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Post by musicalmarge on Jul 7, 2018 7:31:22 GMT
Have you all seen these shows or just making wild guesses? Lol.... I know the producers of Anastasia and A they aren’t happy creatively with the show/set/Kleb character and B they have no plans to bring it over!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 7:31:37 GMT
. Dear Evan Hansen - Adelphi (March 2019) announcement will need to be made soon Is this an educated guess or plucked out thin air? March 2019 is far too early for DEH, 2020 maybe.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 8:09:41 GMT
I think Dear Evan Hansen will come over sooner than expected. I won't be surprised and I don't understand these people saying it won't succeed or it will struggle to find an audience yet Come From Away is coming over and is arguably less well known than Evan Hansen and most seem to think it will do well so I don't see much a difference. I agree though, I would imagine late 2019, early 2020.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 8:31:51 GMT
. Dear Evan Hansen - Adelphi (March 2019) announcement will need to be made soon Is this an educated guess or plucked out thin air? March 2019 is far too early for DEH, 2020 maybe. Its been running on Broadway since 2016, two and a half years is hardly too soon, considering Come From Away opened March 2017 and is coming here in February next year.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 8:58:04 GMT
Is this an educated guess or plucked out thin air? March 2019 is far too early for DEH, 2020 maybe. Its been running on Broadway since 2016, two and a half years is hardly too soon, considering Come From Away opened March 2017 and is coming here in February next year. I don't mean too soon as in 'needs to find its place and settle' before it opens in the UK. I mean as a guesstimate in terms of booking, planning, casting. Logistically etc.
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Post by poster J on Jul 7, 2018 9:03:39 GMT
Have you all seen these shows or just making wild guesses? Lol.... I know the producers of Anastasia and A they aren’t happy creatively with the show/set/Kleb character and B they have no plans to bring it over! The whole point of the thread is guesses - no need to be rude about it! Not everyone is fortunate enough to have insider knowledge, so being so dismissive of everyone who doesn't is not going to go down well with quite a few people on here.
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Post by stevejohnson678 on Jul 7, 2018 9:45:50 GMT
I'm going for Exposure the Musical to return and take the Palladium by storm. I can't wait to hear the iconic song, where Michael Greco sings about his manhood, performed as the opening number at the 2020 Olivier awards.
Other than that, I've heard that Frozen is destined for the Arts Theatre which in terms of irony is up there with Stretch Out the Musical opening at Trafalgar Studios.
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Post by richey on Jul 7, 2018 9:46:06 GMT
No predictions for Muriel's Wedding?
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Post by ali973 on Jul 7, 2018 10:27:46 GMT
Have you all seen these shows or just making wild guesses? Lol.... I know the producers of Anastasia and A they aren’t happy creatively with the show/set/Kleb character and B they have no plans to bring it over! ...and yet they've decided to open it in on the road in the US, Germany and Spain? All in the same year? Despite it being nearly sold out every single performance on Broadway? Are paying advertising companies to test potential marketing campaigns and branding for a West End audience?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 10:38:30 GMT
Another filler I could see going to the Savoy for a limited run is Officer and a Gentleman.
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Post by Rory on Jul 7, 2018 11:12:36 GMT
I wonder where Fun Home will transfer to? My guess is Wyndhams or Gielgud or possibly the Piccadilly if Strictly Ballroom doesn't extend further.
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Post by Jon on Jul 7, 2018 11:16:19 GMT
I wonder where Fun Home will transfer to? My guess is Wyndhams or Gielgud or possibly the Piccadilly if Strictly Ballroom doesn't extend further. Piccadilly would be far too big for Fun Home, it needs a smaller space.
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Post by Rory on Jul 7, 2018 11:22:42 GMT
Playwise, the Ruth Jones play The Nightingales has yet to announce a theatre. I could see Jenny Topper booking Wyndham's for that one. It's all gone quiet on The Messiah with Hugh Dennis and Lesley Garrett. No theatres now free over Christmas. Thought it might have gone to Wyndham's but Bill Bailey got the slot.
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Post by Rory on Jul 7, 2018 11:26:45 GMT
I remember seeing The Birthday Party at the Piccadilly and that wasn't a massive set.
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Post by ali973 on Jul 7, 2018 11:34:22 GMT
Perhaps Fun Home could take over the Savoy for a brief period while a longer running show is announced. I think it will take a while for Mean Girls to transfer to London. Given that Dreamgirls is closing next year and a US tour of Mean Girls didn't even begin yet, it will take them a while to transfer it over. Very few Broadway to West End transfers are ever fast tracked to this point, and I would imagine it wouldn't be until late 2019 if not 2020 until Mean Girls transfers to the Savoy, if the speculations are right to begin with.
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Post by Mark on Jul 7, 2018 11:41:13 GMT
No predictions for Muriel's Wedding? No but it HAS to come over - the album is fantastic. It’s return engagement in Sydney is next July and I believe this will be followed by a production in Toronto (which was delayed from this year). That makes me think it could come here for 2020/2021 and take a mid sized house
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Post by Jon on Jul 7, 2018 11:48:44 GMT
Perhaps Fun Home could take over the Savoy for a brief period while a longer running show is announced. I think it will take a while for Mean Girls to transfer to London. Given that Dreamgirls is closing next year and a US tour of Mean Girls didn't even begin yet, it will take them a while to transfer it over. Very few Broadway to West End transfers are ever fast tracked to this point, and I would imagine it wouldn't be until late 2019 if not 2020 until Mean Girls transfers to the Savoy, if the speculations are right to begin with. I think Me and My Girl transferring from February/March to say September would be good then Mean Girls in late 2019, it’s not unusual for a show to transfer straight away, Spamalot opened 18 months after Broadway and both Once and Beautiful transferred fairly quickly. Fun Home I can’t imagine doing more than 12-16 weeks in the West End and I think it would be very exposed in a 1100-1200 seat theatre
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Post by ali973 on Jul 7, 2018 11:53:47 GMT
I agree on your assessment on Fun Home, and Me & My Girl could be a good filler..but Mean Girls has no reason (and might struggle to finance for a transfer this quick). Unlike a Spamlot, Once or Beautiful, it left the Tony Awards with nothing, not even a Best Book..To that end, I'd think that funding a West End transfer might be a bit tricky, especially since Sonia Friedman isn't specifically paying for all of it herself, and especially since Heathers, the other Mean Girls is in town or at least is for a limited period. I just think that the buzz around its transfer might be a bit too eager and ambitious and I don't see it happening this soon.
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Post by Rukaya on Jul 7, 2018 12:15:04 GMT
I find it really interesting that so many people are obsessed with the idea of Mean Girls going into the Savoy, and so quickly. I honestly can't see it going into that theatre and certainly not soon, considering the lack of Tony's and the general timeline of shows coming over!
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Post by Rory on Jul 7, 2018 12:44:13 GMT
Sonia can move a show pretty quickly when she wants. All things considered she didn't hang around getting stuff like Harry Potter and the Ferryman to Broadway.
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Post by viserys on Jul 7, 2018 13:01:42 GMT
Sonia can move a show pretty quickly when she wants. All things considered she didn't hang around getting stuff like Harry Potter and the Ferryman to Broadway.
But Harry Potter was a sure-fire moneyspinner and Ferryman a limited run (I think?) and generally plays are not that costly.
If people don't think Heathers was wise to transfer to the Haymarket for a three months run despite the all around positive feedback from the OP run and despite having a leading lady who attracts a big fan following, why would Mean Girls as an open-ended run be more successful?
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Post by LaLuPone on Jul 7, 2018 13:10:33 GMT
Sonia can move a show pretty quickly when she wants. All things considered she didn't hang around getting stuff like Harry Potter and the Ferryman to Broadway.
But Harry Potter was a sure-fire moneyspinner and Ferryman a limited run (I think?) and generally plays are not that costly.
If people don't think Heathers was wise to transfer to the Haymarket for a three months run despite the all around positive feedback from the OP run and despite having a leading lady who attracts a big fan following, why would Mean Girls as an open-ended run be more successful?
Because Mean Girls is insanely popular with the 90s/2000s generation, Heathers has a cult following but Mean Girls has a mainstream following. From my experience at school, if you haven’t seen Mean Girls then you’ve been living under a rock. I’d say Mean Girls is a lot more popular as a film over here than Legally Blonde so if that made it over in 2 and a half years I can see Mean Girls doing so in 2 or maybe less. I’d agree though that something like Spring or Summer 2019 is a bit of a stretch.
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Post by ali973 on Jul 7, 2018 13:35:58 GMT
Harry Potter is both a guaranteed hit, and also objectively a much better show than Mean Girls, while Ferry Man is easy to replicate from city to city. I'm not saying MG isn't popular or not coming, but a rapid transfer just like that to a show that is quite mediocre and has no awards or accolades to back it is unlikely to transfer this fast.
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Post by danb on Jul 7, 2018 15:02:58 GMT
Over here, I would think it prudent to do an out of town try out to build it’s profile a la Ghost & Bat Out of Hell.
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Post by ali973 on Jul 7, 2018 15:33:30 GMT
Most out of town tryouts aren't necessarily to build profile (though it does come with the territory) but to test its content, work out its technical elements and use it as a safe live rehearsal time in front of a paying audience. Mean Girls has already gone through that exercise, and would say its in the best form it could ever be. So a direct transfer to London with a regular preview period should be enough.
Mary Poppins, Ghost and BOH were brand new shows that needed to 'try out' the show instead of opening cold in one of the biggest theatre capitals of the world.
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Post by theatrelover123 on Jul 12, 2018 20:15:32 GMT
9 to 5 coming into town apparently. Not sure where or when but Jackie Clune mentioned it on social media and said she wasn't going to be doing it.
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Post by iamamazing on Jul 12, 2018 21:08:02 GMT
9 to 5 coming into town apparently. Not sure where or when but Jackie Clune mentioned it on social media and said she wasn't going to be doing it. If it's the touring version from 2013 then I can see it doing a limited run at the Savoy great news if it is but I would have rathered Anastasia or something we've never had before
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jul 12, 2018 21:10:21 GMT
Why on earth would anyone think that 9 to 5 was worth putting into a West End theatre?
It is one of the weakest shows I have ever seen. Other than the title song, I couldn't remember a single other tune from the piece by the time the curtain fell.
It isn't quite as bad as the tour of Tonight's The Night. But it is close.
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Post by musicalmarge on Jul 12, 2018 21:48:26 GMT
Why on earth would anyone think that 9 to 5 was worth putting into a West End theatre? It is one of the weakest shows I have ever seen. Other than the title song, I couldn't remember a single other tune from the piece by the time the curtain fell. It isn't quite as bad as the tour of Tonight's The Night. But it is close. Rubbish... I LOVED IT on Broadway!
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Post by firefingers on Jul 12, 2018 21:51:07 GMT
Heard 9-5 was touring with UK Productions producing but may have been crossed wires. Didn't see the last UK tour but have worked on a drama school production (its very popular due to plenty of decent female parts) and genuinely think it is a cracking show. So many great numbers, (Title track; Around Here; Shine Like The Sun; Get Out and Stay Out; Roz's big number) and a period piece without seeming too dated.
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