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Post by steve10086 on Apr 8, 2024 16:27:28 GMT
The “alternative artwork” on the limited edition version of the CDs is just stunning 🙄
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Post by marob on Apr 8, 2024 16:30:10 GMT
Tried to buy an album but all I get is a message that the website is not accepting payments.
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Post by distantcousin on Apr 9, 2024 9:25:38 GMT
The “alternative artwork” on the limited edition version of the CDs is just stunning 🙄 Oh really? Not worth bothering?
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Post by A.Ham on Apr 9, 2024 9:51:57 GMT
The “alternative artwork” on the limited edition version of the CDs is just stunning 🙄 Oh really? Not worth bothering? The website doesn’t show the full packaging, just what I assume is a placeholder image.
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Post by lolaluffneggle on Apr 9, 2024 9:57:48 GMT
It just say alternative packaging not artwork which could mean a number of things. It could be different packaging to house the photos etc that are included in the limited edition vinyl and CD.
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Post by distantcousin on Apr 9, 2024 13:06:56 GMT
I've yet to receive an email from LW Theatres or anyone else!
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Post by A.Ham on Apr 9, 2024 15:55:11 GMT
I've yet to receive an email from LW Theatres or anyone else! The link and code were shared last week in this thread if you’re waiting to order…
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Post by distantcousin on Apr 10, 2024 14:21:17 GMT
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Post by andrew on Apr 10, 2024 17:06:41 GMT
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Post by bigredapple on Apr 14, 2024 18:39:38 GMT
Have watched the Olivier performance twice already
Am I crazy to hope this might come back to London after broadway? Do such things ever happen?
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Post by ceebee on Apr 14, 2024 18:43:49 GMT
Have watched the Olivier performance twice already Am I crazy to hope this might come back to London after broadway? Do such things ever happen? So you recorded it too? Pretty epic!
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Post by ceebee on Apr 14, 2024 18:45:01 GMT
Sunset "medley". Thacko "Greatest star of all"; Tom Francis outdoor "Sunset Boulevard"; Nicole "As if we never said goodbye". Well one out of three wasn't bad - and all three appeared in it along with Grace.
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Post by bigredapple on Apr 14, 2024 18:48:01 GMT
Have watched the Olivier performance twice already Am I crazy to hope this might come back to London after broadway? Do such things ever happen? So you recorded it too? Pretty epic! I wish! Just reminded the livestream during the interval 😂
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Post by chernjam on Apr 14, 2024 19:00:51 GMT
do they release clips online like the Tony Awards for those of us across the pond
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Post by blamerobots on Apr 14, 2024 19:04:21 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Apr 14, 2024 19:18:58 GMT
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Post by chernjam on Apr 14, 2024 19:40:38 GMT
W O W That's friggin amazingly awesome. The perfect moments with the stars, ALW cut out - done seemingly effortlessly and flawlessly. These musical moments in awards shows are rarely that exciting (even Glenn in the 1995 Tony Awards singing on stage at the Minskoff didn't have this excitement, mostly because they made them cut AIWNSG and sped it up)
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Post by benj on Apr 14, 2024 19:55:33 GMT
Incredible!! The whole thing is so well done. What a great advert for west end theatre. 🎭
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Post by chernjam on Apr 14, 2024 20:23:57 GMT
7 WINS - WOW - Considering the original received none, what a incredible turn-around... So happy for the entire creative team, but especially ALW that this masterpiece finally got the critical appreciation and acclaim it deserved all along!
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Post by BVM on Apr 14, 2024 20:27:55 GMT
7 WINS - WOW - Considering the original received none, what a incredible turn-around... So happy for the entire creative team, but especially ALW that this masterpiece finally got the critical appreciation and acclaim it deserved all along! Completely agree. It’s bonkers really. Don’t think (someone correct me?!) an ALW musical has ever won that many awards at a single ceremony. Jamie Lloyd is an absolute genius IMHO for the way he presented this masterpiece.
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Post by musigamist on Apr 14, 2024 20:33:33 GMT
7 WINS - WOW - Considering the original received none, what a incredible turn-around... So happy for the entire creative team, but especially ALW that this masterpiece finally got the critical appreciation and acclaim it deserved all along! Completely agree. It’s bonkers really. Don’t think (someone correct me?!) an ALW musical has ever won that many awards at a single ceremony. Jamie Lloyd is an absolute genius IMHO for the way he presented this masterpiece. If I remember correctly, I believe Phantom and Cats both won seven Tonys in their respective years.
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Post by lotster on Apr 14, 2024 23:11:27 GMT
So deserved. Am so sad I only got to see it once but also feel extremely lucky and fortunate I had that pleasure. Do you think there is a chance it might have another West End run after Broadway?
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Post by andypandy on Apr 15, 2024 4:28:49 GMT
Of course it will return to the West End - it’s a huge smash hit of a show that has basically won every award.
I’m sure it will go on to do a US tour, open in Germany, eventually get a UK tour and the producers will milk this success for years with an open ended run, it will make a LOT of money.
I can see this back in the West End 2025 at a different theatre for a very long run. The QUESTION IS - who could play Norma and what A lister younger stars (40-50) could they lure to do it?
Sunset needs a name and always has. Plus it couldn’t go cheap or in my opinion musical theatre names, for its success it would need to stay BIG with casting. Or am I just dreaming?
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Post by curiouskc on Apr 15, 2024 6:28:33 GMT
I would love to see Rachel Tucker back as the lead Norma.
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Post by max on Apr 15, 2024 6:53:05 GMT
Of course it will return to the West End - it’s a huge smash hit of a show that has basically won every award. I’m sure it will go on to do a US tour, open in Germany, eventually get a UK tour and the producers will milk this success for years with an open ended run, it will make a LOT of money. I can see this back in the West End 2025 at a different theatre for a very long run. The QUESTION IS - who could play Norma and what A lister younger stars (40-50) could they lure to do it? Sunset needs a name and always has. Plus it couldn’t go cheap or in my opinion musical theatre names, for its success it would need to stay BIG with casting. Or am I just dreaming? Beverley Knight would have the skills; though perhaps not the mystique as she's been so available to audiences in a range of shows. I'd see it again with her. I'm not sure it would tour easily - I imagine the tech kit is quite vulnerable, and keeping it in balance is only possible in situ. I may be over-influenced by a 15 min wait for it to start (very awkward with Young Norma standing there throughout), and then a show stop just after 'With One Look'. Someone else reported a show stop in that exact same place on a different day. I did wonder if they were experimenting with another layer of 'meta', but it put the audience on edge; everything felt a bit like it was falling apart (or amateur) which made it hard to fully commit to. It was a crushing disappointment not to enjoy it more. I also thought Jamie Lloyd's scheme was poorly worked out, and it barely broke the fourth wall (other than the title song). When you've got a character singng "now I had a date at Paramount, along with about a thousand other writers" , and the Savoy has a capacity of 1,158, there are opportunities to implicate the audience at the earliest point. I still wonder what new audience thought Joe meant by referring to "Max and that organ" lol. So I'm completely out of kilter with most comments here, and the award panels. I do wonder with the blackout and blood if this will be as successful on Broadway as it's assumed it will be. Won't Broadway be protective of the radical 'Oklahahoma!' and say 'hang on, that's a direct copy of a very recent musical? SB getting a bit of what Opening Night has suffered from in comparison. On a more positive note (next post)....
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Post by max on Apr 15, 2024 6:54:08 GMT
The title song was thrilling at the Savoy, and Tom Francis (and the production, and the Oliviers) so brave and fun to recreate it for the Albert Hall. Here's the full thing from TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/@theatreislife/video/7357795518598221098
or a clip of most of it via Twitter:
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Post by mrbarnaby on Apr 15, 2024 7:02:29 GMT
Have watched the Olivier performance twice already Am I crazy to hope this might come back to London after broadway? Do such things ever happen? Hello Hadestown. I do think Sunset is unlikely though. It was lightning in a bottle- mainly due to Scherzinger. I can’t imagine her doing it again after Broadway - and no one else would probably create the excitement she and the Savoy cast did.
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Post by shownut on Apr 15, 2024 7:16:05 GMT
If Sheridan got her voice back, would she be an interesting choice for Norma?
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Post by A.Ham on Apr 15, 2024 7:16:50 GMT
Have watched the Olivier performance twice already Am I crazy to hope this might come back to London after broadway? Do such things ever happen? Hello Hadestown. I do think Sunset is unlikely though. It was lightning in a bottle- mainly due to Scherzinger. I can’t imagine her doing it again after Broadway - and no one else would probably create the excitement she and the Savoy cast did. Yes, I agree. Whilst it’s probably highly likely they’re already on the hunt for West End theatre for 2025, I can’t see Nicole coming back to London with it. It’ll have been her main focus for over 2 years by then, with 4 months in London and 9 in New York. The most I can see her agreeing to is another 3 months on Broadway if it sells well and the demand’s there. So if it comes back to the West End, the challenge is to find the right star - as others have said, to really work it needs to be a big name.
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Post by max on Apr 15, 2024 7:21:22 GMT
Perhaps not a big name right now, but with some mystique because of that, and remembered by those who can probably afford the tickets: Jessie J (on a full circle journey from appearing as a child in ALW's 'Whistle Down The Wind') A bit young at 36.
Paloma Faith is 42 but this may rule her out, haha: "I absolutely despise musicals with a passion and I could never work with someone who liked them".
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