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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 21:59:56 GMT
Come on guys, we all have them... that one show, one performer, one production you want to see live at least once before you're six feet under. So who is yours? I'm on a train with time to kill so I'm curious.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 12:06:21 GMT
I'd love to see Lin-Manuel Miranda in the London production of Hamilton - just because I think it would be fascinating to see the creator of such a major show performing in own work, particularly when said work is one of the biggest shows for years.
There are a few others I could have seen previously but failed to take my chance which I regret a bit and would hope to catch in another production someday (Tennant, Cumberbatch, Mirren and the like). I'd also like to be a fly on the wall at the RADA Hamlet seeing as I failed to get tickets!
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Post by Marwood on Aug 29, 2017 12:32:32 GMT
I'd love to see Robert de Niro in something, but he's in his 70s now and as I don't think he's done any stage work since the mid 1980s, its really not going to happen is it (unless he needs the cash to open another Nobu or a hotel in a rush). If he DID do something on the stage, hopefully more along the lines of the stuff he has done with the likes of Scorcese or Coppola, I have no desire to see something like Dirty Grandpa: The Musical or Rocky & Bullwinkle
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Post by tonyloco on Aug 29, 2017 12:34:52 GMT
Since this thread has not attracted much attention yet, I will contribute my most wanted which might sound rather surprising in 2017 but I want to see a production, semi-staged will do, of Kustave Kerker's 1897 musical 'The Belle of New York'. It failed on Broadway but the entire production and complete cast of 63 persons were brought to the West End in 1898 where it was a huge success (674 performances was an unprecedented run in those days) and the star, Edna May, became the toast of London.
It has a wonderful score, with a complex choral first act finale to die for. It has echoes of 'Guys and Dolls' as the main character, Violet Gray, is a salvation army girl but its major problem for today is that one of the characters is a crazy anarchist going around with a bomb trying to blow up one of the other main characters. I saw an amateur production back in Sydney in the late 1950s and I was blown away by the wonderful songs for a very varied cast of colourful characters. Full details can be found on Wikipedia (the 1897 stage musical, not the 1952 film).
Well, Danieljohnson14, you did ask. It takes all sorts!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 12:40:19 GMT
The inside of Tom Bateman's boudoir. With Tom Bateman in it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 12:46:05 GMT
@ryan we knew we could rely on you...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 13:02:57 GMT
... that one show, one performer, one production you want to see live at least once before you're six feet under. I wish to be cremated. |
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Post by tonyloco on Aug 29, 2017 13:06:56 GMT
Honoured Guest, it sounds like you might enjoy going out as part of a performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 13:20:03 GMT
I've always wanted to see Anthony Warlow in a show but he spent the longest time refusing to leave Australia. Then he did an appearance at the Phantom anniversary concert, and I'm not going to lie, I was pretty upset that I missed it. And then he went to Broadway for Annie and I was quite disgruntled about that too. Still, there's time for him to come to the West End proper, right?
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Post by viserys on Aug 29, 2017 13:32:35 GMT
I understand your pain, Baemax. I was bloody lucky. I had booked to see Finding Neverland on Broadway and at the time Kelsey Grammer was meant to play the impresario/Captain Hook role. But he dropped out rather suddenly, Anthony Warlow stepped in - and I had rather surprisingly had my wish to see him live on stage come true. Mind you, it wasn't a very good part or show. Would still love to see him in something where he can truly show off his voice.
I don't feel like I have anything I'd kill to see - there's so much good stuff to actually see, why pine for more? One person I'd still really love to see live on stage is Jason Isaacs. I mean he was in the original London production of Angels in America (along with Daniel Craig and Stephen Dillane!) but AFAIK he hasn't done any stage work for years, but yea... my crush on him is big enough to even watch the new Star Trek thing when it comes out and that's saying something.
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Post by lynette on Aug 29, 2017 15:30:07 GMT
I would like to see Simon R B in something really good and contemporary in a theatre with decent seating with say Tom Hollander and Victoria Hamilton and Rachael Stirling. Not a Stoppard or that terrible Pinter about his affair cos I can see you are thinking that would fit but something NEW and really, really good.
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Post by Mr Snow on Aug 29, 2017 15:40:54 GMT
I've been so lucky in who and what I have seen and the only regrets are not going to see one of the tours Count Basie was still doing in the '70's, or Domingo as Otello (couldn't get tickets!).
But now oddly enough (and not at all theatrical), the act I'd most love to see is Willie Nelson in a small club just a pickin and a groanin' with a few of his friends.
(Sadly it's not going to happen now as he doesnt' seem to do overseas anymore or small clubs.)
Thank you for asking, it made a pleasant diversion.
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Post by Dawnstar on Aug 29, 2017 16:10:38 GMT
I'd like to see Der Rosenkavalier at the Wiener Staatsoper before I die (and before they change the current traditional production to some hideous Regie one).
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Post by hulmeman on Aug 29, 2017 16:14:44 GMT
It seems appropriate to want to see Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz - just once before I go.
Great fun topic Danieljohnson14
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Post by tysilio2 on Aug 29, 2017 20:46:26 GMT
I watched Bryn Terfel's 50th birthday concert a couple of years ago on Sky Arts. I wasn't taken by any huge operatic numbers but by two traditional songs he sang, 'Shenandoah' and a traditional Welsh air, 'My Little Welsh Home'. A friend of mine was there and said it was a mesmerising performance of the pieces, very emotional. I'd love to hear him singing them live (as a proud Welshman!).
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Post by loureviews on Aug 29, 2017 21:06:53 GMT
I watched Bryn Terfel's 50th birthday concert a couple of years ago on Sky Arts. I wasn't taken by any huge operatic numbers but by two traditional songs he sang, 'Shenandoah' and a traditional Welsh air, 'My Little Welsh Home'. A friend of mine was there and said it was a mesmerising performance of the pieces, very emotional. I'd love to hear him singing them live (as a proud Welshman!). Yes, seen him sing these live. He's fantastic. I'm not sure if there's anyone I am still desperate to see. Will think ... |
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Post by tonyloco on Aug 30, 2017 0:31:29 GMT
It seems appropriate to want to see Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz - just once before I go. Now there's a co-incidence. When I was visiting Sydney roughly once a year while my mother was still alive, I remember on one visit seeing that Hugh Jackman was just about to open in The Boy from Oz in the original theatre production but, to my chagrin, the next time I went back to Sydney it had already been and gone. He later did an arena version but I was never in Sydney to see that either. |
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Post by tmesis on Aug 30, 2017 6:58:41 GMT
I would like to see Simon R B in something really good and contemporary in a theatre with decent seating with say Tom Hollander and Victoria Hamilton and Rachael Stirling. Not a Stoppard or that terrible Pinter about his affair cos I can see you are thinking that would fit but something NEW and really, really good. I'd like to see him back at the NT in anything. After being almost their 'house' actor for years, he now seems out of favour with the new regime. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 7:54:45 GMT
I watched Bryn Terfel's 50th birthday concert a couple of years ago on Sky Arts. I wasn't taken by any huge operatic numbers but by two traditional songs he sang, 'Shenandoah' and a traditional Welsh air, 'My Little Welsh Home'. A friend of mine was there and said it was a mesmerising performance of the pieces, very emotional. I'd love to hear him singing them live (as a proud Welshman!). Yes, seen him sing these live. He's fantastic. I'm not sure if there's anyone I am still desperate to see. Will think ... Good ole' Bryn. He is fantastic live, I've seen him in concert a few times. It's a shame the Faenol festival he ran in North Wales is no more, it was a fantastic event.
However a fairly well known Broadway actor described him as 'a lesbian in a leather duster' in Sweeney Todd. Which while an amusing description does mean I have to slightly dislike said actor for being disrespectful to one of our national treasures.
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 30, 2017 8:41:02 GMT
The Madness of George III with Rylance and SRB alternating the roles of the king and the physician.
More realistically, one more chance to see MR in Jerusalem.
In a way though, I feel very fortunate to have seen so may great productions with brilliant performers already. If there was just one I could experience again before conking out, I would go back to a day in August 2008, and re-live my experience of being in St Cuthbert's church in Edinburgh, watching the Prestoungrange company performing the Battle of Pots & Pans. I could (but won't) write reams and reams about why this has stayed with me so strongly. Suffice to say that before it started I was sitting there feeling irritable and uncomfortable in a tiny too-brightly-lit church hall, looking at a range of unpromising-looking primary-school-style cardboard props on the stage, actually contemplating legging it before it started; but having stayed put, afterwards I left in a sort of daze, thinking I'd just witnessed a piece of simple genius that was the very essence of theatre. Or something. It's saying something that I welled up a bit even just typing this post.
So yes, going into a complete fantasy realm, being transported back to that day, that'd do me.
Remaining in fantasy land, not theatre but I'd die happy if I got to see The Beatles and/or the early 70s line-up of Genesis reform and play live. Yes, yes, I know one of those is well and truly impossible, but, you know... |
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Post by michalnowicki on Aug 30, 2017 8:58:41 GMT
At the start of the year my answer would've been "Audra performing in anything", but since then I've seen her in concert and in Lady Day... So my answer would be "Audra in a musical".
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 9:05:40 GMT
I saw Simon and Garfunkel. Nothing will top that. I'm happy with my lot.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 9:05:44 GMT
I would like to see Patrick Stewart in something as it was his understudy at No Mans Land.I would also love to see sondheim new piece that he is working on. Other actor shows I would like to see are Judi Dench,Francis Delatour, and Julie Walters definitely
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Post by tysilio2 on Aug 30, 2017 9:10:24 GMT
Yes, seen him sing these live. He's fantastic. I'm not sure if there's anyone I am still desperate to see. Will think ... Good ole' Bryn. He is fantastic live, I've seen him in concert a few times. It's a shame the Faenol festival he ran in North Wales is no more, it was a fantastic event.
However a fairly well known Broadway actor described him as 'a lesbian in a leather duster' in Sweeney Todd. Which while an amusing description does mean I have to slightly dislike said actor for being disrespectful to one of our national treasures.
Remember the Faenol festival he ran. Recorded an early one off Radio 2 with Bryn, David Shannon and Claire Sweeney. Almost wore the tape out in my car until some sh*t nicked the stereo. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 9:11:40 GMT
Good ole' Bryn. He is fantastic live, I've seen him in concert a few times. It's a shame the Faenol festival he ran in North Wales is no more, it was a fantastic event.
However a fairly well known Broadway actor described him as 'a lesbian in a leather duster' in Sweeney Todd. Which while an amusing description does mean I have to slightly dislike said actor for being disrespectful to one of our national treasures.
Remember the Faenol festival he ran. Recorded an early one off Radio 2 with Bryn, David Shannon and Claire Sweeney. Almost wore the tape out in my car until some sh*t nicked the stereo. Amazing! one year I saw Westlife and John Barrowman in one weekend there...and what a weekend. Almost enough to make you fond of Bangor  |
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