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Post by happytobehere on Jul 18, 2019 14:43:14 GMT
Damn, really didn’t care about this show but then they went and cast Christine Allado so now I’m probably going to have to get a ticket.
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Post by wanderingranger on Jul 18, 2019 20:14:37 GMT
So casting anyone remotely brown, Indian, mixed race or African passes for Egyptian, Palestinian/Israeli now? The hypocrisy from the performing arts industry is staggering... Perhaps its nothing to do with race. Perhaps its because they were the best for the parts out of who auditioned. I cant imagine theres many strictly israeli/Palestinian experiences performers.
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Post by Lemansky on Jul 19, 2019 8:12:38 GMT
I wasn't majorly impressed by Luke Brady's voice in Sweeney Todd, but I'm very excited for Liam How funny, I hadn't realised he was in Sweeney Todd, but yes I wasn't overly impressed by him at that point. However,we saw him in a Voter's Choice production of Twelfth Night, two years ago I think, and he was just fantastic. He played the Fool so did a lot of singing and was probably the strongest actor onstage. I wasn't looking to see this, but have just brought 2 cheap circle tickets as the casting is just fab.
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Post by wanderingranger on Jul 19, 2019 11:28:38 GMT
I cant imagine theres many strictly israeli/Palestinian experiences performers. Certainly Israel stages most of the major musicals in Tel Aviv, and has a pretty wide and experienced musical theatre performing industry. Sorry maybe I should have been clearer. I know it has an established industry over there but my point was does that talent necessarily transfer over here in the same volumes? The point being this is in a big theatre so experience will have been a factor. Rather than race which the poster I replied to was inferring
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Post by djp on Jul 19, 2019 15:45:47 GMT
I get your point now. The transfer of actors between countries is more down to union agreements and the actors themselves wanting to work overseas. If both issues were resolved, it would be possible to cast a "correct" ethnic mixture of West End quality, for sure. That's being seen, for comparison, in "Evita" at Regent's Park. How to cast without that, though, is tricky indeed. True , and there seems to be an awful lot of UK talent on overseas tours at the moment , because there's far too little to do domestically - for a whole set of reasons including overseas producers using their own names.
Why would you, though, want to sift much smaller talent pools , with even less of that talent willing to travel, to produce lower quality casts with the right ethnic backgrounds, or worse , approximate look . And if thats what you want for Evita or West Side Story you have to logically put a stop to Black Henry Vs, or Eponines. lets just let the best people do it, and allow that actors are trained to speak in accents.
The op had a point. if you want to respect ethnic origins do it properly or not at all . and go colour blind. . Its just downright insulting to have anyone remotely brown playing Eyptians or Israelis - just as the Vietnamese must be amazed by being played by actors in Miss Saigon who come from all the Asian countries that fought against them.
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Post by jgblunners on Jul 31, 2019 9:25:05 GMT
The cast gets better and better!
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Post by Mark on Jul 31, 2019 9:32:56 GMT
Debbie Kurup and Gary Wilmot! This is quite the cast!
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Post by johnie21 on Jul 31, 2019 19:54:34 GMT
Fine with that, provided Gary leaves in October so that he can do the Palladium as usual... The prince of Egypt is currently running till 12th of September 2020. So he should be able to do the Palladium panto.
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 1, 2019 10:25:11 GMT
It will be doing its 32 (?) weeks and moving on.
There is a show waiting in the wings...
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Post by HereForTheatre on Aug 1, 2019 10:29:11 GMT
It will be doing its 32 (?) weeks and moving on. There is a show waiting in the wings... There is?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2019 10:37:36 GMT
It's very dependent on circumstances whether said show will go ahead at the Dominion or not, but their possibility means that Prince of Egypt is extremely unlikely to extend.
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 1, 2019 10:42:18 GMT
What @baemax said
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2019 10:51:05 GMT
Moulin Rouge? That's the only thing I can think of. (Though I still have my Starlight Express related dreams....)
Tootsie and Pretty Woman if/when they finally make it over I assume would be after Adelphi type sized theatres.
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 1, 2019 11:34:20 GMT
"Bat Out Of Hell 2 - This Time We Have A Plot" is what I'm hearing... That's option 2 - there is a show paying a hefty amount of cash for the Dominion as a contingency plan
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Post by viserys on Aug 1, 2019 11:36:29 GMT
Tootsie can't fill the 1,600-seat Marquis Theatre on Broadway, so if they have any sense, they would try for a 1,000-1,200 house in London (although that didn't stop Waitress from overreaching...). The Nederlander has ~1,200 seats and the cheapskate sets of Pretty Woman looked lost even there and it wasn't a massive success by any stretch of the imagination. So I think the Adelphi would be a bad choice for both, let alone the Dominion.
Moulin Rouge perhaps, but the Al Hirschfeld has only 1,400 seats, too. I could see that one at the Adelphi. And by bringing Starlight Express into the Dominion they'd solve the seat-surplus easily by removing the side-stall-seats for a race track. I'M HERE FOR IT.
Wasn't there talk of Back to the Future at the Dominion? It hasn't announced a theatre in London yet, has it?
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Post by Mark on Aug 1, 2019 12:06:29 GMT
Is it time for another Hello Dolly thread 😬?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2019 12:22:17 GMT
You’re quite right Viserys - I forgot about Back To The Future needing a theatre. Yup, convinced will be that now!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Aug 1, 2019 12:53:02 GMT
Back to the Future is not going to a large theatre- they want the Adelphi.
And Moulin Rouge has it’s theatre booked..and it’s not the Adelphi ..
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Post by HereForTheatre on Aug 1, 2019 13:02:04 GMT
I don't see the point honestly of these "well something is going in there but i'm not telling you what" posts.
If you would like to give TheatreBoard a nice exclusive or even a less than subtle hint, go for it, but lets please not just post teasers for the sake of causing a bit of a stir. It's not fair.
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Post by Being Alive on Aug 1, 2019 13:07:41 GMT
Back to the Future is not going to a large theatre- they want the Adelphi. And Moulin Rouge has it’s theatre booked..and it’s not the Adelphi .. Correct me if I'm wrong but Moulin Rouge has booked the Piccadilly?
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Post by HereForTheatre on Aug 1, 2019 16:25:28 GMT
Well Moulin Rouge has just announced for Australia in 2021. I'm assuming it's coming here before that?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2019 16:59:11 GMT
"Bat Out Of Hell 2 - This Time We Have A Plot" is what I'm hearing... And the story we got for Bat 1 in London was after they brought in a ghost writer to sharpen the story in Manchester!! God knows what a mess it was there.
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Post by Figaro on Aug 1, 2019 17:40:17 GMT
We Will Rock You once the tour has finished?
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Post by waybeyondblue on Aug 1, 2019 19:50:01 GMT
And the story we got for Bat 1 in London Wait, wait! There was a story in London?! You won’t know what it was but it just won’t quit
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Post by poster J on Aug 1, 2019 20:13:56 GMT
I don't see the point honestly of these "well something is going in there but i'm not telling you what" posts. If you would like to give TheatreBoard a nice exclusive or even a less than subtle hint, go for it, but lets please not just post teasers for the sake of causing a bit of a stir. It's not fair. Agreed! I appreciate people can't directly say what show they are referring to if they are scared their sources will find out and stop feeding them information, but the whole "I know something you don't and I'm going to tell you that but not actually give you any information" routine gets really tiresome and irritating, really quickly. I'd honestly rather not know anything at all than be left with the feeling of being teased and inferior because I don't have industry contacts.
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Post by Mark on Sept 5, 2019 14:54:05 GMT
Lots of clips from the launch online now!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2019 15:45:15 GMT
Alexia Khadime singing with Christine Allado sounds incredible already. I’ve really missed Alexia’s voice, I hope we get a cast recording of this. Their version of “When You Believe” is going to be rousing and gorgeous. Everything you want from an 11:00 number, I already have chills!
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Post by ABr on Sept 5, 2019 16:35:04 GMT
I can't wait for this! The cast looks great, and I can't wait to finish work to have a listen to the snippets they've released, I would hope they do a cast recording, but I suppose that all depends on how well it sells, and if this is the definitive version of the show they want to commit to a recording!
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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 5, 2019 23:07:35 GMT
Welcome to the board @theatreismylife2019. Yes welcome.. are you in the ensemble for Prince of Egypt by chance?
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Post by musicalmarge on Sept 16, 2019 12:13:56 GMT
Wow!!
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