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Post by peggysue on Aug 17, 2022 11:32:59 GMT
Iloved "Bombay Dreams". Saw it twice. I would of loved to see "Billy" with Michael Crawford. Saw “Billy” quite a few times. One of my favourite musicals ever. Michael Crawford was brilliant. Wished I had seen the original Starlight Express. |
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Post by hannechalk on Aug 17, 2022 11:36:02 GMT
Blood Brothers with Melanie C as Mrs Johnstone.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 17, 2022 12:44:46 GMT
The professionally filmed west end production of Which Witch is on YouTube
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 17, 2022 12:56:14 GMT
Just a little aside, my parents aren't really big theatre goers, only going because of me and now that I'm here, they may occasionally go.
However when they were here visiting I took then to see Blood Brothers. To this day my father still raves about it and will tell anyone who'll listen about it and that was several years ago.
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 17, 2022 13:43:18 GMT
Would love to have seen the original production of Sunset Boulevard with Betty Buckley.
And on Broadway, my biggest regret is Next to Normal
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Post by ptwest on Aug 17, 2022 13:48:29 GMT
I’ve been lucky enough to see so many including lots of the ones mentioned on here. The one that sticks in my mind is the NT production of Anything Goes at Drury Lane. I wanted to see that and my wife wanted Bombay Dreams. We tossed a count and she won!
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Post by barrowside on Aug 17, 2022 14:01:51 GMT
Billy must have been huge in its day to run in Drury Lane for two years. Is it badly dated or is there any other reason it doesn't get revived?
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Post by Matt on Aug 17, 2022 14:09:35 GMT
I saw Bombay Dreams, I didn't particularly care for it at all. I can just about remember 1 line from 2 songs.
I really wish I had seen the off west end In The Heights, so if anyone wants to revive that it would be great.
Also, I am a massive Elvis fan and I went to New York the first time about 20 years ago to see 1-2 shows a day for 10 days and I had booked All Shook Up, but it had closed by the time my holiday came around and I was GUTTED.
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Post by karloscar on Aug 17, 2022 14:30:04 GMT
I regret not seeing the Tommy Tune production of Grand Hotel which played London for less than three months, and the Hal Prince Kiss of the Spiderwoman before it went to Broadway.
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Post by singingbird on Aug 17, 2022 14:34:15 GMT
Billy must have been huge in its day to run in Drury Lane for two years. Is it badly dated or is there any other reason it doesn't get revived? I've no idea. I guess it's sort of a period piece, but no more so than the novel, play and film it's based on. I saw the film again recently and it's still a classic, and holds up brilliantly. The Drury lane production is just before my time, unfortunately. I have a vague feeling there was a low-key revival at the Union a few years back. I have no idea why I didn't go and see it, because I really love the score and I was always at the Union around that time. So that would be another show I never got to see and really should have done. (And, on a side note, what on earth has happened to the Union in recent times? It was losing its mojo pre-pandemic, and post-pandemic it's an absolute shadow of its former self). Sometimes shows just come along at the wrong time, particularly with limited runs. Equally, unlimited run shows can suddenly announce their closing dates and I find that I've no chance to get to them in time. Unlike some people on here, I'm not sadly in a position to go out more than about two or three evenings a month, so if I've already got lots booked then there can be things I really want to see that I just don't make it to! I imagine lots of people find themselves in that situation. |
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Post by HereForTheatre on Aug 17, 2022 14:39:38 GMT
I regret not seeing Hadestown when it was on, both times. Also I wish i saw the OAT Into The Woods in person rather than just on film, but it was before my time of even going to London for theatre, so.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 17, 2022 14:48:28 GMT
I regret not seeing the Tommy Tune production of Grand Hotel which played London for less than three months, and the Hal Prince Kiss of the Spiderwoman before it went to Broadway. The original London Spiderwoman was utterly mesmerising One of the best shows I have ever seen |
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Post by singingbird on Aug 17, 2022 14:54:48 GMT
I regret not seeing the Tommy Tune production of Grand Hotel which played London for less than three months, and the Hal Prince Kiss of the Spiderwoman before it went to Broadway. The original London Spiderwoman was utterly mesmerising One of the best shows I have ever seen Totally agree. Another show that really ought to have had a proper revival by now. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 17, 2022 15:02:15 GMT
It would be so hard to imagine anyone being as captivating as Chita. The simplicity and power of the way the title number was staged cannot be eclipsed.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2022 15:06:08 GMT
Also I wish I'd seen Heathcliff, not for cliff Richard but I think it's got some great songs and I enjoyed the vhs when it was released.
I'm surprised it's not been revived and reworked a little with a more appropriate leading man. Ramin Karimloo seems a natural to be Heathcliff
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 17, 2022 15:07:33 GMT
I think this is my favourite number. But tomorrow it might be The Day after that. Or She's a Woman... Or something else!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 17, 2022 15:09:09 GMT
Also I wish I'd seen Heathcliff, not for cliff Richard but I think it's got some great songs and I enjoyed the vhs when it was released. I'm surprised it's not been revived and reworked a little with a more appropriate leading man. Ramin Karimloo seems a natural to be Heathcliff Poor Helen Hobson who went from Michael Ball's Passion to Cliff's Heathcliff ... |
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Post by og on Aug 17, 2022 15:28:15 GMT
Some of the big defining broadway shows, before my time; West Side Story, A Chorus Line etc.
The original London cast of Phantom would have been a treat! And to be in the Royal Albert Hall for the 25th must have been special.
Also retrospectively it would have been good to see Barnum with it's original London cast inc Crawford.
Thinking about more recent years, I've seen a lot of what I think I'd want to have seen if answering this question in 20 years time; OG Groundhog Day, Bat out of Hell, the gender swapped Company etc.
Preludes is one I wish I'd seen actually.
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Post by crabtree on Aug 17, 2022 15:28:57 GMT
ah Metropolis was pretty extraordinary, spectacular in so many ways. You also missed a treat with Mutiny! and The Hired Man.
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Post by singingbird on Aug 17, 2022 15:30:40 GMT
ah Metropolis was pretty extraordinary, spectacular in so many ways. You also missed a treat with Mutiny! and The Hired Man. Two more I'd have loved to have seen, indeed. And I wish I'd seen the Hunting of the Snark, just out of curiosity as much as anything. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 17, 2022 15:47:43 GMT
Also retrospectively it would have been good to see Barnum with it's original London cast inc Crawford He was so so good in this. I was a very lucky teenager |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Aug 17, 2022 16:16:57 GMT
Sounds like the next Chichester vehicle for Charlie S....
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Post by barrowside on Aug 17, 2022 16:27:23 GMT
I just thought Charlie Stemp also - he's the closest talent to the young Michael Crawford.
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Post by dontdreamit on Aug 17, 2022 16:36:28 GMT
Billy must have been huge in its day to run in Drury Lane for two years. Is it badly dated or is there any other reason it doesn't get revived? Random I know, but JD was due to tour in this back in around 1995 but it got cancelled before it even started. |
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Post by nottobe on Aug 17, 2022 16:42:58 GMT
I would have loved to have seen Betty Blue Eyes, got into theatre a few years after its run.
Also City of Angels at the Garrick, I sadly think a reschedule is unlikely.
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