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Post by anthony40 on Apr 29, 2022 16:50:29 GMT
I'd be astonished (but ecstatic).
It's one of the show of his that I've never seen. I was still in Australia at the time it was playing in London. Hanna Waddingham was in the original production. She's a hot ticket right now. It's be a coup to get her back in it. |
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Post by cezbear on Apr 29, 2022 17:22:31 GMT
It would, but I don't think there would be a part for her in it. The lead roles are all very young, aside from the priest.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2022 23:37:15 GMT
If the Jonathan Bailey guess is correct then I’ll be there every night lol! I imagine he’s probably got too many offers now since his popularity has skyrocketed after Bridgerton season 2 Given he is currently on stage and will then presumably go straight into filming season 3 of Bridgerton I highly doubt it's anything to do with him. |
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Post by anthony on Apr 30, 2022 1:58:24 GMT
Give us Woman in White. The 2017 Charing Cross Theatre production was just wonderful. It deserves soooo much more love; although I'd happily settle for Aspects!
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Post by critchyboy on Apr 30, 2022 8:05:25 GMT
Give us Woman in White. The 2017 Charing Cross Theatre production was just wonderful. It deserves soooo much more love; although I'd happily settle for Aspects! Agree with this wholeheartedly. Never saw the Original Production but the Charing Cross version was wonderful - really enjoyed it and would love to see it again. |
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Post by inthenose on Apr 30, 2022 8:15:03 GMT
The original production of The Woman in White isn't some sacred cow or huge missed opportunity to see, though. It was rather rough to sit through. The motion sickness and very questionable direction aside, the performances weren't exactly stellar. You didn't miss a good one that went under the radar!
I LOVED the version at the Charing Cross Theatre though, performed appropriately, as essentially a chamber piece. It's a good show. The original production was dreadful though, despite the huge talent attached.
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Post by anita on Apr 30, 2022 9:20:18 GMT
I loved both versions of "The Woman in White". Saw the original 3 times.
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Post by mkb on Apr 30, 2022 10:04:30 GMT
I've always wanted to see The Beautiful Game. I've no idea if it's any good; it's just one I missed out on.
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Post by cezbear on Apr 30, 2022 11:17:47 GMT
Love the beautiful game but absolutely loathed the woman in white. Every song just felt like screeching. Perhaps I'd enjoy a revival more but I wouldn't go out of my way to sit through that again.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 30, 2022 11:37:19 GMT
It’s not The Woman in White…..
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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 30, 2022 11:39:16 GMT
Surely it has to be tell me on sunday?? It’s…. ASPECTS OF LOVE! |
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Post by AddisonMizner on Apr 30, 2022 12:02:48 GMT
I HATED the David Essex tour, which was my first exposure to ASPECTS and has put me off it ever since. I hated the story - the characters just seemingly having it off with everyone for two and a bit hours. I thought they were going to jump in the orchestra pit at one point and start on the musicians! It didn’t help that it was quite badly directed, with blackouts every five seconds that stopped the flow completely.
That said, the score is typical romantic Lloyd Webber and is beautiful. And if Michael Ball is in it, then count me in. He could make it bearable for me.
I was a teenager when I first saw it, so I may see something different in it now.
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Post by Rory on Apr 30, 2022 12:43:47 GMT
Wonder what will go into the Apollo between Jerusalem and Aspects of Love? Everybody's Talking Abaout Jamie must not be returning for a while then, if at all?
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Post by danb on Apr 30, 2022 13:05:16 GMT
I’d heard that Jamies’ break-even number was a bit precarious long term for a Shaftesbury Ave home, that’s why its being drip fed.
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Post by richey on Apr 30, 2022 13:23:12 GMT
If it is Aspects of Love, I'd love to see Kelly Price reprise her role from the Hope Mill production. Her performance of Anything But Lonely was worth the ticket price alone.
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Post by max on Apr 30, 2022 13:39:50 GMT
Lloyd Webber has used leitmotif brilliantly (Evita), well (Sunset Boulevard), and very badly (Aspects Of Love). I remember members of the audience at Birmingham Hippodrome (Davis Essex 'Aspects' tour) laughing when yet another person took up the tune of 'Love Changes Everything' - it's just indiscriminately spread around. Even as owned by Alex, why does he sing it near the end of Act 1 when writing a letter from his army posting "News takes time to reach us here"? Why reprise the worst tune in the piece, and poorly?
'Hand Me The Wine And The Dice' was very well done though, when fully danced it has an exciting dialogue with death.
Also on the plus side, seeing it on stage for the first time the 'bit part' of Marcel really came through. It seemed another 'aspect' of love was a gay man's infatuation with the drama/diva qualities of a woman performer. So I think I've solved Mr Barnaby's riddle, the person fronting a recent London Sondheim revival and appearing in this, can only be... Patti. Lol.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2022 13:57:02 GMT
I remember enjoying the David Essex tour overall, but do remember the music being quite repetitive and reused from other shows. It's also one of those shows that could use less singing, I remember quite a few moments of cringing when people started singing, sometimes just speaking is ok.
If this is with Michael Ball then it seems a bit of a vanity project as he is completely unsuitable for George.
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Post by theatremiss on Apr 30, 2022 15:47:49 GMT
I saw the original with Ball and I really enjoyed it. Saw the David Essex tour and hated every single second. It was dark, too much sex and naked boobs and it just felt labouriously flat. I wanted to leave but was with someone who wanted to stay. My poor parents went the next day, hated it also (they saw the original) and did leave after the interval. I may be drawn to see Ball back in a different role, but it isn’t wow for me
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Post by inthenose on Apr 30, 2022 16:01:01 GMT
I remember enjoying the David Essex tour overall, but do remember the music being quite repetitive and reused from other shows. It's also one of those shows that could use less singing, I remember quite a few moments of cringing when people started singing, sometimes just speaking is ok. If this is with Michael Ball then it seems a bit of a vanity project as he is completely unsuitable for George. I love this, because pretty much everyone I've ever met in "the biz" or just a theatre lover, or on here even has absolutely loathed that tour. You're the first person I've encountered who liked it, which is great! I am just happy it clicked for you. I liked Jerome Pradon as George at the Southwark Playhouse. But then, I always like Jerome. |
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Post by alece10 on Apr 30, 2022 16:07:03 GMT
I never saw the original as I was living overseas at the time so the first production I saw was at the Menier in 2010 with Michael arden, Rosalind Craig, Katherine Kingsley, Rebecca Trehearn and Dave Willetts which I really enjoyed. I was just looking at my poster to get the date and then looking at the cast realised how many great names were in it.
I also saw the Southwark Playhouse production a few years later and didn't really like it but don't remember why to be honest.
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Post by cezbear on Apr 30, 2022 16:28:10 GMT
I remember enjoying the David Essex tour overall, but do remember the music being quite repetitive and reused from other shows. It's also one of those shows that could use less singing, I remember quite a few moments of cringing when people started singing, sometimes just speaking is ok. If this is with Michael Ball then it seems a bit of a vanity project as he is completely unsuitable for George. I love this, because pretty much everyone I've ever met in "the biz" or just a theatre lover, or on here even has absolutely loathed that tour. You're the first person I've encountered who liked it, which is great! I am just happy it clicked for you. I liked Jerome Pradon as George at the Southwark Playhouse. But then, I always like Jerome. I liked the tour! But I can't honestly say if it was just because I was so happy to finally see a production - I was too young for the original but grew up listening to the OLC. Plus I always love Matt Rawle in anything he does. I do remember being very cross about David Essex but then relieved he was actually fine. Also had a little chuckle at two ladies next to me asking during Love Changes Everything if it was David Essex singing (we were front row!) |
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Post by inthenose on Apr 30, 2022 16:37:18 GMT
I seem to remember a bit (this isn't a show I remember much of, despite having seen three productions!) where George is taken ill. Mr. Essex's acting in that part was 'interesting', that was my take away! Always nice to see Matt Rawle. Wonderful Che in Evita.
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Post by og on Apr 30, 2022 16:48:34 GMT
Lloyd Webber has used leitmotif brilliantly (Evita), well (Sunset Boulevard), and very badly (Aspects Of Love). I remember members of the audience at Birmingham Hippodrome (Davis Essex 'Aspects' tour) laughing when yet another person took up the tune of 'Love Changes Everything' - it's just indiscriminately spread around. Even as owned by Alex, why does he sing it near the end of Act 1 when writing a letter from his army posting "News takes time to reach us here"? Why reprise the worst tune in the piece, and poorly? It's an odd one, 'Love Changes Everything'. It got hammered on PR. Implied as the biggest song from the show. Always the first song from the show to land on any ALW compilation released and yet its the opening number. Over before it's begun. When I saw it, as soon as that song was finished - despite it not being a particularly good song (imo) - everything that came after felt anti-climatic. ALW also did it with the rewrite of Love Never Dies. Opens with (arguably) the shows biggest number, 'Til I Hear You Sing'. Its like after Phantom, the pressure of writing a solid melody for an overture that could become a song in the show got to him* (JCS, Starlight, Phantom all have these hugely identifiable singable melodies lead overture the show), ever since he's not really been able to match it and toyed with different ways to overture shows with varying degrees of lesser success. I feel like ALW's calling card was once the big overture that stated the case for each musical and for whatever reason he abandoned that with this show and just plonked the full song in instead, kinda like opening Evita with the full 'Don't Cry for me Argentina' (granted context plays a huge part in placement). *Not necessarily saying he wrote the overture first in each instance, but had he lifted the overture from songs written for the show (which is likely) the pressure was there to write a big number that has the power and potential to open show, which must have been daunting. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Apr 30, 2022 16:52:53 GMT
Aspects was my musical awakening. An intelligent musical with thoroughly reprehensible characters. Although the story does shine a spotlight on every form of love for good and evil.
Aspects well got famous for its non appearance of 007, Roger Moore realised he couldn’t sing so pulled out as George before the show previewed. Making way to make Michael Ball a massive star, which I saw, I also saw the better revival with Kathleen Evans as Rose 3 years later in the same theatre.
The Menier and Hope Mill production was alright, the tour wasn’t good though.
The late Ann Crumb was very good I; the original. Andrew Lloyd Webber ex wife Sarah Brightman starred in this on Broadway. I’m sure it was her last stage role?
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