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Post by Being Alive on Feb 23, 2023 19:57:32 GMT
You gotta be kidding me
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Post by shady23 on Feb 23, 2023 20:24:29 GMT
Manford might be ok. When I saw him in Chitty his acting was at the level needed to portray a talking, funny lion (unless the show portrays the lion differently from the film and it actually requires subtlety). Ashley Banjo does very well for himself doesn’t he? Always on the telly it seems. And he’s done some panto so again, maybe the Tin Man isn’t that far away from that type of role? It’s all sounding a bit second rate though. In the previous London production most of the Wizards were terrible so the bar is pretty low. I can't remember who it was but I am sure I remember one of them having their lines on props etc and still getting them wrong. I think Manford will do a great job but it is really predictable casting.
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Post by danb on Feb 23, 2023 20:33:02 GMT
Yes, I was but I wouldn’t put anything past them.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 23, 2023 21:01:40 GMT
Wow they are going really classy with the casting.
Just waiting for Alison Hammond to be Dorothy.
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Post by robertb213 on Feb 23, 2023 21:08:22 GMT
Jonny Fines' Scarecrow was one of the few saving graces in this production for me. If he's gone as well, it'll be real shame. Manford and Banjo will get bums on seats I guess, that's apparently the priority these days.
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Post by princeton on Feb 23, 2023 23:25:11 GMT
Produced by Michael Harrison at the Palladium - a panto cast was to be expected.
Maybe he'll just use the Joseph cast - Alexandra Burke as the Wicked Witch of the West? Jason Donovan as the Wizard? Jac Yarrow as the Scarecrow?
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Post by WireHangers on Feb 24, 2023 0:14:11 GMT
Wow they are going really classy with the casting. Just waiting for Alison Hammond to be Dorothy. I’d throw my money at that.
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Post by Jon on Feb 24, 2023 15:19:21 GMT
Jason Manford will be good, not sure on Ashley Banjo though.
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 24, 2023 15:35:36 GMT
You know possibly it's the way my brain works but every time (I mean very single time) I see Ashley Banjo, with that trimmed moustache I can't help think of the animated image of Jafar from Aladdin
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Post by theatrefan62 on Feb 28, 2023 13:14:48 GMT
I don't get the Ashley Banjo appeal, there is a smugness and arrogance to him I find really off putting. His brother Jordin is so much more natural and endearing
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Post by theatrenerd on Mar 15, 2023 9:54:48 GMT
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Post by jgblunners on Apr 19, 2023 9:20:17 GMT
Well this just isn't fair - these three are fabulous casting which make me want to see the show in spite of Manford and Banjo.
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Post by Mark on Apr 19, 2023 9:21:35 GMT
This is becoming quite the unmissable show with this new casting!
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Post by richey on Apr 19, 2023 17:58:03 GMT
Dianne is making quite the career out of playing witches
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Post by shady23 on Apr 19, 2023 18:05:44 GMT
Absolutely loving the casting announcement today but also feeling a bit sad that there increasingly seems to be a bit of a trend of a cast being announced for London but then a different cast altogether trailing around the regions.
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Post by sph on Apr 19, 2023 18:16:05 GMT
More to the point, who in the cast has been bumped out for the London run?
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Post by westended on Apr 19, 2023 18:20:51 GMT
More to the point, who in the cast has been bumped out for the London run? It seems so far all the principals, apart from Christina Bianco. Guessing we will get a new Dorothy as Georgina is currently in Oklahoma. Regarding ensemble, presume it might be similar as the Curve (?) subject to the original performers' calendars - they could have well signed a contract knowing the production would have a London stint as well as a major UK Tour. Might have been a different story for the original principals by the looks of things...
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Post by ruthieh on Apr 20, 2023 12:00:37 GMT
Really tempted to try a two show day with this and Wicked, but which way around…?!
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Post by Mark on Apr 20, 2023 12:05:17 GMT
Really tempted to try a two show day with this and Wicked, but which way around…?! I think both ways would work very well actually!
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Post by idinafanzel on Apr 23, 2023 18:26:18 GMT
Some people were also booked already with other projects last November. So not all ensemble / principals were dropped. Some also didn’t want to do the transfer.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 26, 2023 9:18:15 GMT
Your wish upon a star has been answered…💫
We’re delighted to announce Georgina Onuorah is our Dorothy Gale! Georgina will join Toto and the gang #overtherainbow at The London Palladium this Summer after wowing audiences in the CURVE theatre, Leicester production.
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Post by shady23 on Apr 26, 2023 9:34:39 GMT
The full cast is completed by Ben Thompson (Toto), Annie Southall, Charlotte St Croix, Claire O'Leary, Eamonn Cox, Emily Ann Potter, Geoff Aymer, Harrison Wilde, Jacqui Dubois, Jessica Daley, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Lauren Stroud, Marley Fenton, Michael Lin and Sam Stones.
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Post by Being Alive on Apr 26, 2023 19:19:06 GMT
Your wish upon a star has been answered…💫 We’re delighted to announce Georgina Onuorah is our Dorothy Gale! Georgina will join Toto and the gang #overtherainbow at The London Palladium this Summer after wowing audiences in the CURVE theatre, Leicester production. Eh
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Post by Jon on Apr 27, 2023 1:14:56 GMT
Oklahoma! and The Wizard of Oz share Michael Harrison as a producer so it's not too surprising that Georgina is returning as Dorothy.
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Post by theatrelover97 on Jun 2, 2023 20:59:10 GMT
I really enjoyed the performance on BGT. Am tempted to book now.
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Post by c4ndyc4ne on Jun 2, 2023 23:00:12 GMT
I really enjoyed the performance on BGT. Am tempted to book now. surprisingly good performance given some previous horror shows on TV! much better than we will rock you as well.
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Post by Being Alive on Jun 2, 2023 23:23:14 GMT
Christ how cheap and tacky did that look...what IS Ashley Banjo doing?!
Thank god for Louis Gaunt eh?
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Post by theatrefan62 on Jun 3, 2023 5:52:23 GMT
Surprised how good that performance was. Its the first time anything from this production has really sold it.
That said Ashley, oh dear he really can't sing and the tin man is now a robot?!
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Post by danb on Jun 4, 2023 10:05:40 GMT
Yes to everything above. It looked great, it sounded great. Banjo did appear to be being ‘robotic’ rather than a traditional tin man. Manford didn’t overdo it too much. I felt like I’d seen the whole show just from watching that performance though. If it has more surprises it’d do well to keep them under wraps to build word of mouth. (I hope the lighting is as good in the theatre. It looked fab.)
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Post by HereForTheatre on Jun 4, 2023 18:57:42 GMT
Christ how cheap and tacky did that look...what IS Ashley Banjo doing?! Thank god for Louis Gaunt eh? No not really I thought it looked rather nice. The costumes are pretty good. I don't recall Ashley doing anything wildly different to the original performer of this tin man, the role isn't a traditional tin man in this version.
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