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Post by LaLuPone on May 13, 2021 22:47:40 GMT
I wonder what will happen with the tour if Sutton has to leave by early October I don’t think Megan was ever doing the tour anyway though, or was she? They could probably cast a British musical theatre star for the tour and it would still sell with the other three names attached. |
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 13, 2021 22:47:50 GMT
Meghan has a foot injury so Sutton is stepping in. I’m sure Scott Rudin, who’s producing Music Man isn’t thrilled…but after the last month or so, he doesn’t really have a leg to stand on lol. Why should he care? It doesn’t affect The Music Man at all. |
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Post by showtoones on May 13, 2021 22:49:28 GMT
I wonder what will happen with the tour if Sutton has to leave by early October They were always going to have a replacement Reno for the tour. Megan was only going to do Dublin anyway. It will be Jane McDonald with Kimberley Walsh doing the matinees on tour. |
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Post by fiyero on May 13, 2021 22:50:23 GMT
Is the tour still happening? I thought it was cancelled when the show was pushed back, I know Southampton was at least
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 13, 2021 22:52:30 GMT
They were always going to have a replacement Reno for the tour. Megan was only going to do Dublin anyway. It will be Jane McDonald with Kimberley Walsh doing the matinees on tour. Oh I’d pay to see Jane McD in this. And I’d pay to not see Kimbo. |
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Post by alicechallice on May 13, 2021 22:53:33 GMT
Is the tour still happening? I thought it was cancelled when the show was pushed back, I know Southampton was at least That’s what I thought |
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Post by drowseychap on May 14, 2021 0:40:08 GMT
They were always going to have a replacement Reno for the tour. Megan was only going to do Dublin anyway. It will be Jane McDonald with Kimberley Walsh doing the matinees on tour. I’d see Jane too Kimberley passable br]But please no Amanda Holden !! 😳😱 |
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Post by princeton on May 14, 2021 1:35:45 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 14, 2021 6:03:15 GMT
This might get me to London this summer after all. What’s the legroom like in the stalls at the Barbican? What’s the front row like? High stage?
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Post by danb on May 14, 2021 6:26:05 GMT
This foot injury is totally unexpected 🙄 Joe Public will book on the back of Wilmott and Lindsey, and possibly Kendall. MT board members more interested in the person doing the heavy lifting. The production got the initial burst of publicity it needed and now it can exist without the negative publicity of the inevitable missed shows.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 14, 2021 6:42:19 GMT
Just like Judi Dench’s “foot injury” that caused her to pull out of Cats 😏 That was the foot injury Judi sustained shortly after being presented with the belated words and music for ‘Memory’ wasn’t it? 😉 Must be quite some injury that Megan’s got. Show doesn’t open for over two months. Most people throw a bag of frozen peas on it and miss a class don’t they? (he said, with his non-existent knowledge of such matters 🙂). Seems a bit fishy though! |
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on May 14, 2021 7:18:38 GMT
This might get me to London this summer after all. What’s the legroom like in the stalls at the Barbican? What’s the front row like? High stage? Legroom in stalls is TIGHT. Especially the middle section which is where premium seats are! I’d advise dress circle / upwards. |
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Post by partytentdown on May 14, 2021 7:38:24 GMT
What a twist.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 14, 2021 7:51:29 GMT
Oh that's a wee bit of a shame as I've always liked her but I booked to see a show not a person.
However BOOM as I'm very looking forward to seeing the shows star.
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Post by danb on May 14, 2021 8:25:29 GMT
Are we thinking midweek mats are out for Sutton?
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Post by Mark on May 14, 2021 8:50:38 GMT
Are we thinking midweek mats are out for Sutton? I don’t think she had an alternate in New York |
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Post by danb on May 14, 2021 9:12:49 GMT
I’ll take the chance I think.
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Post by princeton on May 14, 2021 9:39:59 GMT
That was the foot injury Judi sustained shortly after being presented with the belated words and music for ‘Memory’ wasn’t it? 😉 Judi Dench's achilles injury was very real. My sister worked on the show and was in the room and heard the pop followed by the scream when Dench's Achilles tendon ruptured. It was during rehearsals (I think about three weeks into a six week rehearsal period) for the Gumbie cat number, as at the time she was playing both Jennyanydots and Grizabella. Dench was taken to hospital where she had an op and her ankle was put in a cast. It was decided to delay the opening by a fortnight (a rare occurrence in those days) and to split the role - with Myra Sands, who was understudying, taking the dancing role of Jennyanydots and Dench just playing Grizabella. By the time Dench returned, they were in the New London, and she rehearsed the part whilst wearing a surgical boot and using crutches. A couple of days in whilst hobbling across one of the moving platform walkways - her crutches went one way, she went the other and landed up in the stalls seats. She was told that she had to have complete rest - so there were some frantic phone calls and the hurried press announcement that Elaine Paige would take over. She arrived during the very late rehearsal stages and after about 10 previews, which was the norm in those days, the show opened. I remember being told how frantic it all was - on top of the fact they were rehearsing a show about singing and dancing cats with lyrics by a dead American poet! As fas as Memory goes, there was a melody and a title long before rehearsals began, in fact in a rather bizarre move there had been an instrumental version released as a single earlier in the year. However the lyrics came much later - and, if I recall correctly, only the four lines at the end of act one were completed whilst Dench was still part of the show. It had been intended to be a more brechtian earthy/shouty number, but Paige's arrival meant that it gained that musical theatre pure belt ending. I know that during the last few rehearsals and for most of the previews whilst most of the rest of the show was fixed there were different lyrics to Memory every day - sometimes only put in a couple of hours before the performance. Elaine Paige's vocal version of Memory was rush released a month after the show opened. Sorry to hijack the thread - and now back to Anything Goes. |
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Post by theoracle on May 14, 2021 9:55:39 GMT
There’ll definitely be an alternate i thing. Barbican is selling tickets till October 17th but Baz has confirmed that Sutton will only be performing till 10th. Maybe Megan will do the final week? http://instagram.com/p/CO1E6ZZHjH0 |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2021 9:58:27 GMT
There’ll definitely be an alternate i thing. Barbican is selling tickets till October 17th but Baz has confirmed that Sutton will only be performing till 10th. Maybe Megan will do the final week? There is no chance they will bring Megan back for a week only. From Baz's article it sounds as if she needs surgery so won't be dancing any time soon. |
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Post by theoracle on May 14, 2021 10:00:21 GMT
There’ll definitely be an alternate i thing. Barbican is selling tickets till October 17th but Baz has confirmed that Sutton will only be performing till 10th. Maybe Megan will do the final week? There is no chance they will bring Megan back for a week only. From Baz's article it sounds as if she needs surgery so won't be dancing any time soon. I was joking about Megan’s return. She’ll definitely need time to recover and probably won’t fly over just to do a week of shows - maybe even have to quarantine to do them? But yes, I’m eager to see how this all continues to play out. I think it’s equally likely Sutton will do all 8 shows but they’ll probably pluck out a name for the final week to end the run on a high |
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Post by happytobehere on May 14, 2021 10:02:14 GMT
I want to book a ticket but specifically for Sutton tbh, do we think it’s likely she’ll be performing on Friday’s?
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Post by mrbarnaby on May 14, 2021 10:03:45 GMT
No Sutton will only be performing on Tuesday evenings.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 14, 2021 11:03:42 GMT
Behave yourself Mr B 😆
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on May 14, 2021 12:20:28 GMT
There’ll definitely be an alternate i thing. Barbican is selling tickets till October 17th but Baz has confirmed that Sutton will only be performing till 10th. Maybe Megan will do the final week? There is no chance they will bring Megan back for a week only. From Baz's article it sounds as if she needs surgery so won't be dancing any time soon. I’m thinking the same - Sutton has a good track record (not being horrible as performers are human and they obviously get sick it’s one of those things) I would imagine she’d have an cover from ensemble maybe? |
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