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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 7:07:29 GMT
They brought back the wonderful Guys and Dolls. They brought back The Mysteries in 2000 and Jack Shepherd said appearing in it felt like one of those Legends soccer games where old players appear in exhibition matches. I wonder how ticket sales are for the returning Amadeus ? I mean I wonder how many performances they can do before everyone who really wanted to see last time has seen it this time and audiences drop off. What they used to do quite a lot under previous AD’s was take Cottesloe hit shows and transfer them to the bigger spaces. Actually The Mysteries did transfer to the West End, albeit for a brief twelve week run. In 1985 it played at the Lyceum Theatre (which oddly enough hadn’t been used as a theatre for 58 years; I remember it being used as a night club!) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 8:26:15 GMT
the only thing I would say is that I don’t necessarily agree with it something being a Travelex production one year and then coming back the following year at non-Travelex prices, as has been the case for Amadeus Why not? I prefer Travelex to sponsor four new productions each year. I don't want them to sponsor just three new productions and a revival of Amadeus. Yes. If I were a theatre-goer who absolutely depended on the Travelex pricing, I'd be fairly disappointed if I missed out on the opportunity to see a new production because the Travelex money had already gone towards a revisit. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 11:43:11 GMT
The NT has already brought in Young Chekhov from Chichester, Jane Eyre and Peter Pan from Bristol, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour from Scotland and Newcastle, Iphigenia in Splott from Cardiff, Pomona and An Octoroon from Richmond. And co-produced wonder.land and Husbands and Sons with Manchester, Barber Shop Chronicles with Leeds, LOVE with Birmingham. The building is not a TARDIS. It can only present a limited number of productions.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 12:08:53 GMT
Given their recent run of form on new material, I have no problem with Follies coming back. Indeed! we've got whole threads bitching about the 'rubbish' in the NT (admittedly some of it is rubbish) but now a thread bitching about a successful one...Poor little Ruf can't win! But honestly I agree with Monkey, I'd much rather the NT 'save itself' by dragging back a couple of successful productions to boost earnings than go begging to the Arts Council for more money that could be spent elsewhere. We're always saying the arts should be more business savvy, well here it is. Imelda and Co will bring in money, happy days. |
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Post by profquatermass on Feb 1, 2018 13:00:48 GMT
I still really wish that, rather than reviving recent or past successes and only touring occasionally - or now, as is more often the case, doing live relays to cinemas nationwide - the NT would act as a receiving house for at least some of all the many deserving regional revivals and new productions. I'm not, of course, claiming that those in London and the south-east aren't already spoilt for choice but wouldn't far more two-way traffic work for everyone, and on both sides of the curtain? That was originally announced as the remit of the St James but I don't remember it ever happening |
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 1, 2018 13:20:21 GMT
I still really wish that, rather than reviving recent or past successes and only touring occasionally - or now, as is more often the case, doing live relays to cinemas nationwide - the NT would act as a receiving house for at least some of all the many deserving regional revivals and new productions. I'm not, of course, claiming that those in London and the south-east aren't already spoilt for choice but wouldn't far more two-way traffic work for everyone, and on both sides of the curtain? That was originally announced as the remit of the St James but I don't remember it ever happening That is going to be the remit of the Sondheim Theatre, if it ever gets built. |
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