hope they announce soon!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jun 30, 2024 12:28:58 GMT
This would be brilliant- and a hot ticket.
I do wish Jake Gylenhaal had done it here though- he was exceptional , even if the production was very pedestrian.
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Post by justsaying113 on Jun 30, 2024 13:50:11 GMT
Is Andrew playing 'Dot'?!
Seriously, this sounds amazing.
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 30, 2024 13:51:20 GMT
I'd heard that this rumour was kind of a pipe dream, but if we get updates soon I'll definitely be hyping myself up!
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Post by Rory on Jun 30, 2024 14:04:39 GMT
I'm definitely here for this if it happens.
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 30, 2024 16:37:46 GMT
I'm almost positive this is not happening based on conversations I had separately with industry people this week about both Andrew and Marianne - but I'd love to be wrong 😂
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 30, 2024 18:18:57 GMT
Yeah, my impression was all Sunday transfers are totally dead in the water because 1. Covid blew all plans up and 2. lacklustre-ish reception of it on Broadway. I thought this thread meant we had gotten an update on that rumour!
The rights also went back up for amateur productions and a very good one happened recently at Mountview Academy, which usually signals the death of a transfer, much like what happened with Into The Woods. Maybe Sondheim transfers have a curse that need to be reversed...
As much as I'd love a Marianne Elliot reinvention, the chances are slim. Sunday is performed much the same almost everywhere, it is very controlled by the design of its original production possibly because of that legendary pro-shot and the specificity of the book. It should definitely have a new lease on life through a director like her.
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Post by andrew on Jun 30, 2024 19:18:44 GMT
Do we really want Andrew Garfield? I'm going to have egg on my face when he wins the 2026 Olivier award for it but I'd rather have a more musically trained actor. Marianne though would be perfect.
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 30, 2024 19:28:47 GMT
...yes we want Andrew Garfield to do more musicals after Tick Tick Boom.
Glad I was able to clear that up 😂
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Post by anthony40 on Jun 30, 2024 20:40:37 GMT
Anything Sunday in the Park with George related, I'm there!
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Post by anthony40 on Jun 30, 2024 20:48:52 GMT
As much as I'd love a Marianne Elliot reinvention, the chances are slim. Sunday is performed much the same almost everywhere, it is very controlled by the design of its original production possibly because of that legendary pro-shot and the specificity of the book. It should definitely have a new lease on life through a director like her. Interesting comment. Is it not also controlled by the painting itself? The songs are placed in order to move the story move forward, and whilst we focus primarily on the relationship between George and Dot and THAT painting, but it also touches on Seurat's other works. Also, wasn't the Menier Chocolate Factory production given a new lease of life, at the time, because of the digital imaging? |
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Post by Rory on Jun 30, 2024 21:22:53 GMT
I feel we're all going to be very disappointed by this rumour and that this production, like Jake and co, will fail to materialise. Would be very happy to be proved wrong though.
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 30, 2024 21:27:52 GMT
As much as I'd love a Marianne Elliot reinvention, the chances are slim. Sunday is performed much the same almost everywhere, it is very controlled by the design of its original production possibly because of that legendary pro-shot and the specificity of the book. It should definitely have a new lease on life through a director like her. Interesting comment. Is it not also controlled by the painting itself? The songs are placed in order to move the story move forward, and whilst we focus primarily on the relationship between George and Dot and THAT painting, but it also touches on Seurat's other works. Also, wasn't the Menier Chocolate Factory production given a new lease of life, at the time, because of the digital imaging? I get what you mean. I suppose what I meant in saying that was the very stereotypical Sunday many must think of. Like the backwall being the backdrop of the painting, everyone in position at the end and in costume keeping with the painting. But that's very much because it is a musical adapting a literal artwork into something more so to stray from that is being unfaithful to the material. I don't know how to "reinvent" Sunday but the 3D projection work truly focusing on that colour and light is the steps in the right direction and the Menier are totally at the forefront. Their Pacific Overtures I saw had some stunning and imaginative projection work in such a small space. In Sunday, in that second act. I remember a production using a revolve to properly communicate the atmosphere of a party and explore the stuffy gallery. I believe it was that French production..? The second act is where I think a lot of productions truly breathe. Sorry if I came off rude or blunt in that original post  I was more focused on saying that this revival may be unlikely. |
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 30, 2024 21:30:15 GMT
I feel we're all going to be very disappointed by this rumour and that another production, like Jake and co, will fail to materialise. Would be very happy to be proved wrong though. I'm not totally sure where the shouty man produced this rumour from; it seemed unlikely to me the first time I heard it and I still don't see it... but if it did happen somehow I would be there every evening and matinee! |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 1, 2024 7:07:55 GMT
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Post by showtoones on Jul 3, 2024 5:22:57 GMT
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Post by crabtree on Jul 3, 2024 16:39:08 GMT
Yes it's hard to do any sort of reinvention as it's all about reproducing the painting essentially, but I did see a glorious production, in Chicago, a few hundred yards from the painting itself, and done as a traverse production with the audience both sides. A little confusing to see the painting from a different angle, and with little set, but oh it magnificent
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Post by anthony40 on Jul 3, 2024 19:36:44 GMT
Despite being from the other side of the world, I am pretty well travelled.
I am proud to say that in my travels I have been lucky enough to see the original painting hanging in the Chicago Art Institute. It's HUGE! Almost the size of a wall! And if you do stand at the right angle, with the lights, it really does 'shimmer'.
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 3, 2024 21:15:16 GMT
Despite being from the other side of the world, I am pretty well travelled. I am proud to say that in my travels I have been lucky enough to see the original painting hanging in the Chicago Art Institute. It's HUGE! Almost the size of a wall! And if you do stand at the right angle, with the lights, it really does 'shimmer'. Day off from school was it? Did you lipsynch in any parades afterwards? |
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I was more focused on saying that this revival may be unlikely. 
