The Time Traveller's Wife - Chester Storyhouse / Apollo

[amp09]

www.whatsonstage.com/liverpool-theatre/news/the-time-travellers-wife-musical-september_55921.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=14February2022&fbclid=IwAR27PwQZQpNWETMq0rM-kP8VJ7W2Qb8NhbguGzqBC1W9fD8fBA6tQTjzs2A

[benny20]

Any one know when general booking opens for this. Members only booking at the moment

[TallPaul]

Feb 14, 2022 16:43:41 GMT benny20 said:

Any one know when general booking opens for this. Members only booking at the moment

Monday 21 February at 12 noon.

www.storyhouse.com/event/the-time-travellers-wife

That's two new musicals at Storyhouse in the space of a few months.

[benny20]

Feb 14, 2022 17:07:55 GMT TallPaul said:

Feb 14, 2022 16:43:41 GMT benny20 said:

Any one know when general booking opens for this. Members only booking at the moment

Monday 21 February at 12 noon.

www.storyhouse.com/event/the-time-travellers-wife

That's two new musicals at Storyhouse in the space of a few months.

[benny20]

Cheers TallPaul...I've already booked for the other one. I love The Storyhouse.

[BurlyBeaR]

The Time Traveller's Wife musical will have its world premiere in Chester in September.

Award-winning singer Joss Stone and Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics fame) will create numbers for the show, with Stewart previously working on the stage version of the romantic fantasy film Ghost.

The piece follows the relationship between a time traveller and a woman anchored in her fixed timeline that ends up becoming his wife.

It will have book by Lauren Gunderson (I and You, which had its UK premiere at the Hampstead Theatre), with design by Anna Fleischle, choreography by Shelley Maxwell, lighting design by Lucy Carter, illusions by Chris Fisher, video design by Andrjez Goulding, sound design by Richard Brooker, musical supervision & arrangement by Nick Finlow and orchestrations by Bryan Crook. Casting will be by Stuart Burt CDG.

Bill Buckhurst (Sister Act) will direct the new musical, which will unveil its West End run dates at a later date.

Stone and Stewart said: "We have been on many crazy adventures together but we've never "Time Travelled" till meeting Lauren Gunderson. Writing these songs together whilst being in different locations on different time zones has been a trip (literally), throwing us into an eddy of emotive melodies and heart-wrenching lyrics to go with the push and pull of this unusual love story.

"We all time travel in our relationships and in our lives in general, but to write something that people will see and hear happening live on stage is thrilling to imagine, and hearing Bill Buckhurst's interpretations of Lauren's script for stage as we went along has been so inspiring."

The show will play at Chester Storyhouse from 30 September to 15 October.

[longinthetooth]

This is one of my all time favourite books. I hope they don't murder it.

[djdan14]

Cast announced- would say this has strong plans for a transfer based on it.

[og]

Aug 16, 2022 10:27:34 GMT djdan14 said:

Cast announced- would say this has strong plans for a transfer based on it.

Think you might be on to something given the Storyhouse website says:
"FROM 30 SEPTEMBER 2022 FOR TWO-WEEK SEASON
AHEAD OF WEST END TRANSFER"

[marob]

I’m not familiar with the book, film or TV series of this, but booked ages ago as I don’t live very far from Storyhouse and try to see most of their own in-house productions if I can. Just got a lot more interested in seeing it off the back of that casting announcement. Quite like the new artwork too.

[Figaro]

Anyone seen this yet?

[richey]

I saw this last night and enjoyed it far more than I expected.
The songs are pretty good, though not particularly memorable. The highlight for me was the Act 2 opening where he's describing how it feels like when travelling in time, which had some brilliant choreography and projections similar to the Back to the Future finale.
The set is relatively simple, a double revolve which has a single wall in the middle of it and is actually a video screen which along with another giant screen on the back wall, makes extensive use of projections to create the different scenes.
To me, it had a very similar feel to Ghost especially with some of the illusions.
It's a pretty good show and they have obviously spent a bit on the staging with an eye to a West End transfer.

[mrbarnaby]

London run soon to be announced….

[mattnyc]

Do you know about when this will run?

[nicolaa]

No doubt they'll ableist cast Henry.

[cezbear]

Jan 15, 2023 16:41:05 GMT nicolaa said:

No doubt they'll ableist cast Henry.

...what?

[mrbarnaby]

Jan 15, 2023 16:41:05 GMT nicolaa said:

No doubt they'll ableist cast Henry.

I don’t remember him being disabled in the book…

[Jon]

Jan 15, 2023 18:13:12 GMT mrbarnaby said:

Jan 15, 2023 16:41:05 GMT nicolaa said:

No doubt they'll ableist cast Henry.

I don’t remember him being disabled in the book…

I think the comment is because:

SPOILER: Click to show

Henry has his feet amputated due to frost bite towards the end of the book

[Seriously]

Don't you just hate it when they cast living actors to play the dead students at the end of Les Mis?

There are plenty of available dead actors out there who could play the roles just as well, if not better.

[marob]

It’s been a few months since I saw this, but I don’t think that spoiler is in the show.

[Mark]

Where do we think this will go? Haymarket?

[Jon]

Jan 15, 2023 22:34:09 GMT Mark said:

Where do we think this will go? Haymarket?

OFAH doesn't show any sign of closing. My guess is either Apollo, Phoenix or @sohoplace. 

[Mark]

Jan 15, 2023 22:58:15 GMT Jon said:

Jan 15, 2023 22:34:09 GMT Mark said:

Where do we think this will go? Haymarket?

OFAH doesn't show any sign of closing. My guess is either Apollo, Phoenix or @sohoplace. 

Apollo is a very good shout actually!

[c4ndyc4ne]

Apollo after Showman might be a bit soon but makes a lot of sense. It has been a musical house as well.

[Rory]

Jan 15, 2023 23:26:33 GMT c4ndyc4ne said:

Apollo after Showman might be a bit soon but makes a lot of sense. It has been a musical house as well.

It's not the Phoenix then, as you seem to know what is going in there!