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Post by crabtree on Aug 16, 2022 21:41:09 GMT
The one that I sadly missed was Bombay Dreams. Did anyone on here see it. I assume it's just too big to be revived but i love the score, and the lengthy making of documentary shows a piece of such energy and colour. So sad to have missed it. How long did it run. Was it a success? I so love 'Love's never easy' - very sensaul
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Post by fiyero on Aug 16, 2022 21:48:20 GMT
I regret never seeing the London production of Starlight Express. I was never offered the chance but am old enough to have been able to. (I can't regret not seeing things that opened before I was born for example).
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Post by crabtree on Aug 16, 2022 22:11:23 GMT
Bombay Dreams, as it happens, replaced starlight express. Heavens, can you imagine converting that building back to a railway track less theatre.
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Post by robertb213 on Aug 16, 2022 23:07:50 GMT
The one that I sadly missed was Bombay Dreams. Did anyone on here see it. I assume it's just too big to be revived but i love the score, and the lengthy making of documentary shows a piece of such energy and colour. So sad to have missed it. How long did it run. Was it a success? I so love 'Love's never easy' - very sensaul I'm amazed that Leicester's Curve hasn't done a revival of this yet. Maybe one day. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 16, 2022 23:16:35 GMT
Bombay Dreams was a curious piece.
Unfortunately my only memory of it was nearly being assaulted because I told the people behind me to stop talking.
The music, story and staging have made no lasting impression on me!
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Post by thebaker on Aug 17, 2022 6:21:22 GMT
Bombay Dreams was an interesting one. I saw it twice; the first time with the OLC and I fell in love with it…it was big, bold and had some wonderful staging. The second time; there were a few understudies on and it was quite a way into its run. I found it very lacklustre and lacking appeal. I still love the cast recording though and have very fond memories of the first visit.
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Post by thebaker on Aug 17, 2022 6:23:50 GMT
Mine would be Peggy Sue Got Married and the OLC of Into the Woods; my passion for musical theatre ignited around the time it closed and It’s my one regret; not coming across it a little earlier!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2022 6:58:11 GMT
I loved Bombay Dreams, beautiful production, great cast, strong songs and entertaining story. Also something fresh and a bit different. There was meant to be a tour a decade or so ago but it never materialised. I dont remember anything particularly from the original production that couldn't be downsized for a smaller production at somewhere like the curve
For me I wish I'd seen
* original starlight express
* original sunset Blvd (ideally with Elaine paige)
* cats at the new london
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Post by Mark on Aug 17, 2022 7:09:16 GMT
I still kick myself for missing Grey Gardens when it was on at Southwark Playhouse - couldn’t make the dates work.
There’s a few musicals I just haven’t had the opportunity to see as there’s never been a revival in my theatregoing lifetime. I’d love for there to be a big splashy Brigadoon revival - the recent recording from NYCC is glorious and it’s one of the few classics that (as far as I know) hasn’t had a major revival in over 30 years, last seen at Victoria Palace in 1988/89
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2022 7:11:47 GMT
I still kick myself for missing Grey Gardens when it was on at Southwark Playhouse - couldn’t make the dates work. There’s a few musicals I just haven’t had the opportunity to see as there’s never been a revival in my theatregoing lifetime. I’d love for there to be a big splashy Brigadoon revival - the recent recording from NYCC is glorious and it’s one of the few classics that (as far as I know) hasn’t had a major revival in over 30 years, last seen at Victoria Palace in 1988/89 Yes I have a few classics I'd like to see in a big revival. Hello Dolly Oklahoma (missed the national one) |
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Post by viserys on Aug 17, 2022 7:17:36 GMT
I enjoyed Bombay Dreams - I remember it was just at the beginning of Bollywood movies becoming more popular in the West, but people not knowing much about them. There was a lot of fuss, for example, when it seemed that people on stage were only miming to some songs, unaware that this was reflecting Bollywood movies in which the stars always mime the big song & dance numbers.
I'm sure it would do better now that Bollywood has become a bit more mainstream and better known. There's also always this massive fuss about more diversity and inclusion and yet something like this, that could truly contribute to enrichening the West End, is not being revived.
I don't have many regrets as I've seen most everything I've been wanting to see over the last decades. A few things I'm sad about missing happened when I was in the very early stages of musical fandom, such as the original London productions of Children of Eden (still love the recording), Me and My girl (went to Chichester to finally see it live but was ruined for me by the lead), Aspects of Love or Metropolis, which must have been gloriously overwrought. But then I think we all have this specific period when we were already aware of several shows, but couldn't get around to see them.
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Post by cezbear on Aug 17, 2022 7:30:49 GMT
Stephen Ward, out of sheer curiosity!
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Post by ruthieh on Aug 17, 2022 7:56:38 GMT
Imelda and Bally’s Sweeney Todd…
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Post by anita on Aug 17, 2022 8:56:31 GMT
Iloved "Bombay Dreams". Saw it twice. I would of loved to see "Billy" with Michael Crawford.
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Post by stagebyte on Aug 17, 2022 9:07:31 GMT
Love Never Dies.
Trains were cancelled on the day so we drove only to get stuck in some through London race, can’t remember which one. Missed the entire first act. Decided I wouldn’t go in to see half. Planned to rebook. It closed. Only ALW I’ve never seen. Love the score.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 17, 2022 9:09:10 GMT
I now try and see everything I want as I have theatre FOMO!
But I do regret not seeing Saturday Night (Bridewell) & Merrily (Watermill).
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Post by David J on Aug 17, 2022 9:18:54 GMT
I wish I saw Les Mis at the Palace Theatre with the big set and orchestra. I still liked how intimate the show felt in the Queens Theatre but watching youtube videos I can only imagine the scale of the original-original
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Post by og on Aug 17, 2022 9:30:32 GMT
Shakalaka Baby.
That music video didn't stop running on MTV and Smash Hits TV back in the day.
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Post by Peter on Aug 17, 2022 9:30:34 GMT
I loved Bombay Dreams when I saw it in previews - the audience were really into it which helped.
Regrets would be not seeing the original Martin Guerre (with that amazing full orchestra!) and Company at the Donmar/Albery. I also regret that, though I saw the original London production of Into The Woods, I can barely remember anything about it!
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Post by barrowside on Aug 17, 2022 9:32:25 GMT
The one I regret was Chess at the Prince Edward. My first trip to London was on a college trip in 1988. I chose Les Mis at the Palace which I loved. When I came back the next year I went to the original cast (of the revival) of Blood Brothers at the then Albery, The Shaughraun at the NT Olivier (that was fab.) and then went back to the Palace for Les Mis. I think we thought back then the mega musicals would be around for years (indeed some were) but Chess was gone and the production was never replicated. I also could have seen Follies at the Shaftesbury but I was probably too young and unsophisticated for it - I was older and more world weary when I finally saw it at the National.
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Post by singingbird on Aug 17, 2022 9:45:54 GMT
Missing the original Sunset Boulevard is my big regret - I'd been to ALW shows from the late 70s onwards, but by the time Sunset rolled around my interest had waned, I was away from London and my bank balance wasn't what it had been.
I also regret missing the Donmar Company (I tried and failed to get a ticket), the original West End production of City of Angels, and several of the notorious flops - in particular Metropolis and Which Witch (mainly because I love looking back on the ones I did see, such as Bernadette and Out of the Blue).
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Post by alece10 on Aug 17, 2022 9:50:39 GMT
Lots, mainly ones in the 80s when I was living overseas.
But 2 that I could have seen and never got around to before they closed were The Producers and Martin Guerre
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2022 10:04:23 GMT
Yes Martin guerre was another I could have seen but didn't.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 17, 2022 10:17:38 GMT
Don't want to make people jealous... But a lot of the titles mentioned are ones I saw. I was a more active theatregoer in the 90s obviously!
So I saw the originals of:
City of Angels
Which Witch
Martin Guerre
Sunset Boulevard
Stephen Ward
Donmar Company
I saw Aspects but later in the run with Michael Praed as Alex
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 17, 2022 11:06:05 GMT
I never saw
The Beautiful Game
Bombay Dreams
Songs For A New World
13
Pacific Overtures
Oklahoma- The National (I have the DVD though)
Chess- the original production
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