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Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:43 PM
Wow. I've always thought that the show was much better than Trevor Nunn's misguided production allowed it to be. For me one of ALW's best scores.
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:45 PM
agreed, if true its the perfect venue. wiw is a much more intimate show, the palace production was all wrong
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 07:58 PM
Where did you hear this? Didn't see the show when it was in the west end so if true, will definitely go to this.
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 08:49 PM
Oh I hope this is true! Not a huge ALW fan but very interested in revivals of his past work.
2012: Sweeney Todd - Mamma Mia - Les Miserablés - The Phantom Of The Opera - Hay Fever - Written On The Heart - The Awkward Squad - The Duchess Of Malfi - A Tale Of Two Cities - Soul Sister - She Stoops To Conquer - 13 - Noises Off - Absent Friends - Juno And The Paycock - Masterclass - Travelling Light - The Fitzrovia Radio Hour - Abigail's Party - One Man, Two Guvnors - What The Butler Saw - The Mystery Of Edwin Drood - The Sunshine Boys - Pippin - Last Of The Haussmans - The Importance Of Being Ernest - The Merchant Of Venice
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 10:54 PM
Might be a summer production, doesn't seem that long since it was in the West End.
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:22 PM
Hitting the venue after Proof, perhaps?
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:40 PM
Goody- it's a stunning score, and hopefully that'll shine through in this revival. Also, like Merrily I suppose, Maria Friedman knows the piece very well.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 12:15 AM
There was talk a while ago of ALW doing some rewrites with David Zippel for a smaller-cast tour. You could easily do it with a cast of 8 or 9. I always thought is was a mistake that the 'title song' never really appeared in full - though recorded in an odd (but enjoyable) James Bond-theme style. Unusual for ALW to be so restrained with the use of the big theme - and on this occasion I think that subtle restraint was misplaced. It's a great song and act one needs that centerepiece statement of the situation at hand, and the obsession that affects the three central characters. [There was talk of 'If Not For Me, For Her' in Act II being developed as a duet and more of a set-piece dramatic turning point - sounds like a plan] I just hope they move away from the tremulous well-spoken-accented singing that these kinds of shows seem to invite as default performance style; Walter Hartright could easily be Northern sounding. There are about 30 lyric lines that are horrible clunkers - either inelegant words, or they put THE stress on THE wrong word in the sentTENCE. I hope they take the opportunity to revise. Do all that....and i'm looking forward to it!
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 09:08 AM
I'm shuddering at the thought.
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