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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 15, 2019 12:44:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2019 13:49:04 GMT
She is truly insufferable. This is going to send her over the edge.
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Post by Jon on Jul 15, 2019 17:50:09 GMT
School of Rock was ALW's first new show in a very long time to recoup its investment so I'm not too surprised he's decided to open on Broadway first again with Cinderella.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2019 18:59:29 GMT
She is truly insufferable. This is going to send her over the edge. LOL - dunno about her, but is gonna send ME over the edge if I have to watch the newest show from my favourite composer surrounded by her fangirl army with cupcakes flying over my head.
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Post by latefortheoverture on Jul 15, 2019 22:20:21 GMT
I mean if you get offered Broadway why turn it down? It opens countless doors, compared to what gets opened here sadly. Look at Cynthia Erivo...
I don't mind the girl; I try to ignore what goes on with her online, but she does have a good voice, Will be interested to see how this all pans out!
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Post by musicalmarge on Jul 15, 2019 22:52:35 GMT
One thing for sure - they won’t call it Cinderella. The website already exists and it’s the previous R&H show that is still playing in America! I think they will have to go for a name like “The Glass Slipper” or something ...
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Post by ali973 on Jul 16, 2019 13:33:26 GMT
There are many reasons that would make him open it in NY. Follow the money. His investors are probably in America, from America. I wouldn't be surprised if his investors are also theatre owners and would want to get their theatres occupied. You saw that there was over ten shows that closed on Broadway in a span of six weeks. Theatres need to have their next show lined up. Just because he wrote the music, it doesn't mean he's putting much money behind it. The reason why he flew in so many people from the US to see it at The Other Palace was probably to showcase it more for investors and producers so he can option it or license it a producer. This way he'd make his cut upfront without having to be burdened with producing or financing it.
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Post by Jon on Jul 16, 2019 13:38:21 GMT
School of Rock had the Shuberts and Nederlanders as producers/investors so I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case for Cinderella
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Post by raider80 on Jul 16, 2019 22:58:23 GMT
Serious question, isn’t Brittney Spears Cinderella coming next season as well? I don’t think there is a market for those two shows in the same season.
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Post by ali973 on Jul 16, 2019 23:31:53 GMT
^ I don't think it's a Cinderella per se. The Britney Spears one is more of a hodgepodge of all the basic fairy tales but with a twist. Yes, it's as awful as it sounds. But I'm still going to see it.
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Post by chernjam on Aug 31, 2019 0:01:06 GMT
Just an update - NY Post is reporting today that ALW"s Cinderella is heading to Broadway not this Spring - but a year from now in the Fall. The delay, it seems, is because of Theatre shortages. Cinderella is slated to go into the Shubert theatre. Which will involve transferring "To Kill A Mockingbird" to another theatre. (They pointed out that Aaron Sorkin is the producer of Mockingbird and is producing with ALW for the first time ever on Cinderella... they snarked "...they're getting along, but some of us on the sidelines are waiting for Andrew to pull his score and Scott to throw his cellphone."
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Post by musicalmarge on Aug 31, 2019 20:40:57 GMT
I agree it won’t be called Cinderella.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 18:02:23 GMT
Surprised nobody's picked up on this (though I guess we are all distracted by the dreadful election hoo-hah).
Anyway ALW has Cinderella ready to go; looks like London 2020 now (phew!), needs a theatre. (Surely the Gillian Lynne makes sense?)
CHF +/- cupcakes to star!
Lawrence Connor directing (obviously).
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Post by chernjam on Dec 17, 2019 5:09:37 GMT
Really disappointed as I thought it was coming to NY first...
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Post by danb on Dec 17, 2019 5:16:38 GMT
So panto has scuppered Cinders going to the Palladium?
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Post by The Lost on Dec 17, 2019 6:15:47 GMT
Surprised nobody's picked up on this (though I guess we are all distracted by the dreadful election hoo-hah). Anyway ALW has Cinderella ready to go; looks like London 2020 now (phew!), needs a theatre. (Surely the Gillian Lynne makes sense?) CHF +/- cupcakes to star! Lawrence Connor directing (obviously). I’d be interested to see what CHF minus cupcakes would look like. Is that where she throws them up over the course of the first act? 😳
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2019 11:08:51 GMT
I think there might be something to this. Cinderella doesn’t need another musical really and it’s a story everyone knows thanks to Disney... yet ALW found an angle that made him commit years of his life to developing it.
If CHF is in it then there’s every chance it might work opening in London. At least it’s not an unknown property and he is fully aware his name alone doesn’t keep a show going anymore. But does anyone need a new Cinderella in their life?
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Post by xanady on Dec 17, 2019 11:30:40 GMT
^Oh,yes they do! (well it IS pantomime season)
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Post by viserys on Dec 17, 2019 11:45:54 GMT
But does anyone need a new Cinderella in their life? Depends very much on how fresh the material is. I wouldn't need another Cinderella in my life, but Soho Cinders is a welcome addition to the adaptations. And... I'd rather have a new fresh take on the Cinderella yarn than yet another lack-lustre movie adaptation where the movie is slapped 1:1 onto the stage including its most famous scenes and outfits with just the addition of a bunch of forgettable generic songs or even worse, jukebox songs
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2019 11:50:30 GMT
than yet another lack-lustre movie adaptation where the movie is slapped 1:1 onto the stage including its most famous scenes and outfits with just the addition of a bunch of forgettable generic songs You have just described Pretty Woman, perfectly.
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Post by viserys on Dec 17, 2019 11:56:02 GMT
than yet another lack-lustre movie adaptation where the movie is slapped 1:1 onto the stage including its most famous scenes and outfits with just the addition of a bunch of forgettable generic songs You have just described Pretty Woman, perfectly. That was the one I was mostly thinking of
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 17, 2019 12:18:34 GMT
Does “working with CHF on songs” necessarily mean that CHF will be in the show?
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Post by andrew on Dec 17, 2019 13:20:31 GMT
Does “working with CHF on songs” necessarily mean that CHF will be in the show? Of course she will. That phrase is meant to describe the photo since they are in a studio, where people... you know.. are working on songs. 🙄
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Post by Theatre Fan on Dec 17, 2019 13:39:37 GMT
Could this be what ALW will replace School of Rock with, if the rumoured closure of SOR happens in April?
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Post by danb on Dec 17, 2019 13:58:28 GMT
Does “working with CHF on songs” necessarily mean that CHF will be in the show? Of course she will. That phrase is meant to describe the photo since they are in a studio, where people... you know.. are working on songs. 🙄 She’s just helping him remember what songs are...it’s more of a training exercise. Puccini didn’t write a ton of “songs” so his frame of reference is smaller
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2019 14:06:51 GMT
Does “working with CHF on songs” necessarily mean that CHF will be in the show? Not necessarily. Many people do workshops/presentations of shows and not be in the final product.
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Post by viserys on Dec 17, 2019 14:19:06 GMT
But they're a match made in theatre heaven: He'll bring in all his older fans from the 80s and 90s, she'll bring the new generation in that cheered her in Heathers and follows her online. And personally I think CHF still needs a really good big role to make her own: Heathers was rather niche and Les Mis has been done to death over so many years, it's pretty impossible to make either of those roles her own. With the roles in Pretty Woman (not that she was a Vivian type) and Frozen gone, this could be her vehicle.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 17, 2019 14:20:45 GMT
Does “working with CHF on songs” necessarily mean that CHF will be in the show? Not necessarily. Many people do workshops/presentations of shows and not be in the final product. Exactly! So ner ner ner to andrew and his eyeroll! CHF is the very last person I’d put down as a Cinderella type. maybe Carrie will just help ALW with the songs then he’ll go and dump her for someone like Dove Cameron. Let’s face it, it’s not like he hasn’t got form for it!
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Post by showtoones on Dec 17, 2019 19:53:12 GMT
I think CHF will do the role. The whole point of this new musical is a different take on Cinderella and one of the characters is gay I believe so everything is getting a fresh perspective. If she is out though, don't tweet her...that will be WW3
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Post by musicalmarge on Dec 18, 2019 11:00:35 GMT
Will it be called CINDERELLA? Surely not.
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